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Washington — The House early Friday approved a short-term renewal until April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies in a post-midnight session after Republicans revolted and refused President Trump’s push for a longer extension.The measure passed by unanimous consent, meaning no members objected. It now goes to the Senate.A new proposal was unveiled late Thursday that would have extended the program for five years with revisions. It was a departure from the clean 18-month renewal Mr. Trump had demanded and Speaker Mike Johnson had previously backed. Lawmakers scrambled back to the Capitol as Democrats blasted…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Three upstate New York students were arrested in an alleged school shooting plot, with one accused of writing that “no one would be spared” in a detailed plan to bring the violence of Columbine and Sandy Hook to their middle school, according to police.According to Syracuse.com, citing a recently released police affidavit, one of the three students journaled that the planned school shooting would bring pain to her bullies.”Everyone and their pathetic little lifes [sic] will be gone,” one of the students allegedly wrote. “I want to be remembered in the worst,…

West Coast have backed draftee Cooper Duff-Tytler to partner Bailey Williams in the ruck against Fremantle stars Luke Jackson and Maxon Cox in the blockbuster western derby on Sunday.The Eagles have dropped out of form small forward Matt Owies as part of three changes to the side, with premiership pair Jamie Cripps and Elliot Yeo returning alongside pre-season signing Milan Murdock.However, veteran ruckman Matt Flynn has been overlooked and will be an emergency alongside Owies and defender Ryan Maric despite Andrew McQualter’s young side facing a tough task in the ruck.Fremantle have dropped pre-season signing Chris Scerri after he had…

BEIJING: China will continue to diversify its energy imports and boost energy reserves to help enhance its capacity to cope with an “emergency situation”, Wang Changlin, vice chair of the country’s state economic planner, said on Friday (Apr 17).The world’s energy supply has been disrupted by the Iran war that began on Feb 28, with hundreds of tankers and other ships stuck by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which carried about 20 per cent of global oil shipments before the conflict.The world’s biggest oil importer’s energy markets are steady owing to government measures to safeguard domestic oil supply…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NFL Draft prospect Jacob Rodriguez is going to have a pretty cool job to tell people about when he’s taken next week by an NFL team to begin his professional football journey.But if you were to ask Rodriguez, his wife, Emma, has the coolest job in the family.”Any time I get the chance to talk about her is the best. Every time I get the chance to tell people what she does for a living, they’re blown away, and rightfully so,” Rodriguez told Fox News Digital during a recent interview. NFL prospect…

Summary: US President Donald Trump is once again threatening to leave NATO, this time over allies refusing to back the US-Israel war on Iran. But could he actually exit the alliance? Al Jazeera’s Yasmeen ElTahan explains.Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans fell far short in their bid to flip a vacant U.S. House seat in a blue-leaning district in northern New Jersey.Democrat Analilia Mejia, who was backed by progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of neighboring New York, convincingly defeated GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in Thursday’s special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, The Associated Press reported. The race was called minutes after the polls closed at 8pm ET.With her victory, Mejia will fill the final eight months of the term of Gov. Mikie Sherrill, the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A corpse found floating in the Long Island Sound was the body of 32-year-old Brittany Kritis-Garip, according to the Suffolk County Police Department in New York.”Brittany Kritis-Garip, 32, of Oyster Bay, has been identified as the woman found deceased in the Long Island Sound in Lloyd Harbor on April 13. Detectives believe her cause of death to be non-criminal in nature,” according to the department.The woman went missing last month.LONG ISLAND WOMAN MISSING AFTER JUMPING FROM MOVING VEHICLE IN PANICKED STATE Brittany Kritis-Garip, 32, was last seen Friday in Long Island, N.Y.…

Gold Fields and Great Southern Mining are sharpening the diamond bits in preparation for a return to the duo’s expansive Edinburgh Park gold grounds in north Queensland, with diamond drilling set to begin once the wet season wraps up in May.The project is being explored under a joint venture (JV), with Gold Fields earning up to a 75 per cent interest by spending $15M on exploration.The highly anticipated program will kick off at the impressive Mt Dillon target, where geophysical surveying has outlined a tantalising induced polarisation (IP) chargeability anomaly lurking beneath a preserved silicified lithocap.Lithocaps are zones of resistant,…

Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, 47, has assured fans that she doesn’t “have any serious injuries”, following her accident at Malaysia’s Maju Expressway (MEX).The accident happened on Thursday (Apr 16) as Siti Nurhaliza and her entourage were heading back home, following a performance in Sepang. News of it quickly spread via social media after users posted photos and videos of Siti, seemingly hurt, as she stood near the accident site.Later that day, Siti’s manager stated in an Instagram Story that the crash involved four vehicles, including the one Siti was in.”We brought her out of the vehicle and into ours,” wrote…