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It was just after sunrise, and we were racing to meet a local celebrity we had been doggedly tracking all morning. She’d been spotted grabbing a drink nearby, so we made a beeline to the nearest watering hole, arriving just in time to watch her gracefully slink away and disappear — delighting, then deflating, her thousands of fans expectantly watching via livestream.We had found Tlalamba, the Queen of Djuma, a female leopard whose physical territory amounts to a patch of bushveld near South Africa’s Kruger National Park but whose digital dominion spans the globe.That’s thanks to WildEarth, a TV channel…

Good morning and welcome to Fox News’ morning newsletter, Fox News First. And here’s what you need to know to start your day …TOP 31. Trump levels the field — America gets a fairer shot on the world trade stage. 2. US shuts down southern border over deadly threat.3. DHS says what’s ‘on the table’ after Dems ‘storm’ ICE facility.MAJOR HEADLINES FLIGHT OF FANCY – Trump reacts after Middle Eastern royal family offers to donate jumbo jet. Continue reading … OUT THE DOOR – Two more top US government officials receive their last emails from the Trump admin. Continue reading…

The owner of an Albany family-run seafood business that was allegedly broken into twice early Friday morning said he is “shocked” and “sad” by the alleged crime.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Dallas Stars winger Mason Marchment raised eyebrows on Sunday with a move toward an NHL referee during the team’s Stanley Cup playoffs victory over the Winnipeg Jets.Marchment was on the receiving end of a stiff hit near the blue line from Jets center Mark Scheifele in the second period and received no call. He got up from the ice, said something to referee Graham Skilliter and then hit him in the shins with his stick.  Dallas Stars’ Mason Marchment, #27, makes a pass under pressure from Winnipeg Jets center Adam Lowry, #17,…

A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the United States, where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.The departure of the white South Africans, who say they have been denied jobs and have been targeted by violence because of their race, was a remarkable development in President Trump’s redefining of U.S. foreign policy.Mr. Trump has halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he…

A Democratic congressman is calling for an ethics investigation over President Donald Trump’s plans to accept a $400 million jet from Qatar that would temporarily serve as Air Force One before being allotted to Trump’s presidential library after he leaves office.Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., wrote to the Government Accountability Office on Sunday, noting that the plane would be the single most expensive gift ever received by a U.S. president. Torres derided the deal as a “flying grift,” arguing it violates the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which “explicitly prohibits any person holding public office from accepting ‘any present, Emolument,…

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week at age 85, made few public appearances after he retired from the Supreme Court in 2009. When he did, he stayed away from politics.But a seemingly bland question from an audience member at a New Hampshire arts center in 2012 provoked an impassioned response from the justice, who was the opposite of excitable.He said he was worried that public ignorance about how American government works would allow an authoritarian leader to emerge and claim total power. “That is the way democracy dies,” he said.“An ignorant people can never remain a free people,”…

Pope Leo XIV has hailed press freedom and called for the release of reporters jailed for doing their jobs as he met the public for the first time as pontiff.

The arch rivals had targeted each other’s military installations with missiles and drones, killing dozens of civilians as relations turned sour after India blamed Pakistan for an attack that killed 26 tourists. Pakistan denies the accusations and has called for a neutral investigation. India said it launched strikes on nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday, but Islamabad has said those were civilian sites. MARKETS RECOVER Pakistan’s international bonds rallied sharply, adding as much as 5.7 cents in the dollar, Tradeweb data showed. Late on Friday, the International Monetary Fund approved a fresh US$1.4-billion loan to…

Some ‘reciprocal’ tariffs and duties are being rolled back in favour of ‘mutually beneficial’ talks.China and the United States have agreed to suspend some of the heavy trade tariffs imposed against one another as they prepare to extend negotiations aimed at lowering trade war tensions. The two countries issued a joint statement on Monday, following two days of trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland. They described the negotiations, which came after US President Donald Trump’s nationalist agenda prompted a spiral of increasingly heavy duties, as positive. Global markets reacted positively to the news, with stock markets in Hong Kong, the US…