A tornado touchdown has been reported in Lena, Illinois, about 48 miles west of Rockford, part of a massive storm system that is barreling toward Chicago Friday afternoon.A tornado warning was issued for Lena at 4:45 p.m. CT, the National Weather Service said. Video from a livestream in Lena shows the massive, rotating storm descending on the town.There is extensive damage in the storm’s wake, according to public officials. The Stephenson County Sheriff’s Office posted on social media, asking people to avoid going to Lena at all. “There is no way to get into town due to trees and wires down,”…

Sepideh Moafi has been garnering acclaim for her role as Dr. Al-Hashimi in season two of the hit television series, The Pitt. But with the finale of the second season having debuted on Thursday, the stage veteran is returning to her theater roots in off-Broadway’s New Born. “It’s a new play that explores three different characters through monologues,” previewed Moafi during a visit to TODAY. “[It] will take you on a wild roller coaster ride and explore the full spectrum of what it means to be alive…. It’s a homecoming for me because I started on stage and that’s where…

The ongoing drama between Alix Earle and Alex Cooper was rooted in an “ego-driven” conflict that ultimately led to their very public feud, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “It was not one isolated incident that led to the feud. There were multiple occasions where Alex made Alix feel uncomfortable,” the insider explains. “Alix felt ‘mean girl energy’ from [Alex] especially after they did the podcast together and didn’t think Alex had her best interests at heart.” The “Hot Mess With Alix Earle” podcast officially joined Cooper’s Unwell Network in September 2023, but their distribution partnership ended abruptly in February…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chaotic video shows the moment hordes of young street racers descended upon a Georgia intersection in the middle of the night last weekend, wreaking havoc and disturbing neighbors in the latest illegal “takeover” plaguing communities across the country. Officers with the Atlanta Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of James Jackson Parkway and Bolton Road around 1:30 a.m. Sunday over reports of street racers “driving recklessly, blocking the roadway from citizen motorists, laying drag and performing illegal drifting maneuvers, also known as ‘donuts,’” authorities said in a statement. Upon arriving on scene, officers…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will read from 2 Chronicles 7 during a nationwide Bible-reading event this week, a passage organizers say was deliberately reserved for the president because of its decades-long role as a call to prayer in America.Trump is set to read 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the Oval Office as part of “America Reads the Bible,” a weeklong event marking 250 years of the Bible in America and featuring nearly 500 participants reading Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.Organizers said Trump’s section was not assigned at random.The event’s online schedule…

Meta is preparing to cut thousands of jobs as early as next month, with deeper layoffs expected later this year, according to a report. The tech giant intends to slash roughly 10% of its global workforce — or nearly 8,000 employees — in an initial round of cuts on May 20, sources told Reuters.The company is also planning additional layoffs in the second half of the year, though details including timing and scope remain unclear, the outlet reported. The report follows earlier Reuters reporting that Meta was weighing cuts that could affect at least 20% of its workforce as it…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! WNBA star Angel Reese spoke out about her recent departure from the Chicago Sky during her first news conference with the Atlanta Dream on Friday after she was traded from Chicago to Atlanta earlier this month.”I’m always gonna be grateful for that because I did experience a lot of great things,” Reese said Friday of her time in Chicago. “I enjoyed being able to grow within my first two years, but I wanted more. I love to win, I love to compete and I wanted to be surrounded by people that can…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An international fugitive was arrested in Dubai this week following a years-long manhunt.Daniel Kinahan, the alleged leader of one of Ireland’s biggest criminal gangs, the Kinahan cartel, was arrested on organized crime charges on Wednesday in a covert operation involving Irish and United Arab Emirates authorities.The 48-year-old alleged crime boss is expected to face charges in Ireland related to a gangland feud between the Kinahan cartel and the Hutch gang that has left 18 people dead since 2015.Dubai police didn’t name Kinahan, saying they had “arrested an Irish fugitive for his alleged…

The bot slam dunks your junk.  Parcels are arriving in pieces with Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered delivery drones. The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air, rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing.  And it’s enough to make even the most AI-obsessed human crash out in fury.  To determine the drone’s ability to handle fragile items with care, Hancock ordered a liquid container of syrup to be delivered by the bot. YouTube / @Teaching_MrsH “I tried ordering a breakable item by drone — it didn’t go well,” Tamara Hancock, an Amazon subscriber from Arizona, captioned YouTube…

LOS ANGELES — The Rams’ 2026 NFL draft rollout continued on Friday when the team released a short film titled “Thursday.”The film is a parody of the 1995 comedy “Friday” starring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, who played Craig and Smokey, respectively.In “Thursday,” the Rams pay homage to the original film by using the titular theme song by Ice Cube and reenacting several standout scenes.Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and Tucker’s son, Destin Tucker, are the main characters in “Thursday,” as a tribute to their father’s roles.Actor Terry Crews makes a cameo in the short film as a parody…

The cast of Broadway’s Ragtime visited WNYC on Friday for a special appearance as part of the Broadway On The Radio series. Hosted by Alison Stewart in The Greene Space at WNYC, the event featured performances from the cast of the ongoing revival. Watch the hour-long event, with cast members Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, and Shaina Taub singing a collection of musical numbers from the show. The cast was joined by director Lear deBessonet, who spoke about bringing the musical back to the stage.  The Broadway revival of Ragtime runs through August 2 and currently stars Joshua Henry,…

Late Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon has been accused of grooming a teenager years before his March death at age 54. “When I heard the news that he died, I cried out of pure relief,” the alleged victim, now 30, told Page Six in an interview published on Friday, April 17. The woman — identified in the report as Jane Doe 1 — alleged that she met Brendon at a Washington, D.C. fan convention when she was 17 in April 2013. Jane Doe 1 asked for Brendon’s help getting into acting before they allegedly started exchanging “flirty” text…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant accused of driving under the influence and killing two young boys in South Carolina is now the subject of an immigration detainer, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday.Eri Otoniel Roblero Perez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, allegedly veered off a road and hit Dereon James Robinson, 12, and Mikhail-Lee Smith, 9, who were riding their bikes on a sidewalk, FOX Carolina reported.Both died at a hospital.Perez was charged with two counts of felony DUI resulting in death, driving with an open container and driving without a license.ICE LODGES…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said the first releases from a Pentagon study on UFOs will come out “very, very soon.”Speaking at a rally at Dream City Church in north Phoenix on Friday night hosted by Turning Point USA and Turning Action, Trump told the audience they seemed like the right crowd to hear about the study because Arizonans are “really into that.”The comments come as interest in unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, continues to grow in Washington, with lawmakers pushing for greater transparency and the Department of Defense expanding efforts to investigate unexplained…

A Kansas-based restaurant group with several steak and seafood locations in Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Virginia, Nebraska and Iowa, has filed for bankruptcy. 801 Restaurant Group LLC filed for Chapter 11 reorganization last Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Kansas, the company confirmed to Fox Business.The business owns several companies that operate restaurants as 801 Chophouse, 801 Fish and 801 Local. RISING FUEL COSTS THREATEN SPIRIT AIRLINES’ BANKRUPTCY EXIT PLAN: REPORTS “The companies that own and operate the restaurants are not in bankruptcy, and there are no plans or need for them to file bankruptcy,” 810 Restaurant Group said in…