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More than 12,500 flights canceled or delayed as storms and TSA issues snarl air travel

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Travelers said they were forced to sleep on the airport floor after last-minute flight cancelations

Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’

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Trump, in second rambling address to reporters of the day, issues wild threats to Cuba amid historic blackout

New York man freed after 19 years in prison for robbery he didn't commit

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A New York man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery has been exonerated and freed

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El Salvador has arbitrarily detained nationals deported from the US, Human Rights Watch says

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Salvadoran nationals deported from the United States are arbitrarily detained in El Salvador and their loved ones do not know where they are or how to contact them

Trump’s Kennedy Center board approves his plan to shutter institution for two years of renovations

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The news comes after Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell announced last week he was stepping down

Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining

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The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete

Forget Trump and the Iran War — this state’s primaries on Tuesday will be a referendum on Democratic support for Israel

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Democratic voters now sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis, polls show. Eric Garcia breaks down how those attitudes might affect races in Illinois

Babysitter jailed after investigators say she left toddler without food or water for 21 hours until parents returned home

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The babysitter would call the toddler vulgar names, including ‘an effing b,’ prosecutors said

Reporters share secrets to cold calling Trump - including waiting until the middle of the night when he can’t sleep

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Journalists are using President Donald Trump’s personal cell phone to get interviews but the seriousness of these calls has been questioned

Judge blocks US government from slimming down vaccine recommendations

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A federal judge in Boston has blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and says U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key…

Farage’s immigration plans will spark an EU trade war ‘worse than Trump tariffs’, warns minister

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Exclusive: European affairs minister delivers warning ahead of a major speech by Rachel Reeves on resetting the UK’s relationship with the EU

King Felipe says Spain’s conquest of the Americas involved 'much abuse' and ethical controversy

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Spain’s King Felipe says Spain’s conquest of the Americas involved abuse and ethical controversy, as Spain and Mexico remain at odds over calls for an apology

Arrested teens laugh about plot to ‘kill classmate to resurrect Sandy Hook shooter’

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A pair of Florida teenagers laughed over an alleged murder plot to kill a classmate in order to “bring the Sandy Hook shooter back to life”.

Ecuador deploys 75,000 soldiers to crime-ridden provinces under nightly curfew

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Ecuadorian officials say they have deployed 75,000 soldiers to four crime-ridden provinces, where the government is implementing a nightly curfew under which people are banned from leaving their homes from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Officials said…

Experts say claims drilling in North Sea will reduce UK energy bills are ‘sheer fantasy’

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The analysis comes amid soaring energy prices as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran which has closed the Strait of Hormuz – a key shipping route for oil and gas supplies

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Pope highlights plight of vulnerable adults in abuse and meets with top Opus Dei critic

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Pope Leo XIV has indicated growing concern with the next frontier in combatting abuses in the Catholic Church

Is it safe to travel to Dubai and Abu Dhabi? Latest UAE travel advice after airport shut by drone strike

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The Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to the UAE

Inside the widening income tax rate gap for residents in blue states compared to red states

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Experts say eliminating a state’s personal income tax does not mean a more affordable lifestyle

Supreme Court to hear arguments over push to end legal protections for migrants from Haiti, Syria

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria

Is it safe to travel to Bahrain? Foreign Office advice after continued Iran-US war strikes

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The UK government advises against all but essential travel to Bahrain

‘Not Nato’s war’: Germany and UK reject Trump’s call for help in Strait of Hormuz

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US president says he is ‘not happy’ with Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz, who say the conflict is ‘not a matter’ for Europe or their governments

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Phoenix woman left paralyzed from rare, life-threatening disease after eating friend’s home-cooked fish: ‘It tasted horrible’

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Trinity Peterson-Mayes, 24, was having dinner with her friends last month and tried a dish of fermented swordfish

Brazil's Bolsonaro moves out of intensive care unit after condition improves, wife says

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Jair Bolsonaro moves out of intensive care after doctors see signs his health is improving, according to his wife

Fox News uses a headline that Hegseth ranted about during demands for a more ‘patriotic press’

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Trump officials have accused the media of spreading false information to try to change Americans’ perceptions about the war in Iran

WNBA and players' union report progress in CBA talks as key issues remain

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Both the WNBA and players’ union feel progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement, but they both say there’s still work to be done to get a deal to the finish line

Storms cancel more US flights as TSA remains under pressure from partial government shutdown

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Storms sweeping across the eastern half of the country are disrupting air travel across the United States

Cuban officials report an island-wide blackout as country struggles with energy crisis

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Officials in Cuba report an island-wide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen

Shocking before and after images shows destruction of US bombing campaign in Iran

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Satellite images shared by the US military appear to show strike damage across Iran as the US-Israeli bombing campaign continues.

Photos from the Mideast in the 3rd week of the Iran war

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Photos from the ground as the war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel enters its third week.