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This year is shaping up to be a tense one for Ukraine. After a year of significant achievements for Russia, looming large is the presidency of Donald Trump, who has promised to end the war in “a single day,” even as he has indicated that he partly sympathizes with Moscow’s arguments and agrees. has remained…
At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 injured in New Orleans after a driver plowed into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations Wednesday morning. The suspect also opened fire on two police officers, according to police. The city of New Orleans confirmed the casualty figures in a statement on its website, saying…
The year 2025 could bring economic changes that could affect the pockets of millions of people in different ways. A series of stock market gains have boosted retirement investing at the same time that catastrophic damage from the storms is driving high repair costs and making thousands of homes virtually uninsurable. Meanwhile, the incoming Trump…
SEOUL, South Korea – The black boxes from the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea on Sunday are in the spotlight as a joint team of U.S. and South Korean investigators works to determine the cause of the deadliest aviation disaster of 2024. . The data from the two black boxes, the flight…
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday he welcomed equitable, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but questioned whether there was goodwill on Beijing’s part given what he said , was his blocking of simple things like tourism. Lai, who took office in May, has periodically offered talks with China but has…
HONOLULU – Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull wounded sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103 years old. Chandler died Monday at a senior center in Tequesta, Florida, according to Ron Mahaffee, husband of his granddaughter Kelli Fahey….
A Colorado man will spend New Year’s Eve behind bars, charged with bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a television reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” authorities said. Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 and charged with a series of charges stemming from the unprovoked assault of KJCT reporter Ja-Ronn…
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole. One of the inmates granted clemency was convicted murderer Hasson Bacote, a black man who had challenged his sentence under the Racial Justice Act of 2009, a groundbreaking state law…
The United States announced Tuesday that it will impose sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia for attempted election interference. The Treasury Department said the entities — a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Moscow-based affiliate of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU — attempted to interfere in the 2024 election….
“Together we celebrate where we have been and what we hope for. “It’s about family, friends and community and what we have to celebrate and be grateful for,” Tournament of Roses President Ed Morales said in a statement. Sitting near the entrance to the warehouse, Diane Davis took black beans one by one from a…