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Pete Hegseth faces ‘critical day’ as Trump mulls other options for defense secretary

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Transgender rights case lands at Supreme Court amid debate over ban on medical treatments for minors

<p>Authorities fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a western Pennsylvania village</p>

Massive search underway after grandma fell down a sinkhole looking for her cat

<p>Two babies, aged 4 and 5 months-old, were found safe and well after a frantic search for a stolen car on Monday in Indianapolis</p>

Crime

A man went to get packages outside his home. Instead, he stumbled upon 2 kidnapped babies

Martial law lifted in South Korea as calls grow for impeachment of president

<p>South Korean protesters hold placards that read ‘we condemn unconstitutional martial law!’ during a rally against president Yoon Suk Yeol at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on 4 December 2024, after martial law was lifted</p>

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British band Sports Team get robbed at gunpoint on Day 1 of US tour

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Trump’s DEA nominee backs out after Covid and immigration criticisms

<p>Miley Cyrus in the ‘Flowers’ music video</p>

Here were the top artists and songs on Spotify in 2023

<p>Hannah Kobayashi, 30, reportedly crossed the US border into Mexico of her own volition on November 12, the same day her family reported her missing. Police, volunteers, and Kobayashi’s family have been searching for her since the 12th </p>

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Hannah Kobayashi’s sister raises doubts that she ‘voluntarily’ disappeared

<p>Angelina Jolie </p>

Angelia Jolie hopes no one makes a biopic about her: ‘Most insane question award’

<p>Man tries to protect his dog after feral dog went for the pet as reporters were filming in Liberty County</p>

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Texas neighborhood terrified by stray dogs roaming the streets, attacking residents

<p>Mia DeCamilla’s family says the eight-year-old cancer survivor was shoved while attending a Buffalo Bills game over the weekend</p>

NFL

Drunk Buffalo Bills fan shoved 8-year-old cancer survivor down stairs at her first NFL game, family says

<p>Christopher Collings, 49, was executed on Tuesday, December 3 </p>

Crime

Missouri executes Christopher Collings for 2007 assault and killing of 9-year-old girl

<p>Asteroid lights up the sky in Lensk, Sakha Republic, Russia, on 4 December 2024</p>

Asteroid on collision course with Russia burns up in stunning fireball

<p>Nomma Zarubina is facing a maximum of 10 years in prison, if convicted</p>

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Accused Russian operative says she has always been ‘honest’ to the FBI except for the two times she wasn’t

<p>Fans called out grammatical errors in Taylor Swift’s new book </p>

I knew you were treble: Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour book criticized for grammatical errors

<p>Timothy Hyder, 57, killed his fiancée after she told him she wouldn’t marry him, police say</p>

Crime

Brokenhearted ‘murdered his fiance after she broke off their engagement’

<p>Billboards, ads and other promotions announcing the return of Enron have appeared exactly 23 years after the company declared bankruptcy </p>

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Houston baffled after billboards appear claiming infamously bankrupt Enron is back

<p>St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans </p>

Crime

Retired New Orleans priest, 93, pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping boys in 1970s

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Will Pete Hegseth answer questions about his history with women — or will he walk away?

MAGA networks can’t agree on how to cover Pete Hegseth’s many scandals

<p>Allexis Ferrell was arrested in August for killing and eating a cat in Canton, Ohio. The incident was later used to incorrectly peddle false claims about immigrants by Donald Trump and JD Vance</p>

Crime

Woman who sparked election disinformation after eating a cat sentenced

<p>Sen. Joe Manchin speaks to reporters before an afternoon vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, earlier this year </p>

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Joe Manchin says Biden’s pardon of Hunter would have been ‘more balanced’ if he also pardoned Trump

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Trump wants hush money case dismissed after Biden pardons Hunter

<p>President Joe Biden talks with his son Hunter Biden upon arrival at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on June 11, 2024, as he travels to Wilmington, Delaware. The president pardoned his son after repeatedly vowing he wouldn’t </p>

