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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Stefon Diggs, who landed a three-year contract with the New England Patriots this offseason, showed little interest in providing any more details pertaining to the social media video showing him on a yacht.Videos recently surfaced on social media showing Diggs passing what appeared to be a bag of pink crystals to women on a boat. When reporters brought up the video in question at Patriots mandatory minicamp, Diggs said he wanted to avoid delving into his personal life in a public setting. New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs speaks to the…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Karen Bass says curfew for part of downtown area will take effect from 8pm local time (03:00 GMT Wednesday).Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has announced a curfew for a small part of downtown Los Angeles amid protests against United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The curfew will apply to an area of 1 square mile (2.6sq km) and be effect from 8pm on Tuesday to 6am on Wednesday, local time (03:00 GMT to 13:00 GMT Wednesday), Bass said during a news conference. “Many businesses have now been affected or vandalised. Last night, there were 23 businesses that were…

Protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend.The protests in Los Angeles began Friday as Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed several raids in and around the country’s second-largest city. The raids and protests continued throughout the weekend sometimes resulting in clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, prompting the Trump administration to mobilize thousands of National Guard troops despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom not requesting them and later asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to withdraw the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two “passing motorists” helped a police officer save an elderly woman trapped in a burning vehicle following a crash in Chester, New York, about an hour outside New York City.Chester police were dispatched to the scene of a rollover crash on Kings Highway around 4 a.m. Sunday.”While they were responding, updates were given that the operator was trapped in the vehicle and the vehicle was on fire,” police wrote in a Monday Facebook post. “Officer Nicholas Contino was the first police officer to arrive on scene. He gave his fire extinguisher to…

Plans for curbside food waste collection in Kelowna, B.C., have been put on hold — for now. City council decided not to move forward with the proposal, which would have allowed single-family homes to add food scraps to their existing yard waste bins. The organic material would then be separated at a transfer station that still needs to be built.“We recognize that there is a need for such a program,” said Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas. “It was just the way that it was packaged and delivered at this time that wasn’t appropriate for council.”Concerns raised by council included unclear costs,…

The Australian share market has pushed higher into uncharted territory, following a jump on Wall Street in the US overnight that was fuelled by hopes of a positive outcome from US-China trade talks aimed at defusing a tariff dispute that has whip-lashed global markets.The S&P-ASX200 surged to a fresh record closing high on Tuesday of 8587.20 — surpassing its previous record close of 8555.8 set back on February 14 — just seven weeks before US President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs crashed markets around the globe.The leading index rose again in early trade on Wednesday, climbing to 8638.2 in…

In a display of Beijing’s growing military reach, the Chinese Navy sent two aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean, far from the country’s coast, for the first time to conduct exercises together, Japan’s defense minister, Gen Nakatani, said.Mr. Nakatani told reporters on Monday that the Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted launching and retrieving jet fighters out in the Pacific to the east of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, about 750 miles south of Tokyo. He said the Japanese Navy was monitoring the joint exercise by both vessels, which began on Saturday.It was the first time that China’s two active-duty…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador under a wartime law.The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came one day before the administration was supposed to outline for a lower-court judge how to allow nearly 140 deported Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion. The men, accused of being members of a violent street gang called Tren de Aragua, are being held in a maximum-security Salvadoran…

The standoff between President Trump’s negotiating team and Iran boils down to this: whether the United States is willing to risk allowing Iran to continue producing nuclear fuel if the alternative is no deal and the possibility of another war in the Middle East.To Mr. Trump and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the negotiations with Iran are a new experience, and Iran’s insistence that it will never surrender its ability to enrich uranium on its soil threatens to scuttle an agreement that the president only a few weeks ago confidently predicted was within reach.But it is almost exactly the same…

The calls to solve the doctor shortage crisis at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) are growing and getting louder by the day. “There is hurt and there’s anger that it took so long and it took a crisis of this level,” said Dr. Alysha MacKenzie-Feder, a Kelowna, B.C., pediatrician who resigned from the hospital in 2024.A group of more than a dozen pediatricians issued a public statement Monday, stating, “We are reaching out publicly to correct misinformation that has been circulating about the crisis.”According to the group, there are only four pediatricians and one newborn specialist working at KGH, adding at…