NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family said in a statement.”Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his…
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to new second‑term lows, with fresh polling showing a deepening weakness among independent voters.Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. Last week, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Newsweek that the president had “already made historic progress not only in America but around the world. It is not surprising that [he] remains the most dominant figure in American politics.”Why It Matters Independent voters often decide close races, and new data that shows Trump significantly underwater with this bloc could shape the 2026 midterm landscape.What To Know Harry Enten, CNN’s chief data analyst, has…
Published on 17/02/2026 – 9:49 GMT+1 Before you pack your bags for Brussels in search of a top-tier EU job, here is your survival guide to Europe’s most elite exam. About 50,000 people are expected to apply by the 10 March deadline, so get in line. There are only 1,400 spots, meaning the success rate is a brutal 3%. Ouch. To win, candidates must survive rigorous online tests in reasoning and deep EU knowledge. The prize is a famous EU “contract for life” with a starting salary of nearly €6,000. And that salary is subject to internal EU institutions tax,…
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February 17, 2026 — 7:39pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAThe father of a Queensland boy who died after suffering horrific burns in a house fire has lashed out in an angry tirade, yelling at Coroners Court staff “who the f— are you to be asking these questions?”A coronial inquest is looking into the boy’s death from extensive burns after the blaze in 2017, which also significantly injured his younger brother.Police found both burnt…
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February 17, 2026 — 4:47pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAANearly half of the state’s publicly employed doctors are at risk of burnout, a Queensland Health survey has found, with those in remote and regional areas facing greater workplace challenges.More than 2000 doctors from across Queensland took part in the Medical Workforce Wellbeing Survey last year.Of the clinicians surveyed, 49 per cent met the threshold of burnout, driven by workforce shortages, increased workload and…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump derided California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s international outreach as “inappropriate” Monday. Trump’s warning was to British leaders against partnering with the Democratic governor after Newsom signed a clean energy agreement with the United Kingdom during a European diplomacy tour.”The U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,” Trump said in an interview with Politico, adding that it was “inappropriate for them to be dealing with him.”The president’s remarks came after Newsom stepped onto the global stage at the Munich Security Conference, signing cooperation agreements with Ukraine and the United…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tom Homan, the border czar appointed by President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration, believes the administration may still deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in other sanctuary cities as federal agents wind down their presence in Minnesota.Homan said he thinks that possibility depends entirely on whether cities with policies shielding illegal immigrants decide to cooperate with federal immigration efforts.”I think it depends on the situation,” Homan said in an interview with CBS on Sunday. “I’ve said from day one that, you know, we need to flood the zone and…
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National Bagel Day arrives on January 15, and as we are all imperfect circles harboring unfilled emotional holes, there is perhaps no greater metaphor for the human condition than the humble bagel. According to Maria Balinska, author of “The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread,” the origin of the bagel is hard to pinpoint, as round bread has a place in many cultures. But the first written record of the bagel dates to Krakow, Poland, in the year of our yeast 1610. Community regulations decreed that bagels were to be gifted to women after childbirth because, let’s face…
