Ulez vehicle exports to Ukraine needs rule change, says London mayor

Sadiq Khan is requesting the government change the rules around scrappage schemes to allow exports.

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Hundreds turn out for pre-Christmas meat auction

The Smithfield Market's traditional event returned on Saturday for the first time since before the Covid pandemic.

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University of Idaho warns it will tow away cars parked outside King Road house during demolition this month

New signs are warning drivers not to park outside the University of Idaho home where four students were killed last year as the school prepares to tear down the site, which administrators see as a "grim reminder" just steps away from the edge of campus.

No parking is allowed on the 1122 King Road side of the street from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. on December 28 and 29, or between January 2 and 5. A separate flyer informs drivers there is free parking at campus lot 111A, where no permits will be required.

Four undergrads, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, were killed in the six-bedroom rental home around 4 a.m. on November 13, 2022. All four were honored posthumously at the university's commencement the semester after their murders.

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The brutality of the crime garnered international attention as police spent nearly two months searching for a suspect. It also attracted reporters, true crime bloggers and gawkers to the home. 

Authorities arrested Bryan Kohberger, a Ph.D. student at the neighboring Washington State University, at his parents' Pennsylvania house on December 30.

The landlord donated the property to the school, which announced plans to tear down the building on December 28, 2023. The building has been under armed guard 24/7 since the slayings. Authorities also boarded up the windows and doors and installed temporary fencing.

Critics of the decision, including some legal experts and Kernodle's mother, say they believe it should remain standing until Kohberger stands trial so that jurors can have an opportunity to tour the scene firsthand.

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Other experts, however, told Fox News Digital that a jury visit would be a logistical hurdle that may not have much payoff after investigators on both sides have extensively photographed and measured the interior.

Prosecutors asked Judge John Judge to set a trial date this summer. They expect it to take six weeks.

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UI architecture students have also been tasked with creating a memorial garden for the stabbing victims and other classmates who met tragic ends at the school.

Two other housemates survived, including one who heard crying and saw a masked man with "bushy eyebrows" leave out the back door.

Police found a knife sheath under Mogen's body that they say had Kohberger's DNA on it. Authorities also cited phone records and surveillance video showing Kohberger's white Hyundai Elantra in a probable cause affidavit last year.

At the time of the murders, Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, just 10 miles from Moscow, Idaho.

Judge Judge entered not-guilty pleas on Kohberger's behalf at his arraignment in May. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Tree hidden in Central Park serves as special pet memorial: 'Warms my heart'

A tree in Central Park, Manhattan, appears to be leaving a lasting impression on visitors for an unexpected and heartwarming reason.

Central Park, located in the heart of New York City, occupies 840 acres and is home to over 18,000 trees, according to the Central Park Conservancy. 

One tree in the park, however, is catching eyes as it holds a special meaning for pet owners far and wide.

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A tree located in the Ramble in Central Park serves as a pet memorial, and anyone can add their pet to the site.

The Ramble, one of Central Park’s three woodland landscapes, stretches 36 acres in the middle of the park between 73rd and 79th street, per the Central Park Conservancy.

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Although the tree may be mistaken for a Christmas tree this time of year, it actually functions as a memorial with hundreds of pet photos posted by pet owners who visit the park.

Lori Rumpel, a 35-year Manhattan resident, told Fox News Digital that she discovered the tree while taking a stroll through the Ramble.

"It’s so unique and special, unlike any other tree in Central Park," she explained. "It warms my heart."

Rumpel, who said she started walking more during the pandemic, explained that she can "feel the love in each and every photo."

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The tree turns into a pet memorial each year around November for about six to eight weeks, according to TheFureverTree.com – a website dedicated to the memorial.

Pets included in the memorial are dogs, cats, birds and more, according to the site.

On Dec. 16, 2023, Central Park held a two-mile walk to the pet memorial so that people in the community could add their pet pictures to the tree.

The walk was hosted by the Ever Walk Group – a nationwide non-profit walking club. It involved participants bringing a laminated photo of a pet that had died along with a ribbon or string to hang it, per the Central Park website.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Central Park Conservancy for comment.

