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A total of 4,381 cases across five provinces have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo as of Tuesday.Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026More than 2,000 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since its outbreak was declared fewer than three months ago.At least 1,000 of the deaths have occurred in the last three weeks, according to official government data, as the virus continues to spread at an alarming rate.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA total of 4,381 Ebola cases across five provinces of the DRC have been confirmed as…

Six states are holding primaries on Tuesday, with the unpredictable Democratic primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota coming to a close as South Carolina Republicans choose a successor for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s seat. In Wisconsin, the democratic socialist Francesca Hong and the more moderate David Crowley are duking it out for the Democratic nomination in the governor’s race after two other candidates dropped out of the race. President Trump’s ally, Rep. Tom Tiffany, is all but certain to win the GOP nomination.With Minnesota Democratic Sen. Tina Smith not running for reelection, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Rep. Angie Craig are…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MADISON, Wis. – For a second straight week, the Midwest is the key battlefield in the high-stakes fight between the left-wing and the center-left establishment for the future of the Democratic Party.After far-left candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly edged out more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens a week ago in battleground Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, which was the biggest stage to date in the party’s ideological civil war, the spotlight now shifts to statewide nomination showdowns Tuesday in Wisconsin and Minnesota.At stake: a top-tier Senate showdown in Minnesota that’s among a dozen races nationwide…

An Australian state government wants to ramp up simple surgeries as hospital woes persist and the “worst three weeks of the year” arrive.

HANOI: VinSpace, a unit of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, has signed a launch contract with SpaceX for its satellite missions, the company said on Tuesday (Aug 11).VinSpace’s satellites will launch on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission in 2027, joining multiple other customers on a shared launch, it said in a statementVinSpace handles the research, development, manufacturing and in-orbit operation of its satellites, and said the project supports its strategy aimed at building capabilities across the space value chain, including satellite design and manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing, launch management, operations, and data services.The missions are expected to support in-orbit technology testing, satellite…

Amazon recently announced that its Leo satellite internet service is expected to enter South Africa in 2027 through Herotel, the country’s largest fixed internet provider. The partnership, Leo’s first agreement of its kind in Africa, will connect homes and businesses beyond the reach of fibre and fixed wireless networks. Herotel serves more than 350,000 customers in over 550 towns, giving Amazon a route into farming areas and rural communities where distance, terrain and sparse populations make conventional networks costly.Amazon is entering a market already being transformed by satellite internet. Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, served…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “This is a party that is jumping off a cliff, and I don’t intend to jump with them.”That was Julian Epstein, long-time Democrat apparatchik, talking recently about his party. He said in a post on X, “I think the Democrats have gone off the deep end… the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.”Epstein, who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and worked to elect Hillary Clinton, is disgusted with his party for having “gone too far left” and having “lost its moral center”. He announced in an op-ed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! David Axelrod, one of the architects behind President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, believes other progressives might stand a better chance of getting elected if, in his view, one of their more unserious candidates loses an upcoming primary.”It would be good for Abdul El-Sayed if Francesca Hong loses her bid to become the Democratic nominee in Wisconsin next week,” Axelrod wrote in a post to X.”He is a serious person. She is a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica. But the [Republicans] … would surely try to link Abdul and Hong as…

The Senate passed a short-term funding measure by a 90-6 vote, reducing the immediate odds of a US government shutdown and removing one macro overhang for risk assets heading into the fall. Bitcoin is just about managing to hold onto $64,000, with Government shutdown odds increasing.The bill funds federal agencies at current levels through December 11, but it still needs House approval and Trump’s signature before the threat is actually removed.That distinction matters more than the headline vote count. A Senate funding bill passing by a wide bipartisan margin is a signal of intent, not a resolved outcome, and for…

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSEGoldman Sachs’ Ashok Varadhan has a simple message for investors worried about higher interest rates, elevated oil prices and the durability of the economy: stay invested.Varadhan, the firm’s co-head of global banking and markets, pointed to three reasons for his constructive outlook: He doesn’t expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year, sees oil falling well below $70 a barrel later in 2026, and believes a resilient economy will increasingly benefit from productivity gains tied to artificial intelligence.”Stay invested would be my advice,” Varadhan said in…