US Supreme Court halts deportation of detained Venezuelans

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Rangers fire head coach Peter Laviolette after lackluster season

After a disappointing season, the New York Rangers announced on Saturday that they had made the decision to part ways with head coach Peter Laviolette after just two seasons. Associate head coach Phil Housley was also relieved of his duties, according to the team. 

The Rangers were 39-36-7 this season and missed the playoffs a year after they won the President’s Trophy and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals. 

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Laviolette, 60, had a 94-59-11 record in his two seasons at the helm in New York. The Rangers had their best regular season in franchise history with him in the 2023-2024 season, when they had a team-record of 114 points and 55 wins. 

"Today I informed Peter Laviolette and Phil Housley that we’re making a coaching change," Rangers general manager Chris Drury said in a statement. "I want to thank them both and wish them and their families all the best going forward. Peter is first class all the way, both professionally and personally, and I am truly grateful for his passion and dedication to the Rangers in his time as head coach."

"After finishing with the best regular season record in the NHL a year ago and making a trip to the Eastern Conference Final, we came into this season with high expectations for ourselves. Quite simply, we failed to meet those expectations. We must all do better – myself included."

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"As we head into next season and beyond, I felt that a change was necessary in order to give us the best chance to achieve our goals as an organization. Our search for a new head coach will begin immediately."

The Rangers were the sixth team Laviolette has been a head coach for throughout his career. He coached the Nashville Predators, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and New York Islanders prior to joining the Rangers. 

Coming into the season, the Rangers had high expectations after they fell short in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Florida Panthers last season. But the Rangers were marred by inconsistent play and underperformance from many of their top players. 

Forward Mika Zibanejad scored 20 goals and had 62 points this season after he had 26 goals and 72 points last season. Chris Kreider had 39 goals and 76 points last season and this season had just 22 goals and 30 points. 

Zibanejad and Kreider were just two of the many Rangers stars who took a step back this season in production. 

Laviolette's and Housley’s departures are likely the first of many to come for the Rangers this offseason, as general manager Chris Drury will look to overhaul a roster that struggled throughout the year. 

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Smartphone use could reduce dementia risk in older adults, study finds

The first generation that has been exposed consistently to digital technology has reached the age where symptoms of dementia tend to emerge. 

Some have claimed that digital technology could negatively impact cognitive abilities, but researchers from Baylor University have discovered just the opposite.

"You can flip on the news on just about any day and you’ll see people talking about how technologies are harming us," said study co-author Michael Scullin in a press release.

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"People often use the terms ‘brain drain’ and ‘brain rot,’ and now ‘digital dementia’ is an emerging phrase. As researchers, we wanted to know if this was true," Scullin said.

The researchers analyzed past studies to determine the impact of technology on mental aging. Their findings, which were published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, suggest that digital technologies can actually preserve cognitive abilities.

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For the meta-review, researchers analyzed more than 136 studies that included 400,000 adults, with an average of six years of follow-up data.

The team concluded that the use of digital technology correlates with a 58% lower risk of cognitive impairment, even after adjusting for gender, age and education level.

One contributing factor, according to Scullin, could be the cognitive challenges that older adults face when interacting with technology.

"One of the first things that middle-aged and older adults were saying is that ‘I’m so frustrated by this computer. This is hard to learn,'" he said in the release. 

"That's actually a reflection of the cognitive challenge, which may be beneficial for the brain even if it doesn’t feel great in the moment."

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Technology can be cognitively challenging because it is always changing, forcing users to learn and adapt, the researchers noted. This "exercises" the brain and helps keep it sharp.

Dementia diagnoses often involve loss of ability to independently perform daily tasks, such as taking pills, keeping track of appointments and navigating directions, per the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

Digital tools like web calendars, phone reminders and navigation apps can allow for greater independence in older adults.

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The study found that "digital scaffolding" – the process of using these tools to perform daily tasks – "facilitates better functional outcomes in older adults while general cognitive functioning declines."

One highly debated aspect of digital technology’s effect on our brains is the use of social media, but according to the researchers, it’s not all bad.

Another benefit of digital technology, according to experts, is the ability for aging adults to maintain social connections, which has been linked to a decreased dementia risk.

"Now you can connect with families across generations," Scullin said.

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"You can not only talk to them, you can see them. You can share pictures. You can exchange emails — and it's all within a second or less. So that means there's a greater opportunity for decreasing loneliness."

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AOC claims Republicans will 'trick' Americans into identity politics, stoking racial divisions

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told rally attendees not to let Republicans "trick" them into thinking they "can be separated" by race or into stoking "deep divisions along race, identity and culture," despite President Donald Trump's recent efforts to rid identity politics from public and private spaces.

The progressive "Squad" lawmaker's comments came at a "Fighting Oligarchy" rally Monday night in Idaho alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. It was the pair's latest stop in a tour of appearances across the country. 

"The only chance they have to get away with such an unpopular and hurtful agenda is to stoke deep divisions along race, identity and culture to keep us fighting and distracted. It's not going to work anymore," AOC told rally goers. "Don't let them trick us into thinking we are enemies. Don't let them trick us into being weak and being into thinking we can be separated into rural and urban, black and white and Latino."

