SANTA ANA, Calif. () — With less than a week before Election Day, operations are intensifying at the Orange County Registrar of Voters, where ballots are collected and ultimately counted.During a tour of the facility, Orange County Registrar of Voters’ Bob Page outlined how ballots from vote centers and drop boxes are securely transported and processed.”This is where ballots that have been cast at our vote centers that have been open since Saturday, May 23, paper ballots, will come back here,” Page said.Page said teams responsible for collecting ballots from drop boxes use tracking and communication tools to ensure security…

Italy said on Thursday it was seizing more than €200 million in assets belonging to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro derived from drug trafficking and reinvested in Europe and beyond. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The “vast fortune” of the ruthless Cosa Nostra boss, a legendary figure finally captured in 2023 in Palermo after three decades on the run, had been amassed since the 1980s, Italy’s financial police said in a statement. Messina Denaro, head of Sicily’s Castelvetrano clan who had six life sentences to his name, died in prison a few months after his arrest at age 61. The investigation by…

Gayle King was married to ex-husband William Bumpus for 11 years before they decided to split. King has been outspoken about her ex’s past infidelity, discussing the moment she caught him cheating with a friend in June 1990. “I said, ‘I can’t believe that you are here and that you are doing this,’” King recalled during a May 2026 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, telling host Alex Cooper that she sounded “so pitiful” when confronting Bumpus and her friend. King caught them after coming home unexpectedly following a canceled flight. She was with their two kids, daughter Kirby…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX — The FBI says it has seized a record-setting $8 billion in cryptocurrency and arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an intercontinental crackdown on “scam compounds” and organized crime, including one group known as the “Democratic Karen Benevolent Army.”They have been blamed for a global wave of theft from Americans, including as much as $3 million from a single U.S. citizen who fell victim to an online scam. The FBI confiscated more than 127,000 bitcoin during the arrest of one leader, Chen Zhi, the CEO of a Cambodian enterprise…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Republicans were hit with a minor setback this week in the redistricting war when two states set to redraw maps changed course. Alabama and South Carolina were primed for new maps, but a court order and move to buck the process by state lawmakers in the Palmetto State have, for now, nixed the act. It comes as both sides of the aisle are in an arms race to redraw their maps to gain an advantage in the upcoming midterm elections. While the South Carolina legislature opted against redistricting, Republican leaders in Alabama have…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Legendary NHL star Claude Lemieux has died just days after making an appearance at Montreal’s Bell Centre ahead of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final. He was 60.Lemieux was regarded as one of the greatest pests in NHL history, but also had an uncanny ability to come up clutch in big moments. He broke into the league with the Montreal Canadiens and was part of their Stanley Cup-winning team in 1986.He won four Stanley Cups in his career and in 1995 and 1996 became the 10th player in NHL history to…

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By the age of 32, Americans plan their social calendars around their sleep schedules. That’s according to a new survey of 2,000 general population Americans, which revealed the average respondent will start prioritizing their sleep over plans with loved ones in their early thirties. But instead of just saying “no” when a plan would interfere with their shut-eye, some people will turn to creative excuses. The survey asked respondents to share the wildest excuses they’ve ever used to get out of plans, and one said, “I told someone that an alien spaceship abducted me and put me back after the…

Interest earnings on a $125,000 CD account will rise fairly quickly for savers. Tuomas Lehtinen/Tuomas A. Lehtinen/Getty Images If you’ve been able to save $125,000 in recent years or have accumulated those funds via an inheritance or real estate sale, the possibilities of what to actually do with them may seem limitless. You can make a down payment on another property, for example, or maybe buy it outright. You can invest it in stocks, bonds and alternative assets like gold and silver. Or you can simply save it in a high-interest savings account and preserve it for an emergency.In today’s…

French lawmakers were moved to tears in parliament on Thursday as France inched towards repealing outdated legislation that defines people enslaved in its colonies as “moveable goods,” in a symbolic move as the country grapples with its colonial legacy. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The French were the third largest slave traders in Europe, after the British and the Portuguese. Ships departing from French ports between the 17th and 19th centuries forcibly transported more than 1 million men, women and children from Africa into slavery, many in plantations in its overseas colonies in the Caribbean, according to expert estimates. France abolished enslaving humans…

Criminal Minds appeared to hint at a possible major cast exit ahead of season 19 — but who is expected to return so far? The official account for the hit Paramount+ series shared a photo from the set in May 2025 with the caption, “The BAU is back on the case! A new season of Criminal Minds: Evolution has officially started filming.” In the social media post, Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez, A.J. Cook, Paget Brewster and Ryan-James Hatanaka all smiled for the camera. The only main cast member missing? Zach Gilford. The first season of Criminal…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fox News’ “Antisemitism Exposed” newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:- Portnoy scorches Platner operative with punishing takedown after odd request- Democrat who called for ‘Zionists’ to be imprisoned toppled after backlash- Israeli ambassador compares France’s far-left leader’s rhetoric to HitlerTOP STORY: A federal lawsuit alleges that Jewish UCLA students were brutally beaten with sticks, pepper-sprayed, and trampled by an anti-Israel campus mob. The filing alleges university officials stood by as “Jew-free zones” were established, blocking students from classes. This searing legal challenge accuses…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Newark, N.J. – Mayor Ras Baraka’s police department was nowhere to be found as tensions rose late Wednesday outside the Delaney Hall illegal immigrant detention center. Protesters took over roles typically reserved for police, while ICE agents deployed pepper spray after a federal vehicle entered the premises and sparked chaos among the crowd.Baraka, who lost the 2025 Democratic gubernatorial primary to Gov. Mikie Sherrill, had previously been arrested outside Delaney Hall during similar mayhem last year and has been defiant in demanding state and federal officials take action to close the facility.As…

The anti-fraud task force being led by Vice President JD Vance may balance the budget and could help save Social Security, President Donald Trump said during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting at the White House. “I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it,” Trump said. “We’re going to make our Social Security so strong.”Trump stated Vance had uncovered enough fraud that it may be able to fund the program. This comes as the federal government has warned that Social Security could be depleted by the 2030s. FEDS MISTAKENLY GAVE AWAY $692M IN DUPLICATE PPP LOANS…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Logan Paul wrote on social media on Wednesday that he was awake when he underwent surgery to repair his torn triceps, which he tore during WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event.Paul also showed the scar on his left arm.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! “Tore my tricep, got surgery while wide awake, told doc I wanna feel it all,” he wrote in a post on X. “Still the Tag Team champ just FYI. They’re telling me 6 month recovery but I don’t believe them,…