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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal prosecutor acknowledged Thursday that the decision to charge Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia two years after a routine traffic stop was “extraordinary,” while defending the human smuggling case as legally justified.Abrego Garcia, 31, has become a flashpoint in the national immigration debate since last March, when he was deported to El Salvador in violation of a 2019 court order in what Trump administration officials acknowledged was an “administrative error.” The Supreme Court later ruled that the administration had to work to bring him back to the U.S.After returning in June, Abrego…

Jack Dorsey’s payments firm Block will lay off more than 4,000 employees, with the co-founder attributing the decision to the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence and its impact on how companies operate, according to a letter he shared on X.“We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company, and that’s accelerating rapidly,” Dorsey wrote in a letter to employees that he later shared on X.Dorsey said he chose to implement the reductions immediately…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in the premarket: J.M. Smucker — The food stock popped 7% on better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results. Smucker earned $2.38 per share, excluding certain items, on revenue of $2.34 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected a profit of $2.27 per share on revenue of $2.32 billion. Qnity — Shares of the solutions and materials provider for semiconductors jumped more than 3.5% after an earnings and revenue beat. Qnity also issued better-than-expected earnings guidance for full-year 2026 and in-line revenue projections. The company on Thursday also announced a multiyear plan, which includes goals to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Officials on Wednesday accused a Los Angeles police officer of insurance fraud after he allegedly went skydiving multiple times while collecting full disability benefits.Christopher Brandon Carnahan, 43, of Norwalk, was charged Monday after allegedly exaggerating an on-duty injury sustained in 2023, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.Carnahan is a veteran officer who has been with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 18 years, according to WatchTheWatchers.net, citing California public records.”This case is about honesty and accountability,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement. Christopher…

Days after violence erupted in Puerto Vallarta and disrupted travel plans for many Canadians, some families are still trying to find a way home. That includes travellers attempting to return to Edmonton, who say they have been scrambling to secure flights since before the unrest began last Sunday.The Wywrot family was scheduled to wrap up their vacation in the popular Mexican resort city and fly home to Edmonton on a WestJet flight Saturday. 3:46 British Columbians say WestJet has ‘ghosted’ them after being stranded in Mexico “Before we were supposed to fly out we kept getting notifications that our flight…

Police will seek to speak to the women and children arriving from Syria before they travel through immigrations but admit they cannot stop them.

BANGKOK: A Thai soldier lost his leg on Friday (Feb 27) in a landmine blast on the country’s contested frontier with Cambodia, where a shaky truce is holding after months of cross-border clashes, Thailand’s military said.”One soldier has been critically wounded and lost his right leg after stepping on a landmine,” the Thai army said in a statement, adding the incident took place around dawn in the border province of Surin.However the Thai military said a “preliminary examination” of Friday’s blast “indicates that the landmine was buried deep in clay and covered with leaves, suggesting it was not newly laid”.Thailand…

Gaza City – Amid the buzz of customers in the Remal neighbourhood in Gaza City, Samar Abu Harbied stops at a small, makeshift roadside stall to buy groceries to prepare an Iftar meal for her family, to break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.With no cash in her purse, the 45-year-old housewife asks the grocer if she could put the bill on credit, until her husband or son could wire the money to him.“I have not touched a paper note for months. I don’t even have money to pay for a taxi. Now we walk a lot,…

The U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is teetering on the edge of collapse as the company and a top Pentagon official trade barbs on the eve of a deadline to reach a deal.The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday at 5:01 p.m. to either let the military use the company’s AI model for “all lawful purposes” or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract. The AI startup has sought guardrails that explicitly bar its powerful Claude model from being used to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or carry out military operations on its own. The Pentagon’s chief technology officer…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Brady Tkachuk is back with his Ottawa Senators, and he stood his ground when faced with a question about the viral moment when Team USA laughed at a joke by President Donald Trump about the women’s ice hockey team during a phone call after both teams won gold medals in Milan.As players like Boston Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman admitted, players “should have reacted differently.”Tkachuk responded to a reporter’s question about the moment Trump said he would “have” to invite the women’s team, which also defeated Canada in the Olympics, to Tuesday’s State of…