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Biden warns of threat from new age of ‘robber barons’ in final address

Middle East

Who are the American hostages in Gaza set to be released?

President Joe Biden announced the ceasefire deal on Wednesday, which is set to end the 15-month conflict

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Hostages to return home after Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire deal: 7 Americans were abducted

<p>Israelis in Tel Aviv celebrate news that a ceasefire has been agreed</p>

‘Happiness, sadness, grief and worry’ across Israel and Gaza following ceasefire deal agreement

<p>Joe Biden </p>

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Biden’s attack on tech oligarchs recalls another dark time

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<p>Palestinians react to news on a ceasefire deal with Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 15, 2025. </p>

Middle East

US officials who resigned over Gaza war slam Biden’s inaction after ceasefire is announced

<p>President-elect also claimed he would continued seeking normalization agreements between Israel and its neighbors once in office. </p>

Middle East

Trump takes full credit for ‘EPIC’ ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas

MIddle east

Biden pointedly notes that he ‘introduced’ Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal after Trump claims credit

<p>Age verification laws require users to input their age and a form of I.D. to view pornographic websites </p>

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Supreme Court could soon dramatically change the future of porn

<p>Michelle Obama attended Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 </p>

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This is reportedly why Michelle Obama is skipping Trump’s inauguration

<p>TikTok is facing the possibility of being removed from U.S. web and app servers unless the Supreme Court intervenes </p>

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TikTok ban latest: Trump weighs option to ‘save’ app as decision looms

<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence as he arrives with Melania Trump as former U.S. Vice President Al Gore looks on during the state funeral for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral on January 09, 2025 in Washington, DC</p>

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Mike Pence’s organization comes out swinging against RFK Jr.

<p>Homeless advocates assist people living in tents at a homeless encampment in New Orleans</p>

New Orleans moves homeless out of sight ahead of Super Bowl

<p>Jennifer Wolfthal, left and Joseph Wolfthal, right, pleaded guilty to charges that they abused their adopted children at their home in Florida</p>

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Children’s author and husband admit to abusing their adopted children: Malnourished kids were spanked until they bled

<p>Saif Ali Khan</p>

Indian actor Saif Ali Khan stabbed after intruder enters Mumbai home

<p>Pittsburgh Penguins' Evgeni Malkin skates during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Seattle Kraken in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025</p>

NHL star’s home burglarized and championship rings stolen

LA On Fire

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Southern California gets break from fire-fanning winds but warnings persist

<p>Aaron Lubeley is interviewed outside his burned home during the Eaton fire in Altadena, California. He’s now defending his property instead of evacuating </p>

LA FIres

Dozens of Los Angeles residents — some armed — are defying evacuation orders to protect their homes in ‘Wild West’

<p>Jim Jordan says Los Angeles should lose the 2028 Olympics</p>

LA Fires

Jim Jordan backs idea Trump should move 2028 Olympics from LA to red-run town

<p>ABC reporter Zohreen Shah (right) discusses her burned ‘dream home,’ which she lived in for just one day before the wildfires scorched it </p>

LA Fires

Reporter spent one night in Los Angeles ‘dream home’ before it burned down in wildfire

<p>Outrage is springing up online as Los Angeles sports teams donate just $8 million to wildfire relief funds - despite many having billion-dollar valuations </p>

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LA sports teams - many who have billion-dollar valuations - donate a paltry $8m to fire victims

<p>Pedro Rojas holds a sign directing people to an insurance company where they can sign up for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, before the February 15th deadline on February 5, 2015 in Miami, Florida</p>

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New Jersey wants to defend Biden rule letting Dreamers use Obamacare

<p>Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather are standing trial on child abuse charges </p>

Crime

White mother said adopted kids liked being kept in barn, trial told

Biden asked if Trump should receive credit for Israel-Hamas ceasefire

Trump’s Transition

<p>Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times Opinion columnist Paul Krugman at The New York Times Food For Tomorrow Conference 2015. Krugman says </p>

