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The Cheniere Energy liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas, on February 10, 2025. BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP By inviting Vladimir Putin to Alaska on August 15, Donald Trump is putting the territory the United States bought from tsarist Russia in 1867 back on the world’s geopolitical map.… Read Details ⇢

🧯 Europe battered by wildfires, more info below ⤵️ 🌡️ A blistering heatwave is currently gripping Europe, sending thermometers soaring to 43° C in France, 40 °C in Spain and 43°C in Greece. 🇪🇺 This trend is set to continue – Europe is warming twice as fast as the global… Read Details ⇢

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city’s police chief traveled to Justice Department headquarters on Tuesday to meet with Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior administration officials to discuss the temporary National Guard takeover in the nation’s capital.  The meeting… Read Details ⇢

MortMort, whose Nintendo-inspired multiplayer platformer prototype we featured earlier, is back with a brand-new project. This time, he’s aiming to capture the vibe of a classic PlayStation 1 title, inspired heavily by Mega Man Legends, but with a magical twist. Also, a few modern touches and fewer of the original… Read Details ⇢

Mayor Muriel Bowser disputes Donald Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play. Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US President Donald Trump have started arriving in the nation’s capital, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over… Read Details ⇢

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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty speaks at a press conference about the situation in the Gaza Strip, in Cairo, on August 12, 2025. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP Egypt said it was working with fellow Gaza mediators Qatar and the United States to broker a 60-day ceasefire, on Tuesday, August 12,… Read Details ⇢

French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Tuesday that France waged a “war” in Cameroon during and after its decolonisation in the late 1950s that involved “repressive violence” in a letter to Cameroonian President Paul Biya. The admission follows a French government report detailing mass displacement and brutal crackdowns during Cameroon’s… Read Details ⇢

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chose a prominent state lawmaker and amputee combat veteran dubbed the “Chuck Norris of Florida Politics” on Tuesday to be his second-in-command in Tallahassee. The choice of state Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, makes the DeSantis-Collins team the only… Read Details ⇢