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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Democratic Washington state lawmaker has apologized after admitting he showed up to a committee hearing after drinking alcohol and making somewhat slurred remarks during the proceeding.  Democratic state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, the state House majority leader, said it was a “serious mistake for many reasons” when he appeared at a House Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday where he discussed the operating budget. “I made a poor choice last night by drinking alcohol before we had finished our work for the day,” Fitzgibbon explained in a statement to “The Jason Rantz Show,” which first…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A registered sex offender is accused of defacing Oklahoma’s State Capitol and other government buildings with anti-ICE graffiti reading “KILL ICE” and other inflammatory messages targeting Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, according to authorities.Shelby Lang Smith was arrested Jan. 23 in connection with several incidents of public property being vandalized, including damage to the Civic Center, OKC Municipal Court building and the State Capitol.Smith is facing several charges, including 10 counts of malicious injury to property and three counts of threatening violent acts, according to the Oklahoma City Police Department. Authorities confirmed the…

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says India’s tariffs on Canadian lentils may increase upon landing in India for a trade mission with other Canadian delegates. Speaking to reporters upon landing in Mumbai on Friday, Moe says he would “love to see” tariffs removed on pea, lentil and bean products — also known as pulses — before the end of the trip next week. However, he added that it wasn’t likely that all products would see tariff removals.“I’ve heard some discussion that in the case of lentils that there’s some discussion that they might actually increase to some degree,” Moe said.India currently…

Wittenoom’s traditional owners have launched a $1.5 billion legal claim against the WA Government over asbestos contamination across tens of thousands of hectares of land surrounding the former townsite.The Banjima Native Title Aboriginal Corporation filed the proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against the State of Western Australia on Wednesday.The corporation has asked the Federal Court to split the case in two stages, with the first to focus on securing orders requiring the clean-up of contaminated land, the second to address damages for the contamination and the State’s alleged “knowing participation in the dispossession and marginalisation of the Banjima…

Listen to this article | 5 minsinfoThe administration of United States President Donald Trump has broadened its prosecution of the protesters involved in a church demonstration to 39 people, up from nine.The demonstration was part of a backlash to Trump’s deadly immigration surge in the midwestern state of Minnesota, but officials have sought to frame the protest as an attack on religious freedom.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAttorney General Pam Bondi announced the expanded indictment on Friday in a message posted to social media.“Today, [the Justice Department] unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack…

Scouting America will change several of its policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, if it wants to keep the U.S. military’s support, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday.Some of the changes mirror what the organization suggested to the Department of Justice earlier this year, which included discontinuing its Citizenship in Society merit badge and introducing a Military Service merit badge, the Pentagon said.Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has taken aim at the military’s partnership with Scouting America, decrying its historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes in recent years that he…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape and then murdered her boyfriend was released from prison in North Carolina on Friday, according to multiple reports.Crystal Mangum, who has been in prison since 2013 on charges of murdering Reginald Daye in 2011, left the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh on Friday morning. She was serving a 14- to 18-year sentence. Mangum previously made her confession about lying about being raped by the lacrosse players in an interview on the independent media outlet “Let’s Talk With Kat” in…

Judge rules Luigi Mangione won’t face death penalty Fox News’ Nate Foy reports as a judge agreed to throw out the most serious charge against Luigi Mangione and denied the defense’s request to suppress some evidence. Legal editor Kerri Urbahn discusses the judge’s decisions. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Luigi Mangione has escaped the death penalty. The accused killer’s life will be spared after federal prosecutors on Friday said they will not appeal a judge’s ruling to quash capital punishment against him. In a letter, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District said it accepts U.S. District Judge…

On one back lane in Calgary’s Brentwood neighbourhood, Jai Cheng’s garage stands out — because it’s more than that. “Think of it not as adding units,” the Calgary homeowner and mother of two said. “You’re actually changing people’s lives here.”The lives changed with their 900 square-foot, two-bedroom garage suite, are theirs — and their parents’.The family first thought of the idea during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Cheng’s parents were visiting from China.“There were some frictions,” Cheng laughed. “Multi-generational living is tricky, but we do want to maintain them — to have them over, to have the ability to visit family,…

The Cook Government has admitted its Post and Boast laws could have put Federal Labor MP Josh Wilson in hot water over social media posts he shared during Roe 8 protests almost a decade ago.Post and Boast legislation aimed at punishing those who glorify illegal and dangerous acts on social media is currently being debated in the upper house, after it was sent to a committee last year.Civil rights groups have concerns the Bill could criminalise peaceful protest, if it involves unlawful assembly or trespass.During debate in Parliament this week, Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General Dan Caddy was asked…