NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is scaling back major joint military exercises with South Korea after Seoul declined to support U.S. operations against Iran, a sharp U-turn with an ally his administration publicly praised just days prior.The move came just three days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called South Korea an “indispensable partner” and said the allies had entered a “historic new era” of cooperation following Trump’s state visit to Seoul last fall.Victor Cha, the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Fox News Digital that Trump appears to…
A Montreal couple says a surrogacy journey they hoped would finally help them become parents instead ended in heartbreak, financial disputes and a lawsuit against the agency they hired. Kristina Kasparian and Jeremy Cohen say they spent 11 years trying to have a child. After years of fertility struggles and repeated miscarriages, they turned to surrogacy and signed on with Ontario-based Canadian Fertility Consulting (CFC).The couple was matched with a surrogate who became pregnant with their embryo in 2023.“Everything was developing normally and we were extremely excited, but also we felt very fragile because we had never gotten that far…
Published on 19/08/2026 – 10:51 GMT+2 Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators launched a major operation on Wednesday morning targeting an alleged criminal organisation involving politicians and senior government officials, including members of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration. Ukrainian media reported that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) had searched premises linked to Iryna Mudra, a deputy head of the presidential office, and member of parliament Vadym Stolar. NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said they were conducting an operation to uncover what they described as a “criminal organisation operating under the leadership of a current and a former Ukrainian MP and involving senior…
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Updated August 19, 2026 — 6:33pm,first published 4:52pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe NSW Auditor-General’s office will investigate allegations of targeted disciplinary action within Sydney Local Health District in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to fend off a mutiny among Concord Hospital staff.Health Minister Ryan Park and senior doctors agreed to the probe one day before the hospital’s Medical Staff Council (MSC) was due to hold a vote of no confidence in NSW Health leadership and demand a parliamentary inquiry into the NSW health ministry.Dr Raoul Pope…
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Nearly 6,000 people attended, including senior officials, military personnel, veteran cadres, members of Jiang’s family and representatives from his hometown, according to Xinhua.Alongside Xi and the current Politburo Standing Committee was a long line of former senior leaders.They included former Premier Wen Jiabao and former Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, as well as former top political adviser Jia Qinglin, former Vice-President Wang Qishan, and former executive vice-premiers Li Lanqing and Zhang Gaoli.Before the ceremony, Xi and other leaders met Jiang’s family and posed for a group photograph with them, state television reported.During the proceedings, Xi delivered a roughly 40-minute speech that reviewed…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A polling outfit that admitted surveys it released on the Los Angeles mayor’s race and the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin were fake is now out of business.Median Strategies, the company that released polls indicating Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong leading their rivals by wide margins, announced this week that the surveys were a hoax and that it has closed its doors.The fabricated polls by Median Strategies entered the political information ecosystem and were reported on social media, by some local TV newscasts…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Ethiopian immigrants, putting into effect all of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) terminations the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pursued for select countries.U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the decades-old TPS program, which allowed Ethiopian nationals to live and work legally in the U.S. as their home country was considered unsafe. Last year, DHS determined that Ethiopia no longer met the conditions for TPS, asserting that conditions in…
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A historic former Wonder Bread factory in downtown San Diego is set to get a rocking second act, with Live Nation unveiling plans to transform the space into a sprawling 4,000 person capacity music venue. The entertainment behemoth just revealed ambitious plans to reimagine the old building into a sleek music venue, breathing new life into a century-old industrial landmark near Petco Park. Expected to open its doors in 2028, the adaptive reuse project aims to plug a glaring hole in the San Diego concert ecosystem by establishing a mid-sized venue to bridge that gap between small clubs and huge…
