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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., defended his decision to vote to convict President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial five years ago, even after losing his Senate seat to a Trump-backed opponent this week.Cassidy said he considers it a “privilege” to have been able to vote to uphold the Constitution. Cassidy lost the state’s Republican primary to Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., whom Trump abruptly endorsed and encouraged to run against Cassidy in January.”I voted to uphold the Constitution. It may have cost me my seat, but who cares?” Cassidy told reporters at…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin Tyler Robinson is due back in court later today as his defense hopes to convince a judge to block the public from portions of his upcoming preliminary hearing.The judge is expected to hear oral arguments on two issues — a defense motion to close part of Robinson’s upcoming preliminary hearing and seal evidence, as well as another motion to punish prosecutors for speaking about the case outside of court.Robinson’s defense team, attorneys Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, Richard Novak and Staci Visser, is seeking to block…

Briefings on flu, RSV and COVID-19 rates prepared for Ontario’s minister of health during the fall cannot be released publicly, the government has decided, under restrictive new transparency rules. Sweeping changes to Ontario’s freedom of information laws were brought in as part of the Ford government’s budget this year, excluding all records from ministers, the premier and their staff from public scrutiny.Since the law officially came into force on April 24, civil servants have issued a deluge of rejections for outstanding requests which fall foul of the retroactive rules.The changes, Premier Doug Ford has acknowledged, are at least partly related…

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BANGKOK: Thailand is drastically cutting the length of visa-free stays for tourists from more than 90 countries in an effort to curb crime involving foreign nationals, officials said on Tuesday (May 19).Tourism is vital to the Southeast Asian nation’s economy, but foreign arrivals are yet to return to their pre-COVID-19 highs.A recent series of high-profile arrests of foreigners has included cases linked to drug offences, sex trafficking and foreigners operating businesses such as hotels and schools without proper permits.Under Thailand’s current tourism scheme, travellers from more than 90 countries – including Europe’s 29-nation Schengen area, the United States, Israel and…

new video loaded: Ebola Cases Rise Sharply as Medical Workers Scramble for SuppliestranscriptBacktranscriptEbola Cases Rise Sharply as Medical Workers Scramble for SuppliesMedical workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are experiencing a shortage of supplies as the number of suspected Ebola cases has passed 500, according to officials.“This is mostly personal protective equipment which helps us in making sure that this infection does not spread, especially with the frontline health workers.” “There is an American that is symptomatic… That American as well as six other high risk contacts are going to be taken out of that region and taken to…

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act continues to erode as some customers struggle to make premium payments, with the declining numbers churning market uncertainty for insurers. In response, insurers are likely to raise rates again next year, following this year’s larger-than-typical hikes.Sign-ups were already down in January by about 1.2 million from last year’s record enrollment. For this year, enrollees then faced premiums that increased, on average, by 26%. On top of that, subsidies that help people purchase coverage shrank or vanished.Now experts are watching how many of the approximately 23 million people who enrolled will fail to pay their…

“What is the biggest issue for you in your life?” “Cost of living.” “At the grocery store, at the gas pump.” “I can’t afford my insurance.” “It’s outrageous.” “We’re not going to have a middle class.” I’m in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. It’s one of a handful in the entire country that could decide control of Congress in November. And I’m talking to people here about their lives and what they want the candidates to be focused on. “Hi — I’m a reporter. My name is Sabrina. Can I talk to you?” “OK, so this was $106.” “For like four…

Wassim Boughadou is wanted by the RCMP for terrorism. He insists he is “absolutely” willing to fly home from Turkey to surrender to police.But the Montreal-born 34-year-old claims he can’t because Global Affairs Canada won’t let him.“I am in a limbo,” he wrote in a text message, part of a cache of documents obtained by Global News that have gone unreported until now.The RCMP and Global Affairs Canada would not comment on Boughadou. His Ottawa lawyer also declined to comment.The case, however, is detailed in hundreds of pages of court records that show how Ottawa is struggling to deal with…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The thought of going to an independent pro wrestling show usually brings up images of empty bingo halls and wrestlers who are hoping to make it to the big time.Awesome Championship Wrestling (ACW) on Saturday night in Poughkeepsie, New York, couldn’t have been further from those preconceived notions. ACW Reckoning took place in front of a packed MJN Center and aired on Triller. There were several matches that featured fireworks, TV quality productions, multiple champions and even a steel cage match to cap the night.The event came to a controversial and chaotic…