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Lawyers told ministers schools trans advice was 'high risk'

Leaked document suggests lawyers warned government guidance puts schools at risk of being sued.

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Elle Edwards: Four more charged over Wirral pub shooting

The 26-year-old was shot dead outside a pub in Wirral on Christmas Eve last year.

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Border Patrol officials say threat posed by ‘gotaways’ at southern border ‘keeps us up at night’

FIRST ON FOX: Top Border Patrol sector chiefs expressed concern about the number of illegal immigrants evading detection at the southern border, saying the potential threat coming across the border "keeps us up at night" during interviews with the House Homeland Security Committee throughout the year.

Fox News Digital obtained excerpts from transcripts of interviews with the committee taken during the year as part of its work on the ongoing migrant crisis, which has set multiple records this year. 

Then-Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens, now head of the Border Patrol, told lawmakers that a major concern for the agency is the impact the humanitarian crisis has on the border security mission.

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"And our true adversary, the smugglers, while we’re tied up with this humanitarian effort, what are they doing around the bend that we can’t be there to respond to?" he told the committee in May. "Is that where they’re crossing dangerous narcotics? Is that where they’re crossing convicted felons? That is what keeps us up at night."

"Gotaways" are illegal immigrants who evade Border Patrol detection but are sometimes caught by other forms of surveillance. Fox reported this month that officials told lawmakers that there were around 670,000 known gotaways in FY23. 

There have been increased concerns about gotaways given the ongoing migrant crisis, where agents are being diverted to processing duties rather than out in the field. In some areas, agents have been outnumbered 200:1 by migrants. FBI Director Christopher Wray said in November that gotaways are a source of "great concern" for the FBI.

Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, in July, said that when agents are aware of large groups of migrants, "then the primary goal becomes the humanitarian mission of, of course, apprehending them, but also making sure that they’re not out there in the heat. We try to get them out as soon as possible. So then the border security mission suffers at that point."

Owens said that those who are seeking to evade Border Patrol, rather than turning themselves in for processing as many do every single day, are more likely to have something to hide.

"If a person is willing to put themselves into harm’s way crossing through very remote, very dangerous conditions to evade capture, you have to ask yourself why. What makes them willing to take that risk? That’s of concern to me," he said. "What’s also of concern to me is I don’t know who that individual is. I don’t know where they came from. I don’t know what their intention is. I don’t know what they brought with them. That unknown represents a risk, a threat. It’s of great concern to anybody that wears this uniform."

Then-El Paso Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez was asked in September what types of crimes and allegations are among those seeking to evade detection.

"So there’s a variety that are encountered. Many times it’s gang members. Other times, there are criminal records of sex offenders, homicide, burglaries, etc.," she said, according to the excerpts.

However, El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said his concerns were broader than just the gotaways.

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"Any gotaway or any illegal alien for that matter presents a threat to national security or a threat to the taxpayer of the United States," he said.

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said in a statement that officials have warned that the true number of gotaways could be higher due to those who are evading detection as well as agents.

"We know nothing about the people entering our country uncaught, and we don’t know their intentions or possible malign ambitions. We do know that many gotaways pay the cartels extra to avoid apprehension, which should make us all wonder — why?" he said. "Why give up the prospect of likely release into the interior of the country after turning yourself in to the Border Patrol, being released to a local NGO, and given a paid-for bus or plane ticket to the destination of your choice — unless you have something to hide?"

Sector chiefs also talked about how they have been forced to pull resources from CBP checkpoints, including shutting them down, to focus on the physical land border itself.

San Diego Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said in May that in 2021 and 2022, his San Diego Sector pulled resources "off of the maritime side and then the checkpoint side and focused on the actual physical land border." Other officials said the migratory surges made it "more challenging to keep checkpoints, through which illegal entrants can be arrested, open."

Republicans have blamed the policies of the Biden administration for the migrant crisis, including the roll-back of Trump-era policies. DHS has said it is dealing with a hemisphere-wide crisis and is expanding legal pathways for entry while increasing consequences for illegal entry and targeting smugglers. It says it needs more funding and immigration reform from Congress to fix a "broken" system. A $14 billion funding request is being debated in Washington as lawmakers struggle to find agreement on the supplemental spending bill. 

