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Published On 15 Feb 202615 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThousands of fishermen converged on the milky waters of the Matan Fadan river, a UNESCO heritage site, winding through verdant landscape in northwestern Nigeria’s Argungu.President Bola Tinubu joined thousands of spectators on Saturday, cheering competitors vying to catch the largest fish, despite security concerns deterring some attendance.Participants employed only traditional methods, including hand-woven nets and calabash gourds, with some demonstrating their prowess using bare hands. The Kebbi State waterway teemed with woven nets and canoes as fishermen waded through.This year’s champion landed a 59kg (130-pound) croaker fish, winning…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE – Emboldened congressional Democrats are expanding their battleground map for this year’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin majority in the House.But the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chairman, Rep. Richard Hudson, isn’t buying it.”I mean, I’ve read fiction my whole life, and I recognize it when I see it,” Hudson said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.Republicans currently control the House 218-214, with two right-tilting districts and one left-leaning seat currently vacant. Democrats need a net gain of just three seats in the midterms to…

Check out the companies making headlines after hours. ON Semiconductor — The semiconductor supplier dropped nearly 6% after posting fourth-quarter revenue of $1.53 billion, missing the LSEG consensus estimate of $1.54 billion. On the other hand, earnings of 64 cents per share, on an adjusted basis, topped the forecasted 62 cents per share. Upwork — Shares of the online marketplace for freelancers tumbled 22% after the company disclosed active clients at the end of 2025 was 785,000, down from 832,000 at the end of the prior year. Upwork also posted current-quarter revenue guidance in the range of $192 million to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! High-profile sports and talent agent Casey Wasserman announced to staff he will be selling his talent agency in the aftermath of recently released emails between him and Ghislaine Maxwell, The Associated Press reported Saturday.Wasserman, the founder and CEO of Wasserman Agency and chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, exchanged flirtatious emails in 2003 with Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s right-hand woman, according to documents included in the most recent release by the Department of Justice.The memo arrived days after the LA28 board’s executive committee met to discuss Wasserman’s appearance in the Epstein files.…

Perth Wildcats coach John Rillie has slammed his players for their effort during an 18-point loss to the Sydney Kings, saying they lacked discipline, hunger and attention to detail, while giving them no excuses for missing key players due to injury.The Wildcats lost 102-84 at Qudos Bank Arena to end their chances of climbing to third spot and risk dropping out of the top four due to the impact the defeat had on their percentage. They have only one game remaining in the regular season against Adelaide at RAC Arena on Friday night.Perth had no answer to Kendric Davis who…

Iraqi authorities confirm the transfer, saying detainees of 61 nationalities have arrived in the country.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 15 Feb 202615 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe United States has announced the completion of the transfer of more than 5,700 suspected ISIL (ISIS) detainees from Syria to Iraq.“The 23-day transfer mission began on Jan 21 and resulted in US forces successfully transporting more than 5,700 adult male ISIS fighters from detention facilities in Syria to Iraqi custody,” the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of…

The indictment against journalist Don Lemon and eight others will likely be dismissed because it hinges on a charge that is viewed as so constitutionally flawed that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has never attempted to use it to prosecute interference in a house of worship, legal experts say.The Jan. 29 indictment alleges that the defendants’ involvement in an anti-ICE protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul violated the FACE Act, which prohibits people from intimidating or interfering with people exercising their constitutional freedom to practice religion. It also charges them with a felony of conspiring to interfere…

A young family’s dream boat was one of four that went to the bottom of the harbour at Hillarys in front of stunned onlookers.

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hope for United States-brokered peace talks with Russia next week, but warned that Kyiv was being asked “too often” to make concessions and pressed his allies for “clear security guarantees”.Zelenskyy’s speech at the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday came as US President Donald Trump seeks to broker a deal to end Europe’s biggest war since 1945.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listUkraine and Russia, which ⁠invaded its neighbour in February 2022, have engaged in two recent rounds of talks mediated by Washington in Abu Dhabi, UAE, described by…

Shares of Roku jumped 8% on Friday after the video streaming company posted fourth-quarter results that trounced analysts’ expectations and offered strong guidance.Here’s how the company did based on analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 53 cents vs. 28 centsRevenue: $1.39 billion vs. $1.35 billion”The biggest driver of our subscriptions business is just the secular trend of more and more services moving into a service like premium subscriptions instead of just doing their own app,” Roku CEO Anthony Wood told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin on Friday. “That’s really, I think, the core driver.”Roku executives said in their shareholder letter…