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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of not having “any excuses” to continue blocking Homeland Security funding as Republicans and the White House continue to make repeated offers to reopen the government.”The opportunity to actually drive this to a conclusion is there,” Thune said at a press conference on Saturday in response to Fox News Digital. “You have to have, obviously, to negotiate a deal, you got to have two sides at the table. The White House is there, Senate Republicans are there. The question is, are Senate Democrats…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Larry Sells called Sarah Jo Pender the “female Charles Manson” when he persuaded a jury in 2002 that she orchestrated the killings of two people. Years later, he wonders if she was given a fair trial.Pender, a Purdue University dropout, escaped from a prison in Indiana and remained on the run for four months. Her story is now the focus of a true crime docuseries streaming on Hulu, “Girl on the Run: The Hunt for America’s Most Wanted Woman.” It features new interviews with Pender, 46, and investigators connected to the case.Producer…

A leading researcher on Indigenous identity fraud has been ordered to pay damages and legal fees in a defamation suit filed by a University of Regina academic. Plaintiff Michelle Coupal says Darryl Leroux defamed her when publicly stating she used a false Indigenous identity to become an expert in reconciliation.According to the decision, Coupal began identifying as Indigenous in 2010 based on a belief that she had an Algonquin ancestor from the early 1800s. She was initially accepted by the Algonquin nation.In 2018 she was appointed Canada Research Chair in Truth and Reconciliation and Indigenous Literatures.In a 2023 purge, the…

When I first discovered Nigella Lawson, I felt as if I had met my soul sister. She shone through my television (I was a total Food Network kid, of course), and I was completely smitten. She was hilarious, innovative, gorgeous, relatable — everything I idolised as a young boy whose playtime consisted of acting out his own cooking show.Nigella helped revitalise home cooking by demystifying it and, perhaps most important, making it look fun. She never takes herself too seriously but always strikes the perfect balance of teaching and entertaining her audience.And so, this month I wanted to spotlight a…

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday (Mar 21) that there needs to be an “immediate cessation” of what he described as US-Israeli aggression to end the war and wider regional conflict, Iran’s embassy in India said in an X post.Pezeshkian spoke with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi by phone earlier in the day.Pezeshkian told Modi that there should be guarantees to prevent a recurrence of such “aggression” in the future. He also called on the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies to play an independent role in halting aggression against Iran.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is indicating an openness to work with Wall Street on emerging exchange-traded fund products tied to cryptocurrencies and tokenization.”We want to work with people on new products,” Peirce said during an exclusive interview this week with “ETF Edge” host Dominic Chu. “It really is a come in and talk to us about what you’re trying to do. We want to work with you toward being able to experiment to see whether the market wants your products.”Peirce joined CNBC from the VettaFi’s Exchange 2026 conference in Las Vegas. “I’m here because this is such an important segment…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! HR executive Kristin Cabot took a swipe at Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds over the Coldplay Kiss Cam scandal.Cabot insisted Hollywood should have stayed out of the drama instead of releasing an ad for the company she used to work for.”That was really disappointing to me,” Cabot explained during a sit-down interview for “The Oprah Podcast.” “I felt like Gwyneth, someone whose company [Goop] is founded on or framed around uplifting women and women’s well-being… I don’t know why she felt she needed to throw gas on the fire and get involved…

For the close to half-a-million workers at FedEx, a major AI journey is underway. The logistics giant is in the midst of a widespread AI literacy initiative that it says will make employees more knowledgeable, efficient and promotion-ready. Launched in early December in partnership with tech consulting firm Accenture, the enterprise-wide education program is also meant to spark innovation from employees at all levels.FedEx and its competitors in the shipping sector face many business constraints, from tariffs and other policy changes to cost-cutting initiatives that resulted in recent FedEx plant closures and layoffs in places from Kansas to France. Rival UPS recently announced 30,000 layoffs…

The US president called on immigration agents to place ‘heavy emphasis’ on the arrests of Somali immigrants, a frequent target of his ire.United States President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy federal immigration agents to the country’s airports to “do Security like no one has ever seen”.Trump’s warning on Saturday arrived on the five-week mark of a partial government shutdown that affects the Department of Homeland Security.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listCongress missed a February 14 deadline to fund the sprawling department, which includes agencies dedicated to border security, anti-terrorism operations, immigration services and emergency management.As a result,…

President Trump signaled that the U.S. may be “winding down” its operation in Iran as more than 2,000 Marines head to the Middle East. Meanwhile, oil prices continue to soar amid tension in the region.