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The temperatures are frigid this time of year in Kyiv, Ukraine. But nearly half of the region’s civilians are without heat or electricity as Russian air strikes cripple the nation’s energy infrastructure. “You don’t have water, you don’t have heating. It’s impossible to live like this. And that’s what Putin tries to do to Ukrainians,” Ukrainian Parliament Member Oleksiy Goncharenko told Fox News Digital. As the ground hardens and the snow begins to fall, the Ukraine war enters a winter offensive — with Russians knocking down more power plants than military bases in a shift that makes Ukraine’s civilians the target. Goncharenko lives…

Western Australian Fisheries Minister Don Punch announced a recreational fishing ban in a bid to reduce the mortality rate of demersal species by 50 per cent.“If we don’t act now, if we don’t put these measures in place, then we may well be facing a much more challenging situation in 2 or 3 years’ time that could even lead to the closure of the fishery,” Mr Punch said. Source: Sky News

Cinder blocks sit in a pile near homes under construction at the Toll Brothers Inc. Jupiter Country Club housing development in Jupiter, Florida.Mark Elias | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading.MongoDB — The database platform surged about 26% in extended trading following the company’s quarterly results. Mongo posted better-than-expected revenue for the most recent quarter and issued upbeat fourth-quarter revenue guidance, according to Refinitiv.Dave & Buster’s — Shares of the restaurant and video arcade operator dropped 5% even after it posted better-than-expected revenue and posted earnings that were in line with estimates, according to…

Hundreds of KPMG employees in the UK and Colombia cheated on professional exams, a US regulator alleged on Tuesday, and the conduct continued even after the accounting group was fined for a similar scandal in the US.The cheating was one of several infractions uncovered across KPMG’s global network by inspectors from the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, for which KPMG has agreed to pay a total of $7.7mn.The oversight board also discovered KPMG staff in the UK outsourced work to an unregulated affiliate in Romania, while staff in Colombia altered documents in order to deceive audit inspectors and a…

Mustafa Madeem had been riding an electric scooter on his way to school this morning when he was involved in a horrific smash with a bus in Birmingham, leaving behind three siblings A 12-year-old schoolboy who tragically died after his electric scooter crashed into a bus has been named and pictured. Young Mustafa Madeem had been riding the e-scooter to school during morning rush hour just before 8am when the fatal incident unfolded, police said. He never made it to his school, Saltley High School, in Birmingham, and emergency services rushed to the scene in a desperate effort to help…

The Nets will see more Ben Simmons soon. Then they hope they will begin to see less of him, as well as less of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Royce O’Neale and the main contributors through the first 25 games of their season. Simmons, who has missed the past three games with a calf strain, expects to sit Wednesday against the Hornets but believes he will return Friday against the Hawks. After a season lost because of a back issue (that required offseason surgery) and mental health concerns in Philadelphia, Simmons had hit his stride before he went down Nov. 28…

Congressional Republicans are preparing to fight the inclusion of “woke” priorities that Democrats want to attach to the national defense bill they’re under pressure to pass before the end of the year.One key issue of importance for Republicans is blocking language from Democrats in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require women to register for the draft under the Military Selective Service Act.”Requiring women to register for the draft does not advance our national security objectives, which is the only metric by which the NDAA should be measured,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.Roy and several other House Republicans…

Congress is approaching a Dec. 16 deadline to pass a new spending agreement to avoid a government shutdown, and Mitch McConnell says leaders from both parties are still at a “pretty significant impasse” in talks.”Time is ticking. We cannot agree on a top line. We are increasingly likely to do a short-term CR (continuing resolution) into early next year, and that may be the only way to proceed,” the Senate minority leader said Tuesday at a press conference.A CR would mean the Democrats would lose leverage over the next Congress by giving the incoming Republican majority the ability to set…

An US judge has dismissed thousands of lawsuits claiming that popular heartburn medication Zantac causes cancer, handing a big victory to pharmaceutical companies GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim.US District Judge Robin Rosenberg in West Palm Beach, Florida, said in an order on Tuesday that the almost 2,500 lawsuits filed in federal court by plaintiffs were based on flawed science, and that the only reliable testing of the blockbuster drug undertaken showed an “unprovable risk of cancer”.Analysts said the ruling should remove a large portion of the potential liability linked to the Zantac litigation, which investors had feared could lead…

An adorable three-year-old boy was caught on video helping his mom unload the dishwasher — with an incredible and funny twist.Levi is a three-year-old twin from Ontario, Canada, who enjoys helping his parents with household duties. Mom of two Melinda Pasqua told Fox News Digital that she taught her boys at a young age how to handle — very carefully — potentially harmful objects around the house. GROUP HUG! BOY GETS ADORABLE ‘WELCOME BACK’ AT PRESCHOOL AFTER ILLNESS PUT HIS TWIN IN THE HOSPITALIn the viral video, Levi can be seen picking up a knife from the dishwasher.He then points the knife…