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USA

Donald Trump's chief of staff said the main goal of US maritime strikes is to oust Nicolás Maduro after a US strike in the eastern Pacific killed four people as part of a months-long campaign. US Southern Command...

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USA

The Trump administration announced more than $10 billion in US arms sales to Taiwan, following earlier US notifications that described an approximately $11 billion, eight-part package to the island. The State Department...

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USA

Peter Arnett has died in Newport Beach at 91 after a period in hospice while suffering from prostate cancer, his son Andrew Arnett said, following a decades-long career that won him the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for...

5h/50m
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USA

The US government for the first time acknowledged direct responsibility in a court filing responding to the first civil lawsuit, after a mid‑January collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67...

12h/4h
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USA

Dan Bongino announced he will leave the FBI in January amid disputes over the handling of Epstein files and criticism of ICE raids, following his controversial appointment earlier this year. Bongino thanked Donald...

13h/3h
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Estonia

Estonia summoned Russia’s top diplomat after three Russian border guards crossed the Narva River in a hovercraft, patrolled a pier for about 20 minutes and returned, following initial reports that a hovercraft briefly...

3h/7m
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USA

Donald Trump announced in a national address the night before that nearly 1.5 million service members will receive a one-time "warrior" bonus of about 16,000 SEK (roughly $1,776) after first unveiling the idea in June....

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Germany

Birkenstock forecast annual profit below Wall Street expectations as the Trump administration's 15% US import tariff is set to shave about 100 basis points from gross margins, following a quarter in which revenue rose...

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USA

YouTube will be the exclusive global streamer of the Oscars from 2029, offering free, ad‑supported live coverage and accessibility features after the Academy sought a new licensing partner earlier this year. The Academy...

16h/1h
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Australia

The Australian government will introduce new legislation against anti‑Semitism following the terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach that killed 15 people. Deputy Immigration Minister Matt...

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Italy

Investigators are analysing seized drives and widening the probe after an electrician who installed home surveillance systems was arrested in Trieste when his partner found nude photos of her underage daughters....

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USA

Ghislaine Maxwell filed this week a pro se petition in federal court asking to vacate, set aside or correct her conviction and 20‑year sentence, saying substantial new evidence undermines the 2021 sex‑trafficking...

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Ecuador

A special police unit is working on the investigation after Mario Pineida was shot dead in Guayaquil, following reports that he and companions were ambushed as they left a butcher shop. Local media reported two people...

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Germany

Federal prosecutors charged eight people on Dec. 18 over an alleged right-wing terror cell called Letzte Verteidigungswelle, following police raids in May that detained suspects aged 14 to 21. The indictment in Hamburg...

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France

20 Minutes is following amateur club Lyon La Duchère in a video series ahead of its Coupe de France tie with Toulouse, after Olympique Lyonnais sealed direct Champions League quarterfinal qualification by beating...

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USA

Jimmy Kimmel denounced the expanded plaques unveiled this week in Donald Trump's Presidential Walk of Fame, saying the bronze inscriptions are real and mocking their partisan insults after the installation drew...

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Venezuela

Venezuelan navy began escorting ships out of its ports after Donald Trump ordered a full blockade of sanctioned tankers that enter or leave Venezuela, following an earlier campaign of interdictions and a tanker seizure...

35h/11h
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USA

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to recuse herself from the DOJ review of potential deals for Warner Bros. Discovery after disclosing that her former employer Ballard...

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USA

The Trump administration has ordered a sharp expansion of denaturalization efforts, asking USCIS field offices to refer 100 to 200 cases per month to the DOJ for fiscal 2026 after earlier reports said the agency would...

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Belgium

Italy joined France in opposing the EU‑Mercosur free‑trade deal, raising the prospect that the European Council summit in Brussels could fail to approve the pact after the European Commission spent days pressing member...

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USA

Jim McGovern attacked Republican claims and President Donald Trump’s unfulfilled promises after the House passed a GOP health-care bill that omitted expiring enhanced ACA subsidies. McGovern challenged Virginia Foxx on...

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USA

Witness descriptions match the images police released as the search entered its fifth day after a weekend shooting last week that killed two Brown University students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and wounded...

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Belgium

ReBirth completed a majority-stake recapitalisation of Cowboy, converting legacy obligations into equity and supplying a combined €15 million to clean up the balance sheet and restart production, after earlier reports...

