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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that Border Patrol agents have not released a single migrant into the U.S. interior for 10 consecutive months, pointing to what officials described as historically low levels of illegal crossings.The DHS said in a press release that data from February shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded its tenth straight month with zero migrant releases at the border, as the agency credited an “enforcement-first” approach for the sustained drop.”Ten straight months of ZERO illegal aliens released at the border. President Donald Trump promised…

A newly released report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute says federal and provincial governments need to move quickly if they want to ensure Canadians continue to have affordable electricity prices. “In Canada we’ve taken very cheap electricity, abundant electricity for granted,” noted Heather Exner-Pirot, Macdonald-Laurier institute’s director of energy, natural resources, and environment.“It’s been a huge boost for our economy, to our quality of life, and I think many people would be surprised to know that we are kind of eroding that advantage.”Exner-Pirot explains that production of electricity peaked around 2017, and although Canada’s population increased, demand was kept in check…

A baby girl and a mother have died in separate preventable incidents, a coroner has found, and two medical professionals are set to be investigated

Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, says Israel’s unconstrained behavior is driven by a messianic aspiration for expansion.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nuclear fusion originates in our sun and other stars. Immense pressure and high temperatures in the core create a reaction, ultimately preventing it from collapsing under the force of gravity.”The fusion here on Earth has a lot of corollaries to how we understand how the stars work in things like astrophysics,” Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard said.”They both rely on studying plasma, the fourth state of matter. They both have the same types of reactions, and we use some of what we learn in how the stars work to inform how…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A juror in the murder trial of Utah children’s book author Kouri Richins is speaking out for the first time, describing how the panel went from early sympathy to a unanimous guilty verdict in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband.Richins, 35, now faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison after the jury found her guilty on all counts. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 13 at 9:30 a.m. MST.In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” a juror named Laura said her initial impression of Richins…

Hundreds of Calgarians are preparing to, once again, have their say on citywide rezoning at a public hearing scheduled at city hall next week. More than 300 people have signed up to speak so far at the hearing, which begins Monday morning, with well over 2,000 written comments already submitted to city council.At issue is whether citywide rezoning should be repealed, after city council voted in favour of a motion to kick-start the process to scrap it back in December.That motion directed city administration to reset the city’s land-use bylaw to what was in place prior to the previous city…

Fresh warnings have been issued about the life-threatening dangers of train surfing after a 13-year-old boy fell onto tracks, breaking several limbs.

A similar logic applies to energy. A temporary disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is manageable. But a prolonged closure would raise global prices of everything from food to fertilisers. Ultimately, that would hurt China too, at a time when its economy is under strain.Iran accounts for roughly 13 per cent of China’s seaborne crude imports, but the disruption to its supplies is not nearly as big a problem as it is for other countries, as the China Global South Project notes. Oil tracking data show that millions of barrels of Iranian crude have continued to flow – much of…

The United States Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency, has approved plans for a commemorative gold coin that features one of Donald Trump’s recent presidential portraits.The commission, made up of Trump appointees, voted unanimously in favour of minting the coin on Thursday. But the legality of such efforts has been repeatedly questioned.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFederal law prohibits the depiction of living presidents on US currency. Thursday’s coin, however, may sidestep the rule, as it is intended as a commemorative item, not for circulation as currency.Still, the Trump administration has advanced other plans to put the…