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Israel says it will allow only 10,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to enter, a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of worshippers of previous years.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 20 Feb 202620 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIsrael is severely restricting Palestinians’ access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, with many hundreds queueing at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah, hoping and waiting to get in.But Israeli authorities say they will allow no more than 10,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank into one of Islam’s…

A series of exhibits and educational materials on the history of slavery that were removed from the President’s House Site in Philadelphia were reinstalled Thursday, nearly one month after the Trump administration ordered they be taken down.The National Park Service confirmed the pieces of signage restored on Feb. 19 are the same plaques that were first removed from the historic site in January.The exhibits were put back up one day after a judge said the Trump administration was not complying with her order to reinstall the items and issued a deadline to have the materials reinstalled by 5 p.m. Friday.Philadelphia…

My Name is Kleber Mendonça Filho and I wrote and directed “The Secret Agent.” This sequence takes place in 1977 and it comes quite late in the film. I kind of knew it would be an important sequence for “The Secret Agent,” because this is where we finally get to spend some time with the people who are staying at Sebastiana’s building, and it would always be a challenging sequence from the point of view of writing and also of shooting. So we have Isabél Zuaa playing Tereza Victória. We have Licínio Januário, who plays her husband. Hermila Guedes plays…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The latest chapter in the Chicago Bears stadium saga unfolded this week as an Indiana House panel unanimously approved legislation that lays out a financing framework for a potential NFL facility.Senate Bill 27 cleared the House Ways and Means Committee and now heads to the full House for a vote. The House would need to pass the bill before the legislature adjourns at the end of February.The bill would establish the Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority, granting the new agency power to oversee land acquisition and coordinate financing for construction of a state-of-the-art…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas judge formally declared four men innocent Thursday in the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, closing a decades-long legal nightmare that nearly sent one to execution and left families branded as killers for years.District Judge Dayna Blazey delivered the ruling before a packed courtroom, closing a dark chapter for the men, their families and a city long haunted by the brutality of the crime.”You are innocent,” Blazey said.She called the order “an obligation to the rule of law and the obligation to the dignity of the individual.”DNA BREAKTHROUGH CLOSES 30-YEAR-OLD COLD…

Tom McCarthy is poised to take another step forward in his remarkable journey from mature-age mid-season draftee to midfield weapon in West Coast’s scratch match against Fremantle at Cockburn on Saturday.

SEOUL: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol apologised on Friday (Feb 20) for his short-lived declaration of martial law in December 2024, a day after a Seoul court sentenced him to life in prison for masterminding an insurrection.In a statement released by his lawyers, Yoon said that while he was sorry for the “frustration and hardship” brought upon the people by his martial law decree, he stood behind the “sincerity and purpose” behind his actions.The Seoul Central District Court’s decision to hand him a life sentence on Thursday was “predetermined”, he said, adding that the verdict against him was…

The public appearance ends rumours that Morales fled the country following the abduction of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 20 Feb 202620 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareEvo Morales, Bolivia’s former long-serving socialist leader, has reappeared in his political stronghold in the country’s central Chapare region after almost seven weeks of unexplained absence.His public appearance on Thursday in the town of Chimore ends rife speculation he had fled the country in the wake of the United States abduction of his ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in January.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s top House GOP critic admitted in a recent interview that he once offered Republican leaders his vote in exchange for a public expression of gratitude for his role in forcing the disclosure of the federal government’s Jeffrey Epstein files.It’s a move that has drawn backlash from at least one of his fellow House Republicans and others in the right-wing sphere.”Anyone who uses the victims of Epstein’s horrific sexual abuse to advance a political agenda or chase public recognition should seriously reconsider their line of work,” said Rep. Derrick Van…

Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman, testifies in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2025.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert the agency’s right to enforce prediction markets instead of individual states, according to its new chairman, Michael Selig.Selig argued in a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed that the CFTC has always had authority over prediction markets and determining whether the event contracts constitute gambling, as critics allege. Selig noted nearly 50 active…