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• Azerbaijan Airlines crew member who survived plane crash speaks out from hospital

  27-12-2024 23:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport on Wednesday morning, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, Kazakh officials said.
  
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• WATCH: "Santa" helps save Christmas at 2 a.m. after mom is missing keyboard

  27-12-2024 23:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Marisa Shumaker went to assemble her daughter's keyboard as a gift only to realize it was just a stand. With only a few hours left until Christmas morning, Shumaker needed a miracle — and she got one.
  
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• Sydney to Hobart yacht race: LawConnect wins back-to-back line honours in event marred by two deaths

  27-12-2024 22:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Third time LawConnect has claimed line honours, after initial success in 2016 as Perpetual LoyalCould take days for overall handicap winner to be decidedA “sombre” LawConnect has delayed celebrations after claiming back-to-back line honour wins in a Sydney to Hobart race marred by the death of two sailors.The Christian Beck-skippered supermaxi was first across the River Derwent finish line at 2.35am on Saturday in a time of one day, 13 hours, 35 minutes and 13 seconds.Sign up for Gua
  
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• ‘Heart of cruelty’: Trump border chief condemned over migrant policy

  27-12-2024 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Former housing secretary Julián Castro says Tom Homan embodies ‘dark heart’ of incoming administrationJulián Castro, the former US housing secretary, has accused Donald Trump’s incoming border enforcement chief of ushering in “cruelty part two” towards migrants arriving in America under the president-elect’s planned border policies.Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Castro sharply criticised Tom Homan, Trump’s newly appointed “bor
  
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• Man charged with two counts of murder after deaths of Milton Keynes women

  27-12-2024 22:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Jazwell Brown, 49, is also charged with two counts of attempted murder following Christmas Day incidentA man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two women on Christmas Day in Milton Keynes.Jazwell Brown, 49, has also been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count each of possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. Continue reading...
  
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• Warren Upton, oldest survivor of Pearl Harbor attack, dies aged 105

  27-12-2024 22:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Last surviving member of USS Utah, moored at the harbor when the attack took place, died after a bout of pneumoniaWarren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He was 105.Upton died on Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. Continue reading...
  
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• Injured North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has died, says South Korea

  27-12-2024 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  First of Kim Jong-un’s soldiers to be taken was detained in Kursk region of Russia, according to Ukrainian reports‘I thought it was fake news’: secrecy around North Koreans fighting in KurskSouth Korea’s intelligence agency has reported that a North Korean soldier believed to have been the first to be captured while supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine has died after being taken alive by Ukrainian forces.Seoul’s spy agency earlier on Friday confirmed Ukrainian r
  
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• US Senate report finds CIA mishandled employee cases of Havana syndrome

  27-12-2024 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers who reported symptoms of the illness often faced delayed or denied care and struggled to access benefitsA newly declassified US Senate report found that the CIA’s handling of mysterious health incidents known as Havana syndrome has been flawed and marred by inconsistent medical care, delayed compensation and communication failures – all while foreign adversaries remain “very unlikely” to be responsible.Many cases of the syndrome have been reported, mostly among US
  
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• SEE IT: China stuns with maiden flight of sixth-generation aircraft

  27-12-2024 21:13 via foxnews.com
  
  China appears to have conducted the maiden flight of its new sixth-generation fighter aircraft, marking a significant milestone in the ever-evolving landscape of fighter jets.Video and photos from social media showed the previously unseen aircraft conducting a daytime test flight, alongside a two-seat Chengdu J-20S fighter, which served as a chase plane.The planes were soaring high in Chengdu, Sichuan, China on Dec. 26, which is notably the birthday of the founding father of the People's Republi
  
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• Many believe US healthcare industry was to blame in CEO killing, poll reveals

  27-12-2024 21:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Americans point to coverage denials and steep profits from insurance industry after Brian Thompson’s killingIn a new poll, more than two-thirds of respondents said they believed denials of coverage and profits in the health insurance industry were partially responsible for the killing of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, in early December.Thompson was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan. His killer fled, sparking a nationwide manhunt, which ended when Luigi Mangione was arrested
  
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• US saw dramatic rise in homelessness at start of 2024, housing agency says

  27-12-2024 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  US Department of Housing and Urban Development reports largest increase among families with childrenThe US saw a dramatic rise in homelessness at the start of 2024, counting 18% more unhoused people during its annual tally in January than the year before, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) reported on Friday.Cities reported counting a total of 771,480 unhoused people in January, a number that is larger than the population of Seattle. Representing 23 out of every 10,000 Amer
  
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• WATCH: Drone owner helps save dog from frozen lake

  27-12-2024 19:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Kishan Patel stepped into action, helping police in Parsippany, New Jersey, rescue a 20-month-old sheepadoodle from a snow-covered frozen lake.
  
