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Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, The Associated Press has projected, flipping a district that is home to President Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago.The Republican president endorsed Gregory’s rival, Jon Maples. In a Truth Social post Monday, he urged voters to turn out, saying Maples was endorsed “by so many of my Palm Beach County friends.” Mr. Trump voted by mail in the election, according to public records, a method of voting he has frequently railed against, referring to it as “mail-in cheating” as recently as Monday.With almost all votes counted, Gregory led…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nine students were injured on Tuesday after a driver struck them with a vehicle at a school in Ankeny, Iowa, according to officials.The incident happened around 3:15 p.m. as students were being picked up from St. Luke’s Catholic School on NW Weigel Drive, city police and fire officials said at a news conference.A vehicle in the pickup line jumped the curb and struck the students, officials said.STUDENTS ON CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL TRACK TEAM INJURED AFTER SUSPECTED DUI DRIVER ACCUSED OF HITTING THEM Nine students were injured after a driver struck them with…

A surge in oil prices to as high as $US150 a barrel will trigger a global recession, the boss of the world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has warned.

Countries across Asia are weighing up work-from-home policies and stimulus measures enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they scramble to respond to global fuel shortages triggered by the Iran war. Asia is at the frontline of the fuel crisis, buying more than 80 per cent of the crude that transits the Strait of Hormuz, which has been almost totally blocked by Iran since the war broke out on Feb 28. No country in the region has enforced work-from-home measures yet, but some have said they are on the table. “I think it is a good idea,” South Korean Energy Minister Kim Sung-whan said…

As the United States-Israeli war with Iran sends tremors through the global economy, the poorest members of the Global South are the most exposed to the fallout.In Asia, Africa and the Middle East, developing economies are bearing the brunt of surging energy costs prompted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on oil and gas facilities across the Gulf.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listFrom Pakistan to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, through to Jordan, Egypt and Ethiopia, policymakers are facing the double whammy of being both heavily dependent on imported energy and having limited financial firepower…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Illinois’ Democratic Governor JB Pritzker recently highlighted the calm of Chicago’s shore with Lake Michigan in a video he posted across his social media platforms — a nearby area where an illegal alien shot and killed a college student last week.”Lots of runners coming by,” Pritzker said in a video he posted to Facebook last September.”Lakefront path, Lakefront Trail — absolutely gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Look at that overpass. A great lakefront.”The tone of the resurfaced clip clashes with the death of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student who was shot to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The online fundraising platform Kickstarter has taken down a campaign for a book about “Save Women’s Sports” activists, that is set to include interviews with Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Paula Scanlan, Brooke Slusser, Payton McNabb, Stephanie Turner, Selina Soule, Kaitlynn Wheeler and several others. The page for the campaign for the forthcoming title “She Handled It,” by Arwen Becker currently says “suspended” on Kickstarter’s website. Becker told Fox News Digital that she was told that campaigns are suspended when the platform discovers “strong evidence” that a campaign violates “the spirit of Kickstarter rules.” Becker added…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! First on Fox: The Department of Homeland Security is touting its local cooperation with New York authorities to keep an illegal immigrant accused of raping a 5-year-old Long Island girl off the streets, despite state sanctuary laws that disallow such collaboration.  Carlos Aguilar Reynoso, 27, a Guatemalan citizen, was babysitting the child as a favor to her mother. When the mother returned home from work on Feb. 1, she discovered the girl bleeding through her underwear, prompting her to take her to a hospital.The girl was transferred to a specialty hospital where she…

A new poll finds there is growing support for a proposal to lower an Old Age Security (OAS) threshold for some Canadians in order to help reduce the federal government’s deficit. Seventy-three per cent of Canadians polled this month said they support such a move, which would effectively trim back Old Age Security from higher income tiers, according to Generation Squeeze’s research poll.Although nearly three quarters of respondents said they supported this proposal, that was on the condition that the savings are used to eliminate seniors’ poverty and reduce living costs for younger generations, the polling found.Old Age Security is one…

A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law.The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — prioritized profits over safety. The jury determined Meta violated parts of the state’s Unfair Practices Act on accusations the company hid what it knew about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on its platforms and impacts on child mental health.The jury agreed with allegations that Meta made false or misleading…