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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A fast-moving burglary spree is unfolding across Los Angeles, with thieves targeting some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods and striking multiple communities over the past week — even as police flood the area with patrols.The latest incidents unfolded Wednesday night in the San Fernando Valley, where burglars hit homes in Studio City and Toluca Lake and targeted a commercial property in a separate theft that led to a police chase.The violence escalated Thursday night when a woman in her 70s was strangled during a home invasion in the Hollywood Hills, according…

Young and new drivers will need to do 80 hours supervised training and spend an extra year on P-plates as part of new changes to Western Australia’s graduated licensing system.

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Drug-making giant Johnson & Johnson will officially start marketing four of its medications on the Trump administration’s TrumpRx website on Friday, CBS News exclusively learned. The pharmaceutical company announced in January that it had entered into a voluntary agreement with the Trump administration to lower costs for Americans by providing Medicaid access to affordable prescriptions and marketing its drugs on TrumpRx in exchange for exemption from the president’s tariff agenda. One of the drugs offered on White House’s discounted pharmaceutical site is metformin, a popular prescription to treat Type 2 diabetes. The others are metformin extended relief; Invokana, another diabetes medication; and…

Shares of X-Energy Inc. surged in their market debut on Friday, opening sharply above their initial public offering price after the company raised more than $1 billion in an upsized offering that drew strong investor demand.The Rockville, Maryland-based nuclear energy firm priced its IPO at $23 per share, above the marketed range of $16 to $19. The stock opened at $30.11, representing a gain of about 31%, and later traded as high as $31.33, up roughly 36% during the trading session.The strong debut gave the company a market valuation of close to $12 billion based on outstanding shares, although some…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For years, Asheville, North Carolina, marketed itself as a mountain escape known for breweries, boutique hotels and Blue Ridge views. But residents and critics say a different reality has taken shape in the wake of Hurricane Helene: panhandling at intersections, public intoxication, encampments and an unsafe downtown.Carl Mumpower, a private practice clinical psychologist, lifelong Asheville resident and former City Council member who served from 2001 until 2009, said the city’s current challenges stem from decisions made over decades.”Asheville began its efforts to address homelessness at least three decades ago. This effort accelerated…

Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOdds that Kevin Warsh will be confirmed as chairman of the Federal Reserve in less than a month from now surged on prediction markets platform Kalshi after the Department of Justice said Friday it was dropping its inquiry into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Bettors on the platform now see an 86% chance that Warsh’s nomination is approved by the U.S.…

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The information front has been central to the Iranian government’s war effort.For an external audience, there is an innovative online strategy that has consisted of AI Lego, memes and hip hop diss tracks directed at Donald Trump and the MAGA base. But this coexists with more brutal domestic tactics: crackdowns, arrests and internet blackouts.The result has been the Iranian authorities making use of the internet for PR internationally, while simultaneously preventing the Iranian people from openly accessing the net themselves.Contributors:Ali Hashem – Correspondent, Al Jazeera EnglishMehran Kamrava – Professor of Government, Georgetown University in QatarTara Kangarlou – Journalist & Author,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran threatens one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes, testing a Navy that has recently retired most of its dedicated minesweepers and is now relying on a smaller fleet of unmanned systems to do the job.President Donald Trump has warned Tehran against further escalation and signaled the U.S. is prepared to act to keep the strait open, while Iranian forces have laid mines and threatened commercial traffic in the narrow waterway that carries a significant share of global oil.The confrontation…