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Blue Origin's reusable New Glenn rocket is almost ready to head into space, having successfully completed a pivotal test on Dec. 27.

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  • Space

Bezos' Blue Origin is nearing liftoff on the 1st flight of its newest, biggest rocket

New Glenn, developed by the private space firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and could launch on its maiden flight as early as Friday.

January 08, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
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  • Health

'Don't be boring!' How to cope with the social pressure to drink during Dry January

What do you say to people when they ask you why you aren't drinking? How do you get your friends to hang out in places other than bars? We tackle the social conundrums of sober socializing.

January 08, 2025
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
A swimmer watches as a large dark plume of smoke passes over the beach from a wildfire from Pacific Palisades, in Santa Monica, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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  • Weather

Wild weather brings winds and fire to the West, snow to the South

As the South prepped for snow and more cold starting Wednesday, residents in Southern California faced off with hurricane-strength winds.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2024. Zuckerberg announced on Jan. 7, 2025 that the company would no longer work with third-party fact checking organizations.

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  • Technology

Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump

CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company's previous content moderation policies "censorship," repeating talking points from President-elect Donald Trump and his allies.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan,
  • Shannon Bond,
  • and 1 more
An aerial view of mountains just north of Greenland's capital, Nuuk. Greenland is bigger than Mexico and has a sparse population of just 56,000 people.

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  • National

What to know about Trump and his keen interest in Greenland

President-elect Donald Trump has said multiple times that the U.S. should buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. The sparsely populated island is geopolitically important and mineral-rich.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Adam Scott stars as Mark in <em>Severance</em>. Season 2 begins on January 17, nearly three years after the first season.

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  • Television

There's great TV coming in January, from 'Severance' Season 2 to a Jerry Springer doc

There is a lot of TV on deck in the new year – including multiple medical dramas, a violent Netflix drama about Utah settlers in the 1850s, plus, cop shows, Westerns and documentaries.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
President-elect Donald Trump walks from the podium after a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump in news conference says 'all hell will break out' if Gaza hostages not released

The president-elect made a similar pledge on social media in early December. His latest comments came during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Then-Vice President Mike Pence reads the final certification of Electoral College votes after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. A new law clarifies that the vice president's role in the counting of electoral votes is ministerial. Congress will count the votes from the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

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  • Elections

Jan. 6 is set to be different this year — in a big way and more subtle ways too

In response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot four years ago, Congress passed new rules to govern the presidential certification process. Those rules will be in effect Monday.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Smoke from a brush fire in the Pacific Palisades rises over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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  • Weather

Life-threatening windstorm triggers wildfire in Southern California

Southern California hasn't seen significant rainfall since last April, and a pileup of dry fuel in combination with the winds has the region on edge. A mandatory evacuation order was issued for the Palisades.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Liz Baker and
  • Emily Alfin Johnson
Nicole Kidman plays the CEO of a high-tech shipping company, and Harris Dickinson is her intern, in <em>Babygirl</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

She's his boss at work, he's her boss in bed in the unsatisfying 'Babygirl'

Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It's a lead performance more daring than the film itself.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • John Powers
Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to give remarks on an indictment against Trump in 2023 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Florida judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases

Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon ordered the Justice Department not to share Jack Smith's final report until a federal appeals court resolves the legal fight.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson and
  • Ximena Bustillo
A stethoscope sits on a pile of U.S. bank notes.

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  • Health

New rules will ban medical debt from your credit report

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge to the new administration.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Noam Levey
Armed Dutch patriots round up fellow townspeople accused of collaborating with the Nazis in Nijmegen in October 1944.

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  • Europe

A list of half a million names shines new light on Dutch collaboration with Nazis

The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Author Zora Neale Hurston sits for a portrait.

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  • Books

How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel expands on her interest in the ancient king of Judea.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Adriana Gallardo
A screenshot taken from the National Zoo's feed of the giant pandas shows one of the 3-year-old bears playing in the snow.

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  • Animals

The National Zoo's giant pandas make the most of D.C.'s snow

The two giant pandas were seen on camera playing around in the snowfall that blanketed much of the Midwest and mid-Atlantic on Monday.

January 07, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
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