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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had never appeared before a congressional panel asking for money to run his department until Tuesday morning.And even though cabinet secretaries routinely make their budget requests to Congress, it appears that Blanche apparently didn’t even need to ask lawmakers for the most-controversial batch of federal funds in years. It was already approved. Somehow. Blanche’s Justice Department announced the creation of a billion compensation fund to pay people who Republicans say are victims of government weaponization. Who gets the money isn’t clear. And what’s murkier still is how the stash…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A “major” explosion and fire at a Staten Island shipyard Friday afternoon left at least 16 people injured, including more than a dozen firefighters and first responders.The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) confirmed to Fox News Digital that 16 people were taken to area hospitals.The casualties include one civilian and two firefighters who suffered serious injuries, two firefighters with moderate injuries, and nine firefighters and two EMS workers who sustained minor injuries. First responders were spotted near the scene of the explosion at a Staten Island, New York, shipyard Friday afternoon.…

Vancouver’s mayor is calling for change after Global News revealed the operator of a provincially funded SRO received more than half a million dollars in the final months when two tenants remained, while there are renewed questions about how non-profit organizations are spending the millions in taxpayer money funneled into the Downtown Eastside every year. From at least late March to mid-May, there were only two tenants at the Colonial Hotel at 122 Water Street in Gastown, as the SRO operated by Atira prepared to close.The non-profit received $325,000 from BC Housing to run the Colonial Hotel in March when…

GM Specialty Vehicles is offering three years of free scheduled servicing for two of its models until the end of the financial year.

BEIJING: Four workers died and 90 were trapped underground at a coal mine in northern China after carbon monoxide reached dangerous levels at the site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported early Saturday (May 23).A total of 247 miners were underground at the Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi Province when the accident occurred Friday night, the agency said.The four casualties were among 157 miners who had been brought to the surface. Of the 90 trapped, 16 were in critical condition, Xinhua said, as rescue efforts continued.Shanxi Province is the coal-mining capital of China.The Asian superpower is the world’s top consumer…

NewsFeedLegendary mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa just broke his own record after climbing Mount Everest for the 32nd time. Nicknamed the ‘Everest Man,’ he climbed the peak for the first time in 1994.Published On 22 May 202622 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Trump administration on Friday announced a sweeping policy designed to make it harder for immigrants already in the U.S. to get permanent residency, or a green card, furthering its campaign to sharply limit legal immigration.Officials said they would eliminate the option for many immigrants seeking a green card to complete the process without having to leave the U.S. Instead, in most cases, those immigrants will be required to return to their home countries in order to apply for an immigrant visa overseas through an American consulate, officials said.Current and former U.S. immigration officials told CBS News the memo published…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Caitlin Clark is set to be back in action Friday night in the Indiana Fever’s game against the Golden State Valkyries after missing one game with an injury, the team announced.Clark, 24, was a late scratch and missed the Fever’s game Wednesday against the Portland Fire. The Fever disclosed Clark’s injury just two hours before tipoff, and she was not listed on the team’s injury report a day earlier when she didn’t practice.The WNBA warned the Fever for failing to report Clark’s injury status before she was a late scratch. Indiana Fever…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The “teen takeover” trend has caught the attention of Sheriff Grady Judd, with the Florida sheriff vowing to hold parent’s accountable for their unruly children.”There’s a new TikTok trend,” Sheriff Judd said in a social media video Thursday. “You know, going into restaurants, trashing places, meeting up, driving crazy.””Listen, that’s not gonna work in Polk County,” he said.WILD BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS COPS STORM CHAOTIC TEEN ‘TAKEOVER’ AS BUSINESSES TRASHED: ‘THEY COME TO FIGHT’ Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Polk County Schools Superintendent Fred Heid announced on Thursday that 24 students had…

Following the death of a student at Bath Public School earlier this year, the Limestone District School Board is launching an external review of school safety policies and student supports. The review comes after a youth was charged with criminal harassment, indignity to a dead body and two counts of indecent communication in connection with the March incident.Lennox and Addington Ontario Provincial Police responded to Bath Public School on March 9 for what police described at the time as a medical emergency.One youth was taken to hospital, where they later died.Police have not confirmed further details surrounding the student’s death.…