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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Officials on Wednesday accused a Los Angeles officer of insurance fraud after he allegedly went skydiving multiple times while collecting full disability benefits.Christopher Brandon Carnahan, 43, of Norwalk, was charged Monday after allegedly exaggerating an on-duty injury sustained in 2023, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.Carnahan is a veteran officer who has been with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for 18 years, according to WatchTheWatchers.net, citing California public records.”This case is about honesty and accountability,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement. Christopher…

The mother of 22-year-old Ezra Cool says her son “needed help and he didn’t get it.” On Feb. 6, Cool checked himself into the hospital in Vernon, B.C., and was involuntarily admitted under B.C.’s Mental Health Act. His mother, Christal Cool, says he was experiencing psychosis with no prior history.“He thought he was being drugged. He thought his family was being held hostage at knife point. There’s no prior history. This was just out of the blue,” she said.Six days later, at around 5:30 a.m., Ezra escaped the hospital wearing only socks and hospital clothing while a nurse was on…

Austin Smotherman matched the best score of his career – a nine-under 62 – to take a one-stroke lead over Nico Echavarria at the PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic.Smotherman became only the seventh player to shoot 62 or better at PGA National in this event.The others are Jake Knapp (59 in round 1, 2025), Australian Matt Jones (61 in round 1, 2021), Brian Harman (61 in round 2, 2012), Chris Kirk (62 in round 2, 2023), Brandon Hagy (62 in round 2, 2021) and Tiger Woods (62 in the final round, 2012).”It was a pretty easy round,” Smotherman said, “on a…

Earlier in the week, the prosecution laid out their case: that Duterte played a “pivotal” role in a campaign of extrajudicial killings that saw thousands murdered.Duterte personally drew up death lists, incited murders and then boasted about them afterwards, prosecutors alleged.They showed multiple videos of the former president threatening to murder alleged drug users and joking about his skills in extrajudicial killing.But Kaufman said the prosecution had “cherry-picked” speeches, ignoring what he said were dozens of examples of Duterte stressing the need to act within the law.”Do not kill if you are not in danger of losing your life,” Kaufman…

new video loaded: Russia Launches Major Attack Hours Before U.S.-Ukraine TalksRussia unleashed a series of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Thursday, injuring at least 20 people and damaging buildings in eight different regions.By Meg FellingFebruary 26, 2026

As the U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence giant Anthropic teeters on the edge of collapse, the Pentagon’s top technology official told CBS News the department has offered compromises in order to reach a deal with the company.The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday at 5:01 p.m. to either let the military use the company’s AI model for “all lawful purposes” or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract. The AI startup has sought guardrails that explicitly bar its powerful Claude model from being used to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or carry out military operations on its own. The Pentagon’s chief…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Megan Marx reflected on the challenges of grief three years after receiving a rare brain disorder diagnosis.The “Bachelor Australia” star was diagnosed with spinocerebellar ataxia in 2022, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that affects coordination and mobility.”There is a kind of grief that rarely earns a name,” she wrote in an essay for Mamamia. “It is not the grief of death, nor even the grief that follows a diagnosis. It is the grief of the life we imagined we might live, and the slow recognition that it will not arrive.” Megan…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Brady Tkachuk has found himself in a rather awkward position.Days after crushing the hearts of Canadians by helping the United States win a gold medal over their northern neighbors, Tkachuk is now back with his Senators, who play in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, for a playoff push.A TikTok posted by the White House probably didn’t help matters, as it featured footage of Tkachuk’s conference at a 4 Nations game last year that was AI-doctored to make it appear as if he spoke disparagingly of Canada and its citizens.  Brady Tkachuk of Team…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A North Carolina woman whose disappearance in 2001 and triggered a 24-year search is now facing criminal charges from the year she vanished.Michelle Hundley Smith, now 63, was located Feb. 20 at an undisclosed location within North Carolina after detectives received new information about her case, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said.Smith was 38 when her husband reported that she left their Eden home on Dec. 9, 2001, to go Christmas shopping in Martinsville, Virginia, and never returned. Her vehicle was never found.An extensive investigation followed, but despite years of investigative work,…

The mother of three siblings killed by a speeding and impaired teenage driver made a tearful plea for people to stop drinking and driving at a sentencing hearing for Ethan Lehouillier Thursday. “Because of one selfish decision, three of my children are no longer here. They were so young,” said Jade Galve, who survived the May 18 crash, through tears.“It has been so hard to cope with everything and the loss is unbearable. I can remember every single detail, especially holding my lifeless daughter in my arms, calling out for help. All we can do is keep the memory of…