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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said state Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones should abandon his campaign “in disgrace” after he once remarked on shooting a former Virginia House speaker in texts with another lawmaker. Texts obtained by Fox News Digital on Friday showed an August 2022 conversation involving Jones — then a recently departed delegate from Norfolk — and Delegate Carrie Coyner, R-Chester. At one point, Jones, referencing then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, wrote: “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.” “This violent, disgusting rhetoric targeted at…

A government watchdog advised a former minister that he could work with a subsidiary of a company linked to Chinese surveillance technology, the Guardian can reveal.Richard Fuller, who served as economic secretary to the Treasury in the governments of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, wrote to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) before joining Investcorp Securities as an advisory board member in 2023.Fuller, 63, is now shadow chief secretary to the Treasury and is due to speak at several events at the Conservative party’s annual conference, which opens in Manchester on Sunday.He has worked for Investcorp Securities for more…

Israel airstrikes hit the Gaza Strip on Saturday, local authorities said, hours after President Donald Trump called to halt the bombing, saying that Hamas was ready for peace.Israeli fire killed six people across Gaza, Reuters reported, citing officials, while the Israel Defense Forces said a large part of the enclave remains a dangerous combat zone. One strike killed four people in a house in Gaza City while another killed two others in Khan Younis, authorities said. The attacks came after Hamas said Friday it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, and expressed willingness to negotiate through…

New Delhi: Ahead of the second quarter earnings reports (Q2 FY26), private lender HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank have reported an increase in their net advances based on their provisional estimate. Disclosing its provisional numbers, Kotak Mahindra Bank said that its net advances rose 15.8 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 4.62 lakh crore in the July-September quarter. Sequentially, it escalated by 4 per cent to Rs 4.44 lakh crore. Kotak Bank’s total deposits stood at Rs 5.28 lakh crore during the period, up by 14.6 per cent from Rs 4.61 lakh crore in the year-ago period.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The 2025 government shutdown is about to enter its second week, with Democrats and Republicans still unable to agree on a federal funding deal.It’s the first government shutdown since 2019, when federal agencies were shuttered for 35 days.Both sides have been blaming the other for the dysfunction in Washington; Democrats are accusing Republicans of letting healthcare premiums go up for millions of Americans, while the GOP is blaming the left for putting vulnerable Americans at risk while holding the government hostage for partisan demands.Political strategists who spoke with Fox News Digital, however,…

The humble soybean is the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s campaign to reshape global trade.Used in everything from animal feed to fuel, soybeans regularly rank among the most valuable U.S. agricultural exports, towering over higher-profile crops like corn and cotton. More than $30 billion worth of American soybean products were exported in fiscal year 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.For American soybean farmers, their top overseas market has long been China, which bought around a third of the export crop — approximately $12 billion worth of American soybean products — in the last calendar year, USDA data…

Pictured on her official website smiling on a country walk with her golden retriever, Katie Lam looks every inch the traditional Conservative MP. But make no mistake: this is a very modern breed of Tory, and one whose rise gives a clue to the current direction of UK politics.Still only 34 and in parliament for little over a year, Lam is named almost ubiquitously by fellow Conservatives as a likely future leader – even, some venture, a direct replacement for Kemi Badenoch.Lam does have the sort of CV almost designed to impress Tory constituency associations, with its route from state…

New Delhi: Reflecting the government’s focus on youth-centric policies and its Viksit Bharat vision, employment in India rose to 64.33 crore in 2023-24 compared to 47.5 crore in 2017-18 — a net addition of 16.83 crore jobs over six years, an official statement said on Saturday, citing the Ministry of Labour and Employment data. The unemployment rate slumped from 6.0 per cent in 2017–18 to 3.2 per cent in 2023–24. About 1.56 crore women have joined formal workforce in the past seven years. “This growth is especially significant because from an economic standpoint, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) alone cannot fully…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! His name isn’t on the ballot, but President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second-term agenda and the federal government shutdown are top of mind on the campaign trail with one month to go until Election Day 2025. In the spotlight this November are New Jersey and Virginia, the only two states to hold gubernatorial contests the year after a presidential election. The races, which traditionally grab outsized national attention, are viewed as crucial early tests of Trump’s popularity and agenda, and key barometers ahead of next year’s midterm showdowns for the U.S. House and Senate.Also in…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump likes to enumerate the peace deals he says he forged — seven at last count.But two that have eluded him potentially mean the most to his legacy and his dogged pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize.The first is the Russia-Ukraine war, which is no closer to ending now than when Trump took office in January. The other is Israel’s conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.Here, he may have just achieved a breakthrough.Up against a Sunday deadline that Trump had set, Hamas said Friday said that it would meet a major condition that the…