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Trump voters will be ‘brutally scammed’ during his term, Nobel economist warns

Coca-Cola presents Trump with inaugural diet coke bottle

<p>Joe Biden is seen with Kamala Harris in one of their final appearances together before leaving office. The president announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday.</p>

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Biden gets to leave office with a ceasefire deal. But it wasn’t soon enough to save Kamala

<p>US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the media on the federal response to the Los Angeles wildfires at the White House on January 09, 2025 in Washington, DC</p>

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Harris reportedly snubs Vance by not offering tour of VP residence

<p>President Joe Biden leaves the White House with a slightly higher approval rating than Trump did in 2021, according to the poll </p>

Biden leaving office with higher approval rating than Trump’s in 2021

<p> Ryan Corbett (L), George Glezmann (C) and Mahmoud Habibi (R) are the American citizens held ‘hostage’ by Taliban in Afghanistan </p>

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Families of Americans held by Taliban plead with Biden to ‘do the right thing’

<p>Trump vocalised his divisive stance on overthrowing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal at Mar-a-Lago news conference last week </p>

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Europeans more anxious about ‘Trump 2.0’ than Americans: new poll

<p>South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem</p>

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Kristi Noem’s Senate confirmation hearing mysteriously postponed over issues with the FBI

<p>Joe Biden has removed Cuba from a list of nations classed as supporting international terrorism</p>

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Biden pulls Cuba from terrorism list, reversing Trump decision

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<p>In the last year, U.S. consumers spent $175 million on elderberry pills, syrups and powders</p>

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Americans spent $175 million on elderberry supplements last year. Does it actually work?

<p>The pair were both students at Goldsmiths, University of London </p>

American killed fellow college student ‘after she urged him to take an STI test after sex’, London court told

<p>Mike Lindell is not happy about his present financial woes</p>

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Cash-strapped MAGA pillow entrepreneur Mike Lindell is now selling MyCross necklaces for $250 a pop

<p>Red dye no. 3 gives many foods and drinks a distinctive cherry red color - such as Pez candy </p>

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FDA bans red dye No. 3 from foods - including Ring Pops, bubble gum and veggie bacon - for link to cancer

Eagles fan fired from job after rant at female Packers fan goes viral

<p>A new ‘smishing’ scam is on the rise, which aims to trick people into thinking they have an unpaid toll bill </p>

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The latest ‘smishing’ scam blowing up your phone

<p>Former St Louis Police officer Austin Fraser examines a man who was dying from a gunshot wound to the head in Forest Park, Missouri, on September 10, 2023. Fraser told his partner, Ty Warren, he did not want to call in the incident because his shift was ending in 30 minutes. The officers then walked away from site without reporting the incident</p>

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Horrifying moment cops walk away from gunshot victim because their shifts were ending

<p>Struters (left) said she didn’t want to talk about White (right) until after she died </p>

National treasure Betty White was a ‘very passive aggressive woman’ who fat-shamed me, actor says

<p>Rujm el-Hiri site as seen from space</p>

Mysterious 5,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the East’ is drifting over time, study shows

<p>A photo of Michael Millett, an eight-year-old boy who was mauled and killed by a pair of dogs near his home in Volusia County, Florida, on January 13</p>

Crime

Family speaks out after boy, 8, is mauled to death by dogs he tried to pet

<p>NYPD officers made the grim discovery of a man’s body wrapped in garbage bags under a bed on Tuesday night while they were conducting a welfare check in Queens </p>

Crime

Mystery after human remains are found stuffed in a garbage bag and left under the bed in a Queens apartment

Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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Nancy Mace threatens to ‘take it outside’ in heated hearing clash with Jasmine Crockett

<p>Shoppers reach for items on display in a Costco warehouse in Colorado </p>

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Costco remains committed to DEI. Its CEO told a critic ‘I am not prepared to change’

