Nation and World
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Germany’s Scholz loses confidence vote, setting up an election in February
Dec 16, 2024 9:41 am - Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in late February.
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France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido
Dec 16, 2024 9:38 am - France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century. Authorities fear hundreds and possibly thousands of people have died.
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Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians, dies at 73
Dec 16, 2024 7:10 am - Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73.
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Mystery drone sightings keep happening in New Jersey. Here’s what we know, and don’t know
Dec 14, 2024 8:47 pm - A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over parts of New Jersey and the East Coast in recent weeks, sparking speculation and concern over who sent ...
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US officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that ousted Assad, Blinken says
Dec 14, 2024 3:45 pm - AQABA, Jordan — American officials have been in direct contact with the terrorist-designated rebel group that led the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. Sec...
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Storms encase Iowa and eastern Nebraska in ice and generate rare tornado warning in San Francisco
Dec 14, 2024 3:30 pm - OMAHA, Neb. — A major ice storm created treacherous driving conditions across Iowa and eastern Nebraska this weekend and prompted temporary closures of Interstate 80 afte...
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Assad lived in quiet luxury while Syrians went hungry
Dec 14, 2024 12:45 am - Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and roc...
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Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
Dec 13, 2024 7:36 pm - A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States, rejecting a reques...
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New Jersey governor wants more federal resources for probe into drone sightings
Dec 13, 2024 7:36 pm - TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy has asked the Biden administration to put more resources into an investigation of mysterious drone sightings that have been reported i...
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Trump calls for ending daylight saving time. It’s ‘inconvenient,’ he says.
Dec 13, 2024 7:21 pm - Donald Trump wants to end America’s century-old practice of “springing forward” and “falling back.” “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight ...