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Will Smith opened as much as Trevor Noah in regards to the now-famous slap on the Oscars in March throughout an look that aired Monday night time on “The Each day Present.”

Whereas selling his forthcoming movie “Emancipation,” Smith known as it “a horrific night time” and mentioned he “misplaced it” when he stormed the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock.

“And I assume what I’d say, you simply by no means know what someone goes by way of,” Smith mentioned. “I used to be going by way of one thing that night time. Not that that justifies my habits in any respect.”

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Smith mentioned that what was most painful to him was that his actions made it “exhausting for different individuals.”

“And it’s like I understood the thought the place they are saying damage individuals damage individuals,” he mentioned.

“That was a rage that had been bottled for a extremely very long time,” Smith mentioned.

Noah identified how Smith had written in his memoir about rising up being afraid of battle and the speak present host additionally famous the damaging issues which were mentioned about Smith and his household on the web.

“It was quite a lot of issues,” Smith mentioned in response. “It was the little boy that watched his father beat up his mom, you recognize. All of that simply bubbled up in that second.”

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Smith mentioned who he was in that second was “not who I wish to be.”

In July Smith addressed the slap and issued a public apology on social media.

The Academy has sanctioned Smith by banning him from attending the Oscars for the following 10 years.

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Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

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Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.

When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, “openly admitted” her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.

“A visa is a privilege not a right,” the spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to The New York Times. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is common-sense security.”

The department did not say how it knew that Dr. Alawieh had attended the funeral, which was held in a sports stadium and attracted tens of thousands of people. It also did not respond to questions about whether Dr. Alawieh has been accused of a crime or immigration violation.

Stephanie Marzouk, a lawyer representing a member of Dr. Alawieh’s family, did not respond to an interview request on Monday.

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Late on Sunday, a team of lawyers from the firm of Arnold & Porter, who had been set to represent the family, withdrew from the case, telling the court their decision was made “as a result of further diligence.”

The federal judge overseeing the case decided to postpone a hearing in the case on Monday after Ms. Marzouk requested more time to prepare. She represents Dr. Alawieh’s cousin, Yara Chehab, who brought the case first to try to stop the government from deporting Dr. Alawieh, and then to seek her return to the United States.

Michael Sady, an assistant United States Attorney, filed a new motion in the case on Monday morning, according to the court docket. That filing and others have been sealed.

Dr. Alawieh, 34, is a Lebanese citizen who had traveled to her home country last month. She was detained on Thursday when she returned from that trip to the United States, according to a court complaint filed by Ms. Chehab.

The judge in the case, Leo T. Sorokin of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, ordered the government on Friday evening to provide the court with 48 hours’ notice before deporting Dr. Alawieh. But at that time she was apparently already aboard a plane that was sitting on the tarmac in Boston, about to take off for Paris on her way to Lebanon.

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According to the court docket, the government said on Monday that it was not aware of Judge Sorokin’s order when Dr. Alawieh’s plane took off. But Clare Saunders, one of the lawyers who was initially involved in the case, said in an affidavit filed over the weekend that she was at the airport Friday evening and had informed Customs and Border Protection officers of the judge’s order before the flight departed. Ms. Saunders is with Arnold & Porter, the firm that withdrew from the case on Sunday night.

Dr. Alawieh graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2015. Three years later, she came to the United States, where she held medical fellowships at the Ohio State University and the University of Washington, and then worked as a resident at Yale.

While she was in Lebanon visiting relatives, the American consulate issued her an H1-B visa, the kind for foreign workers with specialized skills. Before that, she had a J-1 visa, a type used by some foreign students.

A spokesman for Brown University, Brian Clark, said, “We continue to seek to learn more about what has happened.”

There is a shortage of American doctors working in Dr. Alawieh’s area of specialty, transplant nephrology. Foreign-born physicians play an important role in the field, according to experts.

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Fear over immigration status could “harm the pipeline even more,” said Dr. George Bayliss, who works in the Brown Medicine kidney transplant program with Dr. Alawieh.

Her patients included individuals awaiting transplants and those dealing with the complex conditions that can occur after a transplant, Dr. Bayliss said. He called Dr. Alawieh “a very talented, very thoughtful physician.”

He also said he had not discussed politics with her.

In a letter on Sunday to members of the university community, Brown’s administration advised foreign students to “consider postponing or delaying personal travel outside the United States until more information is available from the U.S. Department of State.”

Maya Shwayder contributed reporting. Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

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The EU is launching an investigation into the aluminium market to protect the bloc’s beleaguered industry from a surge in cheap imports displaced by Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The European Commission will announce the probe, aimed at verifying a sudden rise in imports and covering all trading partners, on Wednesday, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.

Brussels will impose countermeasures if the probe identifies such an increase in aluminium imports. It is also set to tighten loopholes in its tariff regime on steel imports.

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The document says the 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium announced by the US president last week “are likely to worsen the situation further” for a sector that has been hit by high energy prices, sluggish demand and cheap imports.

Brussels has promised to retaliate against Washington with tariffs on up to €26bn of US products.

But the aluminium probe shows the impact of the US president’s tariffs cascading across the globe as the commission tightens its rules against third-country imports and a broader trade war comes closer.

