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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cooper Flagg entered Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers in a tight race for the NBA Rookie of the Year award with his former Duke Blue Devils teammate Kon Knueppel.Flagg, who was coming off a 51-point performance, likely needed another dominant game to shorten his odds of becoming the league’s top rookie. He delivered. Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James hug at the end of their NBA game in Dallas on April 5, 2026. (LM Otero/AP)The budding Mavericks star scored 45 points in Dallas’ 134-128…

Israel has launched renewed strikes on southern Lebanon as it continues to press forward with a ground invasion, while also waging new attacks on Beirut shortly after striking areas around the capital that had been so far removed from the conflict.At least four people were killed in a raid that hit a car in the southern town of Kfar Rumman, the Lebanese Civil Defence told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listLebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a string of attacks in the Jabal Amel region, south of the Litani River, including in the towns of Arzoun, Jouya,…

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants nearly everyone could agree on.Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies project due tomorrow. Or scanned its list of countries for Latvia, because that’s the country you’re representing next week in Model U.N. Even better, you wandered Earth in your imagination as you held the physical Factbook in your own hands, unfolding its maps and understanding, perhaps for the…

An irresponsible driver has had a narrow brush with death as they attempted to overtake a truck in WA’s south, after four people died on our State’s roads over a horror Easter long weekend.The video was captured by truck driver Andrew Cox on South Coast Highway, approximately 20km west of Esperance, and shows a large truck with three trailers rounding a corner.As the truck approaches, a white car appears attempting to overtake over a continuous double line — which is illegal — as the space to overtake becomes smaller and smaller as the other truck with the dashcam approaches.SEE THE…

INDONESIAAround 25 per cent of Indonesia’s oil imports come from the Middle East and pass through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia.In a press conference on Apr 6, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto said the government has increased aviation fuel surcharges by 28 percentage points to 38 per cent, up from the current 10 per cent.It is also allowing domestic airfare price hikes to around nine to 13 per cent, while reducing import duties on spare aircraft parts to 0 per cent to lower airline operating costs.The Indonesian government previously announced sweeping austerity measures on Mar…

Sources: Vantor (satellite image); International Monetary Fund (shipping routes); Natural Earth (country boundaries). The New York Times The United States has ramped up its forces in the Middle East, even as President Trump has pledged to wind down the war against Iran soon. In recent days, more than 5,000 Marines, paratroopers and special forces have arrived in the region, raising the prospect of a ground invasion.Mr. Trump threatened last week to invade Iran’s main oil export hub, Kharg Island, and “obliterate” its facilities if Iran does not allow shipping to resume through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has essentially closed…

John Thune blasts Democrats’ DHS shutdown demands Senate Majority Leader John Thune accuses Democrats of playing politics with the DHS shutdown, explaining how the Senate passed a bill to fund most agencies. He also addresses President Donald Trump’s remarks on rising gas prices. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A party-line tactic to ram legislation through Congress and bypass the Senate filibuster has become a dumping ground for Republicans’ legislative priorities throughout the year.Now, as Democrats refuse to fund immigration operations, Republicans are once again readying a budget reconciliation package. The hard part will be getting enough of…

Russia has launched a drone attack on ‌Ukraine’s port of Odesa, killing three people ‌including a small child, while Ukraine targeted a key Russian oil port.

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday (Apr 6) expressed regret to North Korea over a drone incursion that he said was carried out by a South Korean individual without government approval, stressing Seoul’s commitment to preventing future incidents.”Although it was not our government’s intention, we express our regret to the North over the fact that unnecessary military tensions were caused by the irresponsible and reckless actions of some individuals,” Lee said in a Cabinet meeting.Lee said an investigation by South Korean authorities found that a National Intelligence Service employee and an active-duty military official were involved in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Four men entered the ring at Stand & Deliver but only one left as the NXT champion on Saturday night.Joe Hendry had one of his biggest challenges yet. He had to defend the NXT Championship in a fatal four-way match against Tony D’Angelo, Ricky Saints and Ethan Page. Hendry came into the match as the fan favorite as the crowd in St. Louis, Missouri, was singing his entrance music. But he faced three other hungry challengers. Tony D’Angelo celebrates in the ring during NXT: Stand and Deliver at The Factory in St.…