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Italy

Leonardo Apache La Russa said he was cleared of a revenge-porn charge and revealed he suffered depression and contemplated suicide after a Milan judge declared the charge extinguished following a €25,000 settlement....

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USA

Craig Melvin visited and interviewed James Van Der Beek at his Texas ranch and posted behind-the-scenes photos showing Van Der Beek upbeat, after Van Der Beek publicly revealed last November that he has stage 3...

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USA

The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, ending a monthslong nomination saga that included an earlier withdrawn nomination and a November renomination by Donald Trump. The Senate approved...

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USA

Jamieson Greer published a presentation to congressional committees this week saying Canada must change its protected dairy market and its Online Streaming Act if the administration is to recommend renewing the USMCA,...

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Belgium

EU leaders will meet Thursday in Brussels to decide whether to unlock frozen Russian assets after officials and media cited a higher aggregate of about $246 billion, reviving a Commission proposal to use immobilized...

25h/12h
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USA

Nick Reiner appeared in Los Angeles court on two counts of first-degree murder and agreed to a new arraignment date after his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood home....

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TheDaily

Congress failed to extend health care subsidies
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UK

Celtic sit second in the Scottish Premiership, six points behind Hearts, amid a deepening crisis after Wilfried Nancy lost his fourth match in as many games when Dundee United beat Celtic 2-1. Daizen Maeda put Celtic...

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Brazil

Congress approved a law that could cut Jair Bolsonaro's sentence to two years and four months following the Senate's earlier move to change how multiple sentences are counted. The measure, backed by a conservative...

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USA

The White House announced that TrumpRx and a most-favored-nation pricing approach will start in January 2026, following agreements the administration says link US drug prices to lower foreign prices and...

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USA

Kevin Warren said the Bears have expanded their stadium search beyond Chicago to include the club's 326-acre Arlington Heights property and sites in Northwest Indiana after state leaders told the team the project would...

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USA

The members of Jane's Addiction said they reached a private settlement, ending litigation after the band canceled the remainder of its US reunion tour last fall following a widely publicized brawl in Boston. In a joint...

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USA

Dolby and LG unveiled the modular LG Sound Suite using Dolby FlexConnect, following earlier reports that LG planned an H7 soundbar as part of a new Sound Suite. The collection—centered on the H7 and including M7 and M5...

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UK

Tuition fees for EU students in the UK will be the same as those paid by British students following an agreement to rejoin the EU Erasmus+ exchange programme, building on the earlier decision to withdraw after Brexit....

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Russia

Vladimir Putin warned this week that Russia will try to expand the territory it controls in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western supporters reject Russian demands during upcoming peace talks, following an earlier freeze of...

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Germany

Sam Kerr scored a late header and became the first Australian—and only the second Chelsea player—to reach 20 Champions League goals as Chelsea came from behind to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 and advance directly to the Women's...

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CNN

Woman marries ChatGPT character
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UK

Hulcan co-founders Mario Maher and Joe Wilkinson have bought the intellectual property of defunct London e-tailer Matches and its label Raey and said they will relaunch both next year, after acquiring the brands from...

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USA

Carr defended his actions and denied intending threats at a Dec. 17 hearing after he pressed broadcasters to punish Jimmy Kimmel following Kimmel’s Sept. 15 monologue about the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Senators...

13h/10h
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USA

Cedric Lodge was sentenced to eight years in federal prison in Williamsport after new court proceedings detailed that he and his wife, Denise Lodge, trafficked body parts taken from cadavers donated to Harvard Medical...

24h/13h
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TheHill

NewsNation panel discusses Trump's Oval Office address
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USA

A New York Times Magazine investigation published this week finds that Jeffrey Epstein built wealth and protection through scams, romantic relationships and social networking, following fresh House Oversight disclosures...

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USA

Susan Illston will block the Trump administration from laying off hundreds of federal workers following unions' lawsuit to stop more than 4,000 cuts announced during the 43-day government shutdown. Illston said she will...

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USA

Jennifer Lawrence admitted on a recent episode of Variety and CNN's Actors on Actors that she accidentally took Ambien while filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, hallucinated during a 2013 dance scene with Philip...

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USA

Police intensified their search for a suspect after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was shot outside his Brookline apartment and died at a hospital, following initial reports that a...

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USA

Players and coaches were scheduled to depart at 8:25 p.m. ET after their team plane was delayed by an equipment issue, Adam Schefter reported, following earlier accounts that the Rams were seeking alternate travel to...

