Published on 07/09/2026 – 8:30 GMT+2•Updated 8:58 Alternative for Germany’s dominant showing in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election has triggered starkly divided reactions across the continent, exposing the widening fault line between Europe’s establishment centre and its emboldened populist right. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin. That was far ahead of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union, which polled 17.2% — losing about half its support — and won 15 seats. The center-left Social Democrats polled 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left Party…

Adam22 and wife Lena the Plug have split two months after the adult film star claimed that a divorce filing earlier this summer was a hoax. “I would like to formally announce that my wife and I are officially separated,” Adam, 42, said on his “No Jumper” podcast on Monday, September 7. “We have ran into some issues and at this time, we have decided to put our relationship on ice for a period of time.” The YouTuber (real name Adam John Grandmaison) continued, “Will we end up back together? There is certainly a possibility.” Adam admitted that he and…

Denee is a Critics Choice and Tony Award-nominated actress celebrated for her dynamic and commanding performances across screen and stage. She currently stars as Peggy Scott in HBO’s critically acclaimed, Emmy and SAG-nominated series “The Gilded Age,” now in production for its fourth season. Benton received a Critics Choice Award nomination for Supporting Actress for her work on the series, and the internet has dubbed her character Peggy “the people’s princess” for her quiet resilience and trailblazing spirit. Benton’s recent film credits include starring roles in Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares, which premiered to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles on Tuesday, after U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Ukraine’s capital as part of an effort to resume stalled peace negotiations.Ukrainian officials said the attack involved ballistic and cruise missiles, according to CNN, and residential buildings in two districts of the city sustained damage as people were urged to remain indoors.Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said people were trapped inside a residential building after the attacks.RUSSIA LAUNCHES BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK ON KYIV HOURS AFTER ZELENSKYY WARNS OF MAJOR STRIKE The attacks, which caused fires across…

BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES () — Los Angeles police officers opened fire on a person they say was armed with a pruning pole with a blade on the end in Boyle Heights Monday.The incident was reported just before 10 a.m. in the 600 block of Gillette Street, between Bridge Street and Prospect Park, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspect’s family had called 911 to report the man’s behavior.LAPD said the dispatch call went out as a mental health incident involving a man armed with a metal pipe. Police said responding officers found the man armed with a…

No alternative: With voters turning out in droves, preliminary end results from Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt ballot show the AfD securing 43.8% of the vote, representing 39 seats of the 83-member state parliament. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Although this is short of an outright majority, with the official results expected Monday night, it is already being interpreted as a major loss for Merz’ centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party. This is a party that has led the region of Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years, but only scraped through 17.2% of the votes. Nothing short of a disaster: AfD co-chair Alice Weidel told CNN…

Some countries are places you simply visit; others urge you to travel through them. On foot, by bicycle, paddling across a lake, following a river downstream or heading beneath the surface of the earth. Slovenia clearly belongs to the second group. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This small country of just over 20,000 square kilometres and barely two million inhabitants concentrates an extraordinary variety of landscapes. Around 60% of its area is covered by forest and more than a third of its territory is protected or forms part of the Natura 2000 network. It is the green lung of the Balkans and also…

Katie Holmes is soaking up the sun with boyfriend Jason Bard Yarmosky. Yarmosky, 39, took to Instagram on Sunday, September 7, to share a joint post with Holmes, 47, featuring several photos from a recent boat trip in Lake Como, Italy. The carousel included a snap of the Dawson’s Creek alum sporting a sexy black halter dress with an asymmetrical, low-cut neckline. She leaned into Yarmosky, who wore a black long-sleeved tee and matching pants, as they posed on the back of the vessel. In another photo, Holmes lounged in the sun while wearing a tiny white string bikini. A…

Hurricane Lowell, now a Category 2 storm, began battering western Hawaii on Monday with powerful winds, triggering a hurricane warning for the islands of Kauai and Niihau. The National Hurricane Center also issued a tropical storm warning for the island of Oahu as Lowell approached close to land.The hurricane warning extends to parts of the vast Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which covers almost 583,000 square miles of ocean and 10 of Hawaii’s islands. Lowell is expected to pass over portions of the national monument as it travels past the island chain. Maps show Lowell’s forecast pathThe Miami-based hurricane center forecasts that…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 4:47 GMT+2 Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, as “Russian forces attacked Boryspil and Fastiv districts with drones,” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine posted on Telegram late Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russia’s state news agency TASS also confirmed earlier that the strike pause had expired. Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the three-day halt in Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv as US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were visiting the Russian and Ukrainian capitals at…

Jackson Olson and Maggie Sajak are clearing up speculation about how their relationship began. “A lot of you guys have been asking how Maggie and I met,” Olson, 28, said in an Instagram video with Sajak, 31, on Sunday, September 6. “No, it was not at Disney, believe it or not,” the Savannah Bananas player added. (Olson and Sajak hard-launched their romance via Instagram in April with a photo at Disney’s Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom in Florida.) Sharing throwback footage from the start of their relationship, Olson explained, “On October 16 of last year, we both went to a…

More than 1,500 pounds of imported ready-to-eat pork products have been recalled over concerns about possible listeria contamination. Two U.S.-based companies are issuing recalls for a total of about 1,513 pounds of dry-cured pork jowl products, also known as guanciale, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on Sunday.The recall is classified as a Class I recall, the USDA’s most serious recall classification, indicating there is a reasonable probability that consuming the products could cause serious adverse health consequences or death. Florida-based Prime Line Distributors, Inc. and New Jersey-based Ferrarini USA, Inc. recalled two products…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United Kingdom is expected to announce restrictions targeting trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, a move already drawing strong pushback Monday from U.S. and Israeli officials.According to The Times, a US State Department said Washington was “tracking the plans closely.”The measures are expected to include an embargo on goods and some services involving West Bank settlements marking an escalation in London’s pressure on Israel under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who has taken a firmer stance on the conflict, according to reports.The announcement is expected to come…

SEAL BEACH, Calif. () — Cleanup crews and residents worked all day Monday to clear debris and prepare for additional flooding after high surf breached sand berms and sent ocean water onto the boardwalk in Seal Beach over the weekend.Some neighbors were knee-deep in water in their own garages.A street cleaner made a final pass as residents prepared for another round of potential flooding predicted to begin during high surf on Monday evening.“If the surf is just as high and the tides are going to be higher, and so, we do the math, and it’s probably going to come over…

Eurostat estimates that consumer goods thrown away prematurely generate close to 35 million tonnes of waste annually across the EU. Although most discard their devices when broken, a Eurobarometer survey showed that 77 percent of Europeans would prefer repairing their appliances to replacing them. But professional repair services are often expensive, and parts are made inaccessible by the companies that provide them. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU wants to stop this cycle of premature replacements through the Right to Repair Directive and an accompanying set of Ecodesign regulations. Amongst other things, the new laws ask manufacturers to design appliances with standard…