Category: World

A backpacker traveled around Australia for free by pet-sitting — and has saved thousands of dollars doing it. Hailey Learmonth headed to Australia in January 2023 after Googling “how to travel for free,” as SWNS reported. For over a year, Learmonth looked after people’s pets in exchange for staying in their homes for free, for…

A Virginia family in Washington, D.C., got an image for the ages when former President Barack Obama accidentally photobombed a shot of their two children next to the area’s treasured cherry blossom trees, prompting the former commander-in-chief to apologize on social media.  Obama was seen accidentally strolling into the background of a professional photograph of…

Several Columbia University students have chained themselves to a gate to protest Mahmoud Khalil’s detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The students began protesting outside Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel on Wednesday afternoon, demanding that the institution release the names of the trustees “who gave Mahmoud Khalil’s name to ICE.” The Columbia Palestine Solidarity…

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here’s what’s happening… -Dozens arrested in major border state bust targeting bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang -Bitter House GOP divisions erupt after Johnson shuts down votes over Republican mutiny -FBI flooded with record number…

The San Diego Padres signed star outfielder Jackson Merrill to a nine-year contract extension Wednesday reportedly worth $135 million. Merrill, 21, last year  finished second in the National League Rookie of the Year race and ninth in the NL MVP race and was named to the NL All-Star team.  Merrill’s nine-year contract runs from 2026-2034….

“The View” co-host Joy Behar said Wednesday that there could be “backlash” against the Republican Party as the Trump Justice Department has ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “He’s very popular, this guy, there could be a backlash,” she said. “All I’m…

Education Secretary Linda McMahon gave unexpected remarks in the spirit of nonpartisanship at the House Democrats’ press conference on Wednesday, but she did not answer when pressed on the timing of the DOE shutting its doors. McMahon stopped by the Democrats’ press conference outside the building for the Department of Education, which she has promised…

Senate Democrats signaled more challenges to President Donald Trump’s emergency declarations at a press conference ahead of a forced floor vote to undo his tariffs against Canada.  “One at a time,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told reporters on Wednesday when asked if we would also be introducing a privileged resolution canceling Trump’s emergency declaration in…

The Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the president’s authority to protect the nation is under siege from lower court rulings, using a final brief in a high-stakes deportation case to accuse federal judges of imperiling the executive branch’s core powers. In the filing – the last before justices are slated to…

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is ending the Biden-era practice of offering a third gender option on its forms, with a Homeland Security official declaring there “are only two sexes — male and female.”  The agency announced Wednesday that it is “updating the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify that it only recognizes two biological sexes.” …