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USA

In her final days in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene secured passage of H.R. 3492 after she agreed to advance the National Defense Authorization Act, marking the first time a federal ban on gender‑affirming care for...

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USA

Oracle shares fell another 5%, dragging the Nasdaq down about 1.8%, after investors reacted to fresh signs of financial strain including stalled financing for a planned $10 billion, 1‑gigawatt data centre in Saline...

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USA

The Pittsburgh Penguins are being sold to the Hoffmann family in a deal reported to be worth roughly SEK 15.8–16.7 billion, following earlier reports that Fenway Sports Group had reached an agreement to sell the club....

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Israel

Donald Trump is pressing for a summit between Israeli and Egyptian leaders after Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to export Israeli natural gas to Egypt. Netanyahu will travel to the USA later this month...

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VirginIslandsUS

The US government sued the US Virgin Islands, its police department and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks, alleging the territory’s gun‑permit rules unlawfully block Americans from exercising their Second Amendment...

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USA

Greene warned on CNN’s The Source that Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party appears to be loosening and predicted Republicans could face a poor showing in the 2026 midterm elections after she first warned that...

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Fox

Near miss: Vehicle crashes through the front of a hardware store
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Italy

The Court of Cassation has confirmed Matteo Salvini’s acquittal in the Open Arms case, after the Palermo tribunal cleared him last year. The decision closes proceedings over the August 2019 episode in which the NGO ship...

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USA

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Velocity V-Twin crashed shortly after departing Nashua Airport and came to rest upside down in a snow bank in the Cannongate Condominiums parking lot at about...

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USA

The California Department of Motor Vehicles gave Tesla 90 days to correct marketing for its driver-assist systems or face a 30-day suspension of both its manufacturing and dealer licenses, following an earlier finding...

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China

A Reuters report says a Chinese prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography machine built by former ASML engineers is now undergoing testing in Shenzhen after Reuters revealed the project used ex-ASML staff working under...

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USA

The Senate required Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to hand over unedited footage of US strikes near Venezuela and withheld a quarter of his travel budget, following final approval of the 3,000-page National Defense...

17h/15h
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USA

New reporting says Susie Wiles spoke at length with a Vanity Fair journalist and made candid remarks about Donald Trump, including calling him "the personality of an alcoholic," after a longer Vanity Fair profile...

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USA

Melania Trump announced that the documentary MELANIA will open exclusively in theaters on Jan. 30 after an earlier trailer and reports that the film was shot over a concentrated 20-day period around the presidential...

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Italy

Giorgia Meloni urged postponing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement signature, calling a signing in the coming days premature after she avoided mentioning arms deliveries to Kyiv in a parliamentary resolution to keep her...

16h/15h
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USA

Rogers' family confirmed to TMZ that Lane V. Rogers died two days earlier after a motorcycle collision near Oxnard, following initial reports that he was pronounced dead at the scene. The 31-year-old, known online as...

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Italy

A draft decree from the Environment Ministry would eliminate in-person inspections for boilers under 70 kilowatts, affecting about 20 million units, and replace them with remote checks every four years after earlier...

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USA

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say Titan likely lacks a single global underground ocean and instead contains deep layers of ice and slush with isolated pockets of liquid water, following a reanalysis of...

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Myanmar

Kim Aris warned that "For all I know, she could be dead already" as he urged politicians in Tokyo to press for his mother’s release, after the Myanmar junta insisted she is "in good health". Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel...

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USA

Donald Trump last week signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to form an AI Litigation Task Force to sue states and asking the Department of Commerce to consider withholding federal broadband...

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CNN

CNN among first on site of Bondi Beach massacre
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USA

Young Thug proposed to Mariah the Scientist during a hometown benefit concert in Atlanta, following a relationship that began in 2021 and a brief split in October that ended in reconciliation. Footage from State Farm...

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USA

Norman Podhoretz died peacefully overnight, his son John Podhoretz confirmed, following a decades-long career as a leading and controversial neo-conservative editor. As editor of Commentary from 1960 to 1995, Podhoretz...

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SouthAfrica

South Africa will expel seven Kenyans who worked for the US program to resettle Afrikaners, home affairs officials said, after intelligence indicated some Kenyan nationals entered on tourist visas and allegedly took...

