The Global Update

If you’re trying to keep on a healthy path in this first full week of the New Year, you’re likely adding more fruit to your diet.  For most of us, go-to fruit selections are apples, bananas, grapes, maybe assorted berries — but there are many other fruits that you may not know about and are…

A flight passenger recently revealed in a post on X that he saved hundreds of dollars by using a rather “risky” hack. Mike Bolen, a real estate investor based in California, has garnered more than 6.2 million views on his social media page after sharing this “wild” way to buy a plane ticket. Bolen discovered…

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans are preparing to take up several measures in the new year that were denied votes by Democrats in the last Congress. The first of these is the Laken Riley Act, being reintroduced by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and teed up for a vote by the end of the week.  The…

A Republican senator was expressing his unhappiness to Susie Wiles, the incoming White House chief of staff. “I texted you three days ago,” the lawmaker said. Wiles, who ran Donald Trump’s campaign, said she got it and would respond, without sounding like she was in a rush. There’s little doubt that her phone must be…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring reports of a spike in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China. HMPV, which was discovered in 2001, is common but underdiagnosed due to its similarities to the common cold, according to the CDC. Cases of the virus in the United States are at “pre-pandemic” levels and…

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who are both in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, are refusing to sign the paperwork to accept the president’s clemency action due to…