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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hugh Grant vented frustration over the “posh private schools” his children attend as he pushes to ban laptops and tablets from classrooms. On Wednesday, the 64-year-old actor joined American social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt and King Charles III’s second cousin, Sophie Winkleman, at London’s Knightsbridge School for an event organized by the group Close Screens, Open Minds.While speaking during the event, Grant, a father of five, accused schools of fueling children’s addiction to technology and limiting outdoor play. The “Bridget Jones’ Diary” star described himself as “another angry parent fighting the eternal, exhausting…

President Donald Trump’s trade policies will have a negative impact on Google parent Alphabet’s core advertising business, an executive from the company said Thursday.Alphabet, which reported stronger-than-expected revenue in its first quarter of the year, faces an online ads market that’s on edge due to concerns about how Trump’s tariffs will affect the economy and business spending. While the word “tariff” was never mentioned on Alphabet’s investor call Thursday, “macro” was mentioned several times as investors peppered company executives with questions about forward looking economic impacts amid new trade policies.Several strategists increased their odds of a recession after Trump on…

Robert Douglas, who founded the Black Dog on Martha’s Vineyard and transformed a tavern’s logo of his Labrador retriever mix into an international emblem for summertime, died on Wednesday at his family’s home on the island. He was 93.His son Jamie Douglas said the cause was prostate cancer.Robert Douglas moved to Martha’s Vineyard in 1960 after growing up spending summers on the Massachusetts island with his family, falling in love with its maritime culture — and hoping he would eventually be the one waving goodbye to summer visitors from the shoreline as they took the ferry back to the mainland.Mr.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Boise State star and Heisman Trophy finalist Ashton Jeanty is heading to the Las Vegas Raiders, as he becomes the first running back off the draft board as expected. While the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars were recent potential destinations for Jeanty entering Thursday night, it was always the Raiders who he was connected with. A team that struggled in the run game tremendously last season, finishing last in the league in terms of production. Dec 31, 2024; Glendale, AZ, USA; Boise State Broncos running back Ashton Jeanty (2) practices before the Fiesta Bowl…

Approximately 1,500 former banana workers in Costa Rica say a US-made pesticide has left them sterile. Though banned in the United States in the 1970s, the chemical DBCP was still used by US fruit companies in countries with lax regulations. Decades later, those affected are still fighting for justice.

President Trump made an unusually sharp appeal to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday, calling on him to stop his bombing campaign in Ukraine and agree to a peace deal after the deadliest attack on Kyiv in nearly a year.“Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media.Russia’s missile attack came a day after the Trump administration threatened to abandon peace talks if Ukraine did not accept a U.S. peace proposal that heavily favored Russia.Mr. Trump’s comments were striking because he…

President Trump issued an executive order on Thursday making it easier for the government to fire federal employees who are in a probationary period.Probationary government workers already have far fewer job protections than their established colleagues, and they were the Trump administration’s first targets for mass firings earlier this year. At least 24,000 of those terminations have led to court-ordered reinstatements that were overturned on appeals.Normally, probationary federal employees attain full status in one or two years, depending on the job — unless the agency they work for takes steps to dismiss them, which usually involves citing poor performance.Under the…

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Australian Cam Davis has continued his recovery mission as Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo set the four-ball record at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.Salinda and Velo shot a 14-under-par 58 to take the first-round lead at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, Louisiana.Playing the best-ball format, Salinda and Velo were a white-hot 12 under through their first 11 holes – via an eagle by Salinda at the par-5 seventh and the rest birdies – before slowing down.The unheralded team finished with four pars and a birdie over the final five holes.Salinda is No.163 in the world and Velo No.363,…

During President Trump’s first term, Ukraine worried that Mr. Trump might recognize Russian control over Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow forcibly seized in early 2014.As a candidate, Mr. Trump had said he would “take a look” at the matter, even though the Obama administration and America’s Western allies had rejected Russia’s annexation of the strategic territory. Mr. Trump even mused that “the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia.”But Mr. Trump never followed through and even doubled down against Moscow. In July 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an official “Crimea Declaration” pledging that…