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Landslides hit a campground and a house in New Zealand and emergency crews were trying to rescue people buried in rubble, officials said Thursday.
Former special counsel Jack Smith will make the case before a large American audience for the first time on Thursday as to why he believes that Donald Trump committed fraud in his actions and statements after his 2020 election loss. The details could serve as a cautionary tale of what the president is capable of doing during the midterms later this year.
Netflix will pay for Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio division entirely in cash to edge out its rival Paramount — the latest chapter in a months-long saga that, once concluded, could significantly change the global entertainment industry.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, resonated in Mexico, a country which, much like Canada, has also been forced to grapple with the mercurial temperament of its much larger and powerful U.S. neighbour
The Iranian regime says just over 3,000 people were killed in recent protests over the country's failed economy, while human rights groups put the number of protesters confirmed dead at more than 4,000 and rising.
A Texas jury has acquitted a former Uvalde school police officer on charges he failed in his duty to confront the gunman during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting, which left 19 students and two adults dead.
Syria's government accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces of attacks it said killed 11 soldiers on Wednesday, but the SDF disputed key elements of the account, blaming at least one deadly blast on explosives being moved by Syrian troops.
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, as the Trump administration prepares to ramp up immigration enforcement in Maine.
Iranian state TV issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed. State television stated that 2,427 of the dead in the demonstrations that began Dec. 28 were civilians and security forces, but didn't elaborate on the rest. U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which relies on a network of activists inside the country to confirm reported fatalities, said the death toll was at least 4,560.
With only two weeks to go before the Olympics begin, work continues in Italy on the sliding centre and the main hockey arena.
