Author: Press Room

NewsFeedIran’s FM Abbas Araghchi is in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani officials, as US envoys are also set to arrive in the capital. Tehran says no direct US talks are planned. Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett explains what we know.Published On 25 Apr 202625 Apr 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s campaign hit back at Republican attacks Friday after the state GOP demanded answers from the Democratic gubernatorial front-runner on her past work with the federally-indicted Southern Poverty Law Center.Benson is a former volunteer and later board member of the SPLC, which was indicted Tuesday on 11 counts over accusations it fraudulently paid members of extremist groups like the KKK and those tied to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC paid members of these extremist groups so…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New DNA technology has cracked yet another cold case involving a man’s dismembered body parts found inside two suitcases in Ohio nearly three decades ago, police said.Larry Drotleff, 81, of Euclid, confessed to the 27-year-old dismemberment of his father, Lawrence A. Drotleff, who would have been 93 at the time his remains were found, Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell said in a news release. The case began in February 1998, when authorities received a complaint regarding a suitcase found by a group of children on Winkler Hill Road in Dover Township containing unidentified male…

Ellen Burstyn, known for her Oscar-winning role in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” has spent seven decades in Hollywood, but she tells “CBS Mornings” that poetry has also shaped her life as she discusses her new book “Poetry Says It Better.”

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Jets rookie tight end Kenyon Sadiq thought one of the most important calls of his life was a prank call.The Jets drafted Sadiq with the No. 16 overall pick in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, but the 21-year-old wasn’t so sure at first.”Kenyon, how you doing? This is Darren Mougey with the New York Jets,” Darren Mougey, the Jets general manager, said to start the phone call. Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadiq warms up before the College Football Playoff Semifinal between the Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon…

The AFL’s oldest current player, Scott Pendlebury, has produced one of the best games of his stellar career to inspire Collingwood to a record 77-point Anzac Day demolition of Essendon.Having turned 38 in January and just two games shy of breaking the all-time VFL/AFL games record, Pendlebury blitzed the Bombers with 43 possessions and two goals to be awarded his fourth Anzac Day Medal in front of 92,231 fans at the MCG.The Magpies’ inaccurate kicking had kept Essendon in the game at halftime, but a six-goal third-term onslaught ended the Bombers’ resistance to set up the commanding 20.17 (137) to…

BEIJING: Two giant pandas from China are headed to Atlanta on a new 10-year conservation deal.Pandas Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shuang, a female, will live at Zoo Atlanta, China Wildlife Conservation Association said in a statement Friday (Apr 24).The organization signed the research agreement with the United States zoo last year, it said, noting the deal continues “the ‘panda bond’ shared by the people of both nations for more than 20 years”.The panda pair come from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwestern Sichuan province, according to the statement.  “Zoo Atlanta is delighted and honored…

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Hani Odeh has spent four and a half difficult years as mayor of Qusra, southeast of Nablus.Surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and outposts, the small Palestinian town of approximately 6,000 in the northern West Bank faces relentless settler attacks that left two residents killed last month.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listMany are unable to access their agricultural fields as settlers repeatedly damage the village’s water pipes. But when his Palestinian neighbours go to the polls for municipal elections on Saturday, he will not be on the ballot.“The resources are limited, the demands are…

Ben Sasse is “on extended time.” The former Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic pancreatic cancer in December and was told he had three or four months to live.He credits “providence, prayer and a miracle drug” — a clinical trial that has shrunk his tumors by 76% — for buying him more time. Patients who typically would have had about six months to live are living around 13 months with Revolution Medicines’ daraxonrasib. Sasse talked at length about his diagnosis, his family and his faith in an interview with Scott Pelley, airing Sunday on “60 Minutes.”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge has sanctioned the law firm representing a woman in a lawsuit accusing billionaire Leon Black of sexual assault linked to late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein but stopped short of throwing the case out entirely.In a 76-page opinion and order, U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke found that attorney Jeanne Christensen and her firm, Wigdor LLP, engaged in “serious, sanctionable misconduct” during the litigation.Clarke wrote that Christensen “lied repeatedly” to the court and opposing counsel about a related case and directed her client to delete a potentially relevant social media account.”In…