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Brent crude has surged into the $121 area after an eight-day rally, and traders are treating the move less like a temporary spike and more like a supply shock.The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to normal traffic, with only a handful of vessels crossing in recent days and commercial transit is still constrained by the US-Iran deadlock.The International Energy Agency has already described the disruption as the largest oil supply shock in history, and that has shifted the market question from whether prices can stay elevated to how much higher they can go.Wall Street is no longer treating $150…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At just 22, Coco Gauff has already earned U.S. Open and French Open Grand Slam titles. But earlier this week, the American star exited the Madrid Open well before the final, falling short in her bid for another tournament victory.Linda Nosková defeated Gauff Monday in the Round of 16. After her Madrid Open run ended, Gauff said she faced backlash from “angry” gamblers upset their wagers did not pay off.”@ the angry gamblers saying racist things in my IG comments/dms hiding behind anonymous accounts,” Gauff said in a post to her TikTok account…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles’ police chief is warning the city is not prepared to secure the 2028 Olympics, citing staffing shortages and a lack of dedicated funding.The warning comes amid heightened security concerns surrounding large-scale public events across the country.Speaking during a City Council Budget and Finance Committee meeting Wednesday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said the department lacks dedicated funding beyond a shared security pool with other agencies, the New York Post reported.”LA28 confirms that they have zero police or other safety budgets,” McDonnell said. “While they do have a security budget, it doesn’t…

Dozens of police officers, family members and community members gathered Wednesday to mark 30 years since a Montreal police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty in the city’s West Island. André Lalonde was gunned down on April 29, 1996, after pulling over a driver on Senneville Road for a loud muffler. As he approached the vehicle, the driver pulled a gun and fired three shots. Lalonde was taken to hospital, where he died a few hours later.The suspect was never arrested and the case remains open.A ceremony was held Wednesday at the exact intersection where Lalonde…

WA is staring down a hotter, drier back half of the year as a fast-forming El Nino begins to flex its muscles across the Pacific Ocean — with warnings it could even turn into a “super” event.After a relatively mild start to autumn, weather forecasters say the climate driver is building fast, with ocean temperatures surging and conditions lining up for a likely declaration in coming months.The Bureau of Meteorology has not yet declared an El Nino, with conditions still officially neutral, but says key indicators are trending in that direction as winter approaches.Experts at Weatherzone say the warning signs…

The directive proposed several cost-saving measures including restrictions on salaries and allowances for unfilled vacancies, a 10 per cent reduction on services, supplies and assets, and a 20 per cent cut on budgets for statutory bodies and companies limited by guarantees.Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil confirmed the directive, adding that there were no plans by the government to re-submit its 2026 budget to parliament for now.”This is … in line with the government’s intention to streamline programmes and their implementation, as Malaysia faces challenges arising from the global supply crisis,” Fahmi, who is also government spokesperson, told a regular press briefing.Fahmi…

United States prosecutors have brought charges against Mexico’s Sinaloa state Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine current and former officials, accusing them of links to the Sinaloa drug cartel in a move that could strain relations between the two countries.An indictment unsealed on Wednesday in New York alleges that Rocha Moya, 76, and nine others worked with cartel leaders to move large quantities of narcotics into the US in exchange for political support and bribes.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listProsecutors say that support extended to Rocha Moya’s 2021 election campaign, when members of the cartel’s “Chapitos” faction allegedly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The House of Representatives approved a budget blueprint funding immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term over Democrats’ fierce objections on Wednesday.Lawmakers voted 215-211 along party lines to take a critical step toward ending the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security funding lapse that began on Feb. 14.Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., who caucuses with Republicans, voted present. House Democrats united in opposition to the immigration enforcement measure while every Republican present voted in support.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., could spare just a handful of defections with Republicans’ slim majority.REPUBLICANS CAN…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A recently elected mayor of a small town in Virginia was arrested Tuesday after allegedly showing up to a train derailment site while intoxicated, according to local reports.Paul Morrison, the 57-year-old mayor of Rich Creek, was taken into custody on a charge of public intoxication, WSLS reported, citing jail records. The train derailment occurred in the afternoon near Rich Creek, which sits along the border of West Virginia and Virginia, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) said.The agency added that portions of the incident were reported inside West Virginia and that…

While relieved a dumpster fire behind his Kelowna, B.C., furniture store didn’t spread, it’s just the latest blaze Gaeten Benoit says he’s had to contend with. “I extinguished two fires last year,” said Benoit, who owns Treehouse Interiors on Windsor Road off of Spall Road.Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, a fire broke out behind the furniture store, the flames damaging a cardboard recycling dumpster next to the building.“It was full of cardboard, which could cause the flames to go higher and touch the roof line,” Benoit said.Next door at Savoy Equipment, the flames also raised serious concerns.“Because we…