NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israeli authorities arrested a 22-year-old Haifa resident for his involvement in an Iranian-backed plot to assassinate a high-ranking Israeli official, with the intended target believed to be former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, reports say.Ami Gaydarov, 22, was arrested last month on suspicion that he was working with an Iranian agent to gather intelligence and build a bomb for use in a terror plot against a high-ranking Israeli official. Gaydarov was unaware of the target’s identity. A gag order on his arrest was recently lifted, allowing Israeli media outlets to report on the…

The Portuguese man o’ war has been making its presence known on beaches from Texas to Florida, as reported by Fox Weather. The small but dangerous sea creature — which is known for its long tentacles and polyps that extend up to 100 feet, according to AL.com, and can deliver a painful sting even weeks after they’ve washed ashore — has also been seen on Fort Morgan, Alabama, beaches, where meteorologist Caroline Carithers took a photo of one. Carithers has been seeing them wash up “all week,” according to News WKRG5. The man o’war is typically found in subtropical seas…

SAN FRANCISCO — A father in Palo Alto, California, who has filed multiple lawsuits against major university systems over his son’s college rejections, says artificial intelligence has become the key to pursuing the cases after no law firm agreed to represent them.The legal fight stems from a 2023 story by our sister station 7 News in San Francisco about Stanley Zhong, a then 18-year-old Gunn High School student with a 4.4 GPA and a near-perfect 1590 SAT score who was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite the rejections, he was later hired as a…

Jellicle cats came out Tuesday night to celebrate the arrival of CATS: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway. This revival is not your grandmother’s Cats. This reimagined version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical smashed records, won awards, and left New York City purring. Now CATS: The Jellicle Ball ascends to Broadway in a kaleidoscope of glittering spectacle, iconic music, and electrifying ballroom choreography. Why is it a show worth seeing this Broadway season? The cast has some opinions… “Because of everything that we’re going through and how they’re trying to villainize trans and queer people, there’s so many nuances to us,” explained…

The Housemaid author Freida McFadden has been hiding her true identity for years, but apparently her famous wig wasn’t meant to be part of her disguise. When the bestselling writer, 45, recently revealed her real name, she also explained that the reason she hides her hair is not quite as interesting as many of her fans believed. “I have no idea how to style my hair,” she explained in an interview with USA Today published on Wednesday, April 8. “It’s so much more boring than anything that happens in my books.” McFadden rose to fame after her thriller The Housemaid,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida woman who posed as a nurse and treated more than 4,400 patients without a license was sentenced this week to probation and community service after pleading no contest, avoiding jail time in a case authorities once called deeply disturbing.The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that 29-year-old Autumn Bardisa, of Palm Coast, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday to unlicensed practice of healthcare and fraudulent use of identification.Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols withheld adjudication and sentenced Bardisa to five years of probation and 50 hours of community service as part of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is facing increased scrutiny over allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with female staffers and other women, as several rivals take swipes at him ahead of the state’s June gubernatorial primary election.”I’m very disappointed in Eric Swalwell,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said on social media Wednesday. “As more and more women come forward with sexual harassment allegations, Swalwell skipped town to avoid facing tough questions about these allegations.””If Swalwell wants voters to trust him, he needs to show up, stop hiding behind his campaign staff…

This story about the February 2026 PCE inflation is developing and will be updated with more details. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge remained stubbornly high in February as consumers continued to face elevated price growth.The Commerce Department on Thursday reported that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 0.4% on a monthly basis in February and is up 2.8% from a year ago. Both figures were in-line with the expectations of economists polled by LSEG. Core PCE, which excludes volatile measurements of food and energy prices, was up 0.4% from a month ago and increased 3% year over year. Both figures…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Packy Naughton cannot catch a break.Naughton, 29, was pitching in the Cardinals’ Triple-A affiliate on Wednesday attempting an MLB comeback when he appeared to sustain another arm injury just three pitches into his latest outing.Naughton fired a 1-1 pitch well wide of the strike zone and immediately grabbed his left elbow. He took a couple of paces toward home plate before bending over in pain. He eventually walked off with a trainer while holding his left arm. “That’s never a good sign,” Charlotte Knights announcer Matt Swierad said…

A Melbourne couple poured their life savings into an idea – an idea so unique, even they had doubts it would take off. Hospitality duo Danny Kane and Rebecca Grey are behind Australian-born brand Aquafab – a super niche product that acts as a cocktail foamer. Instead of using eggs in beverages like whiskey sours and amarettos, Danny and Rebecca came up with a hassle-free alternative. They created the world-first egg-free cocktail foamer as a viable replacement for raw egg whites. The plant-based natural foaming solution is made from faba beans to help give it a silky, stable foam. The pair developed…

While tax filing extensions are often positioned as a simple fallback, they’re not always the right move. Muhammad Aqib/Getty Images The tax filing season is reaching its peak, and for many taxpayers, the pressure to meet this year’s April deadline is colliding with incomplete paperwork, shifting income totals and lingering questions about what’s actually owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Even those who planned ahead may find themselves waiting on key tax documents or trying to reconcile unexpected financial changes from the past year, though, impacting their filing timelines.At the same time, the broader financial environment isn’t making things…

Tituss Burgess (Emmy Award nominee, Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Broadway’s The Little Mermaid), Kyle Dean Massey (Broadway’s Pippin, Wicked), and Jasmine Amy Rogers (Tony Award nominee, Broadway’s BOOP! The Musical) will now join The New York Pops, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, to honor Grammy, Academy, and Tony Award winning composer Stephen Schwartz at the orchestra’s 43rd Birthday Gala, Changed for Good: A Celebration of Stephen Schwartz, on Monday, April 27, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.  Tituss Burgess, Kyle Dean Massey, and Jasmine Amy Rogers join previously announced guest…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Five people have been arrested as part of an alleged multi-million dollar hospice fraud scheme in California, officials said Thursday.California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the ring defrauded the state of more than $267 million through fraudulent billing to Medi-Cal, the state-administered Medicaid program. In total, 21 people have been charged.The arrests were part of a state investigation dubbed “Operation Skip Trace,” which targeted locations in Southern California. “This criminal scheme, this criminal operation, was no accident,” Bonta told reporters at a news conference to announce the arrests. “It wasn’t a case…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday rejected Anthropic’s request to block the Department of War from blacklisting use of the AI company’s technology, a move that conflicts with an order a different federal court issued last month in a separate lawsuit regarding the same issues.”In our view, the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government. On one side is a relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company. On the other side is judicial management of how, and through whom,…