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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida community is reeling after a deadly shooting spree left three generations of a family, including a 4-month-old baby and a 4-year-old child, dead across two crime scenes, authorities said Monday.Officers first responded early Sunday to a disturbance on a residential street in Plant City, where they found four shooting victims, the Plant City Police Department said. The 4-month-old and 4-year-old children were pronounced dead at the scene. Their 28-year-old mother was rushed to a hospital but later died. A third child was found unharmed.Investigators soon linked the violence to a…

Some Ontario wineries say the recent discovery of an invasive species of insect in the province is “extremely dangerous” to the industry and could have a “devastating impact.” Known as the spotted lanternfly, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it was contacted last month after a St. Catharines, Ont., resident found a dead member of the species.After an inspection, it collected 12 dead spotted lanternflies in an imported shipment of planting pots from the United States.“It can have a devastating impact,” said Norman Beal, president of the Peninsula Ridge Estates Winery and board chair of Ontario Craft Wineries. “They can…

Alphabet Inc. is moving ahead with its largest-ever euro-denominated bond sale, attracting strong investor demand as it ramps up funding for artificial intelligence (AI) investments.The company has received more than €25.2 billion in orders for a planned debt sale of at least €9 billion.The offering is expected to be split into six parts and could range between €9 billion and €9.5 billion, mentioned in Bloomberg report.The transaction marks Alphabet’s biggest issuance in euros to date. It comes just months after the company raised nearly $32 billion through bond sales in US dollars, sterling, and Swiss francs.AI spending drives capital needsAlphabet’s…

Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated:  May 5, 2026 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs drew another $532.21 million on Monday, pushing cumulative inflows above $59 billion and total assets under management to $106.44 billion, as Washington moved the Clarity Act closer to a markup session. The combination is strengthening the market case for Bitcoin even as Iran-related risks remain in focus.That backdrop is also…

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka believes tennis players should organise a boycott if they don’t receive a larger share of tournament revenues at grand slams.

CHINA LIKENED LAI TO A “RAT”There was no immediate response from the Chinese government, which last week likened Lai to a “rat” for his “skulking” visit to Eswatini.Lai’s aircraft, the same A340, left Eswatini on Monday for Taiwan, taking a long route over the bottom part of the Indian Ocean, avoiding the flight information regions of Mauritius and ​Madagascar, which both have deep economic and diplomatic ties with Beijing.The aircraft then flew over Australia’s Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, before entering Taiwan airspace for arrival into Taoyuan, according to flight tracking apps.Lai was accompanied on his flight by…

Michael Burry dumped his entire stake in GameStop after the company’s audacious bid for eBay , saying the deal’s heavy leverage shattered the investment case he had been building. “I sold my entire GME position,” Burry said in a Substack post late Monday. “Any which way I sliced it, the Instant Berkshire thesis was never compatible with > 5x Debt/EBITDA, never ok with interest coverage under 4.0x … As a result, GME is the first sale since I started this Substack.” GameStop made an unsolicited, nonbinding offer to acquire eBay for $125 per share in cash and stock, valuing the…

A joint investigation by Al Jazeera and Liberty Investigates has found that 12 universities paid a private company, led by ex-military intelligence officials, to profile academics and scan social media use by students.Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the U.S. operation guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz off the Iranian coast is a “temporary solution” after the standoff resulted in the exchange of fire one day earlier.”Iran cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway,” Hegseth said at a news conference Tuesday at the Pentagon.Hegseth later clarified that “the ceasefire is not over” even though Iranian vessels on Monday fired on U.S. ships guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in the U.S. sinking several small Iranian boats.Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2026 8:20 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Ontario judge is expected to deliver his ruling Tuesday in the case of two women accused of killing a boy they were trying to adopt and confining his brother. Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney are charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy.The pair are also charged with multiple offences, including forcible confinement, related to the boy’s younger brother. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so…