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Trump gov’t plans to make about 20 metric tonnes of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to US power firmsPublished On 26 May 202626 May 2026The United States government has chosen five companies, including nuclear energy company Oklo, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a nuclear reactor fuel.The US Department of Energy made the announcement on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe Energy Department holds surplus US plutonium, which has a half-life of 24,000 years and must be handled with protective gear, at heavily guarded weapons facilities in states including South Carolina, Texas and New…

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMicron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.The stock surge came as UBS tripled its price target on the stock from $535 to $1,625 a share, citing long-term agreement opportunities with partially fixed pricing.”We believe the market will start to put a more ‘normal’ multiple on the stock and MU will continue to re-rate higher as more details emerge about the structural changes AI has driven to the entire memory complex,” the firm wrote.The new…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans are demanding answers after a recent mail-in ballot error resulted in some Maryland voters receiving primary ballots for the wrong party.House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and Vice Chair Laurel Lee, R-Fla., sent a letter to the Maryland State Board of Elections (SBOE) on Tuesday scrutinizing the ballot-printing snafu and whether the state has adequate safeguards in place to verify the accuracy of mail-in ballots.The letter came after the SBOE disclosed last week that a vendor error led to an unverifiable number of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A pair of Utah siblings believed to have been abducted by their father, whom authorities described as “seriously depressed,” and possibly taken to Mexico faces imminent danger, police said.Saratoga Springs police were looking for Dane Stephen Richman, 46, as well as 1-year-old Will Richman and 10-month-old Wesley Richman.Investigators said Richman had just quit his job, was having financial troubles and was in a custody dispute with his wife over the children. He may have been planning the abduction for weeks, authorities said, the Deseret News reported.Authorities issued an Amber Alert over the…

As many post-secondary graduates return home for the summer, many parents may find themselves with a full nest again as Canadian youth struggle with a challenging job market. This begs the question — is having your kids staying home into adulthood less a sign of a “failure to launch,” as some used to call it, and more of a wise financial decision in 2026?“There really does seem to be a shift. It’s an economic shift,” says Ilona Doherty, managing director of the Youth and Innovation Project at the University of Waterloo.“It’s harder to find jobs, but also the reality is that…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City became the epicenter of pro wrestling on Sunday night as All Elite Wrestling (AEW) took over Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens.The consensus is in, and it was pretty clear from sitting in the stands just in front of the hard camera, this instance of Double or Nothing was the best pay-per-view in AEW’s history. It has a shot to be the event of the year next to WrestleMania Night 2 — but we can debate that at another time. The New York crowd was electric from start to finish. Mick…

Ripple News: Squid Crypto closed a $6 million strategic funding round led by North Island Ventures with participation from Ripple on May 25, 2026, and within less than 24 hours, an attacker drained $3 million from the protocol. The exploit hit a third-party liquidity aggregation module integrated into Squid’s cross-chain swap infrastructure, not the audited core contracts. Squid’s official response has been to distance itself from the breach entirely, stating the team does not know who deployed the specific module responsible for the drain. Blockaid detected an ongoing exploit targeting the SquidRouterModule on Ethereum and Base.86 Gnosis Safes drained for…

Piper Sandler isn’t buying the talk that an Iran deal is nearing, telling clients that the Strait of Hormuz will largely stay closed and oil will hit new highs.”We think the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed for months yet, meaning shortages become more urgent and oil hits new highs this Summer,” according to a recent note from the investment bank’s energy and macro teams.West Texas Intermediate Futures are down since Friday but bounced back some on Tuesday with mixed messaging on a possible Iran deal over the long weekend. The U.S. military said it conducted “self-defense strikes” in southern…

new video loaded: Weeklong Effort to Rescue 7 People From Flooded Cave ContinuesSeven people have been trapped in a cave since last Wednesday in Laos, when heavy rain triggered flooding that blocked the cave entrance with gravel and dirt.By Meg FellingMay 26, 2026