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Passengers sleep on the floor, after flights were delayed and cancelled when the airspace was closed due to U.S. strikes on Venezuela overnight, at Rafael Hernandez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.REUTERS/Ricardo ArduengoAirlines canceled hundreds of flights to Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean on Saturday, stranding thousands of travelers at the tail-end of the New Year holiday period after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered commercial aircraft to avoid airspace in parts of the region following U.S. strikes on Venezuela.President Donald Trump said Saturday the strikes resulted in the United States’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Cancellations included 400 flights to and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Virginia jury has found former IRS law enforcement officer Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in the 2023 killings of his wife, Christina Banfield, and a second victim, Joseph Ryan, according to reports.Banfield, 40, was convicted in Fairfax County of murdering his 37-year-old wife and Ryan, 38, a stranger prosecutors said he deliberately lured to the family’s Herndon home under false pretenses, the Associated Press reported.The panel had got the case midday Jan. 30 and deliberated most of Monday.The jury found Banfield guilty of using a firearm in the commission of…

More than 100 residents in a Côte Saint-Luc apartment complex remain without heat days after a power outage, even though electricity was restored to most of the area. For many residents, the Jan. 24 outage triggered a cascade of problems. While power returned within about 24 hours, pipes inside the building froze, leaving dozens of units without functioning heating systems.Sofiane Benyoucef, a father of two, told Global News his family tried to wait it out while building management worked on repairs.“We tried discussing with them, they said they were working on it. It went on for one or two days,…

China’s military leadership stood before the nation in March 2023, an image of unity behind Xi Jinping. After nearly a decade in power, Mr. Xi had installed the high command that he wanted: loyalists hand-picked to make the People’s Liberation Army a world-class force.But not even Mr. Xi’s loyalists have been spared from his sweeping campaign to clean up the military — with purges that are ostensibly focused on corruption but are also about fealty to him. One by one, members of the Central Military Commission have been dismissed and put under investigation. The latest was Gen. Zhang Youxia, Mr.…

HOW MUCH MORE MORTGAGE HOLDERS WILL PAY:* $500,000 loan – $75 more per month* $600,000 loan – $90 more per month* $700,000 loan – $105 more per month* $800,000 loan – $120 more per month* $900,000 loan – $135 more per month* $1 million loan – $150 more per monthHOW WILL INTEREST RATES LOOK?* The official cash rate has risen from 3..6 per cent to 3..85 per cent, following the RBA’s decision* The average owner-occupier rate is expected to be 5.77 per centWHAT IS THE IMPACT FOR HOMEOWNERS?* Some mortgage holders may not have to pay more back, with many…

A man was shot by a police officer at Iloilo International Airport in the Philippines on Jan 28 after he allegedly tried to stab the officer who was responding to a commotion following a security screening.An eyewitness at the airport told online news channel News5 in the Philippines that people at the airport suddenly started running in panic after noticing a man holding a knife.The incident was said to have happened around 4.45pm.A video posted by a Facebook user showed the man running while pointing a knife at pursuing officers. Screams could be heard in the airport terminal, followed by…

Washington — Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, ahead of expected votes in the House later this week on holding the pair in contempt of Congress. In an email to the committee on Monday, the Clintons’ legal team said the former president and former secretary of state “accept the terms of your letter and will appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates.” “As has been the Committee’s practice, please confirm the House will not move forward with contempt proceedings, as the Chairman stated in his letter this morning,” said the email, which…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson slammed the assertion he was connected with Jeffrey Epstein in any way after his name was mentioned in an email dump last week.Wilson’s name was mentioned in an email chain among the 3 million the Justice Department released on Friday. It was seen in a correspondence between Epstein and his personal pilot, Larry Visoski. The two discussed Wilson potentially buying Epstein’s Gulfstream G-IV in 2019. New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson (3) warms up prior to the game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! San Francisco officials announced last Thursday that the city has uncovered numerous secret drug and gambling dens masquerading as convenience stores, all located in a notorious downtown neighborhood long associated with illicit activity and homelessness.At least nine such dens have been shut down or sued over the past 18 months in the Tenderloin, City Attorney David Chiu said. He added that the stores engaged in a range of illegal activities, including gambling operations, selling illegal drugs, possessing firearms, trafficking in stolen goods, and violating the city’s nighttime safety ordinance, which prohibits shops from…

After a devastating flood last week, researchers at the Lehmann Centre at the Douglas Hospital say they have been raising concerns for years about the decrepit state of the building. “This building should have been demolished years ago,” said McGill University Psychiatry professor Sylvain Williams. Williams has worked as a researcher at the Lehmann Centre for about 30 years.“Unfortunately, it has not because there were no other alternatives. We have been asking for a new building, a new hospital. But nothing has moved forward,” Williams told Global News on Monday.On Jan. 26, several pipes in the Lehmann building burst, causing…