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Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen

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  • Middle East

Houthis promise to respond to U.S. and U.K. strike in the Red Sea

The Iranian backed group has ignored previous warnings from the U.S. to stop disrupting trade in the Red Sea.

January 12, 2024
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana
A woman carries her pet dogs as residents are evacuated on rubber boats through floodwaters in northern China's Hebei province in August 2023 amid severe flooding from Typhoon Doksuri. 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, scientists say.

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  • Climate

'Frankly astonished': 2023 was significantly hotter than any other year on record

2023 was significantly hotter than any year going back to at least the late 1800s. The coming decades will be even hotter if humans don't rapidly move away from burning fossil fuels, scientists warn.

January 12, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a shooting on May 14, 2022.

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  • Law

DOJ to seek death penalty for gunman in Buffalo supermarket mass shooting

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket in 2022.

January 12, 2024
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  • Ryan Lucas
To prepare for a potential power outage, make sure you have backup power sources and an emergency plan in the event of a prolonged blackout, say experts.

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  • Weather

How to handle a winter power outage

A massive storm is causing disruptions across the Midwest and is expected to affect other parts of the U.S. throughout the weekend. Here's how to prepare for a possible power outage.

January 12, 2024
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  • Clare Marie Schneider
Pictures of two of the victims of the October 2023 mass shooting by Army reservist Robert Card are seen Dec. 5 at a makeshift memorial in Lewiston, Maine.

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  • National

He warned authorities about the Lewiston, Maine, gunman, but they downplayed his texts

Sean Hodgson watched and worried as Robert Card, his best friend of 20 years and a fellow Army reservist, unraveled. But warnings he sent in September, six weeks before Card's attack, were dismissed.

January 12, 2024
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  • Theater

Josh Groban never gave up his dream of playing 'Sweeney Todd'

The Tony-nominated baritone gives his final performance in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical on Jan 14, after 46 weeks and rave reviews. Originally broadcast April 10, 2023.

January 12, 2024
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
The SAVE plan is becoming a key vehicle for President Biden's student loan debt relief efforts. In a Friday press release, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said, "The Biden-Harris Administration designed the SAVE Plan to put community college students and other low-balance borrowers on a faster track to debt forgiveness than ever before."

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  • Education

Education Dept. fast-tracks forgiveness for borrowers with smaller student loans

In a surprise move, the Biden administration announced it is fast-tracking a change that will erase the debts of many federal student loan borrowers after just 10 years.

January 12, 2024
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  • Cory Turner
Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at the New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York City on Jan. 11, 2024.

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  • Politics

Closing arguments concludes in Trump civil fraud trial in New York

After several months of hearing arguments from the state attorney general and Trump legal teams, both sides will concluded their cases on Thursday. A verdict is expected in the weeks to come.

January 12, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A plastic sheet covers part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 at Portland International Airport on Jan. 8. NTSB investigators are trying to learn why the aircraft suffered a midair fuselage blowout last Friday.

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  • National

A recent lawsuit alleges 'excessive' defects at Boeing parts supplier

The lawsuit doesn't specifically mention door plug systems like the one that failed last week. But it adds to the scrutiny of Spirit AeroSystems, which has been linked to other problems.

January 12, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Image taken from the bridge of HMS Diamond, seen here firing Sea Viper missiles in the Red Sea on Oct. 1. The HMS Diamond along with U.S. warships successfully repelled a large attack from the Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea.

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  • World

U.S. and U.K. strike Houthi targets in Yemen

The airstrikes on multiple Houthi targets in Yemen follow more than two months of attacks by the Iran-backed militants against cargo ships and U.S. warships in the Red Sea.

January 12, 2024
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  • Tom Bowman
eBay, a global e-commerce company based in San Jose, Calif., accepted responsibility for its former employees' actions in a 2019 harassment campaign, federal authorities said Thursday.

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  • Law

eBay will pay a $3 million fine over former employees' harassment campaign

The penalty settles charges against eBay more than three years after then-employees sent spiders and cockroaches, among other things, to a couple over their newsletter's coverage of the company.

January 12, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
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  • National

Older teens in Newark, N.J., will soon have a say in who runs their schools

Anjali Krishnamurti, co-founder of VOTE16NJ, celebrates the historic decision to allow 16-year-olds in Newark the right to vote in school board elections.

January 12, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Judges and parties stand up during a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday. The United Nations' court opened hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies.

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  • World

3 things to know about the genocide case against Israel in The Hague

Legal teams from South Africa, the plaintiff, and Israel, the defendant, presented their arguments in two days of hearings before the International Court of Justice.

January 12, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Booking photos provided by the Muskogee County, Okla., Sheriff's Office shows Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home, a Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found.

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  • National

Investigators found stacked bodies and maggots at a Colorado funeral home, FBI says

Investigators at a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered human remains, bodily fluids, flies and maggots throughout the building, an FBI agent testified.

January 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The SAVE plan is becoming a key vehicle for President Biden's student loan debt relief efforts. In a Friday press release, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said, "The Biden-Harris Administration designed the SAVE Plan to put community college students and other low-balance borrowers on a faster track to debt forgiveness than ever before."

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  • News

Up First briefing: U.S. strikes Houthis; Israel defends against genocide charges

The U.S. and U.K. strike Houthi targets in Yemen. Israel presents its defense to genocide charges in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

January 12, 2024
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
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