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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Heated racial rhetoric in Texas is flaring this primary season, as Democratic contenders lean into identity-focused messaging that Republicans say is divisive and a clinic in “wokeness at its worst.”Texas Democrats are heading into primary season with an intraparty fight that is increasingly spilling into race and identity. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who is running for the Senate, has suggested racism would be to blame if she loses, while former Rep. Colin Allred accused Crockett rival and Austin state Rep. James Talarico of calling him “a mediocre Black man” in a political spat…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is courting controversy over a sold-out T-shirt on the official Olympics website depicting the 1936 Berlin Olympics run by the Nazis.The limited-edition shirt features the poster for the 1936 Games designed by German artist Franz Würbel that was used as propaganda by Adolf Hitler to promote the Nazi idea of Aryan supremacy.That idea was deflated by Black American Jesse Owens, who won four track and field gold medals at the games.Liora Rez, founder of StopAntisemitism, called the move a “shame” on the IOC.ISRAELI BOBSLED TEAM APARTMENT ROBBED…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Friday commented on why the FBI has not taken over as the lead agency investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie nearly two weeks since she vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home.Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC host Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her home Feb. 1, and no suspects or persons of interest have been publicly named by authorities 13 days later.While speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump explained why the Pima County Sheriff’s Department remains the lead on the investigation. “They didn’t want to let go…

Tentyris’ success in Flemington’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) has experts already wondering if the three-year-old is Australia’s newest sprint king after his explosive dash proved too much.

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The unexpected and ultimately short-lived flight ban near El Paso this week stemmed from disagreements within the federal government over the use of a high-energy laser weapon system to take down drones, multiple sources told CBS News. After training by the U.S. military, Customs and Border Protection used a palletized high-energy laser system earlier this week, even though the Federal Aviation Administration still has safety concerns, according to sources who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the matter. The system CBP used has been deployed overseas, according to two of the sources, but had not been considered…

The Alibaba stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWhile U.S. markets have been focused on the impact of Anthropic and Altruist’s tools on software and financial services, China’s tech giants have released AI models this week that have shown advancements in robotics and video generation.Alibaba, TikTok creator ByteDance and short-video platform Kuaishou, have all released new AI models that underscore how Chinese firms are keeping up with those in the U.S.It comes after Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that…

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…