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The View panelist cites mysterious ‘Hunter deButts’ in bizarre defense of Joe Biden’s pardon

<p>U.S. construction industry relies heavily on undocumented people </p>

Politics

Construction industry ‘hoping like hell’ Trump won’t crack down on undocumented labor force

Wall Street doesn’t buy Trump vows on immigration, cost cuts

<p>Trump posts AI generated pic of himself on a mountain with a Canadian flag</p>

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Trump’s conquest: President-elect posts bizarre AI pic of himself with Canadian flag (on a Swiss mountain)

<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters joked he wanted to see ‘eye candy’ from the women in Trump’s cabinet</p>

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Jesse Watters blasted after creepy ‘eye candy’ comment aimed at women in Trump’s cabinet

<p>First Lady Jill Biden speaks to National Guard families from across the country, who are the first members of the public to view the 2024 White House Christmas decorations Monday. Republicans are already bashing her holiday decorations on social media </p>

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Jill Biden’s White House decorations ripped by Republicans on social media

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<p>A new product could help perseve famous underwater shipwrecks </p>

SS Save Our Ship! A new product might just be the secret in saving famous underwater shipwrecks from the elements

<p>Illegal roads have proliferated as Lake Mead water level lowers amid drought and climate change </p>

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‘Illegal roads’ in a Nevada national park will cost $8.5m to fix, officials say

<p>Debbie Nelson was the author of ‘My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem: Setting the Record Straight on My Life as Eminem’s Mother’</p>

Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson dies at 69 after cancer battle

<p>Marlena Velez (pictured) was arrested a second time </p>

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TikTok influencer arrested for a second time for allegedly shoplifting at same Target

<p>An eight-year-old boy is dead after a statue fell on him at an Arizona resort</p>

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Boy, 8, dies after statue falls on him at Ritzy Arizona Biltmore Estates

<p>The couple’s breakup comes after an anonymous message claimed Keoghan cheated on the singer </p>

Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan ‘take a break’ from relationship

<p>Nicholas Jones was accused of fatally shooting his nine-year-old son Princeton over the weekend in Compton</p>

Crime

Dad charged in fatal shooting of autistic son, 9, in grandfather's backyard

<p>Ruby Princess docked in San Francisco. A 72-year-old man is believed to have died after falling overboard </p>

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Cruise passenger, 72, feared dead after falling overboard just before arrival in San Francisco

<p>A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is examined at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital. Many of the critically endangered animals washed up on Massachusetts shores this month </p>

Hundreds of turtles with hypothermia are washing up on along Massachusetts beaches

<p>A figurine pictured in front of a computer screen in Mulhouse, eastern France on 19 October , 2023</p>

ChatGPT is refusing to say five things – and OpenAI won’t explain why

<p>MORELIA- FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA</p>

Francis Ford Coppola apologizes for Hollywood trend he started with The Godfather

<p>Hannah Kobayashi went missing on November 8 when she failed to board a connecting flight at LAX </p>

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A Maui woman missed her flight—then vanished. Police say she voluntarily crossed the Mexican border

<p>Boys walk down a snow-covered side street in Erie, Pennsylvia, on Monday. More snow is forecast this week across the U.S. </p>

News

An Arctic blast caused havoc for Thanksgiving travel - and it’s back this week

<p>Jayden Tkaczyk, 16, (pictured) believes he was attacked because he is trans </p>

Crime

Three teens face criminal charges for beating of trans boy at Massachusetts party

<p>Mamta Kafle disappeared in July. Now, her husband was charged with her murder</p>

Crime

Husband who googled how quickly you can remarry after spouse dies is charged with wife's murder

Investigation

The A-Word: Watch the Independent TV documentary on abortion and America’s war on women

<p>Donald Trump during a meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in September </p>

Politics

NATO chief warns Trump not to push Ukraine deal that would see Putin ‘high-fiving’ Iran

Ukraine war latest: Putin not interested in peace, NATO boss says

<p>The mysterious 18-minute radio emitter, shown among the stars of the Milky Way as seen by a radio telescope</p>

