Updated August 21, 2026 — 8:47am,first published 7:59amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe body of 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper has been recovered from dense bushland in the NSW Southern Highlands, hours after it was discovered by a search and rescue team following an eight-day search.The body was retrieved after 6pm on Thursday, a police source confirmed to the Herald.Friends, family and loved ones of Sydney bushwalker Lily Hooper have been grieving her loss, having initially heard she was found alive.Kate GeraghtyThe body was discovered in scrub in the Nattai…

A Texas man was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife after he approached her outside of her home with a “murder kit.” The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office confirmed that Frederick Spears was found guilty of stabbing his wife, Mary Spears, multiple times in Arlington, Texas, on September 22, 2025. Prosecutors said that Frederick, 57, threatened a family member with knives and he was ordered to stay away from his family just days before he killed Mary, 53. Following the altercation with the family member, Frederick bought a knife and saw kit that he dubbed a “murder kit,” according…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New York woman plotted to bomb the New York State Capitol and kill state senators inside, repeatedly surveilling the building and buying materials for an explosive device before the FBI arrested her, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Fox News Digital Thursday.Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. The FBI says she pledged allegiance to the terror group, discussed disguising a bomb in a DoorDash delivery bag and wanted to carry out the attack when state senators were meeting.She converted to Islam…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! What started as a regularly scheduled town hall in Dearborn, Michigan, erupted into a flashpoint over the influence of Muslim culture in American civic life on Tuesday as the pastor of a local church accused the town of operating under Sharia law.”America, we have lost this city. This is a city that is no longer up under American laws; we are up under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore,” Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor of 180 Church, said.”Enough is enough.”The outburst, which came amid a series of other anti-Islam protests in…

President Donald Trump and top financial regulators hosted key figures in the cryptocurrency and digital assets industries at the White House Wednesday, with a major legislative priority for the administration and those industries nearing the finish line. Cody Carbone, CEO of The Digital Chamber, attended the meeting and said in an interview with FOX Business the “main takeaway was that the U.S. is not going to slow down in its objective of becoming the crypto capital of the world.””There was a lot of talk about the CLARITY Act, this legislation that’s in front of us, and that there was a…

The prestigious University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University are both the subject of a civil rights investigation over a college-access program that’s only available to Hispanic students, the California Post can reveal. A letter from the Office of Civil Rights to William Jacobson, president of the anti-racism Equal Protection Project, on August 13th confirmed both schools are being investigated for discriminating against students on the basis of ”national origin”, allowing the program to exclude students who do not identify as Hispanic. The letter was in response to a June 29 complaint filed by Jacobson organization alleging that USC and LMU…

The area around Sutton Place has been a culinary dead zone ever since the beloved Irish pub Neary’s closed two years ago. Now, at last, the area has fresh life with the opening of The Derby Club in the former Neary’s space at 348 East 57th Street. The new spot from chef/partner Ed Cotton is not Neary’s 2.0, despite having the original cherrywood bar at the front and “Neary’s mint jelly” on the menu. It’s an altogether new venue more resplendent than its predecessor and with vastly better food. The steakhouse menu far surpasses the fare at similar speakeasies around town. The…

Starbucks is laying off over 200 corporate workers as it moves forward with the turnaround strategy that it began two years ago under CEO Brian Niccol. The coffee giant on Thursday published a layoff notice under the WARN Act, clarifying plans to cut over 200 corporate roles after it previously disclosed plans to reduce the corporate workforce by about 300 jobs.The WARN filing indicated that about 120 of the employee separations are associated with workers from its support team focused on designing and developing coffeehouses who declined the opportunity to relocate from Seattle, Washington, to Nashville, Tennessee. Additionally, about 104…

By Bill Graveland The Canadian Press Posted August 20, 2026 5:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Residents of Calgary and surrounding communities, freed nearly five months ago from water restrictions, are being warned of another possible shutdown. Mayor Jeromy Farkas says the Bearspaw feeder main is to be closed for less than a week in September.He says it’s to complete electrical work on a new pumping station — not because Calgary is running short of water.Farkas adds that residents may be asked to restrict outdoor watering.The feeder main provides 60 per cent of…

August 21, 2026 — 7:13amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA 32-year-old man has been charged with rape and stalking after the alleged “horrific” assault of a young woman on her early-morning walk west of Brisbane.Detectives from the Ferny Grove Child Protection and Investigation Unit allege the woman, in her 20s, was walking along Brookfield Road near Moggill Creek in Brookfield, a semi-rural suburb west of Brisbane, about 6.33am on Thursday when she was stopped by an unknown man.Police say the Raceview man sexually assaulted the woman before she fought…

Jessica Alba and her daughter Honor are permanently matching. Alba, 45, and Honor, 18, whom she shares with ex-husband Cash Warren, debuted matching tattoos before her daughter heads to Yale University. In the pic, shared via Instagram by celebrity tattoo artist Winterstone, the mother-daughter duo held hands and showed off a fine-line eye tattoo on their wrists. Below the artistic design was a dainty infinity symbol. “Matching tattoos with her daughter! @jessicaalba,” Winterstone captioned the pic. “What a way to show love with an unforgettable experience! A memory they will share forever!” Alba’s fans were quick to gush over the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Irish authorities are reportedly seeking a warrant to extradite the primary suspect in the brutal murder of Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old New York mother found beaten and suffocated in her Killarney home last month.Carney, who documented her life abroad as a “New Yorker in Ireland,” was discovered by her teenage daughter on July 7.Investigators believe her partner, a Jordanian national seeking asylum in Ireland, beat her to death before fleeing the country on a last-minute flight to Istanbul and eventually traveling to Jordan, where he was subsequently detained.AMERICAN MOTHER MURDERED IN IRISH…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California is experiencing an educational paradox, according to Herb Morgan, a candidate for state controller — the state’s chief fiscal officer, accountant and auditor.The Golden State, Morgan said, has spent billions of dollars educating public school students but has failed to boost educational outcomes despite the influx of taxpayer funds.California’s K-12 education funding rose from $97 billion in 2019 to $151 billion for the current budget cycle, said Morgan, who tracks and lists state expenditures through his “California Radical Transparency” website, a political and financial oversight initiative designed to track and decode…

A multistate salmonella outbreak linked to fresh jalapeño peppers has now sickened 431 people and hospitalized 57 across 32 states, according to federal health officials. The latest figures represent an increase of 86 illnesses, 21 hospitalizations and five states since the outbreak stood at 345 cases and 36 hospitalizations across 27 states earlier this month.No deaths have been reported. Federal health officials say the outbreak is probably larger than the confirmed case count because people with mild infections often recover without seeking care or getting tested. Recent illnesses can also take several weeks to be linked to an outbreak. 18…

Dramatic surveillance footage shows a cop shooting a blood-covered madman who charged at the officer with a jagged piece of glass inside a Southern California hospital. Luis Ramirez-Macias, 46, lunged at Simi Valley Police Officer Carly Grice inside Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, where he was under police guard after allegedly trying to kill his wife that day. The disturbing footage shows Ramirez-Macias naked and smeared with blood as he moves through the hospital clutching what police said was a makeshift weapon made from a shattered glass vial. Grice can be seen backing away as Ramirez-Macias advances toward her…