Nation and World
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CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media — and for the struggling network
Jan 08, 2025 6:11 am - At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the U.S. ended its involvement there in 2021.
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Los Angeles residents flee fire as potentially ‘life-threatening, destructive’ winds gain strength
Jan 07, 2025 5:42 pm - LOS ANGELES — Firefighters scrambled to corral a fast-moving wildfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destruc...
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Analysis: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally
Jan 07, 2025 4:56 pm - President-elect Donald Trump is the king of not ruling things out. It’s his default response when a possibility, no matter how far-fetched, gets floated, both because he ...
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Takeaways from Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago
Jan 07, 2025 3:27 pm - PALM BEACH, Florida — Less than two weeks before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday took some of his most audacious claims and promises of the transit...
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Appeals court rejects Trump's latest attempt to get Friday's hush money sentencing called off
Jan 07, 2025 12:53 pm - A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case.
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Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
Jan 07, 2025 11:50 am - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
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Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86
Jan 07, 2025 11:40 am - Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
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Judge temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe
Jan 07, 2025 11:22 am - The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith.
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Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris, Congressional leaders at US Capitol
Jan 07, 2025 11:19 am - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
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New Orleans attack came at a time of political heat, and transition, for the FBI
Jan 07, 2025 11:15 am - Joining law enforcement officials to update the public in the hours after a man killed 14 people and injured dozens of others in New Orleans, Louisiana's junior Republican senator, John Kennedy, implored the FBI to “catch these people" — and then added one more eyebrow-raising request of the federal government.