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Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65 from pneumonia, leaving behind a career that reached far beyond action movies.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ historic federal corruption case has been dropped. Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so “with prejudice.” That means Adams cannot be re-tried on the same charges at a later time – a stipulation the Justice Department sought in its initial request to dismiss the case. The decision to formally drop the case comes after Judge Ho appointed Paul Clement as a “friend of the court” to present arguments over the DOJ’s request. The initial hearing on the request did not include anyone who opposed the…

FIRST ON FOX: Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults.Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999.Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began “fantasizing” about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later,…

By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 2, 2025 12:32 pm Updated April 2, 2025 12:33 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A federal judge has ruled that the Fisheries Department failed to properly consult commercial baby eel fishers when it transferred about 14 per cent of their quota to First Nations. The March 28 ruling from Justice Paul Favel says the quota transfer for the 2023 season away from Shelburne Elver Ltd. and South Shore Trading Co. Ltd. was “procedurally unfair.”The lucrative fishery in Maritime rivers has been the source of tension…

The influencer ex-partner of failed crypto trader Andre Rebelo has broken her silence just one day after he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his own mother.Gracie Piscopo, one of Perth’s most well-known social media personalities, said she is “healing and moving on” after Rebelo killed his mum Colleen to gain $1.5 million from life insurance policies.The 28-year-old wrote the simple message alongside a video containing clips of her life over the past months.One clip shows Ms Piscopo crying, while others show happier moments with her six-year-old son — who she shares with Rebelo — and current partner…

FRANTIC AID AFP journalists saw frantic scenes as hundreds of desperate people scrambled for aid distribution in Sagaing, the city closest to the epicentre of the quake, with some running through traffic to join the queues. Volunteers handed out water, rice, cooking oil and other basic supplies to residents clamouring for assistance. “I have never queued for food like this before. I can’t express how worried I am. I don’t know what to say,” Cho Cho Mar, 35, carrying her baby and clutching instant coffee packs and mosquito repellent, told AFP. Destruction in the city is widespread, with the World…

Three years ago, Brandon Halverson had all but given up on his hockey dream.He was delivering UberEats and groceries and working on a farm. He sold his truck. He borrowed money from his parents. Whatever it took to scrape out enough money for rent.Two weeks ago, he stepped into the net with the Tampa Bay Lightning for the first time as an NHL starter — nearly 11 years after being drafted as a highly touted prospect, and more than seven years after his only other appearance in the league.From toiling away with a last-place team in Germany’s second division, a…

There were times, before Israeli airstrikes on Gaza shattered the two-month-old cease-fire on March 18, when Huda Abu Teir and her family could almost believe things might go back to normal.After fleeing from their home to a shelter for displaced people, and then to a tent, another shelter and on to another encampment during 15 months of war — six or seven displacements in all — they had returned to their house in Abasan al-Kabira, in southeastern Gaza, where they lived with Huda’s grandparents and uncles.Back at home a few weeks ago, Huda, 19, threw a pizza party for her…

Until a few months ago, the Federal Reserve appeared close to achieving something that many doubted was possible. The economy looked on the cusp of a “soft landing,” a situation where inflation was headed back to the central bank’s 2 percent target without a recession. That put the central bank on track to steadily lower interest rates until borrowing costs reached a level that neither revved up growth nor slowed it down.President Trump’s global trade war has thrown a wrench in those plans. Facing extreme uncertainty about the economic outlook, the central bank has put further interest rate cuts on…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldShares in Donald Trump’s social media company fell after the president opened the door to selling his entire $2.3bn stake, just as global investors were bracing themselves for his “liberation day” tariffs.Shares in Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates Truth Social, fell 8 per cent on Wednesday after the company said in a filing with regulators that it planned to sell more than 142mn shares. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late on Tuesday showed that Trump’s…