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Christmas getaway under threat by 80mph winds as Met Office warns of travel disruption
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for many regions of the country this weekend
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NTSB trying to determine why tractor-trailer stopped on train tracks before deadly West Texas crash
Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base are trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks
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Report alleges Coast Guard leaders kept sexual assault investigation secret
A new report by a congressional subcommittee accused former top Coast Guard officials of hiding a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy in Connecticut from both Congress and the public
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Viral Hawk Tuah Girl breaks silence over financial losses from her branded meme coin
1. Social media star said she’s ‘fully cooperating’ with legal team representing alleged victims of coin losses
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House narrowly averts government shutdown — and rejects Trump’s debt ceiling commands
House lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a third attempt at a short-term funding bill to keep the government running before Christmas
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Magdeburg market car attack: What we know so far about the suspected driver of the SUV
Police arrested a man after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday night
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Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting
Satellite observations have revealed the Greenland ice sheet’s rapid thinning, which has accelerated as the planet warms
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Missouri governor commutes sentence of white police officer convicted of fatally shooting Black man
Missouri’s governor has commuted the sentence of a white Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man
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Biden returns to the Hill amid shutdown talks – as some Democrats are left asking where he is
President has largely remained out of the fight on Capitol Hill over a spending bill that risks shutting down the government
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Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting
Satellite observations have revealed the Greenland ice sheet’s rapid thinning, which has accelerated as the planet warms
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Census Bureau releases its 2024 population estimates for the United States and all 50 states
More than 340 million people are now American citizens after 3.3 million moved to the US in 2024
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Government shutdown live updates: Johnson says Republicans agree on new deal; Democrats still need to approve
Speaker Mike Johnson promises there won’t be a government shutdown as Elon Musk questions latest proposal
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Minneapolis softens law on obstructing abortion clinics in response to free-speech lawsuit
Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited obstructing entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds
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Magdeburg Christmas market: Everything we know about car attack which killed two and injured 80
An extensive police operation is underway following the attack at the market in the German city of Magdeburg
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Zambian police arrest 2 over alleged plot to bewitch President Hichilema
Two people have been arrested for allegedly plotting to harm Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema using witchcraft
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A Missouri judge says the state’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
A judge has ruled that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment
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Shocking moment e-bike explosion destroys family home days before Christmas
One man fell from the roof and a woman was caught by firefighters as London Fire Brigade say 160 e-bike and e-scooters caught fire this year
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Magdeburg market car attack: What we know so far about the suspected driver of the SUV
Police arrested a man after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday night
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Viral Hawk Tuah Girl breaks silence over financial losses from her branded meme coin
1. Social media star said she’s ‘fully cooperating’ with legal team representing alleged victims of coin losses
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Arizona agency takes action to regulate groundwater use in rural southeast
The director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources has determined that it's necessary to regulate the use of groundwater in the state’s rural southeast
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Tesla is recalling 700K vehicle over tire issue
Tesla’s Cybertruck has faced seven recalls this year
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Men who were lynched more than a century ago are innocent, judge finds
Three Black men who were lynched by mobs in Virginia during the 1800s and early 1900s have been declared innocent by a judge
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Streeting urged to investigate abortion pills by post after pregnant woman is poisoned
Conviction of a man who poisoned his former girlfriend with abortion pills has led to the issue being raised as a safety concern in parliament
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AP PHOTOS: Cyclone Chido's devastation of Mayotte was immediate and decades coming
The devastation from Cyclone Chido that shattered corrugated metal shacks and thousands of lives on the island of Mayotte was both immediate and long coming.
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SZA finally releases much-delayed new album ‘SOS Deluxe: Lana’
The new album, which dropped on December 20, includes 14 brand new songs
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Canada's Trudeau reshuffles his Cabinet as resignation calls mount and new election threat looms
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chances of staying on in power have become more tenuous after the opposition party that backed his government for years said it'll vote no confidence in the government when Parliament resumes
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Texas day care teacher killed when cars crash into play area
Authorities say a teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed when one car accelerated into another in a parking lot and both vehicles crashed through a fence into a play area
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Starbucks workers to strike through Christmas Eve in Seattle, Chicago and LA
Starbucks said that the strikes have not affected the company’s operations
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Cold weather deaths are on the rise. Climate change could make people more susceptible
Researchers say the number of cold weather-related deaths has more than doubled over recent years
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Trump voters are confident he will turn the economy around, new poll says: ‘He is a good businessman’
Donald Trump was convicted of felony charges related to falsifying business records earlier this year