<p>Johnny Depp in ‘The Lone Ranger’, Taika Waititi in ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and Angelina Jolie in ‘Alexander’ </p>

20 movies that got the casting disastrously wrong

<p>Musk is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</p>

Politics

Elon Musk is being sued by the SEC over his Twitter takeover. What we know

<p>Anthony Williams and Katsiaryna Shasholka aboard the flight in question</p>

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Black cop is accused of trafficking his white wife while flying to their honeymoon destination

<p>The Independent screened its feature-length documentary – titled ‘The A-Word’ – in New York, where healthcare providers warned of the deadly impact of new nationwide restrictions </p>

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Nationwide abortion restrictions will have a deadly impact, experts warn

<p>Willford, a Democrat Rep. for Northglenn and Thornton, made the shocking announcement at the state Capitol Tuesday alongside her attorneys</p>

Crime

Colorado Democrat launches lawsuit against Lyft over alleged sexual assault

<p>The case of mistaken identity in Syracuse, New York, on Monday January 13 2025 in which a schoolgirl was handcuff and detained</p>

Crime

Heartbreaking moment girl, 11, is reduced to tears as she’s handcuffed after being wrongly accused of car theft

<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the state of the corporate world on Joe Rogan’s podcast this weekend </p>

Zuckerberg is right – what the world needs is more ‘masculine energy’

Mark Zuckerberg has a masculine energy problem and we can all see it

<p>Bedroom ayes: being present can help couples increase their pleasure </p>

5 things you’re probably doing wrong in the bedroom – and how to fix it

<p>Brett Gerald Kimbrell,18, was formally charged with ten counts of felony second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor Friday after police seized his electronic devices </p>

Crime

Uproar as adult child porn suspect is released into custody of his parents

<p>Manatees gather near the near the warm-water outflows of a power plant in Riviera Beach, Florida</p>

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Why herds of manatees are huddling in water near America's power plants

<p>A courtroom depiction of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts </p>

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Why Maryland is looking to pardon its witches – and wants their descendants to get in touch

<p>Neil Gaiman at the Writers Guild Awards in New York in April 2024</p>

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after accusations from multiple women

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NATO warplanes scrambled after Russia’s energy grid attack

Trump ‘would breach international law’ if he gives up Ukrainian land

Michael J Fox recreates Back to the Future scenes ahead of 40th anniversary

<p>Starbucks launches new code of conduct that prohibits patrons from using the restroom without making a purchase </p>

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Starbucks reverses six-year rule — and it’s going to cost you

Margaret Qualley’s skin took a year to recover after making The Substance

<p>Q) How many Gen-Zers does it take to change a lightbulb? A) You’ll have to ask my landlord </p>

There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb

M Night Shyamalan sued for $81m over Apple show

<p>Elon Musk’s charity has helped fund a school in Texas minutes away from the SpaceX corporate headquarters </p>

Tech

Take a peek at life inside the Musk Foundation-funded school in Texas

<p>Marsha R. Dunham, 36, was booked into Ogle County Jail after she allegedly headbutted and the pulled the hair of a 6-year-old child </p>

Crime

Woman ordered to stay away from kids after headbutting 6-year-old girl, cops say

<p>Analysis from the Congressional Budget Office predicts that women under 30 are expected to have lower fertility rates </p>

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US deaths expected to exceed births within a decade

<p>A new lawsuit brought against Sean Combs alleges he sexually assaulted a young woman in August/ September of 2000 as she was walking home from a babysitting job </p>

Crime

Diddy accuser alleges she was walking home from babysitting job when mogul sexually assaulted her

<p>Justin Baldoni y Ryan Reynolds</p>

Justin Baldoni makes demand to Disney and Marvel about Deadpool and Wolverine character

<p>Tamara ‘Tammy’ Mattson was allegedly killed by Carl D. Schlobom in 2003, but he cannot be prosecuted, authorities say</p>

