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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…

A former construction union official has withdrawn a bid to vary his bail conditions after police outlined fresh allegations against him.

Tehran, Iran – Iranians are dealing with the fallout of the US-Israeli war on their country for the fourth week while being squeezed by a dwindling economy and the longest internet shutdown the country has ever experienced.Most of the country is closed down this week for Nowruz holidays to celebrate the Persian New Year.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut Iran has had numerous unexpected shutdowns this year, including those due to the 12-day war with Israel and the US in June, and the bloody nationwide protests in January, as well as air pollution rooted in an energy crisis.For…

Early this week, Senate Republicans and the president appeared to be edging closer to a framework to ending the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, which is now in its second month — but a breakthrough has remained out of reach.CBS News contacted all 532 House and Senate offices (there are three House vacancies) about the DHS funding impasse and asked what lawmakers are doing to end the shutdown.How would they restore DHS funding? What’s their message to Americans waiting in hourslong airport security lines? And what do they have to say to unpaid TSA workers who are about to miss…

Best friends Frankie Cassidy and Nathan Ross formed Buffalo Traffic Jam as students at Montana State University. Dorm room jam sessions progressed into a sold-out worldwide tour as the duo garnered acclaim for their stripped-down sound and heartfelt lyrics. Here is Buffalo Traffic Jam performing “Hanging On Hope.”

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Chicago man accused of threatening to “shoot up a synagogue,” targeting an Israeli official and flying to the state where the official’s family lived, has been released on bond despite federal prosecutors seeking to keep him detained, officials said.Timothy Holmes, 31, of Chicago, was arrested Wednesday morning in Florida and is charged with making a threat in interstate commerce to injure a person, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.The charges stem from a March 3 incident where Holmes allegedly publicly posted on X, “I’m going to…

City councillors in Wetaskiwin are looking to hire a third-party contractor to help them work together more effectively and address public backlash, as rumours continue to swirl in the central Alberta community over why the mayor has been banned from city hall. Mayor Joe Branco has been attending council meetings virtually since mid-January, after his fellow councillors voted to bar him from city hall — a decision council said stems from a private investigation they cannot publicly discuss.The city has been asked many times for more information but has offered no explanation for the ban.In a statement issued March 20, the…