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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A pair of high-profile South African golfers were thrown into a tense exchange at the White House Wednesday. Ernie Els and Retief Goosen joined Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, for a meeting in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump.While the meeting between the two leaders got off to a cordial start, the tenor of the meeting took a noticeable turn when Trump confronted Ramaphosa with a video that allegedly showed grave treatment of white farmers. Trump also presented Ramaphosa with documents he claimed were accounts of killings of “thousands” of…

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Two female students have died in a suspected murder-suicide at a residence hall at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.A spokesperson with the university confirmed with Fox News Digital that Kelsie Martin and Hallie Helms, both 22, were found with gunshot wounds at Wilgus Hall, a student residence hall, in what authorities believe to be a murder-suicide at approximately 4 p.m. local time on Monday, May 19.Helms, an elementary education major, was pronounced dead at the…

Answer: Fulfilling a childhood dream. What is: Appearing on Jeopardy! and becoming a champion.Vancouver resident Brendan Liaw has become the newest Jeopardy! champion, winning the game show on Tuesday night.“I started watching Jeopardy!, gonna be around nine or 10, and realized pretty early on that I knew quite a few answers, and that felt pretty good,” Liaw told Global News.“So eventually made a goal to get on the show and possibly win some money.”Liaw, who is a recent graduate and describes himself as a “stay-at-home son,” said it is not easy to make it onto the game show.He said contestants…

Bitcoin briefly hit an all-time high after the advancement of stablecoin legislation in the US stoked hopes of regulatory clarity under President Donald Trump.The largest cryptocurrency climbed as much as 2.7 per cent to a record $US109,856, before paring much of the gain while broader financial markets retreated. The previous high was set at roughly the time of Trump’s inauguration on January 20. Smaller tokens such as Ether and XRP also gave back modest increases.Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have rallied in recent weeks thanks to regulatory tailwinds including the stablecoin bill advancing in the US Senate after a…

The administration of President Donald Trump has begun the process of ending the federal government’s involvement in reforming local police departments, a civil rights effort that gained steam after the deaths of unarmed Black people like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. On Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice announced it would cancel two proposed settlements that would have seen the cities of Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, agree to federal oversight of their police departments. Generally, those settlements — called consent decrees — involve a series of steps and goals that the two parties negotiate and that a federal…

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.Here’s what’s happening…-Trump confronts South Africa’s president with video on treatment of White farmers-Florida Sen Moody rolls out measure to expedite removal of criminal illegal immigrants-Justice Department begins dismissing Biden-era police lawsuits against Minneapolis and LouisvilleChina Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’China is concerned by President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new U.S. missile defense system, called the Golden Dome, which is designed to protect against adversarial attacks on America.  Golden Dome has a “strong offensive nature and violates…

A Utah man is accused of holding his pregnant girlfriend and her family hostage in their home for six months under the lie that “cartel” members were pursuing them.Dominic Garcia, 23, was arrested Saturday and booked on 28 charges, most of them felonies. Among them were seven each of kidnapping and assault, according to The Associated Press.SIX OHIO SUSPECTS ACCUSED OF TORTURING MAN IN WEEKLONG HOTEL KIDNAPPING: ‘EXTREMELY DISTURBING’The situation reportedly began when one of the alleged captives called the police, claiming they were being held against their will and that they “weren’t able to take it any longer,” according…

A colourful and ceremonial military event in Vernon, B.C., has come to a rather unceremonious end. After 12 years, organizers of the Okanagan Military Tattoo have called it quits, pointing a lot of the blame at the city and its decision to jack up rents at city-owned facilities including Kal Tire Place, where the event was held for many of those years.“It’s a huge disappointment,” said Norm Crerar, the event’s co-founder.Crerar said that  putting on the event was becoming challenging, with hotel accommodations and the price of food going up significantly.He told Global News the rent increase was the last…

Six years after she lost the rights to her back catalogue, Taylor Swift could have the chance to buy back her masters — but it won’t be cheap.In a bizarre twist, it is the former music manager who caused bad blood with the star by swooping in and buying them in the first place that is encouraging the move.Scooter Braun, alongside Big Machine, bought the master recordings of her first six albums in 2019 for $300 million.The move sparked a bitter war of words with the pop star and prompted her to later go on to record new “Taylor’s versions”…

Columbia University alumni burned diplomas and police arrested protesters outside a commencement ceremony.