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Kim’s daughter visits family mausoleum, promoting her potential status as heir in North Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Jan 02, 2026 7:37 am - The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolstered her status as her father's potential heir.
Trump wants to overhaul the ‘president's golf course.’ He hasn't played there yet

By WILL WEISSERT
Jan 02, 2026 7:31 am - President Donald Trump has spent much of his two-week vacation in Florida golfing. But when he gets back to the White House, there's a military golf course that he's never played that he's eyeing for a major construction project.
Zelenskyy names Ukraine’s head of military intelligence as his new chief of staff

By The Associated Press
Jan 02, 2026 7:23 am - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday appointed the head of Ukraine's military intelligence as his new chief of staff, a move that comes as the U.S. leads a diplomatic push to end Russia's nearly 4-year-old invasion.
Rain soaks Rose Parade in California and snow squalls hit Midwest and Northeast on first day of 2026

Associated Press
Jan 01, 2026 5:39 pm - Rain poured down on the iconic Rose Parade Thursday for the first time in 20 years, as flood warnings and evacuation orders in Southern California joined snow squalls and frigid temperatures in the country's midsection to mark the first day of 2026.
About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year's celebration

By JAMEY KEATEN, STEFANIE DAZIO and JOHN LEICESTER
Jan 01, 2026 4:59 pm - CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Sw...
Flu cases are rising with a strain that makes older people sicker

By David Ovalle
Jan 01, 2026 4:21 pm - Cases of influenza in the United States are rising, driven by a new strain that public health officials worry current vaccines may not protect against as effectively.
Health subsidies expire, launching millions of Americans into 2026 with steep insurance hikes

By ALI SWENSON
Jan 01, 2026 4:05 pm - Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired Dec. 31, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year.
Capitol riot ‘does not happen’ without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress

By ERIC TUCKER
Dec 31, 2025 6:46 pm - The Jan. 6., 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable and most responsible person” in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
US military strikes three more alleged drug boats, killing 3 and possibly leaving survivors

By BEN FINLEY
Dec 31, 2025 6:43 pm - The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck three more boats that were allegedly smuggling drugs, killing three people while others jumped overboard and may have survived. The statement by U.S. Southern Command, which oversees South America, did not reveal where the attacks occurred. Previous attacks have been in the Caribbean Sea and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
These bipartisan bills were noncontroversial — until Trump vetoed them

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MEG KINNARD
Dec 31, 2025 6:39 pm - President Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term on Tuesday, rejecting two low-profile bipartisan bills, a move that had the effect of punishing backers who had opposed the president's positions on other issues.

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