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‘Loud explosions’ in Kyiv as Russia again strikes capital, US ambassador says
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to [Read More…]
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Two cross-country storms forecast to start the new year
Snow Storm CREDIT: Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Residents across the U.S. are bracing for multiple powerful storms forecast to impact a large swath of the country with heavy rain and snow. [Read More…]
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Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share [Read More…]
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No evidence of terrorism found yet in deadly New Year’s crash near Rochester, New York, concert venue
Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The driver suspected of causing a fiery fatal crash outside a concert venue in upstate New York early New Year’s Day was identified on Tuesday, however, officials added they [Read More…]
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Michelle Yeoh celebrates becoming a grandmother
Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Michelle Yeoh has a lot to celebrate as the new year kicks off. The Oscar winner, 61, took to Instagram on January 2 to share that she and her husband, Jean Todt, are [Read More…]
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Mickey Mouse stars in horror movie as ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters public domain
LMPC via Getty Images The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at [Read More…]
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In Brief: Shecky Greene dies, George R.R. Martin gives an update, and more
Legendary Las Vegas stand-up comic Shecky Greene died Sunday, December 31 of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas. His wife Miriam Musso Greene confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was [Read More…]
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Ken Jennings talks “intense” ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ semifinals
ABC/Eric McCandless Celebrity Jeopardy! returns this week with the first of the semifinal rounds, featuring Ghost’s Utkarsh Ambudkar, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Abbot Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter. Early rounds of the show felt a little looser than what you’d see on syndicated Jeopardy!, and host Ken [Read More…]
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Jeremy Renner pays respect to staff at Reno Hospital 1 year after his snowplow accident
Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Jeremy Renner showed his deepest gratitude to those who helped him during his near-fatal snowplow accident one year after the incident. In an Instagram post on Friday, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor [Read More…]
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Japan Airlines plane bursts into flames at Tokyo airport with 379 people on board, all escape
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, 2024. (STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images) (TOKYO) — A Japan Airlines plane [Read More…]
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‘Loud explosions’ in Kyiv as Russia again strikes capital, US ambassador says
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to [Read More…]
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Aftershocks rattle Japan as death toll rises after powerful earthquake
Firefighters inspect collapsed wooden houses in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, a day after a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in the prefecture in the afternoon. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
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South Korean opposition leader stabbed, rushed to hospital
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea enters Seoul Plaza, the memorial site for 2022 Itaewon disaster victims, during a memorial event of the first anniversary on Oct. 29, 2023 in Seoul, South [Read More…]
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Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF says it expects war to last all of 2024
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]
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Ticket sold in Michigan wins $842 million Powerball jackpot in first drawing of 2024
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One ticket in Michigan won the first Powerball jackpot drawing of the year, winning an estimated $842 million. The estimated cash value for the drawing is $425.2 million, according [Read More…]
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Deadly New Year’s collision near Rochester, NY venue being investigated as possible terrorism: Source
Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A deadly, fiery crash that occurred outside an entertainment venue in upstate New York early New Year’s Day is being investigated as possible terrorism, a law enforcement source briefed [Read More…]
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Missing foreign exchange student found safe inside tent in Utah in ‘cyber kidnapping’: Police
Riverdale Police Department (NEW YORK) — A missing foreign exchange student from China was found safe inside a tent on a Utah mountainside following a dayslong search in what police called a case of “cyber [Read More…]
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Ten shot, two fatally, at Los Angeles New Year’s warehouse party: Police
KABC-TV (LOS ANGELES) — Ten people were shot, two fatally, during a New Year’s party in downtown Los Angeles, police said. The shooting occurred Monday around 1 a.m. local time at an unsanctioned warehouse party, [Read More…]
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Trump set to appeal Colorado 14th Amendment ballot disqualification case
Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team as [Read More…]
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Why hospitals in several states are reinstating mask requirements
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals across the United States are reinstating indoor masking rules amid rising cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza. Hospitals in at least six states — [Read More…]