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African football has given its backing to Gianni Infantino to run again in 2027 as head of the global governing body.Published On 30 Apr 202630 Apr 2026The Confederation of African Football (CAF) says it is backing FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s bid for a fourth term as head of football’s global governing body.In a statement after a meeting before the FIFA Congress in Vancouver, CAF said it had “unanimously agreed” to support Infantino when the FIFA chief stands for re-election in 2027.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listInfantino took over as head of FIFA in 2016 in the wake of…

Washington — The suspect in the weekend shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has agreed to remain detained in the lead-up to his trial.During a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, a lawyer for the suspected gunman, Cole Allen, told the judge that he will not contest the government’s effort to keep him in federal custody. Allen, 31, is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump and two firearms-related offenses stemming from the shooting outside the annual press gala on Saturday. He made his initial appearance in federal court Monday. Allen has not yet entered a plea to the charges.…

Nova Scotia RCMP are once again asking the public for “fact-based tips” as its investigation into the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan continues almost a year later. Investigators say on May 2, 2025, four-year-old Jack Sullivan and his six-year-old sister Lilly wandered into the tangled woods near their family’s mobile home 140 kilometres north of Halifax, leaving few clues as to why they did not return.The children lived with their mother, stepfather Daniel Martell and infant sister Meadow on a property that includes a trailer where Martell’s mother lives.Extensive searches were conducted using ground search and rescue crews, helicopters, drones…

Artificial intelligence puts powerful new technology in consumers’ hands — if they can afford to use it. The rise of AI requires enormous computing power, which in turn is leading to a shortage of memory chips. That’s pushing up the price of personal computers, according to analysts with Oxford Economics — the first time those prices have risen since the early 1980s. Computer costs had steadily declined over the past 40 years until the AI boom reversed that trend. Recently, the cost of computers, software, and accessories has jumped more than 3% per month, according to Oxford’s analysis of government data. “We’re talking…

The United States economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2 per cent pace from January through March after recovering from last northern autumn’s 43-day federal government shutdown.But the outlook is clouded by the Iran war.The Commerce Department reported on Thursday that gross domestic product – the country’s output of goods and services – rebounded from a lacklustre 0.5 per cent expansion the last three months of 2025.The federal government’s spending and investment grew at a 9.3 per cent annual rate in the first quarter, adding more than half a percentage point to growth after lopping…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former investigator for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services alleged that the state’s government illegally tried to shut down his investigation into childcare fraud in 2017.Jay Swanson, a former investigator in the Office of Inspector General for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, described in detail a 2018 incident in which a senior official allegedly instructed him to delete paragraphs from a report on fraud in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).”In August of 2018, as I was preparing answers to questions posed to me by the OLA [Office of the Legislative…

World leaders condemn the interception of the boats bound for Gaza as violating international law.Published On 30 Apr 202630 Apr 2026Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip.The ships make up part of a second Global Sumud Flotilla to try in recent months to break an Israeli blockade by carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. They sailed from the Spanish port of Barcelona on April 12.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe vessels were seized by Israel late on Wednesday in international waters off Greece’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Though it’s been six years since Goldie Hawn has starred in a motion picture, she’s not completely opposed to returning to the silver screen — but it’d depend on one thing.”It’s about the content,” she told People in a new interview. “It has to do with the content. Acting for acting’s sake, taking things… I’ve read a lot of shows, a lot of scripts that I didn’t like, or I didn’t think I’d fit.”Hawn, who last appeared in “The Christmas Chronicles 2” in 2020 alongside her partner, Kurt Russell, said she’s at…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice’s investigations and prosecutions of Christians during the Biden administration signal that the government discriminated against people based on their faith, according to a sweeping 200-page report released Thursday by the Trump DOJ. “The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith,” the report found.The document, released by a Trump DOJ task force, serves as an internal deep dive into concerns critics have already publicly raised surrounding prosecutions of pro-life protesters, investigations into…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Albert Pujols was in the midst of his second MLB season when he was at Wrigley Field and about to find out some of the worst news of his life.Pujols’ St. Louis Cardinals were in Chicago on June 22, 2002, to take on their NL Central rival Cubs when catcher Joe Girardi announced to the Wrigley Field crowd that their game had been canceled due to a “tragedy in the Cardinals family.”Right before Girardi addressed the crowd, the Cardinals were informed that starting pitcher Darryl Kile had suddenly died at age 33. Albert Pujols…