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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly 50 years after a newborn baby girl was found in a trash bag at a North Carolina landfill, authorities have arrested a woman in one of the area’s oldest unsolved cold cases.The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office announced Feb. 25 that Cathy McKee, 69, of Whiteville, North Carolina was arrested and charged with felony concealing the birth of a child. McKee was identified through DNA testing as the infant’s mother.The investigation began in 1979 after the newborn’s body was discovered at a Columbus County landfill. Despite an extensive investigation, all leads were…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 27, 2026 8:04 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Concordia and McGill universities say they are abandoning their legal challenge against the Quebec government’s decision to maintain a 33 per cent tuition hike for out-of-province students. The English universities won a ruling last April after the Superior Court overturned the hike of about $3,000, finding that it was unreasonable.But the province formally entrenched the tuition increase in a revised framework published in January, saying the government wanted to ensure Quebec taxpayers weren’t subsidizing the education of out-of-province students. Get daily National…

Cuban exiles who intended to infiltrate Cuba on a speedboat were armed with nearly 13,000 rounds of ammunition, 13 rifles and 11 pistols, Cuban officials say, providing new details about Wednesday’s deadly exchange of gunfire at sea.The government in Havana has said 10 Cuban nationals coming from the United States entered Cuban waters and opened fire on a border guard vessel, leading Cuban forces to return fire killing four and wounding six others, who were taken into custody.In an attempt to dispel doubts about its account to date, senior Cuban Interior Ministry officers displayed the captured armaments from the studio…

These are the key developments from day 1,465 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Listen to this article | 5 minsinfoPublished On 28 Feb 202628 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoHere is where things stand on Saturday, February 28:Fighting Russia struck port infrastructure overnight in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, igniting fires and damaging equipment, warehouses and food containers, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said. A localised truce has been established near the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to allow repairs to power lines, Russian news agencies report, citing the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation. Ukraine shot down…

The Hang Seng Tech Index continued its strong downward trend this week as some key Chinese technology companies published weak financial results and as mainland Chinese investors continued selling Hong Kong shares.It tumbled to a low of H$5,100, its lowest level since June last year, and is down by over 23% from its highest level in 2025. This retreat has shed billions of dollars in value.Why the Hang Seng Tech Index has slumped The Hang Seng Tech Index, which is Hong Kong’s equivalent of the Nasdaq 100 Index, has crashed in the past few weeks as many Chinese technology companies have…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Netflix , Paramount Skydance , Warner Bros. Discovery — Netflix shares popped more than 7% after the streaming giant declined to raise its bid for Warner’s assets and match a new bid from Paramount. Warner’s stock dipped about 1%, while Paramount jumped more than 7%. Block — Payment company Block announced on Thursday that it’s letting go of more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount, leading shares to pop 19% in extended trading. Dollar Tree — Citi downgraded Dollar Tree to neutral from buy, sending shares nearly 2%…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a “supply chain risk to national security” on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict over the company’s effort to place guardrails on the Pentagon’s use of its technology. Hegseth declared on X that effective immediately, “no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.” The decision could have a wide-ranging impact, given the sheer number of companies that contract with the Pentagon.”America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final,”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The projected top pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, former Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, said a team executive suggested he get arrested so that he would slide down to that team’s pick in the upcoming draft. Mendoza is projected to be the No. 1 overall pick by the Las Vegas Raiders, but he is still interviewing with other teams at the NFL combine.Mendoza revealed the suggestion a team made to him about getting arrested during an interview with CBS Sports on Friday, when he was asked about the most bizarre question he got…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that 25 more arrests had been made in connection with the storming of Cities Church by anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators last month.”Today, [the Justice Department] unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota,” Bondi wrote on X. “At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day.””YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find…

When Kelowna, B.C., Mayor Tom Dyas took the city’s top priorities to Victoria this week, they included social disorder concerns. Dyas met with provincial ministers, including Attorney General Nikki Sharma.Among the things Dyas advocated for included more Crown prosecutors and an involuntary compassionate care facility.However, the mayor stopped at asking for more RCMP funding to help bolster RCMP resources.“At this particular point in time we are not asking for more police officers,” Dyas told Global News at the legislature in Victoria Thursday.“We deal with that through our normal budget process and we’ve gone through the budget process at this point…