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The Senate was in session Sunday but there is no end in sight to the partial shutdown fight, or the blame game, with Democrats and Republicans still far apart on a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Cristian Benavides reports.

Several thousand stood in the centre of Perth, Margaret River and Albany last Sunday, their voices loud and their message clear — end forest mining.West Australians joined tens of thousands across the country calling for an end to native deforestation as part of the national March for Forests.Organised by the Bob Brown Foundation, the nationwide event saw more than 15,000 people across Australia calling for the protection of native forests.Speaking at the Perth rally Greens MLC Jess Beckerling said it was WA’s “great shame” to continue clearing forests when less than than 10 per cent of the State’s original vegetation…

Kim is the third-generation ruler of the nuclear-armed state founded by his grandfather Kim Il Sung in 1948. He has ruled the country since his father’s death in 2011.The election is a “highly choreographed event with a pre-determined outcome”, said Lee Ho‑ryung of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.”Throughout the third-generation rule, the North has staged such events to showcase a procedure in an attempt to achieve political legitimacy,” she said.”But no one thinks any different outcome would emerge from it.”Photos released by KCNA show Kim dressed in a formal western suit and seated at the centre of a stage,…

Key indexes in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong tumble as Iran threatens attacks on energy infrastructure across region.Published On 23 Mar 202623 Mar 2026Stock markets in the Asia Pacific have fallen sharply amid US President Donald Trump’s ultimatum warning Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the annihilation of its energy infrastructure.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 and South Korea’s KOSPI plunged 4 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively, in early trading on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index tumbled about 2 percent.Australia’s ASX 200 dropped about 1.6 percent, while the NZX…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A foreign national suspected of entering the United States illegally has been charged in a fraud scheme that allegedly attempted to steal more than $90 million in federal health care funds distributed through the Medicare Advantage program, according to the Justice Department.Anar Rustamov, 38, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week and charged with health care fraud for a scheme involving thousands of false claims for medical equipment totaling more than $90 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said in a press release.He previously lived…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The Bachelorette” alum James McCoy Taylor was arrested on Friday in connection with his 2024 assault case in which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced last year.On Friday, Taylor, who competed on JoJo Fletcher’s season of “The Bachelorette” in 2016, was arrested at the Brazos County Sheriff’s Department and released the same day on a $10,000 surety bond, according to online records viewed by Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital confirmed in August 2024 that College Station Police Department officers arrested Taylor at a bar in the Northgate Entertainment District of College Station,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., survived a key test vote on Sunday on his way to becoming the next Homeland Security chief. Mullin, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the next Department of Homeland Security secretary, still has one more vote to go, and likely won’t be confirmed until Monday evening.Should he survive the final confirmation vote on Monday, he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who Trump fired following explosive hearings on the Hill and after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during immigration operations in Minnesota. SCHUMER…

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., speaks during BlackRock’s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stage at BlackRock’s U.S. Infrastructure Summit earlier this month, he acknowledged his company is facing a harsh reality: data centers are hard.”Anything at this scale, it’s just like so much stuff goes wrong,” Altman said, in a fireside chat at the conference in Washington, D.C. Altman gave an example of a severe weather event at a data center campus in Abilene, Texas, that temporarily…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – DECEMBER 17, 2025: Participants Jung Ho-young, Hudukjuk, Monk Sunjae, Son Jong-won, producers Kim Eun-ji and Kim Hak-min, Yoon Jumo Yoon Nara, French Papa, Chinese Cuisine Witch, and Baby Beast pose during a press conference for the Netflix series Culinary Class Wars: Black and White Chef Season 2 at JW Marriott Dongdaemun Square in Jongno-gu, Seoul. (Photo by iMBC/Imazins via Getty Images)Imbc | Imazins | Getty ImagesSouth Korean Netflix show “Culinary Class Wars,” which concluded its second season on Jan. 13, has been making waves in the food industry. Reservations and waitlists for contestants’ restaurants increased by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Timely shots and a gritty performance helped the Iowa Hawkeyes knock off the defending NCAA men’s basketball national champion Florida Gators on Sunday night, 73-72.Down two points, Iowa inbounded the ball to guard Bennett Stirtz who dribbled up the floor and found Alvaro Folgueiras in the corner. Folgueiras took one dribble back to make sure he was above the 3-point line and nailed the go-ahead bucket for just over four seconds left. Iowa forward Alvaro Folgueiras (7) puts up a three point shot against Florida during the second half in the second…