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Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading: Dominion Energy — Shares popped more than 9% after NextEra Energy announced a deal to acquire the company in an all-stock transaction. NextEra said the combination of the two companies will create the world’s largest regulated electric utility business. NextEra shares were down about 5%. Viking Holdings — The cruise line’s stock rose nearly 2% after receiving an upgrade from Wells Fargo to overweight. The firm cited stronger-than-expected bookings and resilient demand despite fears associated with the ongoing U.S.-Iran war. Advanced bookings for 2027 already have risen 31% from…

By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted May 18, 2026 11:07 am Updated May 18, 2026 11:47 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. undersecretary of defence said Monday that the United States is pausing a long-standing military board, claiming “Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.” In a post on social media, Elbridge Colby said his department is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense “to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”The board was established in 1940 and is an advisory forum for U.S.-Canada…

Rob Malley argues that current talks have ‘very small chance of success’.When United States President Donald Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metric”, argues a former US special envoy to Iran, Rob Malley.Malley told host Steve Clemons that the only way out of this war is “a settlement that respects our core interests, but also theirs”.To calculate the odds of a deal, Malley said, psychologists may be more useful than experts because “it really depends…

President Trump and the Justice Department reached a $1.7 billion settlement in the president’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department over the leak of his tax returns, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday.The Justice Department said that Mr. Trump and the other plaintiffs in the suit — two of his sons and the Trump Organization —will receive a formal apology but “no monetary payment or damages of any kind.” Instead, a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” will be created at Blanche’s direction to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MVP has been the voice behind All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin since all three pro wrestlers entered the company in 2024, and now he’s taken his mic skills to a new social media platform.”Marking Out with MVP & Dwayne Swayze” podcast and show will be released on BZZR each Friday ahead of their episodes going on YouTube. BZZR is one of the newest social media platforms to hit the internet vowing to unite sports fans and cut out the noise.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has rejected calls to set out a timetable to stand down if a rival wins a by-election and enters parliament.

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Shinichi Sasaki and his wife, Kozue, were among the first to open a kakigoya on Itoshima 25 years ago.“Our family has always worked along the seaside. We used to farm sea bream until the price of feed got too expensive to be profitable,” said Shinichi, “so we became oyster farmers, and we’re still here today.”Today, three generations of the Sasaki family work together at their kakigoya, Shineimaru, to bring oysters to customers seven days a week during the winter season.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Santa Barbara County Fire Department helicopter evacuated 11 National Park Service employees from Santa Rosa Island on Sunday as a human-caused wildfire spread across more than 10,000 acres and threatened to cut off employee housing.”Helicopter Rescue – Helicopter 964 successfully evacuated 11 National Park Service employees from Santa Rosa Island today amid the ongoing vegetation fire,” SBC Fire wrote Sunday night on X. “The crew safely transported all personnel from employee housing — threatened with being cut off by the fire — to Oxnard Airport, with no injuries reported.”This swift operation…

The former residence of Canada’s consul general in New York has sold after nearly two years on the market. Global Affairs Canada has not yet confirmed the sale price but in March said it had received an offer on the residence.One realtor website said the five-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue sold for US$8.05 million on May 11. Another website said the price was that amount in March, around the time Global Affairs Canada confirmed it had received an offer.The apartment was originally listed for US$9.5 million — C$13 million — in August 2024. Senior government officials said at the time…