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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal officers conducted a search Wednesday related to the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), federal officials told Fox News Digital.Investigators reportedly targeted Alberto Carvalho’s home in San Pedro and the school district’s downtown headquarters, LAUSD said. FBI agents also raided a Miami property linked to the school executive, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Central District of California, confirmed that search warrants were judicially approved but declined to provide additional details on the nature of the investigation, noting…

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Successive Japanese leaders – including Takaichi, the country’s first woman premier – have promised to increase births but with limited success.Tokyo’s city government developed its own dating app, which requires users to submit documentation proving they are single and to sign a letter stating they are willing to get married.”The declining birth rate and shrinking population are a quiet state of emergency that will gradually erode our country’s vitality,” Takaichi said in parliament last week.Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a two-thirds majority in the Feb 8 snap elections.Increasing immigration would help reverse Japan’s falling population and the associated…

In a separate report, Sana news agency says Israeli forces also kidnapped a man from the southwestern province.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 26 Feb 202626 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoDozens of Israeli military vehicles have staged an incursion into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province in the Golan Heights, local media have reported, in yet another breach of the country’s sovereignty.Al-Ikhbariah TV said on Wednesday that a convoy of 30 vehicles entered the eastern Tel al-Ahmar area near the village of Ain Ziwan in Quneitra, where the Israeli army conducted a search operation.Recommended Stories…

Baltimore — Walk a few blocks in Baltimore with Mayor Brandon Scott, and there’s no missing the problem: The city has thousands of broken-down, boarded-up row houses, the result of a long civic spiral, with people and businesses leaving and blight and crime moving in. “When it looks like someone doesn’t care, right, people who want to do bad things are going to come,” Scott told CBS News when asked about the relationship between building vacancies and crime. Scott, who has served as mayor since 2020, counters, though, that despite the view on the ground in certain areas, Baltimore is…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MLB free agent Tommy Pham addressed recent comments by California Gov. Gavin Newsom about SAT scores during an event in Georgia.In a post on his Instagram story Wednesday, Pham shared a screenshot of the clip of Newsom telling a crowd, “I’m like you, I’m a 960 SAT guy. I can’t read.”Pham accused Newsom of thinking Black people are “dumb.” “I can’t relate I was a straight A student and scored well on my SAT he thinks black [people] are dumb,” Pham wrote.Newsom’s original comments prompted widespread criticism on social media, and some assumed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Minnesota middle school showed an eighth grade geography class slides telling students that ICE has “harassed” migrants and offered extra credit to middle school students who watched a 19-minute video on “ICE and Trump’s $170 billion deportation machine.”Fox News Digital obtained the full package of slides provided to Hermantown Middle School students, which posed the question: “How is President Trump trying to reduce the large number of undocumented immigrants as promised in his election campaign?”Defending Education, a nonprofit focused on education, parent and student advocacy, exchanged emails with the principal of…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size An aging piece of Metro Vancouver infrastructure has malfunctioned, causing some problems for rail and marine traffic. The Second Narrows Rail Bridge stopped working over the weekend, trapping 13 deep-sea cargo vessels.Normally, the centre span of the bridge is raised several times a day to allow tankers and other commercial ships to pass in and out of the eastern end of Burrard Inlet, accessing the Parkland Terminal, TMX’s Westridge Marine Terminal and the Pacific Coast Terminal in Port Moody. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current…

A crash on a busy Perth road is causing peak-hour mayhem for motorists in Beaconsfield.The crash on South Street eastbound at Darling Street was reported by Main Roads at 2.55pm on Thursday.Traffic is slow on approach, with a left lane closure in place.Motorists are urged to remain cautious if driving in the area.At about 3.00pm, another crash at the southbound intersection of Albany Highway and Liege Street in Perth’s east, caused major delays for motorists in Cannington.The entire right lane of the major highway was blocked off, before the crash was cleared at 3.42pm.Towing services attended the scene.Camera IconThe Albany…

BANGKOK: A Thai political party that came second in this month’s vote filed a criminal complaint on Thursday (Feb 26) against the nation’s election commissioners, accusing them of violating election laws, the party’s deputy told AFP.The reformist People’s Party “submitted a case” to a criminal court against seven election commissioners, the Election Commission’s secretary-general and another election official, deputy party leader Wayo Assawarungruang said.”Two charges involve wrongful exercise of duties, and the last charge we claimed was about marking ballots with QR codes and barcodes, which allow the votes to be traced and not kept secret as it should be,”…