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Storm inundates Northern California with rain, heavy snow. Thousands remain in the dark in Seattle
Heavy rain from a major storm prompted evacuation warnings for communities near a Northern California river that forecasters say could break its banks Friday, as the system continued to dump heavy snow in mountainous areas where some ski resorts opened for the season
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Colorado funeral home owners who let nearly 190 bodies decay plead guilty to corpse abuse
Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting nearly 190 bodies decay in a room-temperature building and giving grieving families fake ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse
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Trump chooses Bessent to be treasury secretary, Vought as budget chief, Chavez-DeRemer for Labor
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary
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2 convicted in human smuggling case after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border
A jury has convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard
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UN expert: Myanmar's desperate military ramps up attacks including beheadings, rapes and torture
Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups
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Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools
Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools
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NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russia's attack with new hypersonic missile
NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war
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Stock market today: Wall Street gains ground as it notches a winning week and another Dow record
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, giving the market its fifth gain in a row and notching another record high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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A proposed deal on climate cash at UN summit highlights split between rich and poor nations
A new draft of a deal on money to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday afternoon at the United Nations climate summit pledged $250 billion annually by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones
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Vance takes on a more visible transition role, working to boost Trump's most contentious picks
After several weeks working behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role
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