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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives arrested Zahir Davis, 18, on Friday night following an urgent search for the person who gunned down a child at a Queens playground earlier this month, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced in a Saturday X post.Davis is charged with murder in connection with the April 16 killing of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre, Tisch wrote.Officials said Davis fled to Jamaica after Pierre was shot, but returned to New York on Friday where he was immediately arrested by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task…

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One-hundred-year-old Roy Allen is set to make history next month by becoming the first centenarian to walk 5K for the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Allen is walking to raise funds for several seniors’ organizations, including some that have helped his wife, Melba, who has dementia.“They’ve all helped with her care and I can do this to help them get going,” he told The Canadian Press.Allen, who turned 100 earlier this month, is fundraising for the Council on Aging of Ottawa, the Dementia Society, Perley Health and the Gloucester 50+ Centre.He has collected more than $2,300 for the organizations so far.Originally…

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The aerospace and defense trade is taking investors deeper into space and exchange-traded funds want a part of it.VettaFi’s Cinthia Murphy told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week that there are now more ETFs tackling the space theme more directly — listing the Procure Space ETF (UFO) and Global X Defense Tech ETF (SHLD) as examples.”They have the cybersecurity element: Satellites, communications, navigation. So, the defense theme is actually a very colorful theme nowadays. It has a lot of interesting names,” the firm’s director of research said. “It really isn’t just about Lockheed Martin and some of the traditional names that…

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Tanoa Sasraku, an artist whose installations have featured corporate souvenirs, and Marguerite Humeau, whose exhibitions have included sculptures of dying elephants, are among the nominees for this year’s Turner Prize, the prestigious British art award.Also nominated are Kira Freije, a sculptor of life-size figures that feature the faces of her friends and family, and Simeon Barclay, whose work ranges from performance to painting.Alex Farquharson, the director of the Tate Britain art museum in London and the chair of the prize jury, told a news conference on Thursday that the four artists all took viewers on “extraordinary journeys.”“Together, the artists’ distinctly…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! WWE Hall of Famer Booker T will return for Season 3 of “WWE Legends and Future Greats (LFG)” on Sunday as he and three others take pro wrestling prospects under their wings to turn them into the next superstar.”WWE LFG” changed the format for Season 3. This year, it’s every man or woman for themselves. Booker T, Bubba Ray Dudley, Kevin Owens and Nattie Neidhart will be the coaches helping each performer go through training and pushing them to be the best they could be.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @…

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Food security in Africa could face major disruptions due to continuing uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz.The conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran is disrupting global fertiliser trade flows – and this stands to leave millions of African farmers without the ammonia, urea, phosphate, sulphur and other fertiliser inputs vital to growing more food in sub-Saharan Africa.Fertiliser shipments passing through the Strait of Hormuz account, for example, for roughly one-quarter of global ammonia trade and more than a third of seaborne urea. Even the slightest perceived risk can drive up fertiliser prices, stall shipments and cause a seismic…

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Little, Brown & Co. We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation” (Little, Brown & Co.), South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn, the ninth Black man to represent his state in the House of Representatives, writes of his predecessors who helped direct the course of America during and after Reconstruction. Read an excerpt below, and don’t miss Robert Costa’s interview with Congressman Clyburn on “CBS Sunday Morning” April 26! “The First Eight” by Jim Clyburn Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When Timothy Jones Sr. learned his grandchildren were missing, a deep, unshakable dread set in — he feared his own son had killed them.”I remember I told my wife, ‘I know he’s killed them,’” the patriarch tearfully recalled to Fox News Digital. “I just don’t know where they are. But I know he has. I just know it in my heart. I could feel it.”Timothy Jones Jr. admitted to killing his five children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington County, South Carolina, home in August 2014. He drove with their bodies…

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