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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The war in Iran has caused smelter closures and “force majeure” declarations across the aluminium industry in the Middle East, threatening a supply crunch in the key industrial metal with global stocks already close to historic lows. Several big producers have declared they are no longer able to honour their contracts, including Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the world’s biggest smelters, and Norsk Hydro, which jointly operates the Qatalum smelter with Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company.The Qatalum smelter started a controlled shutdown this week…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bodycam video from the Austin mass shooting, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack, will be released on Thursday as the county’s liberal district attorney announced he would take no action against the three officers who killed the suspect.In a news release on Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced no action would be taken against the three police officers who killed 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne shot and killed three people and left more than a dozen other people injured on Sunday outside a bar in Austin, Texas.”Today, the Travis…

Washington — The House will vote again on Thursday on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, as Republicans stress an urgency to ending the partial government shutdown amid the war with Iran. Republicans have put pressure on Democrats to support an agreement that appropriators reached on a bipartisan basis earlier this year to fund DHS through September. But that was before a second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in January, which prompted Democrats to oppose any funding for the department without reforms to immigration enforcement. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that…

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Social media posts last month claimed Toyota had decided to move an auto manufacturing plant from Huntsville, Ala., to Ontario. The company says the claim is false. The claim originated from online accounts that appear to generate their content using artificial intelligence. As Canada’s auto sector struggles under the weight of U.S. tariffs, some social media users celebrated news of a supposed “win” for the industry. Story continues below advertisement Multiple posts claimed Japanese automaker Toyota planned to move its manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Ala., to Ontario.“Toyota just pulled the plug on their $9-billion plant in Alabama and gave it…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Shahs of Sunset” star Reza Farahan is speaking out about the United States and Israel’s military action against Iran. During an interview with Fox News Digital, the Iranian-born 52-year-old reality star, who authored the forthcoming book “Memoirs of a Gay Shah,” explained that he and his family came to America on a family trip in 1977 and ended up staying after unrest in Iran escalated into revolution.During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the country’s former monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown and replaced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who established an Islamic Republic that…

Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, arrives for a medal of honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026. Jim Lo Scalzo | EPA | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA tech industry group, whose members include Nvidia, Google and Anthropic, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday expressing concern over his designating a U.S. company a supply chain risk.The letter, written by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), doesn’t name Anthropic, though the artificial intelligence company was given that label on Friday after failing to come to terms…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Aaron Rodgers made clear on Wednesday that he has no plans to live a “public life” with his mystery wife, citing immense media scrutiny on his past relationships with high-profile women.The NFL star previously dated actresses Olivia Munn and Shailene Woodley and former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick. Rodgers and Woodley were engaged in 2021, but called off their wedding plans in 2022 and later broke up. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) reacts on the field before the game against the Green Bay Packers at Acrisure Stadium on Oct. 26, 2025. (Charles…

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ICHIKAWA: Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him drew attention to the residents of a zoo near Tokyo. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.But he’s been using the toy less. On a recent day, Punch was seen climbing on the back of another monkey, sitting with adults and sometimes getting groomed or hugged.“It was good to see him grow, and I’m reassured,” said Sanae…