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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! High-profile sports and talent agent Casey Wasserman announced to staff he will be selling his talent agency in the aftermath of recently released emails between him and Ghislaine Maxwell, The Associated Press reported Saturday.Wasserman, the founder and CEO of Wasserman Agency and chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, exchanged flirtatious emails in 2003 with Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s right-hand woman, according to documents included in the most recent release by the Department of Justice.The memo arrived days after the LA28 board’s executive committee met to discuss Wasserman’s appearance in the Epstein files.…

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Islamist-led coalition, which lost its chance to form the country’s next government in this week’s polls, submitted complaints to the Election Commission on Sunday (Feb 15), challenging results in 32 constituencies.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman – the scion of one of the country’s most influential political dynasties – celebrated a sweeping victory in the South Asian nation of 170 million after general elections on Thursday.They were the first polls since a 2024 uprising ousted the autocratic government of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The BNP alliance won 212 seats, compared with 77 for the Jamaat-e-Islami-led…

In recent months, artificial intelligence has been in the news for the wrong reasons: use of deepfakes to scam people, AI systems used to manipulate cyberattacks, and chatbots encouraging suicides, among others.Experts are already warning against technology going out of control. Researchers with some of the most prominent AI companies have quit their jobs in recent weeks and publicly sounded the alarm about fast-paced technological development posing risks to society.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listDoomsday theories have long circulated about how substantial advancement in AI could pose an existential threat to the human race, with critics warning that the…

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security has ground to a halt in a dispute in Congress over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The partial shutdown was impacting the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and FEMA, among other agencies. Willie James Inman reports.

Strategy CEO Michael Saylor brushed off concerns about the company’s credit risk if bitcoin continues to tumble. In fact, Saylor said he plans to keep accumulating the cryptocurrency for the company every quarter. “If bitcoin falls 90% for the next four years, we’ll refinance the debt,” the executive said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We’ll just roll it forward.”Asked whether he believed banks would continue to lend to the digital asset treasury firm if bitcoin collapses, Saylor said, “Yeah, because the volatility of bitcoin is such that it’s always going to be a value.”Bitcoin was last trading at $68,970.45, down…

US murder rate falls to 100-year low in 2025 Fox News correspondent Rebekah Castor joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to break down the FBI capture of former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding and accused murderer Alejandro Rosales Castillo. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who raped, stabbed and murdered a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman more than 30 years ago was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday, closing a decades-old cold case.Dana Shepherd, 53, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday, after signing a plea deal last month admitting to the killing of Carmen Van…

Luke Jackson’s life as a big-bodied midfielder took a big step on Saturday when he turned out for the role for Western Australia in the AFL Origin clash against Victoria. Here is a breakdown of how he fared.

TAIPEI: China is the real threat to security and is hypocritically claiming to uphold UN principles of peace, Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Sunday (Feb 15) in a rebuff to comments by China’s top diplomat at the Munich Security Conference.China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view the government in Taipei rejects, saying only Taiwan’s people can decide their future.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, addressing the annual security conference on Saturday, warned that some countries were “trying to split Taiwan from China”, blamed Japan for tensions over the island and underscored the importance of upholding…

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoThe landmark Bangladesh election held last week was ⁠triggered by a Gen Z-led uprising in 2024, yet a youth-led National Citizen Party (NCP) – born out of the uprising – managed to secure only six parliamentary seats out of the 297, the results of which are available.The results, officially declared on Saturday, showed that voters overwhelmingly chose the long-established Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which comfortably defeated a Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, of which the NCP is a key partner.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTarique Rahman of the BNP, which has already governed the country three times,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, saying that President Donald Trump “wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all.””Met with Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa on Ukraine’s security and deepening defense and economic partnerships,” Rubio wrote in an X post in which he shared a photo of him shaking hands with the Ukrainian leader. “President Trump wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all.”Earlier Saturday, Zelenskyy revealed he had spoken with Rubio and Trump envoy Steve…