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• Italian journalist arrested and held in solitary confinement in Iran

  27-12-2024 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Il Foglio war correspondent Cecilia Sala taken in by police while reporting in Tehran, says Italy’s foreign ministryAn Italian journalist has been arrested while reporting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and held in solitary confinement for a week, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.Cecilia Sala, 29, a war correspondent and reporter who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained on 19 December, the ministry said, but her arrest was only mad
  
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• Biden administration pledges additional military aid to Ukraine amid Russia war

  27-12-2024 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Security assistance package in works as North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk after Putin-Kim agreementThe Biden administration is pledging to approve fresh military aid to Ukraine in the coming days, including crucial air defense systems, as North Korean forces face mounting casualties in their first major deployment to a European conflict.John Kirby, the US national security communications adviser, told reporters on Friday that in just the last week North Korean troops had suffered more th
  
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• ‘Let’s see who will be leaving’: Georgia’s presidential standoff nears crunch point

  27-12-2024 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Georgian Dream government threatens pro-west president with jail if she refuses to leave office on SundayAll eyes in Georgia are fixed on the elegant 19th-century Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi, where a defining moment looms. Who will occupy its halls on 29 December?On Sunday, Georgia’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, is supposed to hand over the keys to her successor, Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player turned far-right politician who is backed by the ruling and incre
  
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• See our best illustrations and photographs that captured the year's biggest stories

  27-12-2024 18:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  See our best illustrations and photographs that captured the year's biggest stories
  
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• Hogmanay plans at risk as severe weather warning issued for Scotland

  27-12-2024 18:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Preparations for new year’s street parties under way as Met Office warns of ‘significant disruption’ due to heavy rain on 30 and 31 DecemberA severe weather warning is threatening to put a dampener on Hogmanay plans across Scotland as the nation braces for 48 hours of heavy rain.The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering all of Scotland apart from Orkney and Shetland on 30 and 31 December, with “significant disruption” expected from the ear
  
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• Houthis claim to have targeted Ben Gurion airport after Israel hits Sana’a

  27-12-2024 17:42 via theguardian.com
  
  IDF says missile was intercepted before it reached Israeli airspace, as Netanyahu says strikes on Yemen will continueHouthi rebels in Yemen claim to have retaliated against Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a’s airport early on Friday with a missile aimed at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and a drone attack on Tel Aviv.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said their defences intercepted the ballistic missile before it reached Israeli airspace, though residents in the centre of the country wer
  
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• More than 150,000 people arrived in UK in small boats in last seven years

  27-12-2024 17:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour blames ‘appalling legacy’ left by Tories after milestone for number of arrivals was reached on Boxing DayLabour has blamed the Tories for leaving an “appalling legacy of border security” after figures showed more than 150,000 people have arrived in the UK in small boats since 2018.The milestone was reached after Home Office figures confirmed that at least 850 people landed in small boats on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Continue reading...
  
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• Azerbaijan Airlines says there was ‘external interference’ before crash

  27-12-2024 17:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Carrier suspends flights to five Russian airports after early findings of investigation into crash on Christmas Day The aircraft that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38 people, experienced “external physical and technical interference”, according to preliminary results of an investigation, Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday.The early findings led the carrier to suspend flights to five Russian airports, citing “potential risks to flight safety”, adding to t
  
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• Nato to boost Baltic Sea presence after suspected sabotage of underwater cable

  27-12-2024 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Finland seizes ship it suspects of damaging cable connecting Estonia and Finland on Christmas DayNato is to increase its military presence in the Baltic Sea, the alliance has announced, after the suspected sabotage of an underwater power cable running between Finland and Estonia.The Estlink 2 submarine cable was disconnected from the grid on Christmas Day, little more than a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea. Continue reading..
  
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• Azerbaijan Airlines blames deadly plane crash on 'external interference' as Russia speculation grows

  27-12-2024 17:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Azerbaijan Airlines has suspended flights to eight additional Russian airports after a flight meant to carry passengers from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to Grozny, Russia crashed "due to physical and technical external interference," the airline has announced.Reports suggest that a Russian anti-aircraft missile may have been responsible for the disaster.The airline noted in a post on X that beginning Dec. 28, flights from Baku to eight Russian airports have been suspended. The announcement come
  
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• Sudan: first aid convoy reaches besieged Khartoum area since start of civil war

  27-12-2024 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Deliveries of vital food and medical supplies will help 200,000 families, say aid groups and local volunteersAn aid convoy has reached a besieged area of Khartoum for the first time since Sudan’s civil war broke out in April 2023, bringing food and medicines in a country where half of the people are at risk of starvation.The 28 trucks arrived in southern Khartoum on 25 December, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), which provided 22 trucks loaded with 750 tonnes of food. Continue r
  
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• ‘Guayaquil Four’ boys missing in Ecuador pose challenge to president

  27-12-2024 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Protests have erupted nationwide after disappearance of boys not seen since they were approached by soldiersThe disappearance of four boys in Ecuador after they came into contact with the armed forces is posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s “war on drugs”.The four – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of Las Malvinas, a poor area in the country’s largest city, Guayaquil – were returning from a football game near their homes on 8 D
  
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• Officials claim Israeli military ‘burning’ Kamal Adwan hospital after forced evacuation of patients – as it happened

  27-12-2024 15:52 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Middle East coverage hereAn estimated 730,000 people living in tents in camps for the displaced in northwest Syria are experiencing dire conditions this winter including from flooding, the UN humanitarian office has said.
  The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said yesterday that more than 200 family tents in camps in Idlib and northern Aleppo were damaged by flooding from heavy rainfall on 23 December.
  “Sinc
  
