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Max Verstappen had a “very strange” crash during the first half of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix and had his hand x-rayed.Verstappen’s Red Bull snapped sideways as soon as he hit the brakes on the first flying lap heading into Turn 1, crashing through the gravel and into the wall. The four-time world champion was seen looking at his hands after jumping out of the car, but was cleared by the medical team and is scheduled to compete in Sunday’s season opener in Melbourne. “Everything is fine. I had to take an X-ray to make sure my hand was…

Tony Anderson | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesThe average tax refund so far this season is up 10.6% compared to about the same time in 2025, according to the latest IRS filing data.The average refund for individual filers as of Feb. 27 was $3,742, up from $3,382 about a year ago, the IRS reported Friday. The average is down from $3,804 reported last week. Average refunds spike around mid-February when the data includes payments that claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit, typically known as the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), according to…

U.S. President Donald Trump points while speaking about the U.S. economy and affordability as he arrives at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S., Dec. 9, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersNovember’s midterm elections were always supposed to be about affordability. Then bombs started being dropped on Iran. The escalation of U.S. wars in the Middle East threatens to disrupt the cost-of-living narrative that has so far defined the race for control in Congress. The election is less than eight months away and will determine whether President Donald Trump maintains an iron grip on Washington or spends the…

Youthful Arsenal overcame a disastrous defeat to Mansfield in League One to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals and keep their hopes of winning the quadruple title alive.Mikel Arteta has named a surprising eleven and a dramatic change in formation as he chooses to rotate his squad ahead of a busy training session. However, this almost proved to be a defeat for the Gunners as they had to overcome sustained pressure from Nigel Clough’s side to progress to the last eight of the competition. team news headlines Mikel Arteta surprised many by switching to a back three for a much-changed Arsenal…

Canadians perform an “elbows up” protest against U.S. tariffs and other policies by U.S. President Donald Trump at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 22, 2025.Carlos Osorio | ReutersFor Lisa McBean, buying American-made snacks and traveling to America came naturally. For Ontario residents, this changed starting in early 2025.Since then, the 54-year-old has started checking to see if products are made in Canada before buying them at the grocery store. McBean canceled multiple trips to the United States for concerts. Cross-border shopping was once common, but not anymore.The reason is that US President Donald Trump has repeatedly…

The Food and Drug Administration logo prior to a press conference at Health and Human Services Headquarters in Washington, April 22, 2025.Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA key official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which oversees vaccines and biotech treatments, is leaving the agency following several decisions that have raised concerns within the industry.Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, will retire from the FDA at the end of April, an FDA spokesperson confirmed Friday. This is his second resignation. He briefly stepped down in July following backlash over regulatory decisions and returned…

China’s space program has recently reached a number of milestones. In 2025, China conducted more than 90 orbital launches, setting a new record for orbital launches in a single year. In the past five years, China has returned the first samples from the far side of the moon, completed its own low-Earth orbit space station, and landed a rover on the surface of Mars. “We’ve seen multiple statements about President Xi Jinping and what he calls the Chinese space dream,” said Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, a trade group representing the commercial space industry. “They see space…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday offered his usual strategy for next week on Wall Street, but acknowledged the difficulty of looking ahead as war breaks out in the Middle East and oil supplies are disrupted.”But obviously we don’t know how long the war will last. Oil has a mind of its own. As long as oil prices are rising, any other asset class could be on quicksand,” he said. “When oil goes up, stocks go down. This is it.” Cramer’s comments came after a volatile week on Wall Street ended with further declines in major U.S. stock averages. For the…

A customer uses a computer at an internet cafe in Tehran, Iran.Raheb Homavandi | ReutersData monitoring site Netblocks said on Saturday that Iran remains under a near-total internet blackout.”It has been a full week since Iran was plunged into digital darkness due to the nationwide internet blackout imposed by the Iranian government,” NetBlocks said in a social media post.”These measures remain in place as of 168:00, and while authorities and state media maintain access, the public remains isolated without vital updates and warnings,” NetBlocks said.The graph in the post shows internet traffic at about 1% of normal levels.Iranian internet traffic…

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after arriving in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA on February 27, 2026. Elizabeth Franz | ReutersPresident Donald Trump is scheduled to gather with Latin American leaders at a Miami-area golf club on Saturday, as his administration seeks to further strengthen America’s foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even as it grapples with a five-alarm crisis around the world.The gathering, which the White House is calling the “Shield of the Americas” summit, comes just two months after President Trump ordered a bold U.S. military operation to capture Venezuela’s then-president Nicolas Maduro and bring…