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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd put an illegal immigrant, a Jan. 6 Capitol participant and a social media influencer front and center after a sweeping undercover sting netted 266 arrests tied to prostitution, human trafficking and child predators.Polk County Sheriff Judd delivered a blunt breakdown Friday of what he called some of the “more outrageous events” uncovered during the multi-agency operation, Polk Around and Find Out.”We made 266 total arrests,” Judd said, adding “about 247 of them were in the human trafficking operation,” with suspects collectively racking up “1,028 previous charges”…

President Donald Trump has feuded with European allies over their reluctance to step up support for war on Iran.Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026The United States military has said that it will pull 5,000 troops out of Germany amid ongoing tensions with the key European ally concerning the US war against Iran, according to media reports.Reuters reported that the Pentagon made the decision on Friday, several days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Iran was humiliating the US during negotiations over the end of the war.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The president is rightly reacting to…

The Pentagon is planning to withdraw about 5,000 American forces from Germany, senior defense officials said Friday.The officials characterized the move as a signal of President Trump’s discontent with the level of assistance that European allies have offered in the U.S.-Iran war. Mr. Trump has publicly criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the leaders of other NATO member states for not getting directly involved in the U.S.’s military campaign against Iran.The U.S. military has a massive presence in Germany dating back to the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War. More than 36,000 active duty troops were assigned…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 1, 2026 7:00 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec government says it will table legislation in the coming days that would allow people in relationships to find out if their partner has a history of domestic violence. The law would be based on Clare’s Law, which already exists in the United Kingdom and several Canadian provinces.The law originated in the U.K. and is named after Clare Wood, a woman who was murdered in 2009 by a partner she didn’t know had a violent criminal history.There has been…

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Helicopter crew lifts injured hiker to safety after fall on mountain in Australia Footage shows a rescue helicopter responding to Moogerah Peaks National Park in southeast Queensland, Australia, where a woman in her 20s injured her ankle in a fall and was unable to descend the mountain. Authorities said the helicopter was called to Moogerah Peaks National Park, Australia, after a hiker fell and was hurt, prompting paramedics to be lowered by winch to provide treatment and extract two people. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A hiker had to be airlifted to safety after being bitten by…

US President Donald Trump has said that all state permits for the 2026 recreational red snapper fishing season have been approved, a move he says will expand access for anglers across southeastern coastal states.In a post shared on Truth Social on Friday, Trump described the decision as a “huge win” for fishermen in states including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.“For years, our Great Fishermen have been punished with VERY short Federal fishing seasons despite RECORD HIGH fish populations and the States begging to oversee these permits,” he added.The policy centres on coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tahrohon Wayne (T.W.) Shannon, who was Oklahoma’s first African American speaker of the House, is pushing back on President Barack Obama’s pessimistic outlook for minority voters following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling reshaping the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.Where Obama saw the court “abandoning” principles of equal participation, Shannon believes the ruling further pushes race out of American politics, highlighting his own story as evidence that minorities don’t need special treatment to win office.”This idea that you must have a racially drawn district in order to win and compete is just nonsense,”…

The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) says various evolving forms of violent extremism are becoming increasingly difficult to address and even understand, with secret and anonymous online radicalization challenging investigators’ ability to keep pace. The agency’s annual report released Friday said violent extremism “continues to pose a significant threat to Canada’s national security and remains a critical operational priority for CSIS,” noting such extremism is “motivated by an increasingly diverse range of beliefs and convictions.”Those sometimes conflicting beliefs create what CSIS calls a “salad bar” of motivating grievances — particularly in the ideologically-motivated violent extremism landscape, which the agency…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged to make spending restraint a key feature of the Federal budget as the government flags major cost pressures.Responsible economic management and spending restraint will be defining features of the May 12 budget and “crucial in the context of important and unavoidable spending pressures”, Dr Chalmers said.“We’ve made a lot of progress together but there’s more work to do and that’s why sensible savings and spending restraint are a central focus of our economic plan,” he said in a statement.Treasury figures released on Friday night highlighted more than $60 billion in spending pressures in the coming…