Canada has confirmed its first hantavirus infection after a cruise ship passenger tested positive for the virus. The infected person was on board the MV Hondius, the cruise ship where the initial outbreak occurred. According to a report by The Guardian, one of the four Canadians quarantining after being on the MV Hondius has tested positive for hantavirus. The test resulted in a “presumptive positive” test result for the virus, Canadian officials said Saturday. Results from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg to confirm the case are expected to come over the weekend, said Dr. Bonnie Henry, the public health officer for the province of British Columbia. “Clearly, this is not what we hoped for, but it is what we planned for,” Henry said as reported by CNN.  “It is encouraging that symptoms were identified early, supportive care can be provided, and they will be monitored carefully over the next few days,” Henry said. The person who tested positive was one member of a couple in their 70s. The individual began showing mild symptoms, including a fever and headache, two days ago. Both people are in a hospital in Victoria. “The patient is stable, the symptoms remain mild at this…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Washington man was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison after admitting to a pair of decades-old cold-case killings which investigators linked him to using a piece of gum. Mitchell Gaff, 74, was sentenced last week after he previously pleaded guilty to the murders of 21-year-old Susan Vesey and 42-year-old Judith “Judy” Weaver in Everett, according to FOX 13. Investigators linked Gaff to the 1984 murder of Weaver after detectives with the Everett Police Department visited his home while claiming to be researchers working within the gum industry and inviting him to try a free sample, USA Today reported. Gaff reportedly obliged, providing the undercover detectives with a sample that was subsequently sent through the federal database CODIS, where investigators ultimately linked him to Weaver’s murder.DAUGHTERS’ RELENTLESS SEARCH SHATTERS ‘OVERDOSE’ CLAIM, LEADS TO ARREST IN MOM’S 1992 MURDER He was arrested in May 2024 and was later charged with Vesey’s killing while behind bars, with investigators revealing she had been murdered inside her apartment the day after her 21st birthday on July 12, 1980, officials said. Speaking in court on Wednesday, Gaff offered an apology to the families of both victims seated in the…

There is no dearth of historic aircraft that helped to change the course of World War II — the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Vought F4U Corsair and the P-51 Mustang, to name a few. But scarcely any could be called heroic. In the case of the F4F Wildcat, usually outnumbered and almost always outclassed by its opponents, an exception can be made.Distinctive in that it was first designed as a biplane in 1935, the U.S. Navy soon realized that the first iteration, the XF4F-1, could not compete with monoplane fighters. Modifications continued throughout the next couple of years until the XF4F-3’s debut, which first flew on Feb. 12, 1939, about two months after the first flight of the Mitsubishi A6M1 Zero prototype in Japan.First combat with the Wildcat was not with any U.S. service, however, but with Britain’s Royal Navy. Its first victim was German. (The Royal Navy called the aircraft the Martlet until March 1944, when it adopted the Wildcat moniker.)According to historian Bruce Crawford, the British had shown great interest in the Wildcat as a replacement for the Gloster Sea Gladiator, and the first platforms were delivered in late 1940. On Christmas Day that year, the stubby plane…

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“Yellowstone” fans are very excited with “Dutton Ranch.”The new “Yellowstone” spinoff from Taylor Sheridan premiered May 15 on Paramount+ after receiving a deafening amount of hype.”Dutton Ranch” follows Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hauser) from Montana for a fresh start in Texas. The first two episodes were electric, and set the stage for an epic season.Ed Harris and Annette Bening are also major members of the series. The former might be the best part through the episodes released so far.TAYLOR SHERIDAN SHOCKS ‘YELLOWSTONE’ FANS WITH NEW SPINOFF SERIES, PROVIDES VIEWERS WITH DARK RIDE “Yellowstone” fans go crazy for “Dutton Ranch.”Now, as we’ve discussed many times, “Marshals” unfortunately turned into a massive disappointment and dud. There are likely many reasons why, and arguably the biggest is the fact it airs on network TV on CBS.”Dutton Ranch” doesn’t have that issue. The early reactions from fans have been electric. The show holds an 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of publication in the Tomatometer score and a 78% rating in the Popcornmeter. The reactions on Reddit from viewers are also significantly better than “Marshals,” which just routinely gets shredded.”YELLOWSTONE” SPINOFF PREVIEW PROMISES EXTREME VIOLENCE, STARS TWO MAJOR CHARACTERSBelow are some of…

