August 21, 2026 — 11:08amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFiona Brown has declared she “ultimately triumphed” over those who tore her down while warning federal parliament must overhaul the way it treats staff caught in political crossfire.The former Liberal staffer’s case brings to a close one of the final pieces of litigation arising from the Brittany Higgins affair, which has spawned multiple court cases, investigations and compensation claims since it erupted in 2021.Fiona Brown was chief of staff to then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds when Brittany Higgins alleged Bruce…

The Old Guard is a superhero story meets covert ops and military, but without any capes or costumes. The superpowered beings at the heart of the film are a mysterious group of immortal beings, led by Andromache or “Andy” (Charlize Theron), who have secretly protected humanity for millennia. As they struggle to maintain their anonymity, they must also contend with the emergence of a new immortal, Nile (KiKi Layne). Together, the team faces both modern threats and age-old enemies in their quest to preserve secrecy about their identities and ensure security for the future. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who previously created…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant who re-entered the U.S. five times said his drinking is the “mistake” that finally led to his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Thursday morning.Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia, a Mexican national, was arrested by ICE in Redondo Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Perez-Garcia has a history of arrests dating to 2003 for alcohol-, controlled substance- and driving-related offenses, as well as making terroristic threats and illegally re-entering the U.S. ICE said he illegally entered the country five times and made four additional attempts to enter.Fox…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Houston Texans reportedly signed wide receivers Sterling Shepard and Zay Jones on Friday. The addition of both veterans comes on the day Houston placed second-year WR Jayden Higgins on season-ending injured reserve after tearing his ACL in Tuesday’s practice. Shepard and Jones will provide a boost to what was already a thin receiving corps even before the Higgins injury. Shepard is entering his 10th NFL season, and will be joining his third team. He spent the last two years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the eight before that with the New York…

Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar is facing heat from her Republican opponent and critics on social media for campaigning on addressing the massive fraud scandal in her state despite not mentioning it a single time in any press release since the crisis emerged. A Fox News Digital review found that Klobuchar’s Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no release directly addressing or offering solutions to fix Minnesota’s sprawling social-services fraud scandal or Feeding Our Future. The $250 million Feeding Our…

When it comes to detecting psychos, you just gotta go with their gut. Scientists have found a surprising link between certain microbes and darker personality characteristics, according to a shocking study in Nature. “We hypothesized that the composition of the gut and oral microbiota may be associated with subclinical psychopathic personality traits,” wrote the team, led by Carolina Costa from the University of Porto in Portugal. While it’s long been known that microscopic flora can influence our mental state, this yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study reportedly marked the first time this particular “association” had been explored. It is well known that psychopathy —…

August 21, 2026 — 11:50amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAEvery few years a sexual assault story catalyses a moment of public reckoning about how we treat women and girls in society. This week, the conversation arrived when sexual assault allegations were levelled against students of Scots College, and days later, a player from the Sydney Swans.These events are not the same, nor are the alleged perpetrators. The accused are underage boys in one case, and a high-profile sportsman in the other. Their different roles in society come with different…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Fall fashion is all about warm hues, interesting textures and gold-tone embellishments that make clean, classy outfits look positively rich. The same goes for your footwear, which is why brown flat shoes are expected to be everywhere this fall — and we’re already seeing signs of it ahead of the season. Ballet flats, Mary Janes, slingbacks and loafers are all projected to be huge in September, giving Us that sleek, cool-girl style that even celebrities are reaching for. In fact,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Democratic Senate nominee and former Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, missed nearly one in five votes in the Alaska House of Representatives and more than a third of Bethel City Council meetings during her time in office, records show.Peltola missed 794 of 4,265 state House votes, or 18.6%, during her five terms from 1999 to 2009, according to legislative records, and 22 of 60 city council meetings, or 36.67% from 2011 to 2013, according to city records.Her attendance record is now raising questions about her commitment to public service as…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A slumping star player is the last thing a team wants with the MLB postseason just around the corner. And yet, everyone from the World Series favorites to the Wild Card hopefuls is dealing with it in some capacity.The question now is whether it’s too late for those players to turn things around or if there’s still time for them to build enough momentum for a postseason peak. FOX Sports MLB writers Rowan Kanver and Deesha Thosar dive into that and more in this week’s MLB Roundtable:What is the most important thing…

Two workers at a taxpayer-funded homeless shelter in San Francisco were busted for allegedly hiding a violent gunman after he shot a police officer. Oliver Barcenas, 36, and Erika Porter, 45, were both arrested for harboring an attempted murder suspect who shot an SF Police Department officer in May, according to an announcement made by San Francisco Police on Friday. “Attempting to assist an armed gunman evade capture after shooting a police officer is unconscionable,” Chief Derrick Lew said. “Thankfully, our officers captured this violent suspect despite the efforts by two individuals to help him. I want to thank all…

She’s teachers’ newest pet. OnlyFans star Sophie Rain is offering to pay for teachers’ school supplies by fulfilling their Amazon wish lists — and told The Post she’s been inundated with 50,000 requests in just 48 hours. “We have spent around $170,000 and cleared 520 carts. It’s been way more than I expected … and more messages are still coming in,” she said on Saturday, just two days after she made the announcement on her Instagram page. “They’re coming from all over … California, Texas, Canada, UK … I knew teachers needed help, but seeing that many people send their classroom lists in such…

Published on 22/08/2026 – 17:28 GMT+2 It was his first public engagement after the summer break: Two days after the complete extinguishing of the forest fire in the Hürtgen Forest, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) visited the affected area today to thank the emergency services. Merz was met with boos and whistles. Numerous onlookers gathered on the village square where Merz arrived. At times the chancellor was barely audible, as his words were drowned out. A member of the Hürtgenwald volunteer fire brigade expressed anger at the loud reactions. “Those who are shouting and whistling should turn that negative energy…

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is “walking away from a bad deal” with the United States and will match 50 per cent tariffs “dollar-for-dollar” in industries like steel and dairy. Carney confirmed he was “reluctantly” adding tariffs that would add costs in some areas for Canadians, but insisted they were necessary to retaliate against United States President Donald Trump’s levies.“We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they asked,” Carney declared in Ottawa on Saturday morning.The prime minister said talks had taken place with the United States over the past year, and accelerated in recent…

August 21, 2026 — 3:31pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFormer defence force chief Mark Binskin may return to Israel to follow up his initial investigation into the fatal drone strike that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom as Israel seeks to calm the Australian government’s anger over a decision not to prosecute the officers involved in her killing.Reparations could also be paid to Frankcom’s family if a formal request is lodged, Israel’s ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman said on Friday as the envoy adopted a strikingly more conciliatory tone…