NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck Saudi Arabia with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones Tuesday, hitting multiple energy targets, including the facilities of the world’s largest oil company.The attacks on Aramco, the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia that produces 10 million barrels of oil per day, threaten to tighten pressure on a second critical oil route as the Middle East war continues to restrict shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.Aramco notably supplies roughly 10% of the world’s total oil demand. And attacks on its facilities raise the risk of higher oil,…

Hunter Biden is teasing the launch of a cryptocurrency meme coin inspired by his notorious laptop as his next business venture. “$LAPTOP September 9,” Biden wrote Monday on X, sharing a video of media reports referencing infamous computer that was left at a Delaware repair shop before its contents were released in an October surprise during the 2020 presidential election.$LAPTOP will launch Wednesday on the Base ledger under Coinbase Global, sources told The Wall Street Journal. HUNTER BIDEN ART SALES DRAW SCRUTINY FROM GOP LAWMAKERS Biden teased his latest financial foray back in June in an X post, where he…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Carolina’s Jonathon Brooks missed his third straight practice with “general soreness,” but Panthers coach Dave Canales remains hopeful the team’s young running back will be ready for Sunday’s season opener against the Chicago Bears.Brooks spent time working on the side with trainers Monday while his teammates went through a short, non-padded practice.”We have to just keep taking it one day at a time,” Canales said. “He ran out there today. We’ll see (where he is) and compare it to what he looked like before and we’ll go from there.”Canales said last week…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United Kingdom unveiled sweeping new measures targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, triggering an immediate diplomatic rupture with Israel and a sharp warning from a senior Trump administration official.Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Tuesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval, that Israel would close the British Consulate in Jerusalem and impose a series of countermeasures in response to the U.K. sanctions.The Israeli measures also include removing British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat, ending British activities training Palestinian Authority forces in the West…

The 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) could push Social Security benefits to a record high for married seniors. Per the Senior Citizens League, the projected COLA for 2027 is 3.6%, 0.8 percentage points higher than this year’s 2.8% and a figure that would raise the average retirement benefit to $2,161 a month. In turn, it’ll increase the spousal benefit to $1,080. Not too shabby for retirees. Roughly 2 million people receive spousal benefits, which average $986 a month, and the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment could push that figure beyond the $1,000 a month mark. As COLA is a percentage of the current…

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of air quality records from the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, shedding new light on what officials knew about toxic conditions around Ground Zero while publicly assuring residents and rescue workers that the air was safe to breathe.The records, which include air quality reports, contamination data and correspondence among city officials, are now available through a public portal as the city prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks.Click here to view the 9/11 records portal.The documents were stored…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 13:44 GMT+2•Updated 13:54 Iceland’s government has lodged a formal protest with the United States after Donald Trump shared a social media map appearing to fold the country into US territory. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to a ministry statement, Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir called in the US ambassador to deliver a firm objection, telling the envoy the map was simply not acceptable. The image, posted Monday, showed a redrawn North America with Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Iceland all shaded in stars and stripes and captioned as a single “United States of America” — with no caption or…

Game of Thrones alum Maisie Williams is addressing whether she’d reprise her role as Arya Stark. In a Sunday, September 6, interview with the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, Williams, 29, said she was aware of reports that HBO is developing a project centered around her character. “I saw that, too! I was like, ‘Huh?’” she noted. However, as for whether the project would entice her to revisit Arya, Williams said, “I don’t know, really. She would have to be developed in some way because I feel like I’ve changed so much, and I feel like what people loved about Arya is…

Schmigadoon!, which was originally scheduled to run on Broadway through Sunday, January 3, 2027 has now been extended, through Sunday, April 4, 2027, adding 13 more weeks of performances. Schmigadoon! opened on Broadway on Monday, April 20 and is currently on sale through Sunday, April 4, 2027 at The Nederlander Theatre. The most Tony Award-nominated new musical of the season, Schmigadoon! won four Tony Awards including “Best Musical,” “Best Book of a Musical,” “Best Original Score,” and “Best Orchestrations.” The production was also named “Outstanding New Musical” by the Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Dorian Theater Awards. At…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Pennsylvania priest is facing charges after prosecutors say he stole more than $740,000 from churches, church affiliates – and his own mother.Gregory Allen Madeya, 69, was arrested last month in Vero Beach, Florida and was later extradited back to Pennsylvania.Investigators say he is a former Ukrainian Catholic priest whose crimes started back in 2018. MINNESOTA NONPROFIT ACCUSED OF SIPHONING $6.5M TO FUND VEGAS TRIPS, LUXURY CARS, PRIVATE LIQUOR STOREHe served at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Derry Township, according to the Latrobe Bulletin.MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump honored deceased volunteer firefighter Welles Crowther – also known as the “man in the red bandana” – with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. Speaking during Tunnel to Towers’ “Steel Across America” event in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, President Donald Trump praised Crowther, whose actions during 9/11 saved up to 18 people’s lives, sparking nationwide admiration and a series of documentary features on his bravery. “Today we also remember another hero of 9/11. After the plane hit the south tower, a group of people on the 78th floor were trapped…

Retail footwear veteran Genesco Inc. is shuttering more than two dozen underperforming stores as part of a broader push to reduce its physical footprint, cut overhead and boost overall profitability. The Nashville-based parent company of Journeys, Johnston & Murphy and U.K.-based Schuh closed 25 retail stores during its second quarter of fiscal 2027. With three new openings, the net reduction brought its total store fleet down to 1,186 – a 5% drop in total retail space from the same period last year. The quarterly cuts were led by teen retailer Journeys, Schuh and Johnston & Murphy, with 17, six and two…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Shohei Ohtani was back in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup as designated hitter on Monday night after a four-day break to deal with lingering left knee, right biceps and neck soreness.He was in his usual leadoff spot for the series opener against the Cincinnati Reds.”Hopefully, we don’t see that wincing we saw a handful of nights ago,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game, referring to Ohtani appearing physically compromised at the plate before his break.”I don’t want to say it’s day-to-day, but I am very curious to see how he comes…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A supermarket manager in Mexico leapt to action Sunday, diving into the road to save a 3-year-old girl from oncoming traffic, security footage shows.Luis Cruz, a manager at the Super King El Rey del Ahorro grocery store, sprinted after the girl who had wandered into the busy road and grabbed her while diving to the ground moments before she would have been hit by a silver minivan.The girl had run out of the Puebla, Mexico, supermarket around 2 p.m. local time after slipping out of her mother’s grip, according to Mexican news…

Three Bear Stearns bankers walk into a fashionable downtown bar. Twenty years ago, that might have been the start of a joke — or everyone else’s cue to leave. Today, the joke’s on the rest of us. Private equity guys get the nod at hard-to-crack haunts like Zero Bond and People’s. They sit at Bar Oliver in Chinatown, where they trade knowing nods and showy fist-bumps with Dua Lipa and Joe Jonas. You’ll see them crammed into invite-only short story readings with actress Jemima Kirke and socialite Carole Radziwill. On Paris runways, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent leaned hard…