A DHS official told Fox that there have been 400,000 removals between May and the end of November — nearly the number of removals in all of FY19. The official also noted that the supplemental funding request includes funding for 1,300 additional agents in addition to the 20,000+ funded in the FY24 budget, and 300 Border Patrol Processing Coordinators among other staff.

Democrats on the committee have highlighted other parts of the interviews, including one in which Chavez stressed the importance of Border Patrol processing coordinators.

"They are an added value to the workforce, especially in the central processing centers. Their input and their contribution to the processing has been exemplary," Chavez said, adding that 52-64% of personnel are now able to handle enforcement in the field.

She also said that the surge in troops to the border by the Pentagon around the ending of Title 42 "releases our agents from those responsibilities so that they can go and do patrol and interdiction duties on the front line."

Owens, meanwhile, was asked if processing coordinators had helped get Border Patrol agents back in the field.

"Absolutely. Anything and everything is going to help," he said.

Officials have also said that detection capability has increased, which allows more gotaways to be detected: "Because we have gotten more detection capability, because we have…more on the way, we’ve got the additional processing coordinators, we are in a better situation than we were in years past," he said.

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Iceland volcano: Spectacular aerial footage shows scale

Drone footage shows lava and smoke spewing into the air weeks after waiting on the seismic activity.

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Sam Ryder surprises shoppers in Reading

The Eurovision star wants to push his Christmas single to number one in the charts.

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T'Wolves' Anthony Edwards appears to encourage model to get an abortion in text exchange, offers apology

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards’ personal text messages with an Instagram model were put out in the public sphere on Sunday, forcing the guard to comment on it.

Paige Jordae released text messages that appeared to show her telling Edwards she was pregnant and she had an appointment to see a doctor. Edwards, who is tagged in the screenshots posted on Instagram, appeared to respond, "Hell Nawl can’t do dis."

He then suggested that she "get a abortion lol."

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"Honestly I had an abortion with my son around 2 years ago and I regret it everyday," she responded.

Edwards wrote back that he didn’t "want a kid." He seemingly encouraged her to "just take the pills" and wanted her to send him a video of her taking the right pills. He asked her to "send da video" multiple times.

The exchange appeared to take place between late November and early December. The texts also suggested Edwards offered to handle the issue between themselves but later got a lawyer involved.

Jordae then put out a longer statement about the issue on her Stories.

"I’ve never once ran to the internet about NO ONE," she wrote. "I tried over and over to handle this privately and my efforts were ignored.

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"I’ve been lied to and manipulated by someone who knows exactly what they’re doing and takes no accountability for anything."

She also posted a screenshot of a wire transfer of $100,000.

Edwards on Monday posted a statement about the exchange.

"I made comments in the heat of a moment that are not me, and that are not aligned with what I believe and who I want to be as a man," the statement read. "All women should be supported and empowered to make their own decisions about their bodies and what is best for them.

"I am handling my personal matters privately and will not be commenting on them any further at this time."

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Christmas: Twinkly tractors plough Pembrokeshire festive furrow

More than 200 tractors festooned in sparkling festive colours parade through Pembrokeshire.

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New Mexico State coach rips rival AD over alleged bowl game mishap: 'That's chickens---'

New Mexico State football coach Jerry Kill tore into University of New Mexico athletic director Eddie Nunez after the team lost its bowl game to Fresno State on Saturday.

Kill guided the Aggies to the New Mexico Bowl against the Bulldogs. But the team lost 37-10. The veteran coach said the athletic director tried to deny his team access to practice facilities in a retaliation move from an incident earlier in the season.

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He told ESPN the team would have needed to practice on a high school field if the New Mexico Bowl director Jeff Siembieda didn’t intervene and help push for the Aggies to use New Mexico’s field. Kill said the team arrived on Thursday as four police officers were there to watch the team. They were not there on Friday.

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Kill suggested New Mexico’s problem with the Aggies stemmed from an incident over the summer in which New Mexico State quarterback Diego Pavia was seen urinating on the New Mexico logo in the indoor practice facility. The incident came to light in September.

