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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities are investigating after a fiery explosion Friday at a lumber mill in Searsmont, Maine.Officials have not yet released the number of injuries or fatalities.Camden Fire & Rescue confirmed it has a crew providing assistance.”Our thoughts are with the injured, medical professionals providing care and first responders working to control the situation,” the department wrote in a statement on Facebook. “We anticipate having personnel committed to helping for several days.”MAINE STUDENT PASSES OUT, 11 TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS CAUSE OF ILLNESSES REMAINS UNKNOWN Multiple injuries were reported, according to local outlets. (WABI)Ben…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A non-profit group in Nova Scotia has failed in its bid to bring two orcas from southern France to live in a seaside refuge that is being built for whales retired from marine theme parks. The Whale Sanctuary Project issued a statement confirming the French government has decided to send the killer whales — Wikie and her son Keijo — to Spain’s Loro Parque zoo on Tenerife Island.The decision marks a major setback for the privately funded group, which announced plans to build a 40-hectare, floating enclosure near Wine Harbour, N.S., more…

US health officials are monitoring reports of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and providing technical assistance to their governments, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.Africa’s top public health agency said on Friday there was a confirmed Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s Ituri province, with 65 deaths out of 246 suspected cases so far, and Uganda’s health ministry said a DR Congolese man had died in Kampala of Ebola Bundibugyo.”CDC has extensive experience and expertise in responding to Ebola outbreaks, and we are working closely with the DRC Ministry of Health…

JAKARTA: Searchers recovered nine bodies after a landslide hit near an illegal gold mine on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, police said Friday (May 15).A cliff near the mine collapsed on Thursday (May 14) in Sijunjung district, burying a group of miners working only 3m away, said West Sumatra police spokeswoman Susmelawati Rosya.”This location is indeed an illegal gold mine. Nine died while three others managed to escape when the cliff collapsed,” she said.Police and volunteers launched a rescue operation, using heavy equipment to dig for the victims. Unlicensed mines are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago, where abandoned sites attract…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bruce Springsteen appeared to snub Chris Christie during an awkward concert moment caught on video.In a viral clip shared on social media, Springsteen can be seen walking through the crowd at his Brooklyn concert on Thursday before heading right past the former New Jersey governor. Christie held out his hand to Springsteen like other fans, but the 76-year-old musician didn’t seem to acknowledge the Republican politician.It’s unclear if Springsteen purposefully ignored Christie’s gesture. Fox News Digital has reached out to the singer’s representative for comment.Christie didn’t seem fazed by the moment, and…

World Health Organization has reiterated that the risk of hantavirus spreading is ‘low’.Published On 15 May 202615 May 2026There are currently 10 global cases of hantavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, lowering its earlier figure of 11 after a person who was thought to have contracted hantavirus was confirmed to be negative.Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of the WHO’s department for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said on Friday that the earlier count “included one individual who had an inconclusive test … We’ve had further confirmation from the United States that person was negative.”Recommended Stories list of 3…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rick Jackson, a Republican billionaire running for Georgia governor on a pledge to ban DEI in state government and public education, founded a nonprofit that promoted a 2021 workplace initiative urging Georgia CEOs to invest in DEI, measure progress, examine racial pay gaps, use race-conscious hiring practices and lead workplaces “with race in mind.”Jackson, the billionaire healthcare founder of Jackson Healthcare and its network of smaller companies, including Jackson Physician Search and Jackson Therapy Partners, has said he would be President Donald Trump’s “favorite governor,” modeled his campaign launch after the president’s…

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token rose more than 17% in the past 24 hours to around $46 after the U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, a move traders viewed as a meaningful step toward clearer federal rules for digital assets.The committee action on Thursday pushes the bill closer to setting out how crypto assets would be classified and supervised in the U.S. For markets, the immediate takeaway was reduced regulatory uncertainty. That broader shift in tone also lifted interest in newer infrastructure plays, including LiquidChain (LIQUID), which says it is building cross-chain…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading: Microsoft — Shares rose nearly 4% after Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman said he has been accumulating stock in the software company since its the stock fell in the wake of its second-quarter earnings report. The hedge fund manger disclosed the investment, but not its size, in a lengthy post on Friday ahead of his company’s quarterly 13F filing. He argued its valuation was “highly compelling.” ServiceNow — The AI platform’s stock rose nearly 5% after the company struck a multiyear partnership with Experian. The companies plan to work together…

Jim Cramer is warning investors not to sleep on Microsoft ‘s ability to stay competitive. Most of the analyst community agrees — and so does at least one billionaire hedge fund manager. “The main reason we don’t want to sell [Microsoft] is because they actually have the balance sheet to do what they want,” Jim said on ” Squawk on the Street ” on Friday. “Tomorrow, they could do something that is so revolutionary that we could say, ‘Why did we doubt them?” Jim’s comments came after Bill Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square , revealed a sizable stake in the…