NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back against criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration reform as Indian officials and media raised concerns that U.S. visa and immigration reforms may curb migration from India.”What I want to leave clear is that the changes, while they may be having a disproportionate impact on a place like India that provides so many high-skilled workers to the U.S. economy, it is not a system that is targeted at India,” Rubio said during a Sunday news conference in New Delhi, India. “It is one that’s being applied…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Christian lifeguard for the Los Angeles County Fire Department who says he was punished for his religious beliefs after objecting to Pride flag duties is headed toward trial.Captain Jeffrey Little, a veteran of more than 20 years in the L.A. County Fire Department’s Lifeguard Division, sued Los Angeles County and several fire department supervisors in 2024 after the county adopted a policy in 2023 requiring the Progress Pride flag be flown at county facilities throughout June to honor LGBTQ Pride month.Little, a devout Christian, argued the policy conflicted with his religious…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “American Sniper” widow Taya Kyle shredded Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s “cowardly” comments, calling out the progressive Democrat for alleging her late husband inflated his kill numbers by shooting innocent civilians.”Nothing says, I want attention more than disparaging a national hero who’s also dead…” Kyle responded on “The Sunday Briefing.””It is cowardly, it’s lowbrow to lie about somebody else, and it distracts from what you’ve probably said…”Kyle accused Platner, a controversial challenger of incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, of employing a “cheap political trick” to attach his name to someone who is…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $4.56. Of course, in some parts of the country, consumers are paying much more than that. This is a big story, and the truth is that gasoline prices are going to go even higher in the months ahead. But if you think that the price of gasoline is bad, just wait…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A child’s recent show-and-tell find turned out to be something unusual: a 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment.Dor Wolynitz, an 8-year-old from Rehovot, Israel, found the artifact during a visit to the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert of southern Israel, according to a May 11 release from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).Wolynitz was at a family weekend retreat organized by a paratrooper reserve unit when he stumbled across the fragment, which dates to the fourth century A.D.ANCIENT CHRISTIAN FIGURINES DISCOVERED IN 1,500-YEAR-OLD DESERT GRAVESThe boy told the IAA he was “looking for special…

Happy Memorial Day to everyone. I hope your beers are cold, your grills are working and most of all that you have a happy and safe day. Take a moment to remember why we have this day, as well. Many brave men and women gave their lives for us to enjoy days like this, and we should be thinking about them a bit today as well.The Tampa Bay Rays are one of the best teams in baseball. I suppose that shouldn’t come as much of a shock because the team has been one of the better franchises in the sport…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On Nov. 2, 2023, I lost my husband Andy in a Humvee accident during an Army Reserve training exercise in Virginia. He was a captain. He was four months shy of his twenty-eighth birthday. We had a 17-month-old daughter named Adalyn, we were in the middle of building a home, and we had just received pre-approval on a 200-acre farm, a purchase we had dreamed of for years. None of that mattered by 2:20 that afternoon, when I picked up the phone and heard his commanding officer say words, I asked him…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New York Knicks are one win away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999, and if the mobs around Madison Square Garden after victories are any indication, it will be pandemonium in New York City if it happens.Furthermore, a ticket to get into “The Garden” for the Finals is bound to be pricy, as they have throughout the playoffs. But no one may have expected what two courtside seats have already sold for.Sports business reporter Darren Rovell confirmed a sale of two courtside tickets at MSG for the NBA Finals…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At least 82 people were killed and more than 120 others hospitalized after a massive gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in China late Friday, according to the Associated Press (AP). Two people remained missing.The catastrophic blast at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan County, located in China’s northern Shanxi province, marked the country’s deadliest mining disaster in recent years.Local officials, who have launched an investigation into the incident, said they uncovered “serious violations” by the mine’s operator, Shanxi Tongzhou Coal & Coke Group.The explosion also triggered a wave of heightened…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Body camera footage has captured the dramatic rescue of a baby trapped inside a vehicle stranded in rising floodwaters on Saturday as floodwaters appeared to sweep the car toward a creek in Beeville, Texas.The incident, which occurred about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio, unfolded as heavy storms dumped rain across the region, rapidly turning roadways dangerous.According to police, the sudden downpour overwhelmed a low-water crossing, catching a vehicle as it entered the crossing.”Recently, officers and firefighters responded after a vehicle drove into a flooded creek crossing and began getting pushed by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Brandi Glanville is concerned she contracted a “sexually transmitted ringworm” in her throat.Glanville, 53, disclosed her medical concerns with former adult film star Lisa Ann while on the “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered” podcast.The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star believed she contracted the infection while she was dating someone in the adult industry.BRANDI GLANVILLE ENDS UP IN URGENT CARE AFTER TRYING VIRAL TIKTOK TREND Lisa Ann noted that it was “very common on set” and that most people don’t know what to look for when diagnosing.”We had to train our makeup artists that…