Published on 09/04/2026 – 11:59 GMT+2 On one side sits Premier Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party, aligned with the conservative Patriots for Europe group. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On the other side sits his challenger Péter Magyar and his Tisza party, embraced by the mainstream centre-right European People’s Party. If they shared a flight to Belgium, their views on Brussels could not be more different. Orbán fights EU influence to protect national sovereignty. Magyar wants to repair the relationship but avoids appearing to take orders from the EU, deliberately keeping his distance from leaders like European Commission President Ursula von…

People are increasingly travelling with their eyes, putting the focus on finding the most beautiful (and photogenic) places around. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Not so us. We travel with our stomachs in mind, looking for delicious experiences that mean a single bite of a certain dish will forever transport us back to a beloved travel memory. Europe is known for its fantastic food – just last year, Italian cuisine was added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list – but it can be difficult to identify the true culinary big hitters in a crowded field of fantastic options. Thankfully, the experts at Food…

Abbott Elementary blindsided viewers with a shocking split. During the Wednesday, April 8, episode of the hit ABC series, Gregory (Tyler James Williams) and Janine (Quinta Brunson) argued over plans for an upcoming couples’ trip. Janine then broached the subject of a break up and while their decision wasn’t seen, Brunson confirmed off screen that the fictional couple have parted ways. “No one saw it coming. I think that’s a great time to throw a stone at the settled earth. It was something I thought about from the beginning of this season,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “They’ve been in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Top House lawmakers are pressing Treasury and the IRS to investigate U.S. tax-exempt nonprofits allegedly co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party to interfere in American elections and politics.The nonprofits are called “hometown” organizations, formed by immigrants from the same towns or provinces in China to welcome new immigrants, organize parades and help members maintain social and cultural ties.In recent years, the FBI investigated and raided the offices of the American Changle Association in New York City, alleging it housed an illegal “secret police station” run by China’s Ministry of Public Security. Two…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump blasted former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday after Republican Clay Fuller won the special election runoff on Tuesday to fill Greene’s old seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.”Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown’s (GREEN TURNS TO BROWN UNDER STRESS!) seat in Congress has been taken over by a wonderful and talented man, Clay Fuller, who won convincingly, and right from the beginning, despite many people running for that ‘TRUMP’ +37 seat, and despite the stench left by Greene,” Trump declared in a Wednesday Truth Social post.”Congratulations to Clay Fuller, a very…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bryson DeChambeau is putting together a solid season at LIV Golf, and is looking to carry some of that momentum into the Masters this week in search of the first green jacket of his career.DeChambeau is second in the LIV Golf standings behind Jon Rahm. But he enters Augusta National with back-to-back wins in Singapore and South Africa. As he heads into the first major of the golf season, DeChambeau is carrying something new in his bag. He will use a 5-iron made with a 3D printer. It’s a club he built…

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife announced Thursday. Its change of status from “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) underscores the existential threat to ice-dependent species as global warming profoundly reshapes the frozen continent. Emperor penguins rely on sea ice to live, hunt and breed. The early break-up and loss of these platforms of frozen ocean water has caused their numbers to plummet.The IUCN — a global network of scientists, governments and conservation…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 9, 2026 and it’s time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours:  Good morning, Broadway fans! Get ready for your daily dose of theater excitement as we bring you highlights from yesterday on BroadwayWorld. Last night, the cast of Cats dazzled on the yellow carpet as “The Jellicle Ball” made its grand opening on Broadway, and you won’t want to miss their stunning fashion choices (view photos here). Meanwhile, on opening night of “Becky Shaw,” the atmosphere was electric at the Hayes…

George Clooney has clapped back at President Donald Trump and the White House for mocking his acting ability amid the war in Iran. “Families are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge,” Clooney, 64, told Us Weekly in a Wednesday, April 8, statement. “This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling.” Earlier this week, Clooney told Italian high school students that Trump, 79, committed a war crime by threatening that “a whole civilization [would] die” in Iran unless a dispute over the opening…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of killing a young woman on a North Carolina light-rail train has been deemed incompetent to stand trial in his state case following a mental evaluation, according to newly released court documents. Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is charged in the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska, 23, while aboard the light-rail Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte on Aug. 22, 2025. However, a report stemming from Brown’s time as a patient at Central Regional Hospital determined he was “incapable to proceed” in his upcoming state criminal trial, according to court documents…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The son of a former top-level Iranian official, who acted as the spokesperson for hostage takers occupying Tehran’s U.S. Embassy in 1979, is yet another relative of Iran’s hard-lined Islamist regime caught living a comfortable and affluent Western lifestyle in Los Angeles. Petitioners have been calling for Eissa Hashemi, 43, to be investigated and deported, arguing it is unfair for the relatives of these Iranian leaders to enjoy the freedom and privileges afforded to people in the West, and more particularly in the United States, while their government in Iran continues to oppress…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves got into a frenzied fight on Tuesday night.The incident occurred in the bottom of the fifth inning with one out and a runner on first base. Angels slugger Jorge Soler was at the plate facing off against Braves pitcher Reynaldo López. López threw a pitch high and inside. The ball went over Jonah Heim’s glove, caromed off the backstop and Heim was able to recover the ball and fire it to second base to try to get the runner stealing second base. The throw was…

BURBANK, Calif. () — A civil trial is underway over an Los Angeles police officer’s fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in a Burlington store in North Hollywood.Lawyers delivered opening statements Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in Burbank in a case centered on the death of Valentina Orellana-Peralta. The girl’s family is suing for wrongful death.Orellana-Peralta was shopping for Christmas clothes with her mother at a Burlington store in North Hollywood on Dec. 23, 2021, when she was struck by a bullet that had gone through the dressing room wall.Police were responding to calls for help after a man…

Symphony Space has teamed with OBIE Award-winning theater company Waterwell for an evening of Stories from the City of Immigrants, Monday, April 20, at 7pm at Symphony Space. Presented in collaboration with the New York Immigration Coalition as part of their NY Proud campaign, the event features a thrilling lineup of actors performing stories that bring to life the vital role immigrants play in New York City’s past, present, and future. Poignant, funny, and surprising, these stories span 125 years and many countries of origin, creating a visceral experience of the epic journeys so many have taken to make NYC…

The EU is investing €115 million, under AGILE, into AI, drones, robotics, quantum, and cybersecurity. The science in Europe is world-class. The problem is deployment, Europe cannot weaponise its breakthroughs at speed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This is the blunt conclusion of new BCG research with General Lavigne, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. The debate is no longer about innovation, it’s about deployment. “The Europeans have by far the most advanced publication and fundamental research, but the US, for the same technologies are much more advanced when it comes to patents and then obviously also to deployment,” says Nikolaus Lang, senior…