The EU document highlights what it says is “a significant threat of trade diversion from multiple destinations” because of last week’s US tariffs.

It notes the bloc’s aluminium producers have “lost substantial market share over the past decade”.

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Other than Norway and Iceland, which are part of the bloc’s economic area and could be exempted, the main exporters of the metal to the EU are the United Arab Emirates, Russia and India.

The bloc decided last month to phase out Russian aluminium imports by the end of 2026.

While the US has used security grounds to justify its measures, the EU will base its response to any surge in aluminium imports on traditional trade defence law based on World Trade Organization rules.

Its safeguard measures could echo previous steps it has taken on steel, for which in 2018 it set a 25 per cent tariff on imports exceeding a specified quota.

The safeguards on steel will expire in June 2026 but the commission document says it will ensure adequate protection for the industry beyond that date.

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The bloc’s 2023 steel production was the lowest since records began, with the exception of the pandemic years.

Pressure on the industry was “likely to be exacerbated” as other countries raise tariff barriers to keep out Chinese metal blocked by the US, the commission said. It added the EU could become the “main receiving ground of global excess capacities” for steel.

The commission will expand its steel measures to prevent China using third countries to circumvent them.

It will also consider a plan to hit nations that restrict exports of scrap metal to the EU with a reciprocal ban.

EU scrap steel exports have more than doubled in recent years to account for 20 per cent of production, denying steelmakers a raw material.

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The draft metals action plan, which could still change before publication, was first reported by Table Media.

The action plan also promises greater protection under the carbon border tax that comes into force next year as well as attempts to help the industry reduce its carbon emissions.

Companies have complained they cannot afford to invest in new technology such as hydrogen-powered blast furnaces.

The steel industry estimates it must spend €14bn annually until 2030 to decarbonise. “Most of these projects are not likely to be economically feasible in the current environment”, the document says.

The commission suggests member states could reduce energy taxes for heavy industry and provide greater subsidies for hydrogen.

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It will encourage customers to buy green steel, which is more expensive than conventional supply, by changing procurement rules and setting resilience and sustainability measures for many industrial products.

The commission declined to comment on the proposal but said its action plan would indicate additional sector-specific priority actions as well as long-term measures to replace trade defence safeguard measures expiring in June 2026.

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Cleanup under way after massive storm barreled across at least eight US states

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Clean up efforts have started in several US states which endured destructive storms that killed more than 40 people over the weekend.

The massive storm system in question swept across at least eight states in the south and midwest over the weekend, with multiple tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms descending on the region, destroying thousands of businesses and homes.

The governors of Arkansas, Georgia and Oklahoma each declared a state of emergency over the weekend in the wake of the storm. Red flag warnings still remain for states in the midwest and south, including Texas and Oklahoma, meaning those states are still at risk of high, dry winds that could lead to wildfires.

There were 96 tornadoes reported in the region on Friday and Saturday, according to the National Weather Center’s Storm Prediction Center.

The death toll from the storm continued to go up on Sunday after two children were killed in Transylvania county, North Carolina, after a tree fell through their family’s trailer.

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Missouri has the highest death toll, with 12 dead from tornadoes and wildfires that hit the state. At the storm’s peak, more than 140,000 homes and businesses lost power. As of Monday morning, more than 20,000 customers in the state were still without power.

In a statement on Sunday Mike Kehoe, Missouri’s governor, said: “The scale of devastation across our state is staggering.”

Hurricane-force winds in Texas and Oklahoma led to wildfires that spread in multiple communities across the two states. In Oklahoma, at least 130 wildfires had been reported in the state by Friday, with the dry, powerful gusts setting large swaths of land aflame. A ranch outside of Oklahoma City owned by the governor, Kevin Stitt, was burned in one of the wildfires.

In a video taken for social media, Stitt showed the remains of his ranch, saying that he is “rebuilding with all of Oklahoma”.

“You never think it’s going to happen to your place, and these wildfires just come out of nowhere and can really take over,” Stitt said.

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In Kansas, at least eight people died after a 70-vehicle pileup on an interstate highway during a dust storm on Friday afternoon that led to near-zero visibility on the roads.

On the Louisiana-Mississippi border, two powerful tornadoes formed concurrently and took the same path, ultimately leaving three dead in Tylertown, Mississippi, a town of fewer than 2,000 people.

William Shultz of Tylertown told NBC News that he was “holding my wife to my chest and just watching everything disappear and watching everything get ripped out away from me”, he said. “I’m just thankful to be alive.”

In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Donald Trump said that the national guard had been deployed to Arkansas, where tornados have left three dead. The president also said: “My administration is ready to assist state and local officials as they help their communities to try and recover from the damage.”

Trump’s statement notably lacked any mention of help from the Federal Emergency management Agency (Fema), which helps with disaster reliefs after severe weather events. The president and Elon Musk, the head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) and the architect behind the mass government layoffs, have come under criticism for laying off workers in agencies including Fema.

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Advocacy groups have pointed out that it appears hundreds of Fema employees have been terminated over the last few weeks. In January, after being sworn into office, Trump floated the idea of scrapping Fema completely, calling it “very bureaucratic” and “very slow”.

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