NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! China is testing whether the top of the world can become a new strategic trade corridor, launching regular seasonal container service to Europe through Russia’s Arctic as Beijing and Moscow deepen their commercial and military footprint in a region Washington increasingly views as critical to U.S. security.The service remains limited in scale, with just over eight voyages planned this season, but China analyst Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital that its significance goes beyond the number of containers currently making the journey.”China has a major strategic push on the Arctic for various…

A longtime superintendent of an East Bay school district was placed on administrative leave after claims surfaced he made unwanted advances toward a female district official. San Leandro Unified School District Superintendent Mike McLaughlin is now under investigation by the district, which is probing the allegations. Sources told NBC Bay Area that an alleged incident occurred at an outing with McLaughlin and his directors that involved alcohol. They said at one point he physically touched a female manager. The district hired an independent investigator after multiple employees spoke out about the incident. The district board said if the allegations are…

Forget silk rods and curling socks. Kayla Fawcett found a new beauty tool in the last place you’d expect: her CPAP machine. One night before bed, the Wisconsinite wrapped her hair around the soft tubing of her headgear, clipped it in place and hit record. She sent the video to friends, who convinced her to post it on social media. By morning, she had a head full of bouncy curls — and a viral hit, racking up more than a million TikTok views and a comment section full of people eager to try it themselves. “So many women were commenting…

Germany registered a record of around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, official data showed on Thursday. Around 9,600 of those deaths were recorded in one week in late June when Germany baked in temperatures of over 40C, according to the Robert Koch Institute. The heatwaves and drought have fuelled a historically hot summer in Europe, contributing to a spike in heat-related mortality in the worst-hit countries. Spain’s public health institute registered nearly 4,500 heat-related deaths since 1 June, figures showed on Thursday and French health authorities said they had seen more…

By Katrine Desautels The Canadian Press Posted August 20, 2026 1:28 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A new report says the average wait time for patients in Quebec’s emergency rooms last year was five hours and 12 minutes. The report by the Montreal Economic Institute shows that this represents an 11-minute improvement from wait times the previous year.Renaud Brossard, a spokesperson for the institute, says it’s a step in the right direction, albeit a small one. Get weekly health news Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.…

August 20, 2026 — 4:01pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMore than 800,000 older Australians will still get Meals on Wheels and other programs at home after Labor abandoned a plan to merge them into its under-pressure aged care system.Health Minister Mark Butler announced a reprieve on Thursday for the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP), the future of which had been in doubt as the government sought to fold it into its overhaul of the Support at Home program.Health Minister Mark Butler.Dominic LorrimerThe Greens and Coalition were scathing of the…

Prime Video is streaming a lot of great movies right now. Last year’s Oscar-winning Best Picture, One Battle After Another, is available to stream, and that Leonardo DiCaprio film should be at the top of your watchlist this month. But there are other, older Oscar-winning movie masterpieces to watch on Prime Video in August. The ‘90s black comedy Fargo, the heart-wrenching Casey Affleck drama Manchester by the Sea and the underrated character study Sound of Metal all won their fair share of acclaim when they were released and deserve to be watched in 2026 and beyond. ‘Manchester By the Sea’…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new court filing reveals the defense team for Alex Murdaugh, who was previously convicted of murdering his wife and son, may have lied about his polygraph test results.The Wednesday filing in Colleton County, South Carolina, details state prosecutors’ allegations against Murdaugh’s attorney, Dick Harpootlian.Murdaugh was convicted of the murders and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in 2023; those convictions were overturned in May of this year after a court clerk named Becky Hill was found to have improperly influenced jurors.ALEX MURDAUGH MOVES FOR NEW HOME FOR DOUBLE-MURDER RETRIAL During an…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the Trump administration Wednesday while releasing findings from her investigation into thousands of ineligible voters improperly registered in the state.Sherrill’s critique came one day after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a statement thanking her for agreeing to cooperate with his agency on the matter — an assertion a Democratic source disputed.Sherrill has faced criticism since mid-July, when she revealed that thousands of noncitizens were found on voting rolls because of a “software error” in the way the state Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) registers voters, commonly called…

The U.S. economy is currently “worse” than when former President Joe Biden departed office last year, economic and political commentator Peter Schiff asserted, warning that the nation faces the “threat” of a Democratic socialist winning the White House during the 2028 presidential election. President Donald Trump is “unpopular because the economy is worse now than it was when Biden left office,” Schiff, chief economist and global strategist of Euro Pacific Asset Management and host of “The Peter Schiff Show” podcast, told Fox News Digital during an interview on Wednesday. “So Trump ran promising to fix what Biden broke,” but then “broke…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan early Thursday, accusing him of dragging Turkey into “dangerous adventures in Syria” and warning the Turkish leader not to test Israel’s resolve.”Israel will not allow any actor to threaten its security,” Katz wrote on X “It would be better for Erdoğan to continue his detached-from-reality, fanciful rhetoric against Israel in the Turkish Grand National Assembly than to attempt to test Israel’s determination to defend itself.”The warning comes two days after Israel struck Syria’s Abu al-Duhur airbase. The…

Karmelo Anthony’s ex-girlfriend reported that he was stalking her hours before he stabbed Austin Metcalf — and he had threatening and violent texts on his phone, the prosecutor revealed at Anthony’s appeal hearing Thursday. The jury never heard about Anthony’s disturbing history, or about Metcalf’s juvenile criminal record because of a “gentleman’s agreement” with the 19-year-old’s defense ahead of his murder trial,Collin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye revealed. He told the court Anthony’s high school girlfriend confided to an assistant principal at their school that Anthony was stalking after a breakup, and that he was obsessed with fights, guns and…

Hut, Hut, Bite! Pizza Hut is ditching “pizza,” at least for now. The popular pizza chain announced Wednesday that it will be dropping “pizza” from its name to go simply by “hut.” The temporary change coincides with the start of the 2026 NFL season. “You can just call us HUT for the next 25 weeks,” the brand wrote on a social media post that features a photo of one of their locations. The snap shows a banner with a football on it covering the word “pizza” on a sign outside the store. The photo was taken at a Plano, Texas…

Published on 20/08/2026 – 18:24 GMT+2 In Saxony-Anhalt, the interior ministry is aware of around 80 cases and across Germany, there are said to be hundreds of such incidents of Ukrainian troops deserting after completing their military training. The federal government has not yet published any official nationwide statistics. Nor are any publicly confirmed figures currently available from other states. Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, around 29,000 Ukrainian soldiers have undergone training in Germany, according to the Bundeswehr. The training takes place at numerous sites. The soldiers learn, among other things, how to handle weapons, camouflage…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Incumbent Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow holds a commanding, double-digit lead among decided voters, a new poll suggests, with just over two months to go until the municipal election. A new survey by Liaison Strategies shows Chow at 49 per cent, with Coun. Brad Bradford in second place at 38 per cent. Former federal minister and late entrant to the race Chris Alexander would receive 11 per cent of the vote if the election were held tomorrow.“The ballot has moved back toward a clearer Chow advantage,” David Valantin, principal at Liaison, said. Get…