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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday after Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers discovered 25 illegal immigrants crammed into the back of a box truck, hidden behind mattresses and inside a crawlspace.DPS said 43-year-old Silvia Patricia Santamaria, of Houston, was arrested and charged with 25 counts of human smuggling and has since been booked into the Live Oak County Jail.Just after 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a concerned citizen approached a DPS trooper at a truck stop along Interstate 37 in George West, Texas, regarding a minor crash that happened in…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Oil prices surged on Friday as Israel’s air strikes against Iran threatened supplies across the region and sparked a rush to haven assets. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 8.8 per cent at $75.48 in London after earlier spiking more than 12 per cent. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, climbed 9 per cent to $74.15. Michael Alfaro, chief investment officer at Gallo Partners, a hedge fund focused on energy and industrials, said the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities marked a “seismic…

Britain’s financial regulators need to learn from Singapore by ditching their “risk-averse culture”, stepping up support for economic growth, and becoming more welcoming to businesses, a House of Lords committee has said.Since the 2008 banking crisis, the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority have introduced “unnecessary frictions” that undermine growth and innovation and “discourage new entrants”, the House of Lords Financial Regulation Committee said on Friday.The peers’ conclusion that the UK has “valuable lessons to learn from Singapore’s approach” to financial regulation underscores widespread frustration in the City of London over how the two authorities have responded to a…

Emerging from the heartbreak and horror of the Air India crash that killed hundreds is the miracle of seat 11A — occupied by the sole survivor of the fireball that engulfed the plane.

Panitan said the Thai government has struggled to respond this time, due to recent years of turbulence in domestic politics, changes in leadership and turmoil within military structures in Thailand. Strategists in Phnom Penh have seized the moment, he said. “I think that’s one thing that the Cambodian leaders sensed weeks ago, months ago. That there would be no consensus on how to respond, giving Cambodia more time to move more forward before they retreated,” added Panitan, citing the failure of the Thai government to call an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in the wake of the shooting…

New Zealand and San Francisco’s Finn Allen hits record 19 sixes against Washington in 2025 Major League Cricket opener.San Francisco Unicorns opener Finn Allen smashed a record 19 sixes in his incredible 151 off 51 balls against defending champions Washington Freedom in the opening match of the new Major League Cricket (MLC) season. The New Zealand international opener’s knock on Thursday evening at Unicorns’ Oakland Coliseum, was the Twenty20 league’s highest individual score since its 2023 debut season. Allen’s six-hitting display passed the previous record of 18 in a T20 match held by West Indian great Chris Gayle and Estonian…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported and then returned to the United States to face federal prosecution, will appear in a Nashville courtroom Friday for his arraignment after he was charged with participating in a yearslong conspiracy to traffic undocumented migrants into the country.Abrego Garcia faces one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens after a grand jury in Tennessee returned a sealed indictment against him in May. Those charges were made public last week when Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Abrego Garcia had been returned to the United…

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe annual inflation rate increased slightly in May as an uptick in grocery inflation somewhat offset lower prices at the gasoline pump.And while inflation was relatively tame, economists said they expect President Trump’s tariff policy to raise consumer prices in coming months — and that there was already some evidence of their impact.The consumer price index, an inflation barometer, rose 2.4% in the 12 months through May, up from 2.3% in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday.’Calm before the inflation storm’That increase to the annual inflation rate was largely due to a data…

The price of crude oil is on the rise but Australians should remain calm until the impact is known.

Scottie Scheffler has kept coming back to the same answer when asked in different ways about how a day that began with optimism at the United States Open turned into a five-and-a-half-hour slog that left him well off the front page of the leaderboard. “I’ve probably got to give myself a few more looks,” the world’s top-ranked player said Thursday after a 3-over 73 left him seven shots behind frontrunner JJ Spaun. Scheffler was talking about looks for reasonable birdie putts. Those didn’t happen nearly enough during those often arduous hours at the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. As…