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Three members of the Southern Alberta Mustangs Junior hockey team were killed Monday morning in a motor vehicle collision south of Calgary. The team from Stavely, located just over an hour south of Calgary, issued a statement on social media Monday afternoon, confirming the tragic news.The team said the three players were headed to practice when the crash happened.Global News has confirmed the names of the three players killed in the crash. Two were from British Columbia and one was from the southern United States.They are:Caden Fine, a 17-year-old centre with the team, whose hometown was listed as Birmingham, Ala.,…

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.This week’s quiz highlights Hollywood hits, diamond discoveries and a lot more. Can you get all 8 questions right?Give it a try and see how you do!CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESTo try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here. Also, to take our latest News Quiz — published every Friday — click here. American Culture Quiz! How well do you know this week’s topics? (Getty Images; iStock) Kelly McGreal…

As President Trump prepares to shut down the Kennedy Center for renovations, sources told CBS News there has been no discussion of demolishing or gutting the building.The president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday he plans to create a “brand new” Kennedy Center using the 55-year-old arts institution’s existing steel and some of its marble, drawing speculation about the extent of the planned two-year renovation project.Asked by CBS News on Monday if he plans to tear down the building, he said: “I’m not ripping it down. I’ll be using the steel, so we’re using the structure.”He said his…

During Sudan’s civil war, which erupted in April 2023, both sides have increasingly relied on drones, and civilians have borne the brunt of the carnage.The conflict between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group is an example of war transformed by commercially available, easily concealable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.Modular, well-adapted to sanctions evasions and devastatingly effective, drones have killed scores of civilians, crippled infrastructure and plunged Sudanese cities into darkness.In this visual investigation, Al Jazeera examines the history of drone warfare in Sudan, the types of drones used by the warring sides,…

Brisbane might have secured the Olympic Games but a grassroots campaign is asking the state government to consider adopting another big event.

Police in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, are reportedly investigating a video that appears to show a Grab driver harassing a female passenger during a ride.The video, posted on social media on Sunday (Feb 1), shows the driver reaching toward the rear passenger seat while asking the woman for her age in Mandarin.An anonymous poster, identifying themselves as the passenger’s sibling, uploaded two videos on Facebook, along with a screenshot of the Grab ride details. The post was made to a group called JB Chui Shui Zhan.According to the post, the incident occurred while the female passenger was travelling from Taman Mount…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congress is a very superstitious place. Only on Capitol Hill would temporal markers like Groundhog Day and Friday the 13th hold legislative resonance.The partial government shutdown will continue until at least Tuesday. This impacts 78% of the federal government after Democrats scuttled a multi-bill spending plan last week over concerns about ICE.The charge now for the House of Representatives is to align with a revised Senate-passed plan from Friday. This bill would fund the Pentagon, HUD, transportation programs and a host of agencies through September 30. But it would only operate DHS…

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesElon Musk said a primary reason for merging SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is to more effectively build “orbital data centers.” That’s for a far-off future.For now, xAI has a much more pressing need: cash. In Monday’s blog post announcing the combination of his two companies, Musk estimated that “within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.” But xAI…

Passengers sleep on the floor, after flights were delayed and cancelled when the airspace was closed due to U.S. strikes on Venezuela overnight, at Rafael Hernandez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.REUTERS/Ricardo ArduengoAirlines canceled hundreds of flights to Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean on Saturday, stranding thousands of travelers at the tail-end of the New Year holiday period after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered commercial aircraft to avoid airspace in parts of the region following U.S. strikes on Venezuela.President Donald Trump said Saturday the strikes resulted in the United States’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Cancellations included 400 flights to and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Virginia jury has found former IRS law enforcement officer Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in the 2023 killings of his wife, Christina Banfield, and a second victim, Joseph Ryan, according to reports.Banfield, 40, was convicted in Fairfax County of murdering his 37-year-old wife and Ryan, 38, a stranger prosecutors said he deliberately lured to the family’s Herndon home under false pretenses, the Associated Press reported.The panel had got the case midday Jan. 30 and deliberated most of Monday.The jury found Banfield guilty of using a firearm in the commission of…