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Authorities say the cell was planning ‘targeted assassinations against high-level government officials’.Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026Syrian authorities say they have arrested a Hezbollah-linked cell accused of plotting to assassinate senior government figures, an allegation rejected as “false” by the Lebanese armed group.The Syrian Ministry of Interior said late on Tuesday it carried out a “series of simultaneous security operations” in the Damascus countryside as well as in the provinces of Aleppo, Homs, Tartous and Latakia.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAccording to the ministry, the raids resulted in the “dismantling of an organised cell affiliated with the…

Options traders can’t get enough of semiconductor stocks. No matter how high they go or how expensive the options get, bulls just keep flooding the space.After a 700% rally the past year, traders poured into Micron options Tuesday, paying expensive premiums to get access to further upside in the legacy memory-chip maker that became one of the market’s hottest AI trades over the past year. More than $2.8 billion of Micron options premium changed hands Tuesday as of noon Chicago time, eclipsing the dollar-amount traded in index ETFs SPY and QQQ combined. Micron accounted for 12 of the top 20…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant woman convicted of attempting to kill her newborn baby on Long Island, New York, has been successfully deported from the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.Soili Xiomara Aparicio-Santos, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from New York in April. The agency said she was deported after serving just eight years in a New York prison sentence for attempted infant murder.  Aparicio-Santos entered the country illegally under the Obama administration in 2014. She has had a final order of…

FAA air traffic control staffing under scrutiny after deadly LaGuardia runway crash Fox News covers a devastating runway collision at LaGuardia Airport where an Air Canada Express jet landed on Runway 4 and collided with a Port Authority fire truck just before midnight. The accident tragically killed two pilots and injured dozens of passengers. Air traffic control audio captures a controller admitting “I messed up,” prompting an urgent NTSB investigation into human factors, operational procedures, and runway safety protocols. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two planes had a close call while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport…

West Australians are being urged to ensure they are up to date with their diphtheria vaccinations with 60 cases impacting regional WA.Diphtheria — a potentially deadly bacterial infection — has now reached 55 cases in the Kimberley, three in the Pilbara, and two in the Goldfields.The outbreak, which began in December, 2025, has mostly occurred in Aboriginal children and young adults.Diphtheria can present as either a sore throat that can become severe and life-threatening, or poorly healing skin infections.It can spread through close contact with respiratory droplets, infected skin sores or contaminated items such as bandages and shared towels.WA chief…

SEOUL: North Korea has revised its constitution to define its territory as bordering South Korea and remove references to reunification, according to a draft of the text reviewed by Reuters, codifying leader Kim Jong Un’s push to treat the two Koreas as separate states.The revision, believed to have been adopted at a March meeting of the Supreme People’s Assembly, Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp legislature, marks the first time North Korea has added a territorial clause to its constitution, Lee Jung-chul, a Seoul National University professor, told a briefing at South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Wednesday (May 6).The new Article 2 says North…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Theodore, a retired tech entrepreneur in Malaysia, is usually in no rush to book flights for his family’s annual holiday to South Korea and Japan, preferring to take his time to find the best deals.But this year, the 50-year-old father of three was eager to lock down his travel plans fast amid a surge in jet fuel prices that has led to thousands of flight cancellations worldwide – even if it meant giving up a bargain.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listForgoing his usual choice of a budget airline, he booked seats with Korean Air and…

Derek Merrin won the Republican primary in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District on Tuesday, CBS News projected, setting up a rematch against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in what’s expected to be one of the most contested House races of the year. Kaptur, the longest serving woman in Congress, has held the seat since 1983. Merrin, a former state representative, tried to unseat Kaptur in 2024, but lost by about 2,400 votes — just above the threshold needed to trigger an automatic recount. The race wasn’t called until two weeks after the election. But the northwestern Ohio district was redrawn in October 2025, creating…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California man was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to the pickaxe murder of his teenage half-brother, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair.Zuberi Sharp, 26, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty in March to the second-degree murder of his 15-year-old half-brother, Zayde, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.He also admitted to several special allegations and aggravating factors, including that he inflicted great bodily injury, that he used a weapon in the commission of the crime and that the victim was vulnerable.On…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It hasn’t been a great stretch of baseball for me over the past few days. Sometimes the looks are correct, but the outcomes are wrong. Sure, it is easy to say the look is wrong if you have a losing ticket, and there is a lot of truth.Yesterday, the Philadelphia Phillies won the first five innings 1-0. I expected Aaron Nola to be worse, but he pitched well, so my play on the Miami Marlins was a loss, but it wasn’t a terrible look. Today, I hope we can get back on…