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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Harrison Burton is on his second NASCAR circuit in as many years after being let go by Wood Racing last year in the Cup series.He’s now, in his own words, improved his stock in the Xfinity Series with six top-10s, including in each of his last three races (he had just two all of last year).But with the Indy 500 coming up, Burton admits that it’d be nice to get behind the wheel in that race. NASCAR Cup Series driver Harrison Burton (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)”I like to race anything,” Burton told…

The French movie star Gérard Depardieu was convicted by a Paris court on Tuesday on charges of sexually assaulting two women working on the set of a film in which he was starring in 2021.The prosecutor had requested an 18-month suspended sentence and a fine of 20,000 euros, or about $22,200, after a four-day trial at the end of March.The women — a set decorator and an assistant director — worked on “Les Volets Verts,” a 2021 French film starring Mr. Depardieu.The set decorator, now 54, who has only agreed to be identified publicly by her first name, Amélie, said…

The U.S. welcome mat is rolling up — at least that’s how some international travelers see it, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, a global organization representing the travel and tourism industry. And the cost for that hospitality lapse will be high.The United States is on track to lose $12.5 billion in international travel spending this year, falling to less than $169 billion from $181 billion in 2024, according to the latest Economic Impact Research, published by the W.T.T.C. on Tuesday.That’s a 22.5 percent decline from the U.S. international spending peak of $217.4 billion in 2019 — and…

President Trump and his business partners promoted it as the world’s most “EXCLUSIVE INVITATION” — a dinner with the president of the United States for the cryptocurrency investors who bought the most of his family’s memecoin, called $TRUMP.But as the unusual contest came to a close on Monday, at least 17 of the 220 winning bidders had figured out a way to effectively outsmart the sponsors of the contest.These crypto investors had secured an invitation to the dinner even though their online wallets showed that they held zero of the memecoins, a type of novelty digital currency often based on…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of our series looking at the issue of intimate partner violence in the province, we spoke with a New Brunswick advocate and survivor who shared her story. You can read that story at this link. We also spoke with Lyne Chantal Boudreau, the provincial minister responsible for women’s equality, about how the province is addressing the issue. You can read that story here.For a look at what support workers in the province are noticing in terms of trends, and how they cope with the field, read this story. Story continues…

The future of one of Fortescue’s leading green energy projects looks uncertain as the business lays off staff working on the Gladstone electrolyser facility in Queensland and its hydrogen division in Perth. 

TOKYO: Japan’s Honda Motor on Tuesday (May 13) forecast a 70 per cent drop in net profit for the 2025-26 financial year as United States trade tariffs weigh on the global auto industry. The announcement comes after rival Toyota, the world’s top-selling carmaker, predicted a 35 per cent year-on-year drop in annual net profit because of the levies and other factors. Honda said it expected net profit of 250 billion yen (US$1.7 billion) in the 12 months to March 2026. “Tariff impact and recovery efforts” will have a negative effect on operating profit, it warned, estimating they will cost the…

Another long-term concern is pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive disease in which scarring thickens and hardens lung tissue, making it difficult for oxygen to move into the bloodstream. Dr. Elsayegh describes a lung with pulmonary fibrosis as “a stiff balloon from the party store” — your face flushes as you try to force air inside, but it simply refuses to inflate.As a former Palisades resident intent on returning to the neighborhood, Dr. Elsayegh is also doubling as a trusted confidant, drawing on his personal experience to help his patients face uncertainties and find solutions — or next steps, at least.“In an…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.‘Lady Giuliani’Last Thursday, President Trump said he had chosen the Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.Stephen Colbert told his viewers on Monday that they might recognize Pirro from “Judge Jeanine,” where she “promoted voter-fraud claims, compared Jan. 6 rioters to Revolutionary War soldiers, and got pulled briefly from the network after making Islamophobic comments.”“She was later reinstated after…

Nazi propaganda materials dating back to 1941 were discovered in the basement of Argentina’s Supreme Court.More than 80 boxes filled with documents from Nazi Germany have been discovered in the basement of Argentina’s Supreme Court, decades after the crates were stashed in 1941. The “discovery of global significance” came as workers were clearing out the area in preparation for transferring the archives to a newly-established museum, the court said in a statement on Monday. The 83 boxes were sent by the German embassy in Japan’s capital Tokyo to Argentina in June 1941 on board the Japanese steamship “Nan-a-Maru”, the court…