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Big Tech CEOs, Carrie Underwood and foreign leaders
Donald Trump’s inauguration as the country’s 47th president was expected to be an extravagant break from tradition — before it got moved indoors due ... -
Trump’s family circle has a different look as he returns to the White House
When Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, his family circle will look a little different than it did when he first ... -
A long-awaited Gaza ceasefire starts after a delay
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect yesterday following an almost three-hour delay after Hamas was late to name the three hostage it ... -
Biden warns in farewell address that an ‘oligarchy’ of ultrarich threatens future of democracy
President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation yesterday (Macau time) to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking ... -
UK’s Starmer arrives in Ukraine for security talks with a pledge for a ‘100-year partnership’
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Ukraine’s capital yesterday with a pledge to help guarantee the country’s security for a century, days before ... -
Hamas OKs draft agreement of a Gaza ceasefire and the release of some hostages, officials say
Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in ... -
Haiti has one million displaced people, mostly from gang violence
The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 ... -
British author Neil Gaiman denies ever engaging in non-consensual sex as more accusers come forward
Best-selling British author Neil Gaiman released a statement yesterday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual sex after a magazine this week published allegations ... -
Multiracial boom in 2020 census was mostly an illusion, researchers say
When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since ... -
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add ... -
153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes seek new ways to grow food to meet surging global need
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes released an open letter yesterday calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment ... -
Progress made in talks over ceasefire and hostage release, officials say
U.S. and Arab mediators made significant progress overnight toward brokering a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of scores of hostages held ... -
No pants? No problem. London subway riders bare their legs to brighten a gray winter day
Mind the pants. Hundreds of Londoners headed down to the Underground on Sunday afternoon, stripped down to their underwear and travelled around a bit, ... -
Germany welcomes release of German-Iranian rights activist from prison
Germany’s foreign minister yesterday welcomed the release of a German-Iranian rights activist from prison in Iran and her return to Germany. Foreign Minister Annalena ... -
Los Angeles wildfires death toll rises as crews fight heavy winds to save homes and landmarks
The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area rose to 16 as crews battled to cut off the spreading blazes before ... -
Out-of-control Los Angeles wildfires burn thousands of homes and other structures
A fast-moving fire broke out in the hills above Hollywood Boulevard and threatened some of the most popular Los Angeles tourist spots as firefighters ... -
US ‘notorious markets’ report warns of risks from online pharmacies
Nearly all of the world’s 35,000 online pharmacies are being run illegally and consumers who use them risk getting ineffective or dangerous drugs, according ... -
A new book alleges that someone at Fox News gave Trump’s team an early look at town hall questions
Someone inside Fox News gave Donald Trump’s presidential campaign the questions he would face ahead of a town hall the network produced in January ... -
Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he’s looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed
Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm ... -
Long silenced by fear, Syrians now speak about rampant torture under Assad
Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw smoke rising from his cellmate’s flesh as his torturers gave him electric shocks. Then it ... -
Liberals look for a new prime minister as Trump threatens tariffs and an election looms
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation after facing an increasing loss of support both within his party and in the country. Now ... -
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, tapping an Italian nun
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect ... -
TikTok creators left in limbo while awaiting decision on potential platform ban
Will TikTok be banned this month? That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision ... -
Hezbollah leader Nasrallah was killed last year inside the war operations room, aide says
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group’s war operations room, according to new details ... -
Shooting attack on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank kills three
Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank yesterday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others. Violence ... -
Ukraine will ask allies to boost its air defenses at a meeting in Germany, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will again call on allies to boost its air defenses at last week’s meeting in Germany, as U.S. ... -
Chancellor Nehammer says he will resign after talks on forming a new government fail
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. ... -
Heavy snow brings widespread disruption across the UK and Germany
Heavy snow and freezing rain brought widespread disruption across Europe yesterday, particularly in the U.K. and Germany, with several major airports forced to suspend ... -
The world welcomes 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges
From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. ... -
A new year dawns on a Middle East torn by conflict and change
In Damascus, the streets were buzzing with excitement earlier this week as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring ... -
Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations, documents in ‘major’ cyber incident
Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said earlier this ... -
Gunman who killed at least 12 people in a shooting rampage in Montenegro dies by suicide
At least four others were wounded in the shooting rampage in the western town of Cetinje on Wednesday that followed a bar brawl, officials ... -
Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms
In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month ... -
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one ... -
A butterfly collector in Africa with more than 4.2 million seeks to share them for the future
What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb ...
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