Astronomers track down the source of a mystery radio signal from space

<p>Cars sit parked at a Cargill Inc., turkey processing plant on Aug. 4, 2011, in Springdale, Arkansas </p>

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America’s largest food production company is laying off thousands as profits dry up

<p>Quantum computers offer processing power that is orders of magnitude higher than conventional computers</p>

Quantum computer-powered robots could soon match humans, scientists predict

<p>Kyrie Irving is widely considered to be a future NBA Hall of Famer </p>

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NBA superstar Kyrie Irving allegedly stiffs therapist for $400,000 after tragedy at family retreat

<p>‘Sex and the City'</p>

Sex and the City star says fans grew to appreciate hated character

<p>Mikey Madison </p>

Mikey Madison is sorry she killed everybody’s favorite Scream character: ‘I didn’t write the script!’

Inside Politics

From Hunter Biden to Richard Nixon: Most controversial presidential pardons in history

<p>President Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford are among the presidents who have issued controversial presidential pardons</p>

<p>Justin Sun — who bought Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual banana art and then ate it — has pumped $30 million into a Trump-backed crypto venture </p>

Politics

Crypto mogul who ate a $6.2 million banana gives Trump an $18 million payday

<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on President Joe Biden to commute federal death sentences. </p>

Politics

AOC calls for Biden to commute death sentences after Hunter pardon

<p>RFK Jr, pictured at Turning Point US in Georgia on October 23, wants to ban fluoride from drinking water </p>

Politics

RFK Jr used to hawk bottles of water with high levels of fluoride. Now he wants to ban it

<p>Kash Patel, pictured speaking at a Trump rally in Arizona on October 13, has cashed in on his ties to the president-elect</p>

Politics

From ‘King Donald’ books to anti-vaccine pills : Kash Patel’s MAGA merch ventures

<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci became a political pawn for Republicans and Democrats while evaluating the origins and government response to Covid-19 </p>

Politics

Democrats blast Republicans for ‘fueling a political agenda’ with Covid report and push back on lab leak claim

<p>President-elect Donald Trump (meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill after election victory) has warned ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages not released </p>

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Trump warns there’ll be ‘ALL HELL TO PAY’ if Israeli hostages aren’t released before he takes office

<p>Donald Trump’s 2024 victory broke my brain... and many of my predictions </p>

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I covered the 2024 election cycle up close. Here’s what I got wrong

<p>Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago for dinner on Friday to talk tariffs, among other areas of foreign policy </p>

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Trump joked Canada could avoid tariffs by becoming 51st US state, report says

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Woman sentenced for drunk driving crash that killed bride

<p>Beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. Nearly three decades after her murder, investigators say they are hopeful that solving her case is ‘within reach’ </p>

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JonBenet Ramsey investigators are hopeful the case is 'within reach' of being solved

<p>Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 (PA)</p>

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‘Fatally flawed’: Delaware judge rejects Elon Musk’s second bid to ram through $56bn pay package

<p>Chicago police responded about 2:10 p.m. and found that eight people had been shot during a “social gathering”</p>

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Chicago house party turns deadly after shooting kills three and leaves five more wounded

<p>James Van Der Beek on ‘GMA’</p>

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James Van Der Beek shares health update one month after announcing colorectal cancer diagnosis

<p>Kate Winslet admits an old acting teacher told her to ‘settle for the fat girl parts’ </p>

Kate Winslet breaks down recalling what Titanic critics said about her in 1997

<p>Stop Moanaing: The titular character of Disney’s new sequel </p>

The success of Moana 2 is nothing to be celebrated – there is a real crisis in animation

<p>A majority of Supreme Court justices didn’t seem convinced Monday that federal regulators misled companies before refusing to allow them to sell sweet-flavored vaping products </p>

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SCOTUS seemingly unconvinced that federal officials were unfair in blocking flavored vapes

