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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries unloaded on Republicans Monday, saying they “done eff’d up in Texas,” accusing the GOP of overreaching on redistricting and predicting they will fall well short of flipping five congressional seats.During a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, Jeffries was asked about a recent Texas state senate race in which a Democrat flipped a seat in a district President Donald Trump carried in 2020. Jeffries was also pressed on whether Democrats could win four of the five redistricted congressional seats in Texas.”Yes, Republicans done eff’d up in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Monday that it was launching an investigation after a Catholic school in Long Beach, California, was broken into and vandalized.”The @CivilRights will open an investigation into this awful crime,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said on X.The Holy Innocents Catholic School was desecrated after its assembly hall, chapel and classrooms were broken into, school officials said.Statues were smashed, images of Mary and other religious figures were destroyed and a photograph of the pope was knocked to the floor, images of the…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 2, 2026 5:22 pm Updated February 2, 2026 5:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta oil and gas operator Cenovus Energy Inc. says one worker was killed and another was injured late last week at a site in northeastern Alberta. The Calgary-based company says they were employed by a third-party contractor at the Christina Lake North site south of Fort McMurray, east of Highway 881 near Conklin.Alberta Occupational Health and Safety says the workers were struck by a pipe that rolled off a truck they were…

President Yamandu Orsi is the first Latin American leader to visit China since the US military abducted Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.Published On 3 Feb 20263 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareChina and Uruguay have moved to deepen their strategic partnership despite pressure from United States President Donald Trump to keep Chinese influence out of Latin America.The two countries signed a dozen cooperation agreements on Tuesday in areas such as science, technology, and trade following a meeting between Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listOrsi said in a…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) meets the President of China, Xi Jinping (R) as a part of the 25th Heads of State Council meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, China on August 31, 2025.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China plans to send a delegation to India’s upcoming AI summit in the latest sign of improving ties between the two neighbors, CNBC has learned.A vice minister from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology will lead the delegation, said George Chen, partner and co-chair of digital practice at consultancy The Asia Group, citing conversations with his…

Premier Roger Cook has defended a near 50 per cent surge in WA’s public service wage bill over five years, as quarterly taxpayer spending hits $5 billion to support the state’s rapidly growing workforce.

But Uruguay’s engagement with Beijing is likely to be shaped by renewed US attention to Latin America and concerns about China’s involvement there, said Margaret Myers, director of the Asia & Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue.”Following actions in Venezuela, both China and many Latin American nations are weighing the prospects of continued US intervention in the region.”GLOBAL SOUTH TIESChina “is willing to work with Uruguay and other regional countries to deepen and solidify the building of a China-Latin America community with a shared future”, Xi said.It backs Uruguay in taking on the rotating presidency of the Group of…

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal protections for Haitians enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program, granting a last-minute reprieve to 350,000 immigrants who were set to lose their deportation protections on Tuesday.U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes indefinitely paused the planned termination of Haiti’s TPS program, explicitly barring the federal government from invalidating the legal status and work permits of active enrollees and from arresting and deporting them. In an opinion accompanying her order, Reyes issued a forceful rebuke of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to end the TPS policy for Haitians.Reyes concluded…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Thomas criticized the Chicago White Sox for leaving him out of a Black History Month graphic to start February.Thomas played 16 years for the White Sox from 1990 to 2005 and finished his career first in several key stat categories, including home runs (448), RBI (1,465), doubles (447), on-base percentage (.427), slugging percentage (.568), OPS (.995) and walks (1,466). Frank Thomas #35 of the Chicago White Sox signs autographs for fans prior to the start of an Major League Baseball spring training game in 1996 in Tucson,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A grieving North Carolina mother is lashing out at Hollywood elites and Grammy Award speeches she says ignored crime victims like her family — weeks after her teenage daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend were killed in an alleged DUI crash caused by an illegal immigrant.In a statement shared with Fox News Digital, Shannon Swiderski Hamrick, the mother of Skylar Provenza, 19, described waking up overwhelmed by grief just minutes before returning to work.”Today I woke up feeling it. It’s Monday. I’m supposed to go back to work in six minutes,” Hamrick said.…