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Zelensky calls for more air defence after 1,000 attacks in a week
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a renewed appeal to the country's allies on Sunday to provide more US-made Patriot air…
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Palestinians in West Bank wait anxiously for prisoners to be released
The families of 90 Palestinian prisoners are waiting anxiously in the occupied West Bank for them to be released from Israeli jails as…
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Canadian dollar approaches December low on tariff concerns
THE Canadian dollar weakened against its US counterpart on Friday (Jan 17), with the currency approaching a multi-year low it hit in…
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Who Is Sean Curran? The Trusted Secret Service Agent Appointed to Lead After Heroic Actions at Trump's Campaign Rally
Donald Trump, the US President-elect, has appointed Sean Curran as the new director of the US Secret Service. Curran played a pivotal role…
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TikTok was gone. It's back with a Trump lifeline
At the stroke of midnight on Sunday, TikTok users in the United States were momentarily silenced, after the Supreme Court unanimously…
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What We Know About the TikTok Ban
Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States…
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Trump Says He Will Stall TikTok Ban With Executive Order
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of TikTok, just hours after…
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President-Elect Donald Trump Vows to Delay TikTok Ban, Promises National Security Solution
Offering hope to the nearly 170 million TikTok users in the United States after the popular app went dark, President-elect Donald Trump…
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Who Is Emily Damari? The 28-Year-Old British-Israeli Hostage Held in Gaza for 471 Days Set to Be Released by Hamas
British-Israeli Emily Damari, 28, is set to be released by Hamas after 471 harrowing days as a hostage. Her family described her as their…
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Apple and Google Remove TikTok from US App Stores Amid New Law
TikTok is officially unavailable in the US as Apple and Google removed the app from their mobile stores following a new law targeting…
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Trump tariff risks fuel chaotic hunt for gold in London
The risk that US President-elect Donald Trump will impose universal import tariffs is causing fresh turmoil in the global gold market,…
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News Analysis: Once again, the world sizes up a Trump presidency
WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump takes the oath of office Monday for the second time, the world is watching with a mix of fascination,…
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UN says 4,000 truckloads full of food and flour are set to enter Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said Sunday it has 4,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid ready to enter Gaza, with half…
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Opinion: If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, how would he have approached the Trump era?
Unlike the many people who are upset that Donald Trump is being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I see it as a good thing.…
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Opinion: Experts once thought highly of Biden's presidency. Here's how his legacy is likely to change
Our survey of presidential experts a year ago drew attention for ranking Joe Biden 14th among the presidents, ahead of such consequential…
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Trump's first inaugural speech was 'American carnage.' He says this time will be different
WASHINGTON — For 236 years, ever since George Washington, a newly elected president’s inaugural address has traditionally served several…
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Column: Why's it so hard to do the right thing and honor the true heroes of Jan. 6?
On Monday, Donald Trump will visit the scene of a crime, laying his hand on a Bible and vowing to preserve and protect the Constitution as…
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Opinion: Biden delivered a new 'Roaring '20s.' Watch Trump try to take the credit.
Poor Donald Trump. Twice elected president only to have to clean up the economic messes left to him by Democrats. In 2016, he groused…
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The Nihilists Are Coming Back to Washington
With Inauguration Day around the corner, many people are wondering what kind of government we should expect over the next four years.…
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Warm weather threatens Epiphany ice water plunges for Russia's Orthodox Christians
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of…
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A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the…
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‘So Much Uncertainty’: Businesses Worry About Trump’s Many Tariff Plans
For Klem’s, a general store in rural Massachusetts, each year has seemed more challenging than the last. First, there was the pandemic,…
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The Federal Work Force Grew Briskly Under Biden. It’s Still Historically Low.
When it comes to the federal payroll, two seemingly contradictory things are true. One, the Biden administration went on a hiring spree…
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TikTok goes dark for US users, company pins hope on Trump
TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday (Jan 18) and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that…