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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former PBS host and ex-Boeing engineer Bill Nye “The Science Guy” will join former USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg to headline a rally with Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger on Tuesday in the hometown of their party’s forefather.Spanberger will rally with Buttigieg and Nye in Charlottesville – the city that birthed President Thomas Jefferson – while across town at the college founded by America’s third president, GOP lieutenant gubernatorial candidate John Reid will headline a public “Dome Room” forum hosted by pollster Larry Sabato’s University of Virginia Center for Politics.Spanberger’s rally occurs…

New Delhi: India’s Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) rose by 3 per cent in September 2025 compared to the same month last year, driven by strong performances in steel, cement, electricity, and fertilisers, according to provisional data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.   The ICI measures the combined and individual performance of production of eight core industries viz. coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity. The Eight Core Industries account for 40.27 per cent of the weight of items in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and serve as a key…

President Donald Trump’s proposed summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Budapest appears farther off than initially hoped, with talks toward planning such a sit-down now “on hold,” a senior White House official told NBC News.After Trump was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, the president essentially pressed pause — believing that both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace. “Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” a second White House official said.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City candidate Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral race to lead New York City as a self-described democratic socialist has emerged as one of the most high-profile elections this 2025 off-year cycle. But across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Mamdani’s race has stayed out of the spotlight as the Garden State’s gubernatorial election takes center stage and Democrats in the state sidestep endorsing or even mentioning the progressive candidate. “I am not getting engaged in that race, because I’m completely focused on New Jersey,” New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee for governor, said…

Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian.From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike had steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.“If we were doing more, people would not feel threatened, they…

New Delhi: Despite public declarations of solidarity with Kyiv, Europe’s ongoing trade with Russia, especially in energy, continues to funnel billions of euros into Moscow’s war effort. This raises questions about the duality of Europe’s approach, according to a new report.  Data and analysis from 2025 reveal both reductions and paradoxical increases in certain economic spheres, as Europe’s allies to Ukraine inadvertently fuel Russia’s ability to sustain its campaign, according to an article by Anna Mahjar-Barducci published by the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA). Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union (EU)…

French authorities raced against the clock Tuesday, intensifying their hunt for the priceless royal jewels stolen from the Louvre, and the thieves whose brazen daylight robbery left the nation reeling. The thieves made off with nine items of jewelry belonging to members of France’s erstwhile royal families. A crown studded with more than 1,300 diamonds was found damaged shortly after the theft on the escape route the four culprits took on a pair of scooters along the bank of the River Seine. That leaves eight royal jewels that police and investigators are searching for, though experts in art security told…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! With two weeks until Election Day, and the latest polls pointing to a potential photo finish in the battle for New Jersey governor, the two major party nominees are urging their supporters to get out and vote.”When we vote, we win,” Democratic nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill said this past weekend at a rally.And her Republican rival, Jack Ciattarelli, told his supporters that “championship teams finish strong… let’s win this race.”New Jersey is just one of two states, along with Virginia, that hold statewide elections for governor this November. And the contests, which…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLabour follows Lib Dems in condemning Tory MP Katie Lam’s call for deportation of legally settled migrantsIn an interview published in the Sunday Times, Katie Lam, a shadow Home Office minister who is tipped in the party as a potential future Tory leader, called for large numbers of families legally settled in the UK to be deported.Lam said: There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. It’s not the fault of the…

TEL AVIV — Hamas has violently sought to reassert its authority over the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Israel military’s partial withdrawal, but questions remain over the group’s future and efforts to rebuild.Since the ceasefire came into effect a week ago, the militant group has deployed armed police officers on streets from where Israeli forces have withdrawn, clashed with rival clans, directly fired upon and killed Israeli troops in multiple incidents, and staged at least one public execution of suspected collaborators. As Hamas continues to demonstrate its presence, Israeli security officials and experts on Gaza agree it has…