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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Houston Independent School District (HISD), the largest school system in Texas, has seen dramatic improvements in student grades and test scores across its more than 270 campuses in the years since a state takeover. The sweeping intervention followed years of academic underperformance and drew ongoing accusations of racism and unfairness.Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, students in grades 3 through 8 showed substantial improvements in reading and math scores on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests in the three school years since the…

A Canadian court has ordered the government of Iran to pay $200 million to a British Columbia mechanic who was branded an ‘infidel’ and tortured for criticizing the Islamic regime. In a decision obtained by Global News, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded $100 million in compensation and another $100 million in punitive damages to Zahed Haftlang.The court said Haftlang, an Iranian refugee who fled to Canada in 2001, merited the unusually large sum because of the “years of mistreatment” and “lifetime of mental trauma” he suffered.Justice Lee Akazaki wrote that while a single judgment might not deter Iran’s…

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Meta Platforms is offering free training for people to work in its data centers and guaranteeing them a job in a skilled trade after completing a five-week course.The technology giant announced on Monday that it is committing $115 million to the program, which is open to qualified veterans, career changers and others who want to enter the skilled trades. The initiative, dubbed “America’s workforce academy,” will first launch in Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas.Meta cited a nationwide shortage of fiber technicians, welders, plumbers, electricians and other skilled tradespeople needed to build data centers.”Every graduate will leave with a verified, industry-standard…

new video loaded: The Philippines Grapples With Deadly Earthquake’s AftermathAfter the Philippines was struck by its most powerful earthquake in 50 years, residents on the island of Mindanao were left to pick up the pieces.By Axel BoadaJune 9, 2026

Washington — Democrats have accused President Trump of throwing a grenade into negotiations to renew a key spy authority — known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — set to expire Friday. Members of Congress in both parties have been critical of Mr. Trump’s decision to appoint housing regulator Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. Pulte, who also leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, lacks experience in national security and intelligence matters. As Democrats warned that they’d withhold their support for reauthorizing Section 702 as long as Pulte remains in the role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of killing a young woman on a North Carolina light-rail train has been deemed incompetent to stand trial in his federal case following a mental evaluation.Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is charged in the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska, 23, while aboard the light-rail Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte on Aug. 22, 2025. In Tuesday’s brief hearing, which lasted approximately 15 minutes, Brown had a few outbursts, yelling that he would be “pressing charges.”Brown is expected to be committed to a special facility under the direction of the…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s been “jammed meeting everyone” in Washington, D.C., as he tries to drum up support for his Fortress North America vision, an idea he has been pushing in some form since U.S. President Donald Trump was first elected. The premier headed down to the United States Capitol on Monday and Tuesday for a series of meetings, although he hasn’t met with anyone from the Trump administration.Ford’s social media showed meetings with the American Automotive Policy Council, the American Farm Bureau Federation and Autos Drive America, none of which were open to the media.“We have been jammed…

Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defence against charges that he killed them.A petition filed by the 32-year-old Nick Reiner’s civil lawyers in a Los Angeles County court on Monday says that trustees overseeing the funds have denied them to him without legal justification, and he needs and should get them now.”Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths. But the facts about what did and did not happen to them are not at issue in this Trust…

The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway have imposed coordinated sanctions targeting networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.The move on Tuesday came in response to record illegal settlement expansion and rising violence by settlers in the West Bank, according to multiple statements.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“With our British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and Norwegian partners, we are today imposing new sanctions against those responsible for intensifying colonisation and violence in the West Bank,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a post on…