The St. Louis Cardinals‘ rough season did not get any help from a home plate umpire Friday. With the bases loaded and one out down a run against the Chicago Cubs, Alec Burleson was called on to pinch hit. Michael Fulmer threw six straight pitches out of the zone to […]

Brazil’s petrochemical giant Braskem said Friday it had reached a $356 million settlement with a coastal city where four decades of the company’s rock salt mining destroyed five urban neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people. Around 200,000 people in the Alagoas state’s capital of Maceio were affected by […]

The FBI was able to “detect and thwart” Chinese hackers attempting to access U.S. critical infrastructure, as well as malign threats from other adversaries, under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday in a letter to Congress defending the law. Fox News Digital […]

A new lawsuit filed in Wisconsin by a national Democratic law firm seeks to once again allow voters to return absentee ballots in drop boxes, a practice that was barred by the state Supreme Court last year following criticism by former President Donald Trump. The lawsuit filed Thursday by the […]

The Houston Independent School District, the largest school district in Texas, reportedly slashed over 2300 administrative positions amid a drop in student enrollment.  According to Houston Public Media [HPM], HISD Superintendent Mike Miles on Thursday announced during a virtual forum the cut of 2,347 jobs, which is more than 20% […]

Some residents in the City by the Bay are on edge as car break-ins, thefts and robberies rise, telling Fox News the city is becoming more dangerous.  “The safety in San Francisco has been getting worse,” Andrea, a babysitter, told Fox News. “I’ve lived here my whole life — it’s […]

Bill Geddie, co-creator of ABC’s long-running daytime talk show “The View” is dead at 68.  His daughter told The Hollywood Reporter he died due to heart-related issues in his Rancho Mirage, Calif. home on Thursday.  Geddie launched “The View” in 1997 with his longtime collaborator Barbara Walters, who passed away […]

President Biden has overruled the Pentagon and chosen Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, making her the first woman, if she’s confirmed, to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Biden’s decision goes against the recommendation of his Pentagon chief, […]

Samuel L. Jackson this week claimed that scenes edited out of his 1996 drama “A Time to Kill” kept him from getting an Academy Award.  “In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet […]

London police should not have used counter-terrorism powers to question and detain a French publisher at a train station in April on suspicion he might have been involved in violent protests, a report released Friday concluded. Ernest Moret was on his way to the London Book Fair on April 17 […]