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Brent crude oil price ended the week lower as investors anticipated an Iranian response to US proposals to end the ten-week war. It dropped to $100, down sharply from this month’s high of over $115 a barrel. Other global benchmarks like the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Russian urals have also retreated.Iran is in no hurry to reach a dealBrent crude oil price retreated after media reports suggested that a deal between Iran and the United States was imminent. Axios was the first major news organization to report this. In his report, Barack Ravid said that the two sides were…

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Eyad Azzam says he was a “pampered” child before an Israeli air attack in Gaza killed his immediate family,  leaving him as the sole provider for his elderly grandmother.Mohammed was at home on the morning of October 11, 2024, with his parents and siblings in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, when without warning an Israeli warplane struck, bringing his family’s multistorey building down on top of them.“I was sitting safely with my parents and my two older brothers … I was buried under the rubble for about 10 minutes,” Mohammed told Al Jazeera. “It was pure suffering.”Mohammed’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is not quite ready to announce a run in the 2028 Democratic primary, because she said her ambition is far greater than that.”They assume that my ambition is positional; they assume that my ambition is a title or a seat,” Ocasio-Cortez told Democratic strategist David Axelrod at an event Friday in Chicago. “And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.””Presidents come and go; Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever,” she continued. “A living wage…

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Paratroopers have dropped onto the United Kingdom’s most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was confirmed there.A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6788km from RAF Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire to Ascension Island then another 3000 km due south to Tristan da Cunha.Dropped alongside them on Saturday were oxygen supplies and other medical aid.The A400M was refuelled mid-flight by a supporting RAF Voyager.The operation is the first time the UK…

When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news.No more turtles.Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He owns his own production company. Generally speaking, Galante’s got a good feel for what his audience wants. But it was Galloway, something of a guru in the still-burgeoning YouTube creator economy, who identified that whenever Galante showed turtles in his videos, viewer engagement dropped. It was consistent and…

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people — including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.This week’s quiz highlights party pours, Hollywood hurdles — and a whole lot more.Can you get all 8 questions right?Give it a try and see how you do!CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESTo try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here. Also, to take our latest News Quiz — published every Friday — click here. American Culture Quiz! How well do you know this week’s topics? (Getty Images;…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For one night in Hollywood, Jane Seymour left some viewers shaken.The former Bond girl and “Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman” star recently told Women’s World how she was going for a glam moment at the Oscars in 1981, but it backfired.”I’ve always had long hair, and it used to be so long I could sit on it, but I can’t believe that I ever frizzed my hair out!” the star told the outlet.JAMIE LEE CURTIS IMMEDIATELY ‘REGRETTED’ HER PLASTIC SURGERY AFTER CRUEL COMMENTS WERE MADE ABOUT HER LOOKS Jane Seymour is seen here…

NewsFeedPassengers from the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the centre of a Hantavirus outbreak, have begun disembarking in Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands. Passengers are being taken by boat, bus and then plane back to their home countries.Published On 10 May 202610 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Nearly 61 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a defining moment for the civil rights movement – and a turning point for the nation. “Every family across this great, entire, searching land will live stronger in liberty, will live more splendid in expectation, and will be prouder to be American because of the act that you have passed, that I will sign today,” Johnson said.The law sought to end obstacles to Black voters casting their ballots, said Martha Jones, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University. “Slavery is abolished in 1865; in 1870, the 15th Amendment…