California’s High-Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missed key deadlines to buy its trains, a failure federal officials cited when they pulled $4 billion in funding a year ago. More than a year and a half after the original deadline, the authority still cannot say when it expects to award the contract. The state says that the date remains “TBD.” Approved by voters in 2008, the project was originally designed to link San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours with electric trains capable of reaching 220 mph. There’s no direct line between the two major cities, and the ride now…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Twenty-eight children from across Israel who lost a parent killed while serving in the country’s security forces participated in a three-week delegation to North America as part of the IDF Widows & Orphans Organization’s annual Bar/Bat Mitzvah program.The journey began earlier this month in Chicago, where the children spent a weekend with host families before traveling to Camp Chi in Wisconsin for nearly a week of activities with American kids. They then continued to New York City, where they visited Times Square and saw The Lion King on Broadway, before heading to…

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Applications will open Saturday for three new Bachelor of Arts degree programs that UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture will launch in fall 2027 in computational art, design and games.The new majors will be housed in the university’s Department of Design Media Arts (DMA), which has offered a single undergraduate degree in Design Media Arts since it was established more than 25 years ago, according to UCLA.”DMA was built on the belief that artists and designers should help shape the emerging digital world rather than simply respond to it,” Casey Reas, chair of the…

By&nbspGael Camba&nbsp&&nbspAFP Published on 02/08/2026 – 7:55 GMT+2•Updated 7:55 An explosion Saturday at a Moscow restaurant that killed three people and wounded 21 others was a bombing, Russia’s national anti-terrorism committee said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “A homemade explosive device blew up at a restaurant in Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, killing three people,” said the committee, quoted by the Tass state news agency. The three people killed were a woman carrying the device into the restaurant, a security agent who stopped her and a customer. Telegram channel Baza, known for its ties with Russian security forces, first talked about a gas explosion…

Nicki Minaj tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic following his tense appearance before a U.S. Senate committee last week. “Feeding tubes will be his portion,” Minaj, 43, tweeted on Thursday, July 30. “He will lose the ability to speak & then & only then will he feel the collective pain & long term ramifications he caused to new borns, young children who are still trying to become acclimated into society & schools, traumatized pregnant women who couldn’t even have family in the delivery rooms & visits, the elderly who died alone & afraid, young…

Several people were killed in a shooting Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, local authorities said. The situation unfolded before 2:30 p.m. local time. Social media video obtained by CBS News showed people fleeing a shopping center parking lot as multiple gunshots are heard. In the video, a person carrying what appeared to be a firearm could be seen outside the restaurant opening the doors to a parked sedan. In a news conference Saturday night, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks told reporters that there were fatalities, but he could not confirm an exact number. Joshua Palmer, a…

Published on 02/08/2026 – 10:21 GMT+2 Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union’s sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The goal? To make sure Europeans immediately know whether the online content they see is real or fake. The EU’s comprehensive AI law enters into force in stages. From Sunday, companies must ensure their AI systems like chatbots make it clear to users they are AI, or when an image or text has been created using AI, there must be a label saying so. This can be done by integrating watermarks…

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is crediting his mystery wife, Brittani, for his recent family reunion. “There’s been a lot of conversation about it outside of my own conversations for so many years,” Rodgers, 42, told NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt on Saturday, August 1, of his decision to reconnect with his previously estranged family members. “You know, a big part of it was getting married and having those conversations with my wife that allowed me to kind of open up to the possibility of coming together — it’s been a couple-year process now, the conversations with [my family].” Rodgers, who…

Just when you thought fast food menu hacks couldn’t get any weirder, TikTok has delivered a combo that has left millions of fast-food lovers utterly divided. A viral video posted by popular food creator @theangelfoodie shows her taking a standard, golden McDonald’s triple cheeseburger and dipping it directly into a cup of ice-cold Coca-Cola before taking a bite. The video — which has racked up thousands of views and triggered heated arguments across social media — shows the soft burger bun absorbing the fizzy soda before being consumed without hesitation. The video captioned, “Don’t knock it til you try it.”…

Sunday, August 2, 2026 2:34AMA woman in her 20s was shot by a man in his 50s in Van Nuys and the suspect remains at large, authorities said.VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A woman in her 20s was shot by a man in his 50s in Van Nuys on Saturday, and the suspect remains at large, authorities said.Officers were dispatched at 12:13 a.m. Saturday to a report of a shooting in the 8100 block of Langdon Avenue, near Roscoe Boulevard and the 405 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Paramedics rushed the woman to a hospital, where…

Published on 02/08/2026 – 9:15 GMT+2 A light aircraft carrying tourists to view Peru’s Nazca Lines crashed on Saturday, killing all 13 people on board, according to authorities and local media. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Cessna Caravan C-208 involved in the incident, operated by Peruvian airline Aerodiana, had taken off at around 12:10 pm local time on Saturday from Pisco airport for a sightseeing flight over the world-famous geoglyphs. “At approximately 1 pm, when the aircraft was flying near the town of Socos, the crew reported an emergency to the Nazca airfield control tower, after which all radio contact was lost,”…

The Sopranos alum Vincent Pastore has died. He was 80. Pastore was found dead in his City Island residence in the Bronx on Saturday, August 1, by a neighbor, per Page Six. The outlet reported that police suspect Pastore died from natural causes. “I had the privilege of representing Vinny for more than 30 years, long before The Sopranos made him a household name,” his manager, Robert Attermann, told Page Six on Saturday, confirming the actor’s death. “To the world, he will always be remembered as the unforgettable ‘Big Pussy,’ but to those of us who knew him, he was…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the body camera footage of a woman confessing to hiding her newborn baby in a hospital trash can in an attempt to conceal her pregnancy cannot be used by prosecutors in her murder case because of doctor-patient confidentiality.Alexee Trevizo, who was 19 when she was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in 2023, was captured on police body camera admitting to hospital staff and her mother that she dumped the baby boy in the trash after workers reported the incident to…

Nearly 23,000 pounds of Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products are being recalled over concerns they may be contaminated with metal slivers, federal regulators said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said the recalled products were sold in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia, as well as through Department of War commissaries and online sales.According to FSIS, the products may be contaminated with a foreign material, specifically metal slivers. The recall was initiated after a customer found a piece of metal in one of the products. FROZEN BURRITOS SOLD AT COSTCO PROMPT…

DEAR ABBY: After a nearly 20-year marriage, my first husband, “Lloyd,” told me his feelings for me had changed. He said we needed “some time apart,” but he didn’t want a divorce. He immediately went to a lawyer and executed a financial settlement for me, still insisting he wasn’t going to file for divorce. Six weeks later, I bought a house and moved. Two weeks later, Lloyd’s son told me my husband moved a woman in with him two days after I moved out. Obviously, we divorced. In time, I remarried and was very happy for 13 years until my…