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Travis Kalanick, chief executive officer of City Storage Systems, during the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority conference in Miami, Florida, Feb. 21, 2025.Zak Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesUber founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick has renamed his latest venture as Atoms and said on Friday that he’s expanding beyond food and into mining and transportation.After being forced to resign from Uber in 2017, Kalanick joined joined City Storage Systems as CEO the following year. City Storage is the parent of ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens, which Kalanick quickly grew to a reported $15 billion valuation by 2022. Kalanick, who founded Uber in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A manhunt is continuing into its sixth month for a Louisiana man indicted for vehicular manslaughter last fall after he allegedly drove the wrong way on a freeway in St. John the Baptist Parish, killing a recent college graduate.Manmeet Singh, 30, had a felony warrant issued in late October, charging him with vehicular homicide, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, and driving in the wrong direction, Crime Stoppers of Great New Orleans said this week.He is wanted by the Louisiana State Police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Marshals Service…

More than a hundred people gathered in Halifax on Friday to honour the life of longtime Africville activist Eddie Carvery. Carvery became widely known for his decades-long protest on the former site of Africville, a historically Black community that was bulldozed by the City of Halifax in the late 1960s.The funeral was held at New Horizon Baptist Church, where family, friends and community members filled the building to celebrate the life of the 79-year-old, who died in February after years of health issues.Carvery held Canada’s longest recorded protest beginning in 1970.He maintained a protest camp on the waterfront land for…

US President Donald Trump has said in a statement that the United States has “totally obliterated” Iran’s Kharg Island.“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” he said in a statement posted by The White House on X.“Iran has NO ability to defend anything that we want to attack — There is nothing they can do about it!” the President added.It comes after US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, declared “maximum” engagement…

In a fiery, 27-page decision, a United States judge has granted a motion to quash two subpoenas related to an investigation into Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank.On Friday, Judge James Boasberg of the US court for the District of Columbia concluded that the subpoenas has been issued for an “improper purpose”: to harass Powell into compliance.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listPowell, Boasberg explained, had been the target of a months-long campaign under President Donald Trump to force the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates rapidly and dramatically.Trump has repeatedly called for…

Iran’s president and foreign minister were among the senior officials who joined thousands of people marching through downtown Tehran on Friday, showing defiance as U.S.-Israeli airstrikes continued, sending up plumes of smoke not far from a crowd according to videos posted online.Iran marks “Quds [Jerusalem] Day” on the final Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in solidarity with Palestinians, and that was the occasion for the large rally in Tehran, but the top officials showing up was a clear signal to the U.S. and Israel that their ongoing strikes had not dislodged the nearly 50-year-old theocracy that rules…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A widow whose teacher-husband was killed in a senior prank gone terribly wrong has been granted her unusual request to drop the charges against the teens involved.According to the Hall County Magistrate Court, a judge has approved paperwork requesting dismissal of the charges against Jayden Wallace, Aiden Hucks, Ana Katherine Luque, Ariana Cruz, and Elijah Tate Owens.The five teens, who are all 18, went to math teacher Jason Hughes’ house on the night of March 6 to roll toilet paper on his trees, according to authorities in Gainesville, Georgia. Jason and Laura…

A school bus driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in October 2024 has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and a two-year driving suspension. Anthony Phillips pleaded guilty to careless driving causing the death of 22-year-old Rachel Turner last December.The 61-year-old admitted that on Oct. 8, 2024, at around 4 p.m., he struck Turner, who was walking in a marked pedestrian crosswalk.Careless driving causing death is a Highway Traffic Act (HTA) offence that carries a maximum sentence of up to two years in jail, fines between $2,000 and $50,000 and a licence suspension up to five years.Phillips was…

Over six decades of Doctor Who, the intergalactic adventurer’s adversaries have included evil robots, rampaging Yeti — and the BBC, which erased many early episodes of the now-iconic sci-fi TV series.A film charity announced on Friday that it had found two previously lost 1960s episodes in film cans wrapped in plastic bags among the possessions of a deceased collector.They have been restored by BBC archivists and will be available next month on the broadcaster’s streaming service.The discovery leaves 95 episodes still missing from the adventures of a galaxy-hopping alien known as the Doctor that debuted in 1963.Doctor Who — the…

Grammy-winning artist James Blake speaks about making his first solo album as an independent artist. He talks to Anthony Mason about why he decided to leave his record label, what it’s like to work with some of the world’s biggest musicians and the passion behind his music.