<p>Destroyed buildings in the village of Kfar Kila, southern Lebanon</p>

Israel threatens to go deeper into Lebanon if Hezbollah truce fails

<p>A record amount of travelers used airports across the US this Thanksgiving </p>

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Record-breaking 3 million travelers screened at U.S. airports in a day

<p>New Zealand’s highest mountain Mount Cook</p>

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American and Canadian climbers missing in New Zealand’s highest peak

<p>Jayna Lang, 46, (pictured and inset her missing car) said she was going shopping but never returned </p>

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A Colorado woman told her brother she was going shopping days before Thanksgiving. She never returned

<p>Queen Camilla arrives at Buckingham Palace (Jonathan Brady/PA)</p>

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Queen Camilla reveals battle with pneumonia after skipping part of Qatar state visit

<p>Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’, Harrison Ford in ‘Temple of Doom’ and Brad Pitt in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'</p>

The 19 most offensive movies ever made

<p>A woman targeted Pervez Taufiq and his family with a racist tirade, according to a video the photographer shared on Instagram</p>

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Indian-American family subjected to racist tirade from passenger on United shuttle

<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to reporters as she leaves a House Republican Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC</p>

Politics

MTG was mocked for weather-control claims. Now Florida has a new bill to ban ‘weather modification’

<p>Hector D. Velazquez Maldonado</p>

Crime

Man allegedly tries to shoplift from Virginia Walmart during annual ‘shop with a cop’ event

<p>Cesar Hernandez, 34, (pictured) is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder</p>

Crime

Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped from prison van

<p>Bailey Peters, his wife Katherine, and their daughter Jane, look for a Christmas Tree at Carnes Farms in Pontotoc, Mississippi, last month. Christmas tree farmers are reporting losses this year after a massive drought and historic temperatures </p>

How climate change is impacting our Christmas trees

Lifestyle

<p>Lala Kent explains the root of her daughter’s two front teeth was ruptured in a bike accident </p>

Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent defends editing her three-year-old daughter’s teeth in photos

Kendrick Lamar to co-headline 2025 tour with mega R&B star

<p>Tom Brady lost out to high school senior during YouTuber MrBeast’s football throwing challenge </p>

Tom Brady bested by high school quarterback in MrBeast’s $100,000 throwing challenge

<p>Chloe described her time on the Calf of Man as ‘profound’ </p>

I had one of the most remote jobs in Britain – it was like I’m a Celeb

<p>A bowl of porridge </p>

Porridge and crumpets among list of breakfast food in anti-obesity ban

<p>Queen Camilla arrives at Buckingham Palace (Jonathan Brady/PA)</p>

Queen Camilla attends Qatar state banquet after pneumonia revelation

Sequins at a Christmas party? I wouldn’t be caught dead in them

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<p>Meghan Trainor admitted that she continued to receive Botox because of the compliments she was given </p>

Meghan Trainor reveals why she can’t smile anymore

<p>Paltrow and Martin were married from 2003 to 2016 </p>

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin support daughter Apple

<p>Kim Kardashian made her son sign a contract before allowing him to make a YouTube channel </p>

Kim Kardashian seemingly restores Saint West’s YouTube channel

<p>Jamie Lynn Spears</p>

Jamie Lynn Spears reveals her oldest daughter’s college decision

<p>People won’t stop posting pictures and videos from inside the Wicked movie theater </p>

Wicked fans are begging movie-goers to stop doing these two things

Travel

<p>Many hotels in Dubrovnik make the most of the gorgeous coastal location - these are the best places to stay </p>

Best hotels in Dubrovnik 2024, reviewed

<p>The coastal city of Saly is two hours from Senegal’s capital, Dakar </p>

Why this African country should be your winter sun escape

<p>Antigua is one of two main islands that comprise the country of Antigua and Barbuda </p>

Caribbean and Central America

Best things to do in Antigua for 2024

<p>Plenty of destinations are blessed with sun in Britain’s colder months </p>

Where is hot in January? The best destinations for winter sun

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