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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A Pennsylvania woman who defrauded the federal government out of $1.7 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds in the wake of Hurricane Ida was sentenced to five years in prison, the Justice Department said Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues its effort to crack down on fraud.Jasmine Williams, 34, of Plymouth Meeting, pleaded guilty last year to 32 charges ranging from fraud related to a major disaster declaration to wire fraud and mail fraud.”Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump and Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin, FEMA is rooting…

The number of measles cases in the United States has outstripped last year’s 33-year high. Already this year, health officials have recorded 2,295 cases, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reports July 21. That surpasses the 2,286 cases documented in 2025. Many of this year’s cases have come…

The EU is supposed to grow again, but there is still some disagreement about how. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is sticking to his proposal for an associate EU membership status for Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkan countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Critics complain…

Lawmakers are coming under increased pressure to rein in the big tech firms after OpenAI admitted its AI models went rogue and attacked another tech company. OpenAI’s eyebrow-raising admission that its AI models broke free of their “sandboxed test environment” and launched an attack on…

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ToplineBillionaire Leon Black claimed he socialized with Jeffrey Epstein because of his many high-powered connections—including Elon Musk—but never considered him a friend, according to a transcript released Friday of the billionaire’s interview with the House Oversight Committee, despite once signing a birthday card to him “Love and Kisses.”Key FactsBlack sat…

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