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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The San José Police Department announced that a task force arrested nearly a dozen people last week for seeking sex with a minor, including one individual who was an assistant principal at a local school.”Between February 3 and February 6, 2026, the San José Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested 11 individuals for communicating with… the intent to have sex with a minor,” the police department said.”The arrests were a result of a proactive multi-agency enforcement operation focused on individuals using online platforms to engage in the sexual…

Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Dr Erasmus Darwin, was a true Renaissance man — and his former home and garden in England is now a must-see museum.We’ve arrived in Lichfield in Staffordshire after an hour’s train ride from Birmingham. Like bees themselves, we make a beeline for Dr Erasmus Darwin’s famed herb garden, which we access through an entrance facing into the south court of the former Vicars’ Close. Not far away loom the three spires of Lichfield Cathedral.Intermittent rain and bursts of sunshine persuade the myriad herbs to release their aromas into the cool air. In the Apothecary’s Garden are agrimony…

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate prices are no longer at last year’s peak, but cheap chocolate has not made a comeback, and it probably never will. Last year’s cocoa price crisis, driven by a combination of extreme heat, drought and disease in key producing regions, may have eased. But the aftertaste remains: A market that no longer behaves the way it used to, because the landscapes that grow cocoa are no longer the same. And the world’s unwitting appetite for cheap chocolate at the expense of biodiversity is part of the reason.Cocoa is one of the most rainfall-dependent crops in the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The third government shutdown in under half a year has officially begun just after midnight on Saturday after Democrats and Republicans spent recent weeks battling over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.Just one area of government has been left without federal funding as of midnight — the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Congress has completed roughly 97% of its yearly government spending responsibilities, but a deal on DHS has proved elusive after Democrats walked away from an initial bipartisan plan released last month.Now DHS, the third-largest Cabinet agency with nearly 272,000 employees, will…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Team USA women’s hockey team’s dominant run continued with a 6-0 quarterfinal victory over Italy Friday at the Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena to advance to the Olympic semifinals.Entering the single-elimination game against Italy, Team USA had outscored opponents 20-1 in four games, including a 5-0 shutout of Team Canada.The team’s phenomenal play continued against Italy. It was their fourth straight shutout, extending Team USA’s shutout streak to 271 minutes.  Team United States players celebrate a goal by Kendall Coyne, second from left, during the second period of a women’s ice hockey…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military used Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence tool Claude during the operation that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, according to a report.Last month, U.S. special operations forces captured Maduro and his wife, who were brought to the U.S. to face sweeping narcotics charges.Claude was deployed through Anthropic’s partnership with data company Palantir Technologies, whose tools are widely used by the Defense Department and federal law enforcement, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter.”We cannot comment on whether Claude, or any other AI model, was used for any…

The kidnapping of an elderly man reported by his neighbours is being investigated by detectives as a case of mistaken identity.The 85-year-old, named in media reports as Sydney resident Chris Baghsarian, has been missing from his North Ryde home since Friday morning.Mr Baghsarian’s neighbours have told officers they saw him being taken away shortly after 5am, Detective Acting Superintendent Andrew Marks says.There were signs of forced entry at the home, while it’s understood Mr Baghsarian was bundled into a dark Toyota SUV.Police attended the premises before detectives attached to the NSW Robbery and Serious Crime Squad were called in.WA’s biggest…

When Bad Bunny took center stage for the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the Puerto Rican artist made history as the first music star with a primarily Spanish-language repertoire to do so.These are some of his most impactful lyrics, in Spanish and English:DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToSDebí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuveDebí darte más beso’ y abrazo’ las vece’ que pudeEy, ojalá que los mío’ nunca se mudenI should have taken more photos when I had youI should have given you more kisses and hugs the times that I couldHopefully my…

Islamabad, Pakistan – The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) commanding victory in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election marks not only a political watershed for the South Asian nation, but also a potential recalibration of regional power dynamics across India, Pakistan and China.With unofficial results declared on Thursday showing the BNP-led coalition securing 209 seats, a two-thirds majority in the 350-member parliament, Tarique Rahman’s party has delivered what observers described as Bangladesh’s first genuinely competitive election in nearly two decades.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe Jamaat-e-Islami-led coalition, the BNP’s main rival in the election, secured 74 seats as the country marked a decisive…

Washington — A partial government shutdown centered on the Department of Homeland Security began Saturday amid a stalemate over the Trump administration’s controversial immigration enforcement policies. It’s the second time in as many weeks that funding has lapsed for part of the government as Democrats and the White House remain at odds on restraints for federal immigration agents. DHS oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, whose conduct has been increasingly scrutinized since federal agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota. Though the impasse has revolved around immigration enforcement, the shutdown will impact other agencies under…