Iran has warned the United States that the Gulf of Oman could become a “graveyard” for America’s fleets. Warships will be meeting their watery end as negotiations remain gridlocked. The US and Israel are also preparing plans to attack Iran should negotiations remain in a stalemate. Iran has said that the US’s naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is going to result in the Gulf of Oman becoming a graveyard for US warships. US & Israel Prepare To Attack Iran Next Week “The longer they continue the naval blockade of Iran, the greater the damage to the world economy will be,” Mohsen Rezaei, who serves on a senior advisory body to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, stated on Sunday. “We advise the US military to lift the siege before the Gulf of Oman turns into their graveyard.” Oil Production In The Persian Gulf Has Fallen 57% From Pre-War Levels – Rationing Is Coming Over the weekend, Trump renewed pressure on Tehran through social media, warning that “the Clock is Ticking” for Iran. He also shared an image depicting Iran being invaded by neighboring countries, including states that have remained neutral in the conflict. According to a report by RT, the current crisis…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former first lady Michelle Obama warned against lecturing voters who supported President Donald Trump during a podcast interview on Sunday, and described their support for the president as an “act” of not knowing what else to do.Host of the “Talk Easy” podcast Sam Fragoso asked if her opinion of the country changed after Trump was elected in 2016 and again in 2024.Obama said she obviously felt disappointed by it, but that the outcome had to do with people’s pain and where they are in their lives. The former first lady said people struggling with healthcare as well as the high cost of living made them more susceptible to finding someone to blame.FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR CALLS OUT PARTY FOR ALIENATING VOTERS BY ‘HECTORING AND LECTURING’ THEM “And that’s true that anger, you know, I can’t look some people in the face and tell them you have no right to be angry or to do something that maybe is against your own interest,” she said. “That’s what — that’s human nature. Many of the people who voted for my husband twice — twice! And I know that that’s how they feel. It’s like, this…

It was in 2007 that James Smither received a call from Jeffrey Wilcox, a West Point grad who served in the 101st Airborne Division.Smither, who recently retired as a professor of history at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was also the creator and director of the university’s Veterans History Project.“I got a call from a fellow named Jeff Wilcox,” Smither told Military Times. “And he said, I’ve got a Vietnam story you’ve never heard before. And he was right.”That story, the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord — the last major American offensive effort in the Vietnam War — would lead Smithers on a nearly two-decade research quest to write “The End of the Rope: The Ripcord Campaign and American Disengagement in Vietnam”.What first began as a series of interviews quickly expanded as veterans began tracking down Smither to learn more about the campaign. “I found the veterans were coming to me, asking me to explain to them what had happened to them,” said Smither. “My first reaction was, ‘wait a minute. You were there. I wasn’t.’ The response was ‘Well, we have our individual pieces of the puzzle. You’re looking at all of them.’”From March 12…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Long Island Rail Road workers walked off the job on Monday after rejecting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s latest wage offer, snarling travel for hundreds of thousands of weekday commuters even as payroll data shows the striking employees already earn six-figure pay.LIRR employees had am average income of $121,646 plus an average of $25,957 in overtime pay as of 2024, according to data provided by the railroad operator. While the typical LIRR employee makes about $150,000 a year, the median household on Long Island, which often contains multiple workers, earned just $131,000 in 2023, per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.The rail employees are striking because they feel the raise offered to them by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is not enough to compensate for the rising cost of living in the New York metropolitan area.In addition to negatively impacting the travel plans of the estimated more than a quarter million people who ride the LIRR every day, the New York State Comptroller estimates that the strike will cost the region an average of $61 million per day.SCATHING REPORT CLAIMS NATION’S OLDEST LABOR UNION ‘BETRAYED’ MAGA MEMBERS THROUGH ‘SHOCKING’ SPENDING “To every LIRR…

Federal authorities say a Chinese national who worked as a research scholar at the University of Michigan lied about his work on drones in the People’s Republic of China. According to a criminal complaint filed last week, Chuan Wang allegedly denied involvement in the production of military products during an interview with customs officers in 2023 when in reality he ran a company that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles and drones for the Chinese military. According to the complaint, Wang entered the United States in 2012 on a visa for visiting students and scholars to conduct research on aeroelastic wing design at the University of Michigan. In his visa application, Wang wrote that he planned to develop a “radio-controlled model airplane with high aspect ratio” and conduct related “design, fabrication, test, flight and analysis.”A few years later, Wang obtained a 10-year tourist visa, describing himself as a business student employed by a media production company. Federal authorities noted that the employment information Wang later submitted — which required biennial updates — changed multiple times.In one filing, Wang identified himself as a technical engineer for Volition Innovations Science and Technology. In another, he listed his employer as his father, Zhi…