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The Texas Lottery Commission’s executive director, Ryan Mindell, resigned Monday, according to a media release.Mindell’s exit comes as the agency faces at least two investigations ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton into the integrity of the lottery prizes, and how the state handled the introduction of courier companies that buy and send tickets on behalf of customers online.”Lottery couriers are unregulated service providers that take lottery ticket orders from customers online, either through an Internet website on a computer, or by using an application on a mobile device,” the Texas Lottery Commission told Fox News…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Several police officers in a major Ontario city were caught by the municipality’s speed and red-light cameras over the last three months. In a report being presented at the Ottawa Police Services Board on April 28, the force’s chief of police states that throughout the first quarter of 2025, 23 red light camera infractions were logged, 29 cases of vehicle collisions involving police occurred, 69 automated speed enforcement tickets were issued. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a…

Australian Michael Storer has continued his excellent start to the European cycling season as he protected his lead in the Tour of the Alps and homed in on the biggest triumph of his career.But while the Tudor Pro Cycling ace held on to his 41-second lead in the five-day tour in Austria and Italy after a tough third stage on Wednesday, another Australian star Jai Hindley still looked a threat to his compatriot in fourth place.Storer had made his mark in Tuesday’s mountainous second stage, soloing into Mezzolombardo after attacking 11km from home on the final climb and opening up…

“EVIL AGENDA WILL NOT SUCCEED”  The attacks came on Tuesday afternoon at three spots within Baisaran valley at Pahalgam where gunmen burst out of the forests and ambushed crowds of visitors with automatic weapons. The men, said to be from the militant group Kashmir Resistance, claimed responsibility for the attack in a social media message.  The group said that more than 85,000 “outsiders” had been settled in the region after arriving as tourists, vowing violence against such settlers.  In a fresh statement on Wednesday, Kashmir Resistance said that the “individuals targeted were not ordinary tourists; instead, they were linked to and affiliated…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The rivalry between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers burns red hot even in the offseason.Lions president Rod Wood made sure to throw some kindling on the fire on Tuesday when he talked about the NFL Draft taking place in Green Bay following the event in Detroit last year. Thousands of people are expected to attend the event again this year in Wisconsin. Flags promoting the NFL Draft on April 19, 2025, at Leicht Memorial Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA Today Network-Wisconsin via Imagn Images)Wood took a shot…

Kyiv, Ukraine – Finishing a cigarette with a final deep puff outside a hospital building in central Kyiv, a wounded Ukrainian drone operator sums up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s readiness to end the Ukraine war along the current front lines. “Don’t trust these leaks, the … vampire is just dragging the talks out,” Arseny, a 31-year-old recovering from a cranial wound that left him blind in one eye, told Al Jazeera while standing near a blossoming apple tree. He referred to a Financial Times report on Tuesday that suggested that Putin could “relinquish” Moscow’s claims on four partly-occupied Ukrainian regions.…

A 19-year-old U.S. citizen arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents earlier this month in Arizona and briefly prosecuted for illegal entry into the U.S. has intellectual disabilities, his family told CBS News.Jose Hermosillo was arrested on April 8 by CBP in Tucson and detained for 10 days. His family provided documentation proving his American citizenship, days after being taken into custody, according to court records and Department of Homeland Security assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security argued his arrest, which has attracted national attention, was a “direct result of his own actions and statements.” A…

An illegal immigrant in Maryland was charged with murdering his girlfriend after her body was found in a forest outside of Washington, D.C.The Charles County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland announced Monday that 24-year-old Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa was charged with murder in the killing of his girlfriend, Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra, 23, who was reported missing on March 31. Rosa’s uncle, Rolvin Eduardo Barrera-Barrera, 37, was charged as an accessory.Deputies said Guerra’s body was found on April 17 in a “heavily wooded area” of the forest just outside of Cedarville State Forest in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her body was…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 23, 2025 10:45 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Defence lawyers are continuing their closing arguments today in the trial of two people accused of the shooting death of a provincial police officer more than two years ago. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. 27, 2022 while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., near Brantford. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry were each charged with first-degree murder in the 28-year-old officer’s death, and both of the accused have pleaded not guilty.Prosecutors have argued…

Jordan has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets after members of the group were accused of being linked to a sabotage plot, Interior Minister Mazen Fraya says.There was no immediate comment from the movement, which has operated legally in Jordan for decades and has widespread grass-roots support in major urban centres and scores of offices across the country.Jordan said last week it had arrested 16 Muslim Brotherhood members, saying they were trained and financed in Lebanon and were plotting attacks involving rockets and drones on targets inside the kingdom.Jordan also attributed a…