Ontario Provincial Police are renewing calls for help in solving a 21-year-old case involving the remains of a British Columbia woman found in the province. The call for assistance came out Thursday ahead of the anniversary of Aug. 28, 2005, when officers were called to a wooded picnic area on Highway 7 between Rockwood and Guelph for the discovery of human remains.Those remains, confirmed through genetic genealogy in 2024, belong to Tammy Eileen Penner of Chilliwack, B.C.Penner, 41 at the time of her disappearance, was reported missing to the RCMP on Feb. 7, 2005. She had been living in Chilliwack and…

August 21, 2026 — 10:11pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA man has been injured in a drive-by shooting outside a cafe in Melbourne’s west.Victoria Police are investigating Friday night’s non-fatal shooting that happened at about 7.15pm on Borrack Square in Altona North.The victim, who is yet to be identified, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.No arrests have been made and police were told the offender or offenders fled the scene in a vehicle.It is the third shooting in Borrack Square this year.Last week, gangland boss Fadi Haddara…

Gwyneth Paltrow is poking fun at a viral invitation, purportedly sent by the actress for a dinner in honor of OpenAI billionaire Sam Altman. Entertainment journalist Matthew Belloni recently reported in his Puck newsletter that “invites are going out this week for a ‘private, off-the-record al fresco dinner’” with Altman at Paltrow’s home in the Hamptons. A purported invitation included in the story has since gone viral on social media, with some leveling criticism at Paltrow, 53, for hosting an event honoring the OpenAI CEO, whose company is behind artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. One X user described it as “tone-deaf.”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is now on the hunt for three men in connection with a Tuesday morning shooting that left a Tucson police recruit dead and his corrections officer fiancee hospitalized with a gunshot wound.Authorities say they’ve obtained an arrest warrant for Alex James Barnett, 33, one of the three suspects. The other two men have not yet been publicly identified as of Friday morning.Surveillance video released Thursday night shows at least two other men wearing black in separate clips — one at a gas station at 5405 West Valencia…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The top Democrat in the House is making it clear that he doesn’t support the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) agenda.But even though House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York doesn’t back the DSA’s far-left policy proposals, a majority of Democrats hold favorable views of socialism, according to two national polls released in recent weeks.That’s not the case for most Americans, and especially Republicans, who hold negative views of socialism, according to the surveys.”I don’t support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated by the DSA itself,” Jeffries said during…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: An American traveler’s vacation in Sicily turned into a travel nightmare after volcanic activity from Mount Etna disrupted flights and left her scrambling to find another route back to New York.Julie Sagoskin, editor-in-chief of Park Magazine in New York City, told Fox News Digital that she arrived in Sicily through Catania International Airport on Aug. 1 and spent more than a week traveling around the Italian island.The trouble began when it was time to return home Aug. 10. Sagoskin said her flight from Catania was canceled amid ongoing volcanic…

A run-down Bay Area public housing complex — once the home of late rapper Tupac Shakur — is about to get a major upgrade, with the state spending close to $300 million once the project is complete. Golden Gate Village in Marin City has long been plagued by complaints of crumbling conditions, rodents, mold and an outdated electrical system. Now the 60-year-old public housing complex is getting a massive facelift, with the first phase of a three-part overhaul already underway. The total project is expected to cost $266.6 million, with funding coming from municipal bonds and federal low-income housing tax…

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the latest trade deal with Canada at a fundraising event Wednesday, saying Prime Minister Mark Carney tried to “out-tough” President Donald Trump while crediting his longtime friend Conservative MP Jamil Jivani as a helpful advocate for Canada. In audio from the fundraiser in Southampton, N.Y., which was provided to The Canadian Press by a source who attended the private function, Vance said Carney is a “very sweet guy” and he gets along with him quite well.But, Vance said, Carney “comes in and puffs his chest out and says, ‘I’m going to, like, out-tough Donald Trump.’”“It’s hilarious because Carney presents this…

August 21, 2026 — 10:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAJohn Silvester has been named the most outstanding columnist in Australia at the Kennedy Awards, one of six Age and Sydney Morning Herald journalists and artists to receive gongs at this year’s awards.A Melbourne crime reporter for The Age for more than 30 years, Silvester was recognised for his popular Naked City column at the ceremony in Sydney on Friday night.Silvester has been a senior crime reporter for The Age over three decades. Joe Armao.Age cartoonist Matt Golding won the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Socialist Nithya Raman drew loud groans and hisses from a crowd of Democrats during the Los Angeles mayoral debate after she fumbled while explaining her decision to hire the political consulting firm behind disgraced former Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign.After winning the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Maine, Platner, also a socialist, dropped out of the race in July after several sexual misconduct allegations. Even before the allegations arose, Platner had stirred significant controversy over his history of inflammatory statements and a chest tattoo critics say resembles a well-known Nazi symbol.…

President Donald Trump said earlier this week that any governor or local government official should want to welcome the construction of AI data centers. “The construction jobs are enormous. We’re building the biggest plants anywhere in the world. And I can say, if I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous, and the money paid, the taxes paid are just enormous,” Trump said at the White House…

California drivers could soon get a little relief as the Trump administration moves to pump the market with more gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it is issuing an emergency fuel waiver designed to increase the domestic gasoline supply by hundreds of thousands of barrels per day and bring down prices for Golden State motorists. The change takes effect Sept. 1, when the EPA will allow the sale of E10 gasoline — fuel containing 10% ethanol — at a higher volatility level than normally permitted during the summer.  The move allows the transition out of the more restrictive…

Navigating a world with peanut allergies can be… well, nuts. Even if you’re not the one who’s allergic. More than six million Americans have a food allergy, and peanuts are the third-most common allergen. And it doesn’t just impact those who can’t eat it: Because reactions can be deadly, peanut-free policies and other restrictions are common in places like schools and restaurants. But a Minnesota-based startup is developing a new “hypoallergenic” peanut that could bring the salty snack back to hospitals, planes, cafeterias and restaurants without causing allergic reactions. Nurtured Nuts CEO Bryant Williams sought to remove three of the…

Published on 21/08/2026 – 11:26 GMT+2 A European Commission official close to discussions over the EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine has told Euronews that Kyiv has suggested that the next defence funding envelope could be used to acquire anti-ballistic missile systems, among other capabilities. The official could not specify whether these would be the American-made Patriot air defence missile system or its European equivalent — the Franco-Italian SAMP/T NG ground-to-air missile system — as the discussions were ongoing and no formal product schedule had been placed. The upcoming order is expected to be made before September, with missiles and…

A clearer picture of the choices Ontarians will face at the ballot box is set to emerge this afternoon as nominations for the fall municipal elections come to a close. Would-be candidates have until 2 p.m. to register for the Oct. 26 vote, though some early birds — including mayoral hopefuls in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont. — have already begun making their pitches in earnest.The last few days have seen a flurry of high-profile entries, including former Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, who is running to represent the east-end Toronto ward of Beaches—East York.Some political observers have raised concerns over the number of seats showing…