Crime

Cops say they now know who murdered a 39-year-old mother – but they can’t charge him

Investigation

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

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Canceled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi Documentary

Inside Politics

<p>Washington D.C.’s luxury hotels, including The Watergate, are offering exclusive VIP packages during inauguration week </p>

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Helicopter rides, 24-hour butlers and scandal tours: Inside the DC hotels’ VIP packages for Trump inauguration

<p>Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckberg are putting aside their differences to focus on their current shared interest: supporting Donald Trump</p>

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Tech bro enemies Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk jockey for position at Trump’s inauguration

<p>Attendees line the Mall as they watch ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump on Inauguration Day on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today</p>

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National Park officials fear they will be stuck in the middle again of Trump’s crowd size boasts

<p>The flags at the Capitol will return to full staff </p>

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Speaker Johnson orders Capitol flags raised for Trump’s inauguration despite Jimmy Carter mourning period

<p>President-elect Donald Trump has announced he’s launching a new Eternal Revenue Service federal agency as soon as he’s in office </p>

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Trump announces puzzling new ‘External Revenue Service’ for tariffs

<p>Puerto Rican Governor Jenniffer González-Colón wants President-elect Donald Trump to respond to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s threats to invade Puerto Rico, she said in a letter Monday</p>

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Puerto Rico calls on Trump to respond after Maduro threatens to invade

<p>South Dakota Governor and President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem walks to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump Jr. has now revealed what the president-elect thought when he heard the story of Noem kiling a dog </p>

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Don Jr shares Trump’s reaction to Kristi Noem dog-slaying story: ‘Even you wouldn’t kill a dog’

<p>Musk-Neuralink Explainer</p>

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Yes, Elon Musk will have office space in the White House complex

Culture

<p>66 Perry Street became famous as Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment on Sex and the City. But too many fans visiting has left the owner frustrated </p>

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Carrie Bradshaw’s Sex and the City apartment to be blocked by gate after intrusive fan behavior

<p>Graham Norton has struggled with several celebrities on his chat shows over the years</p>

Graham Norton reveals why De Niro’s anecdote on had to be ‘cut’

<p>Schwimmer was the first member of the ‘Friends’ cast to host ‘SNL’ </p>

David Schwimmer reveals the SNL hosting mistake he made that left him ‘traumatized’

<p>Timothée Chalamet enters London premiere of A Complete Unknown on a Lime bike</p>

Timothée Chalamet enters London premiere of A Complete Unknown on a Lime bike

<p>TikTok user @halesdorio showed the nail technician emptying tiny cartons of French vanilla creamer into her foot bath </p>

Woman stunned as pedicurist adds coffee creamer to her foot bath in viral video

<p>Ms Rachel is coming to Netflix</p>

Parents rejoice as Ms Rachel makes major streaming announcement

Lifestyle

<p>Wendy’s announces beloved Frosty is back - along with rumored new Girl Scout cookie flavor</p>

Wendy’s announces beloved Frosty is back — along with rumored new Girl Scout cookie flavor

<p>Finck had a type of cancer that grew in her muscles called leiomyosarcoma </p>

TikTok star and Nanny 911 alum Deborah Finck dies of rare cancer aged 57

<p>A woman offered to buy an LA bride their wedding gown amid fires — then 200 people agreed to donate theirs</p>

A woman offered to buy an LA bride their wedding gown amid fires — then 200 people agreed to donate theirs

<p>Shields discusses her experience with the healthcare system as a woman in her memoir </p>

Brooke Shields reveals the sexist question two male doctors asked her after a seizure

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<p>Hollywood actor Tom Cruise honoured by US navy for his role in Top Gun</p>

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise honoured by US navy for his role in Top Gun

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Moment plane crashes into Hawaii building captured on dashcam

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The Grinch almost steals Christmas before police catch him in action

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