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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The NCAA is reportedly looking to expand the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams, and UConn head coach Dan Hurley harbors some concerns about the expansion.No teams have been added since three more were in 2011, and the format of the tournament would change, but that’s not what Hurley is concerned about. The 53-year-old coach does not want to see the regular season be rendered meaningless.”What I think makes the tournament special is the qualification for it,” Hurley told CBS Sports. “You don’t want the regular season to be rendered…

More than 50 per cent of WA’s canola has been sown, with sentiment rising among grain growers thanks to the season’s early start.The Grain Industry of WA’s latest crop report, released on Friday, says the State’s growing area of cropped land currently sits at about 9.38 million hectares.Crop report author Michael Lamond said the decrease in wheat planting in the past decade had been replaced by an uptake in barley and canola — a trend continuing this year as barley becames more profitable for its yield benefit.The total area planted for wheat sits around 3.73 million hectares, with the highest…

BATAM: Indonesian authorities have detained about 200 foreigners – most of them Chinese nationals – after raiding a Batam apartment complex allegedly used for cross-border online scam operations.Immigration officers carried out the pre-dawn raid at Baloi View Apartment, which also functions as a hotel, on Wednesday (May 6).Most of those rounded up are Chinese nationals, while the rest are from the Philippines and Vietnam, said Guntur Sahat Hamonangan, head of the Riau Islands Immigration Office.“The preliminary figure is around 200 people (detained) but the exact figure is still being verified,” he said on Wednesday, as quoted by local news outlet Kompas. Those nabbed are suspected of…

With less than five weeks to go until the FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America, football fans are counting down the days to the announcement of squads for the 48 participating nations.Whether it’s supporters of national teams or neutral football enthusiasts, they will be eager to find out which of their favourite players, the biggest international stars or surprise additions will make the final cut.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe expanded 48-team tournament is being cohosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, who open the tournament against South Africa at Estadio Azteca on June 11.What…

A U.S. trade court on Thursday ruled that President Trump’s latest round of global 10% tariffs are invalid.In a 2-1 decision, a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of International Trade sided with 24 states and a small group of businesses who filed a lawsuit in March challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s tax on most imports.Those new tariffs were put in place in February, days after the Supreme Court struck down Mr. Trump’s previous round of sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, most of which were issued in April 2025 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Kentucky man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he says was built on fabricated evidence has been awarded more than $24 million, after a jury found he was wrongfully convicted in a case once described by prosecutors as a “satanic” killing.Jeffrey Clark was 21 years old when he and his friend Keith Hardin were convicted in the 1992 stabbing death of 19-year-old Rhonda Sue Warford, whose body was found in a field in Meade County days after she disappeared from her Louisville home.At trial, prosecutors argued…

Two years ago, botanical illustrator Maura Chamberlain was rugged up and combing for plant samples on a windswept sub-Antarctic isle.Her hard work, which focused on species unique to the World Heritage outpost of Macquarie Island, goes on display in Hobart on Saturday.”When I was there it was like being in a David Attenborough film,” Ms Chamberlain said.”We were surrounded by penguins and seals. It is an extraordinary home for a lot of animals.”Since the four-day visit in 2024, Ms Chamberlain has painstakingly illustrated the island’s wildlife including the endemic Macquarie Island cabbage and daisy.She battled 40-knot winds and blizzard-like conditions…

JAKARTA: Three hikers, including two foreigners, were killed and 10 were missing after a volcano on Indonesia’s eastern Halmahera island erupted on Friday (May 8), spewing an ash cloud into the air, a local police chief said.”There are three dead, two foreigners and one resident of Ternate” island in east Indonesia, police chief Erlichson Pasaribu of North Halmahera province told Kompas TV.BBC News Indonesia and Tribun Ternate reported that two victims were from Singapore, although there has been no official confirmation of their nationalities.A local rescue official earlier told AFP that 20 hikers were reported missing, nine of them from…

The Oklahoma City Thunder pulled away late to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 in an NBA playoff thriller, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player and finalist for the award this season, scored 22 points and the Thunder capitalised on 21 Lakers turnovers on Thursday to hand LeBron James a defeat in his 300th career playoff game.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listElsewhere, Eastern Conference top seeds Detroit are also up 2-0 after a 107-97 home win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.In Oklahoma City, Gilgeous-Alexander was again…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It was the mid-1990s. And the world was online.No doomscrolling for hours through Instagram and X.But people were plowing through GeoCities. There were Hotbot searches – before the days of Google and AI. There was even Ask Jeeves, long before Grok. The U.S. Capitol building is shown in Washington, D.C. A Romanian man admitted to participating in a series of “swatting” calls that targeted members of Congress, as well as other government officials. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)Congress was on the precipice of adopting a landmark telecommunications law which would dictate the digital landscape…