"I hope the AD here gets the same damn discipline with the people around this state that Diego got, because he deserves it," he said. "It don't bother me a damn bit. When he don't let us... practice in the indoor facility, when he don't want us to do this and do that, that's chickens---. 

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"I don't care, that's my opinion, if I get in trouble, I don't give a s--- either. Because I can go down to Mexico tomorrow, drink margaritas and let you all enjoy your life, because I'll be enjoying mine. But I've got class. I've had class my whole life."

Nunez pushed back on Kill’s assertions, saying the school "would never stand in the way" of any team practicing for its bowl game. He told ESPN the suggestion that it would retaliate against the school was "both misguided and offensive."

Saturday’s loss to Fresno State was the Aggies’ first defeat in a bowl game in the school’s history.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea, blames US for destabilizing region

North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea said, as Pyongyang blamed the U.S. for escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The missile was fired off North Korea’s east coast near its capital of Pyongyang and flew 354 miles (570 kilometers) before landing in the sea, 

The Japanese Coast Guard said the missile had fallen less than 20 minutes after its launch, Reuters reported.

The South criticized the launch as a "clear violation" of U.N. Security Council resolutions that have banned the North from using ballistic technologies.

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North Korea’s Defense Ministry issued a statement shortly after the launch but did not mention the ballistic missile.

Instead, the ministry criticized the U.S. for what it called a "reckless military threat" that was destabilizing the region, referring to the U.S. deployment of military assets, including strategic bombers and nuclear-powered submarines, to South Korea.

"The armed forces of the DPRK will thoroughly neutralize the U.S. and its vassal forces' attempt to ignite a nuclear war and thus reliably ensure peace and security in the Korean peninsula," a ministry spokesman said in a statement obtained by Reuters.

Pyongyang also condemned Washington's and Seoul’s move to include nuclear operation scenarios in their joint drills, describing it as an open threat to potentially use nuclear weapons against the North and vowing to prepare unspecified "offensive countermeasures."

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Hours before North Korea launched the missile, a joint statement from the U.S. and South Korean said warned Pyongyang that any nuclear attack against the nation or its allies "is unacceptable and will result in the end of the (Kim Jong) Un regime," Reuters reported.

"The U.S. side reiterated that any nuclear attack by the DPRK against the ROK will be met with a swift, overwhelming, and decisive response," the statement said.

The North has test-fired more than 100 missiles since the start of 2022 as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used the distraction caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to speed up the expansion of his military nuclear program, which he sees as his strongest guarantee of survival.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Matthew Perry detailed ketamine use prior to death: 'Has my name written all over it'

Matthew Perry revealed in his memoir that he underwent ketamine infusion therapy prior to his death. 

The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner released an autopsy report stating that Perry died of "acute effects of ketamine."

The beloved actor confessed his experience with the deadly drug in his memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," and how he used ketamine daily. 

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The "Friends" star admitted he was "doing ketamine infusions every day."

"Ketamine was a very popular street drug in the 1980s. There is a synthetic form of it now, and it's used for two reasons: to ease pain and help with depression," he penned. "Has my name written all over it—they might as well have called it 'Matty.'"

Although ketamine "felt like a giant exhale" to Perry, he said it felt like he was "dying."

"Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die. Yet I would continually sign up for this s*** because it was something different, and anything different is good," he added.

"Taking K is like being hit in the head with a giant happy shovel. But the hangover was rough and outweighed the shovel. Ketamine was not for me."

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Perry died Oct. 28 after an apparent drowning in a hot tub at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. He was 54.

"There were trace amounts of ketamine detected in the stomach contents," the autopsy listed. "The exact method of intake in Mr. Perry's case is unknown." 

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Perry reportedly received "ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety."

His last known treatment was more than one week prior to death, but the medical examiner determined "the ketamine in his system at death could not be from that infusion therapy, since ketamine’s half-life is 3 to 4 hours, or less."

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Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with "established medical and surgical uses," the autopsy detailed.

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No foul play was suspected, and no illegal drugs were reportedly found at the scene. Perry was laid to rest Nov. 3 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.

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