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The right of prisoners to an hour of outdoor time would be curtailed under a new bill a state government admits may fall foul of human rights legislation.

Most of the dead are age 13 and 14, medical source saysPublished On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026At least 18 people, many of them children, have died when a pick-up truck carrying agricultural labourers crashed in Egypt.The crash on Tuesday happened on a link road in the Al-Dawawis area of Ismailia governorate, according to Egypt’s Al-Ahram news.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listEgypt’s Ministry of Health said there were 47 casualties, including about 30 injured. Victims were rushed to hospital in the nearby town of El-Kassasin.“Most of the dead are children 13 and 14 years old,” a medical source at…

Subscribe to a Blink plan for added features. (iStock) Keep an eye on activity around your home with Blink’s outdoor 2K+ security camera. The camera records in 2K and includes two-way audio, making it easy to check in when you’re away. Best Buy has it for $54.99, a 45% discount, through Aug. 16.Original price: $99.99 The compact design keeps a low profile outdoors. (Best Buy)Blink’s outdoor security camera has a compact design that makes it a practical option for an entry-level home security setup. Built for outdoor use, it records in 2K and offers digital zoom for a closer look at…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Derrick Parker, the former NYPD detective known as the “Hip-Hop Cop” for his work in the city’s rap-related intelligence unit in the 1990s, has died. He was 65.His brother, Ralph, told Fox News Digital Monday he died unexpectedly on July 24 at a hospital in New York’s Nassau County. He did not give a cause.A funeral is scheduled for Thursday at the J Foster Phillips Funeral Home in Jamaica, New York.Derrick J. Parker was the former head of the NYPD’s rap intelligence unit when the city’s hip-hop scene exploded in popularity in…

Sick of cleaning your home? One company wants to let you offload the task to a humanoid robot. For $30 an hour, some San Francisco residents can now hire a robot to clean their home. Tau Robotics, an engineering company that builds AI technology to power robots, announced the service last month as part of a pilot program open to 1,000 households.The humanoid robots, dressed in black Tau Robotics uniforms and given names such as Chelsea and Elon, perform household chores like vacuuming, cleaning kitchen counters and taking out the trash. Tau trains the bots, which cost $50,000 each to make,…

The union representing nurses in Manitoba is concerned about security risks for its members following a ransomware attack that has impacted some maintenance systems at the province’s largest hospital. Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses Union, says it is troubling that the breach is affecting some of the door access at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre after the union declared the hospital too dangerous to work at last year because of safety concerns.Shared Health, the body that manages health care in the province, announced on Monday that it was dealing with an attack affecting certain facility maintenance systems, including heating,…

An addiction medicine specialist says the Albanese government’s proposed gambling reforms are ineffective as support grows for stronger laws.

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 15, 2026.Tom Brenner | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — For years, JPMorgan executives have been talking with Olympics organizers about sponsoring the games. Before the next event, taking place in Los Angeles in 2028, the firm officially opted in — making a massive, nine-figure bet as the Games’ first-ever global banking partner. While terms of the agreement were not disclosed, these types of partnerships are estimated to go for upwards of $200 million per four-year cycle. In an interview with CNBC,…

Paramount CEO David Ellison may pull his operations out of California if the state does not end its attempt to block the company’s merger with Warner Bros Discovery and agree to settlement talks as soon as October.The rumours were first reported by the publication Variety on Tuesday. They signal Ellison may be willing to leverage economic pressure on California’s ailing film industry in order to push through the merger.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAl Jazeera was not able to independently confirm the validity of the report.In July, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he was leading a…

President Trump’s outside advisers — individuals who are not employed by the federal government — may now be protected from future congressional and legal investigations, according to a new opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. In a 21-page opinion published Monday evening, the Office of Legal Counsel told the White House that the president can move to extend executive privilege, the right of the president to contain confidential communications within the executive branch, to advisers who do not work for the White House, but who provide him with direct advice. The new opinion says that executive privilege can apply…