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The rally with AOC and Sanders was largely centered around criticizing "billionaire" oligarchs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and President Donald Trump, who, as president, has been leading an anti-DEI push that is aimed at ridding identity politics from public and private spaces.

In fact, per political analyst and regular MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, identity politics was "at the heart" of former Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss to Trump. 

"The only thing that was woke or representational about [Kamala Harris'] campaign was her, her body, the fact that she was a woman of color. So I think that the concern, the so-called backlash, to tending to the diversity of the nation actually proves the point," Glaude said in an interview with NPR shortly after Republican's November election victories. 

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Meanwhile, since being inaugurated, Trump has implemented executive actions explicitly targeting "identity politics."

"Prior to harmful changes introduced by the Obama and Biden administrations, the United States military offered equality of opportunity to every American capable of and interested in serving their country. Yet these two administrations exploited the military in favor of identity politics—harming our national defense, undermining the non-political nature of our military, and eroding morale and recruitment," Trump wrote in one of his first Executive Orders after being sworn in. "Due to this ‘woke’ assault, the Services together logged their lowest recruiting records since 1940 with a 41,000-troop shortfall in 2023."

Trump has also taken steps to rid DEI from universities, the federal government and even the private sector. 

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According to Trump, it was Democrat President Joe Biden who implemented "illegal and immoral discrimination programs," which often tied individual success to immutable factors like race, sex and ethnicity. 

"President Trump is restoring fairness and accountability in federal hiring, and terminating DEI across the federal government," reads a March fact sheet from the White House.

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Man murdered partner and neighbour on Christmas Day

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Trump says Iran must ditch ‘concept of a nuclear weapon’ ahead of more talks

President Donald Trump on Monday once again reiterated that Iran must abandon any hope of obtaining a nuclear weapon as the U.S. prepares for more talks in less than a week.

"Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting alongside the president of El Salvador. 

"Iran wants to deal with us, but they don't know how. They really don't know how," Trump continued. 

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The president confirmed the U.S. will hold more talks with Iran next Saturday in Italy, one week after the first talks began in Oman. 

Details of the discussion remain nil, though they were seen as a launching point as Washington tries to negotiate with Tehran to end its nuclear program. 

Iranian state media reported that Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi "briefly spoke" together during the two-hour meeting, which suggests Tehran viewed the discussions positively given their initial refusal to hold "direct" talks.

The White House similarly described the talks as "very positive and constructive," though it also conceded that "very complicated" issues remain unresolved. 

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Trump has said negotiations with Iran need to happen "very quickly" but he has not provided a specific timeline on how long he will allow the diplomatic process to be carried out before he turns to military options.

The president has repeatedly threatened to "bomb" Iran should it not stop its ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon. 

But the extent that the U.S. intends to shut down Tehran’s nuclear program also remains unclear as some call for complete disarmament as Iran also continues to advance its missile programs. 

"I'll solve that problem. It's almost an easy one," Trump told reporters while comparing the end of Iran’s decades-long ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon to the challenge of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

"I think Iran could be a great country as long as it doesn't have nuclear weapons," Trump said. "If they have nuclear weapons, they'll never get a chance to be a great country."

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Blue Origin crew safely back on Earth after all-female space flight

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SCOOP: Arizona to begin removing as many as 50K noncitizens from voter rolls following lawsuit

EXCLUSIVE: All 15 Arizona counties have now begun the process of verifying and removing noncitizens from their voter rolls, including nearly 50,000 registrants who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.

"This settlement is a great result for all Arizonans," America First Legal (AFL) senior counsel James Rogers told Fox News Digital after his organization’s successful lawsuit spearheaded the process in Arizona.

AFL filed the lawsuit against the 15 Arizona counties last year on behalf of EZAZ.org, and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen, arguing that the counties had not been following a state law that requires proof of citizenship to vote in local and state elections and for the state to do monthly checks of the rolls for noncitizens.

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As a result of the lawsuit, the 15 counties have now begun working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify the citizenship status of all registered voters in the state who failed to provide proof of citizenship.

While a 2013 Supreme Court ruling prohibits states from imposing voter registration requirements beyond the federal requirement that registrants must check a box affirming their U.S. citizenship, Arizona residents are still required to provide proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections.

The Arizona law also requires that county recorders perform a monthly list maintenance to confirm the U.S. citizenship of so-called "federal-only voters," a list of nearly 50,000 individuals who failed to provide proof of U.S. citizenship and were not allowed to vote in state or local elections. 

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Registrants confirmed to be citizens are then moved to the regular list while those found to be noncitizens are required to have their registration canceled.

But AFL argued in the lawsuit that county recorders had not been utilizing the resources available to them to help verify citizenship status, something the Arizona law requires them to do. As a result, all 15 counties have now sent requests to DHS in order to assist their efforts to clear the voter rolls of noncitizens.

"This will help County Recorders find and remove any aliens on their voter rolls," Rogers said. "It will also potentially enfranchise federal-only voters whose citizenship is confirmed, which would allow them to vote in state and local elections. AFL congratulates each of Arizona’s 15 county recorders for taking this bold and important step for election integrity in the state."

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Leaky Spurs leave Postecoglou facing date with destiny

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