Nation and World
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Midwest hit with more extreme cold after winter storm
Dec 30, 2025 3:11 pm - Now comes even more frigid weather in the U.S. Midwest. Extreme cold with near-zero degree wind chills descended upon parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, fo...
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Russia's nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles have entered active service, Moscow says
Dec 30, 2025 3:08 pm - Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service in Belarus, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as the U.S. efforts to broker a deal to en...
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Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war and create wider tensions in Gulf region
Dec 30, 2025 3:04 pm - DOHA, Qatar — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces — a signifi...
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Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Dec 30, 2025 3:01 pm - JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and CARE, from operating in the Gaza...
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Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025
Dec 30, 2025 3:01 pm - Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide-open economy.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35
Dec 30, 2025 1:42 pm - Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35. Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed that she had terminal cancer in a November essay in The New Yorker.
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Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war and create wider tensions in Gulf region
Dec 30, 2025 10:34 am - DOHA, Qatar — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces — a signif...
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China flexes blockade capabilities near Taiwan on second day of military drills
Dec 30, 2025 8:54 am - China's People's Liberation Army staged a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, unleashing a live-fire show of force as part of what it called “Justice Mission 2025" to demonstrate its ability to deter any external support for the island it claims as part of its sovereign territory.
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From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact
Dec 29, 2025 8:00 pm - The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal s...
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Pipe bomb suspect admits targeting RNC, DNC headquarters, officials say
Dec 29, 2025 5:26 pm - The man charged with leaving pipe bombs outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington has admitted to planting the explosives in ...