NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The 2026 INDYCAR season heads to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C.. The race airs Sunday, Aug. 23 on FOX and FOX One, with practice and qualifying coverage beginning Saturday on FOX Sports networks. Marcus Ericsson enters the weekend after winning the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham on Aug. 16. Àlex Palou leads the championship standings by 133 points over Kyle Kirkwood with four races remaining. Here is how to watch the Freedom 250, including the start time, TV channel, streaming information and complete weekend…

A South Carolina sanitation worker died his very first day on the job when he fell from the back of a garbage truck being driven by his father, turning a sad accident into a heartbreaking family tragedy. John Derrick Dover, 32, was one of two workers standing atop the truck’s rear platform as crews collected trash in Gaffney around 1:50 p.m. Monday. As the truck made a turn, Dover fell and hit the pavement, according to Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler. Dover was rushed by ambulance to Spartanburg Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 3:26 p.m. “This is…

Tourists really put in their two, er 10,000, cents. Disrespectful tourists inserted thousands of coins into a World Heritage Site in the UK, forcing bedraggled conservationists to conduct a time-consuming cleanup. “Approximately 200 man-hours were spent on the project,” Dr. Cliff Henry, National Trust nature engagement officer, told Jam Press of the unwanted donations. More than 44 pounds of coin — totaling around 10,000 pieces — were removed from the Giant’s Causeway, a natural landmark in County Antrim, Ireland, that’s comprised of over 40,000 basalt columns. These were molded over 60 million years ago, when molten lava seeped down into…

Back in my day (not that long ago – I’m only a millennial), recommendations from family and friends, along with a YouTube vlog or a scroll through Pinterest snaps, were the go-to sources of travel inspiration. My, oh my, how things have changed since then. Now, short-form videos on TikTok are increasingly shaping where people want to go and what they want to do abroad, especially among Gen Z travellers born between 1997 and 2012. TUI Musement looked into how social media is influencing how travellers now discover, book, experience and share their holidays. In the study conducted across Spain,…

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…