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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump announced Thursday that former SEC Chairman and current U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton will be the next permanent director of national intelligence.The nomination followed a brief stint by acting Director William Pulte, who took over after Tulsi Gabbard stepped down.”I am pleased to announce the Nomination of very Highly Respected Jay Clayton, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former Head of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most prominent and successful Law Firms anywhere in the World, and the current United States Attorney for the Southern District…

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower on a wondrous starry night and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” has returned to the sci-fi genre with “Disclosure Day,” which imagines closely-held secrets surrounding alien visitations. He talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about UAP/UFO phenomena, the paranormal, and his own beliefs regarding intelligent life beyond Earth.

For more than 20 years, Matt Kenny stayed away from the game he grew up playing. “When I left the sport, I put my bag in my parents’ basement and never put hockey equipment on again.”This weekend, the former Kingston, Ont., hockey player will return to the ice alongside former teammates for the first time in more than two decades.The reunion is part of Matt’s Hockey Homecoming & Community Pride Skate, a Kingston Pride event focused on making hockey more welcoming and inclusive for people of all backgrounds.Held Saturday at the INVISTA Centre, the event will feature a reunion game,…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday he’s worried that SpaceX’s stock could soar too high, too quickly.”Tomorrow at this time, if things really go awry, we may have a new champion, a new largest stock in the world: SpaceX,” the “Mad Money” host said.Elon Musk’s rocket and artificial intelligence company is expected to begin trading Friday. It set a fixed sale price of $135 per share, equal to a valuation of $1.77 trillion. Demand for the IPO has been extraordinary, with the deal reportedly four times oversubscribed. While that level of interest is typically viewed as a positive, Cramer warned that…

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HONG KONG: China warned communities in its northwestern Xinjiang and nearby regions on Friday (Jun 12) to prepare for “extreme floods” this summer, driven by abnormally high temperatures, heavy rainfall and rapid glacier melt.Xinjiang’s Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest, experienced its first flood of the year in early June, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday, showing footage of water filling the typically arid dunes.While the Taklamakan has experienced similar floods since 2021, they typically occur in August, when temperatures peak. However, temperatures have surged much earlier this year.On Jun 12, Xinjiang was 7.3 degrees hotter than average for this time of…

Second-half goals by Oh Hyeon-gyu and Hwang In-beom steered South Korea to a come-from-behind win over Czechia in a Group A encounter.Published On 12 Jun 202612 Jun 2026Hwang In-beom scored a goal and set up another as South Korea rallied to defeat Czechia 2-1 in the second match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Thursday night in Zapopan, Mexico.After a lacklustre first half in which both teams were jeered as they left the field, Czechia took the lead in the 59th minute on a header by captain Ladislav Krejci after a long throw-in into the penalty area.Recommended Stories list…

The Trump administration will appeal a judge’s order requiring that President Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center. The notice of appeal was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Earlier Thursday, Mr. Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to seek a stay of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s May 29 ruling that said Mr. Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center, a person familiar with the move who requested anonymity to discuss a private meeting told The Associated Press. The formal stay will be filed on Friday, the person said.Cooper ruled last month…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who admitted to assaulting a federal officer during protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, last year was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Thursday.Robert Jacob Hoopes previously pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a federal employee with a dangerous weapon.According to court documents, Hoopes threw a rock during a June 2025 protest that struck an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer in the face, “causing significant injury.”Prosecutors said the officer’s wound bled heavily and obstructed his vision. The officer also required medical…

Lucky Bring brought to the vet. Romany runnalls When a rescuer found a three-month-old puppy wandering in the Oliver area, she hoped she had found her future dog.The tiny puppy, later named Lucky, was severely underweight and in rough condition, but his rescuer was determined to help. She planned to take him home, nurse him back to health and eventually adopt him. Story continues below advertisement Those plans quickly changed.“He was not eating and didn’t take any water the night she had him,” said Romany Runnalls with the Okanagan Humane Society.“We got a distressed email at three o’clock in the…