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A California woman is accused of trying to smuggle 151 pounds of cannabis onto an international flight, officials announced this week.Diane Bahlawan, 34, was first arrested May 6 at San Francisco International Airport while attempting to board a United Airlines flight to Frankfurt, Germany, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.Airport security flagged Bahlawan’s four roller bags for appearing unusually heavy. Inside, they reportedly discovered 131 vacuum-sealed bags of cannabis.In addition to the cannabis, authorities also claimed to have seized Bahlawan’s cellphone, boarding pass and $960 in cash.CBP OFFICERS SEIZE $875K IN MARIJUANA DISGUISED AS A SHIPMENT OF MEN’S OVERALLS  Diane…

Jack O’Halloran has an idea to keep the Site C dam’s massive worker camp out of the landfill: bring them to Surrey. “It’s absolutely gorgeous. Ten years ago, it was state of the art for a worker,” O’Halloran, the CEO of the Surrey Urban Mission, told Global News.When O’Halloran learned that the camp, which housed nearly 2,000 workers building the $16 billion hydroelectric dam, would be vacated by end of summer and could end up in the scrap heap, a lightbulb went on over his head.“If we were to get half of that, we would absolutely wipe out homelessness in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The University of Maryland (UMD) is welcoming an unlikely commencement speaker on Thursday to usher off the class of 2025: a bright-green Muppet.Kermit the Frog, a famous family favorite and self-proclaimed “Amphibitarian,” announced the momentous occasion in a YouTube video posted by the university.In the video, the speaker was hailed as an “environmental advocate,” “best-selling author,” “Peabody Award winner,” “international superstar,” “friend to all creatures” and “champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.”The camera then sharply panned to the awkward Muppet with a screeching sound as Kermit stood in front…

A lawyer for former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann, who is facing two counts of rape, has claimed there is a “shroud of secrecy” surrounding the investigation due to the lack of confirmation of the existence of police notebooks and diary entries.Zali Burrows, Mr Lehrmann’s solicitor, flagged what she claimed were “pretty concerning” aspects of the police investigation into her client during a brief call-over mention at Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Thursday.Mr Lehrmann, 29, remains on bail and was not required to appear.Police charged him with two counts of rape in January 2023, alleging the charges stem from an incident in…

SEOUL: A major accident occurred at a launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported on Thursday (May 22), with leader Kim Jong Un saying the mishap was a “criminal act”. At a ceremony to launch a new 5,000-ton destroyer in the eastern port city of Chongjin on Wednesday “a serious accident occurred”, the official Korean Central News Agency said. Blaming “inexperienced command and operational carelessness” during the launch, which was being observed by Kim, KCNA said there was a mishap which left “some sections of the warship’s bottom crushed”. It said the accident managed to “destroy…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Zoom Communications — The video conferencing company saw shares rising about 1% in extended trading after the firm shared its annual revenue forecast. The company now sees fiscal 2026 revenue between $4.80 billion and $4.81 billion, compared to analyst expectation of $4.79 billion, according to FactSet. Zoom also posted higher-than-expected adjusted earnings for the last quarter. Snowflake — The cloud-based data storage company’s stock surged more than 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported a solid first quarter. Adjusted earnings of 24 cents per share beat an LSEG estimate…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet Affleck went into detail this week about how she and her mother argued about the causes of the Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed their Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January. “I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room,” the 19-year-old wrote in Yale’s Global Health Review, where she is a student, in a piece published on Sunday titled: “A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.”Affleck continued of Garner, “She was shell-shocked, astonished at…

A group of Western diplomats were touring Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Wednesday when Israeli soldiers fired at least seven shots to disperse the visiting officials.

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s top crypto and AI advisor David Sacks said Wednesday that the administration expects the stablecoin legislation moving through the Senate to pass with “significant bipartisan support,” and claimed it could unlock demand for U.S. Treasuries.”We already have over $200 billion in stablecoins — it’s just unregulated,” Sacks told CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime.” “If we provide the legal clarity and legal framework for this, I think we could…

The Senate is set to vote this week on revoking three vehicle emissions waivers in California, in a controversial move that the chamber’s parliamentarian says Republican lawmakers may not have the right to do.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the planned vote “the nuclear option.” The three waivers the Senate is looking to revoke set stricter vehicle emissions standards than federal regulations. Two waivers relate to reducing tailpipe emissions from medium and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as limiting smog pollution from trucks. The last is what’s frequently called California’s “EV mandate,” a rule that aims to phase-out gas powered cars and require…