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Palestine

Multiple people were wounded after Israeli troops fired a mortar over the Oct. 10 ceasefire Yellow Line into a residential area in central Gaza City, following earlier reports that a mortar strike had wounded 10 people....

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Belgium

Jamieson Greer, the USA Trade Representative, warned Washington could impose tariffs and other restrictions on European companies after the European Commission’s recent fines and probes and after Donald Trump began...

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USA

Niall Horan was placed on vocal rest and could not perform during The Voice Season 28 Holiday Spectacular finale, after which Aiden Ross was crowned the season winner on NBC. The two-night finale featured...

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Ukraine

Paramedics evacuated residents and loaded at least one wounded person into an ambulance as firefighters battled flames after a Russian airstrike damaged a multi-story apartment building in Zaporizhzhia, following...

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Italy

The triptych by Michael Triegel has been loaned for two years to the Teutonic chapel at the Vatican and was publicly displayed there last week after UNESCO concerns and a July decision to move the panel from its planned...

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USA

Jeanne Marrazzo filed a federal lawsuit in Maryland naming Matthew Memoli and Jay Bhattacharya, alleging she was illegally fired after blowing the whistle on sweeping NIH funding cuts and research cancellations. The...

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USA

Terence Crawford announced his immediate retirement, saying he was walking away with nothing else to prove after earlier social media posts and reports had signaled his decision. The Omaha-born fighter finished his...

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France

The European Parliament voted 358–202 to back the citizens' initiative My Voice, My Choice to create an EU-funded scheme covering travel and abortion procedures for people from member states with restrictive laws,...

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USA

Mark Chavez was sentenced to eight months of house arrest and three years of supervised release following his guilty plea in the federal probe into Matthew Perry's death, after earlier reports detailed his role...

36h/26h
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USA

Donald Trump joined a dignified transfer on Wednesday for three Americans killed in an ambush in eastern Syria after two Army National Guard soldiers and a civilian interpreter were identified earlier by the Pentagon....

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USA

A federal appeals court ruled that the National Guard deployment in Washington can continue while it reviews a lower-court order that had directed troops to leave, after US District Judge Jia Cobb ordered their removal....

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Fox

Emily Compagno: This is colossal incompetence
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Brazil

Alex Leandro Bispo dos Santos was placed under a temporary detention order last week as investigators probe the death of his wife, influencer Maria Katiane Gomes da Silva, after security footage reportedly contradicted...

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China

A Chinese chip company, MetaX Integrated Circuits, surged over 700 percent in its Shanghai debut after the firm raised nearly $600 million at listing, following earlier broad declines across Asian markets. The rally...

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Germany

The German Defence Ministry says the initiative involves approximately 545 billion kronor in military purchases spread over about 30 procurements, following a parliamentary defence committee approval of nearly €50...

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USA

iRobot filed for bankruptcy this week, underscoring critics' view that the Roomba failed to deliver on the promise of everyday home robotics after the device launched the market in 2002 and lost ground to cheaper...

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USA

Amazon is negotiating to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI, offering access to its Trainium chips, data-center capacity and potentially an enterprise version of ChatGPT, following earlier moves by Google and Meta...

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BBC

Bondi shooting suspect Naveed Akram charged with murder
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Qatar

Real Madrid congratulated PSG after Paris Saint-Germain beat Flamengo on penalties to win the Intercontinental Cup, praising "a well-deserved title" and naming president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, coach Luis Enrique, the...

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USA

Jack Smith told House Judiciary Committee members in a closed-door deposition that his team developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the 2020 election, after...

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USA

The White House said Donald Trump will deliver a live address from the White House at 9 p.m. Eastern and the Associated Press will provide a livestream, after he announced the speech on social media on short notice that...

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USA

Donald Trump praised the enduring resilience of the Jewish people and condemned rising antisemitic attacks at a White House Hanukkah event, offering condolences after a recent Bondi Beach attack near Sydney that left 15...

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UK

Charles James Spencer-Churchill is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Thursday after being charged with three counts of intentional strangulation linked to alleged incidents between November 2022 and May last...

22h/18h
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TheDaily

The tragic death and enduring legacy of Rob Reiner
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BBC

Who is Susie Wiles
15h
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USA

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced that Nevada joined a multistate settlement with Hyundai and Kia after regulators said about 9 million US cars sold from 2011 through 2022 lacked industry-standard anti-theft...

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CNN

Jack Smith testifies he decided to charge Trump based on the president’s actions
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