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Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, says Israel’s unconstrained behavior is driven by a messianic aspiration for expansion.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nuclear fusion originates in our sun and other stars. Immense pressure and high temperatures in the core create a reaction, ultimately preventing it from collapsing under the force of gravity.”The fusion here on Earth has a lot of corollaries to how we understand how the stars work in things like astrophysics,” Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard said.”They both rely on studying plasma, the fourth state of matter. They both have the same types of reactions, and we use some of what we learn in how the stars work to inform how…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A juror in the murder trial of Utah children’s book author Kouri Richins is speaking out for the first time, describing how the panel went from early sympathy to a unanimous guilty verdict in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband.Richins, 35, now faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison after the jury found her guilty on all counts. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 13 at 9:30 a.m. MST.In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” a juror named Laura said her initial impression of Richins…

Hundreds of Calgarians are preparing to, once again, have their say on citywide rezoning at a public hearing scheduled at city hall next week. More than 300 people have signed up to speak so far at the hearing, which begins Monday morning, with well over 2,000 written comments already submitted to city council.At issue is whether citywide rezoning should be repealed, after city council voted in favour of a motion to kick-start the process to scrap it back in December.That motion directed city administration to reset the city’s land-use bylaw to what was in place prior to the previous city…

Fresh warnings have been issued about the life-threatening dangers of train surfing after a 13-year-old boy fell onto tracks, breaking several limbs.

A similar logic applies to energy. A temporary disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is manageable. But a prolonged closure would raise global prices of everything from food to fertilisers. Ultimately, that would hurt China too, at a time when its economy is under strain.Iran accounts for roughly 13 per cent of China’s seaborne crude imports, but the disruption to its supplies is not nearly as big a problem as it is for other countries, as the China Global South Project notes. Oil tracking data show that millions of barrels of Iranian crude have continued to flow – much of…

The United States Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency, has approved plans for a commemorative gold coin that features one of Donald Trump’s recent presidential portraits.The commission, made up of Trump appointees, voted unanimously in favour of minting the coin on Thursday. But the legality of such efforts has been repeatedly questioned.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFederal law prohibits the depiction of living presidents on US currency. Thursday’s coin, however, may sidestep the rule, as it is intended as a commemorative item, not for circulation as currency.Still, the Trump administration has advanced other plans to put the…

Hosting the prime minister of Japan in the Oval Office, President Trump downplayed the Iran war’s impact on global energy prices. But gas prices are continuing to climb as the Defense Department asks for more funding. Weijia Jiang has the latest.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! British reality TV personality Jordan Wright, who starred on ITV’s “The Only Way Is Essex,” has died. He was 33.A spokesperson for ITV confirmed Wright’s death to Fox News Digital Thursday.”Everyone at TOWIE sends their deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Jordan Wright at this very sad time,” the network said in a statement.’REAL HOUSEWIVES’ STAR’S SON DEAD AT 23Wright was found dead in a drainage canal near Bang Tao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, March 14, according to local reports, per Deadline. British reality star Jordan Wright has died at…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal authorities are investigating after a “close call” was reported Tuesday night at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, involving a commercial jet and cargo aircraft.National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials confirmed the “close call” happened when an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 overflew a FedEx Boeing 777 while both jets were attempting to land on crossing runways.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that at about 8:15 p.m. local time, an air traffic controller instructed Alaska Airlines Flight 294 to perform a “go-around” because FedEx Flight 721 was cleared for the final…