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• In states that ban abortion, social safety net programs often fail families

  27-12-2024 15:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Tennessee has nearly total abortion ban and a porous safety net for mothers and young children
  
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• China unveils world's largest amphibious warship

  27-12-2024 14:33 via foxnews.com
  
  China has launched the first of its new line of amphibious assault ships and its biggest one yet, strengthening what is already the world's largest navy.The Sichuan, a type 076 new-generation amphibious assault ship, was put into the water at a launch and naming ceremony on Friday. With a full load displacement of 40,000 tons, the warship ranks among the world's largest amphibious assault ships, featuring a dual-island superstructure and full-length flight deck, the People's Liberation Army
  
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• Germany’s president dissolves parliament ahead of snap election

  27-12-2024 13:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Formal step taken by Frank-Walter Steinmeier after chancellor Olaf Scholz lost confidence vote in BundestagGermany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has dissolved parliament and called a snap election on 23 February after Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-way coalition collapsed three years into its mandate.The national vote will come seven months ahead of schedule amid a rocky stretch of unusual political turmoil for the EU’s top economic power, with growth rates flatlining, i
  
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• Trump again suggests US should own and control Greenland

  27-12-2024 13:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is again floating his interest in U.S. ownership of Greenland.
  
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• South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly votes to impeach acting President Han

  27-12-2024 13:29 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further deepening the country’s political crisis set off by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s stunning imposition of martial law and ensuing impeachment.Han’s impeachment means he will be stripped of the powers and duties of the president until the Constitutional Court decides whether to dismiss or reinstate him. The c
  
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• South Korea’s second impeachment in two weeks is latest twist in political saga

  27-12-2024 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Removal of acting president Han Duck-soo is part of a rancorous battle for the country’s constitutional futureFor the fourth time this month, South Korea’s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country’s political future.Safeguarding the hard-won rights and freedoms South Koreans have enjoyed for almost four decades is a lofty aim – and supported by the vast majority of voters – but the scenes inside the national assembly have been a reminde
  
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• London-listed miner pauses Mozambique operation amid political unrest

  27-12-2024 12:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Gemfields makes decision over ruby mining after groups ‘took advantage’ of situation to try to invade its siteThe London-listed mining company Gemfields said it had temporarily halted its ruby mining operation in Mozambique after groups “took advantage” of political unrest to set fire and attempt to invade its site, resulting in two deaths.Gemfields, one of the world’s largest miners of coloured gemstones, said more than 200 people associated with illegal ruby minin
  
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• WATCH: Dog goes viral over her love for garbage men

  27-12-2024 12:47 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Maddie’s weekend can’t officially start until her favorite neighborhood garbage men arrive at her home in northern Ireland.
  
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• ‘Everyone is crazy about tennis’: Sinner’s success inspires Italy to pick up rackets

  27-12-2024 12:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Italians are taking to the court with factors including the pandemic and broadcasting also said to be fuelling enthusiasmAt the age of 47, diehard AC Milan fan Ninni Licata has hung up his football boots in exchange for a tennis racket.Like thousands of Italians in recent years, Licata has been unable to resist the lure of a game that for years had been relegated to the sidelines of the country’s national sports, overshadowed by football and Formula One. Continue reading...
  
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• South Korea lawmakers vote to impeach acting president two weeks after impeaching president – as it happened

  27-12-2024 12:20 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereEvents since Yoon’s martial law declaration on December 3 had ignited South Korea’s worst political crisis since 1987 when nationwide public demonstrations forced the ruling party of former military generals to accept the democratic election of the president.On Friday, prosecutors indicted former Defence Minister Kim Yong-Hyun in the first move to put an official accused of insurrection on trial, Yonhap News said. Cont
  
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• Iran regime under 'immense pressure' amid incoming Trump admin policies, regional losses, economic woes

  27-12-2024 11:30 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM—President-elect Donald Trump’s slated revival of his maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran coupled with a chronic gas shortage in the nation could be the one-two punch that topples the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, according to one prominent expert. "This gas shortage inside Iran is highly significant and exposes the regime’s growing vulnerabilities across multiple fronts. From the defeats of Hezbollah and Hamas in their
  
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• 'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Health insurance company interference is rising, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, where delays can be the difference between life and death.
  
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• The next round of governor's races could bring big changes to state power

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  38 gubernatorial races will be on the ballot from coast to coast over the next two years, including in several of the presidential battleground states.
  
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• Loved ones gone, businesses destroyed: How one Tennessee town is still struggling to recover

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Erwin, Tennessee, as families of the dead deal with their loved ones' absences, businesses at a destroyed industrial park still hope to reopen and officials look for ways to pay for costly rebuilding.
  
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• Joe Rogan, ‘Hawk Tuah’ and the rise of conservative-leaning online spaces in 2024

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Joe Rogan, ‘Hawk Tuah’ and the rise of conservative-leaning online spaces in 2024
  
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• Biggest hip-hop moments of 2024, from Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' to Sean 'Diddy' Combs' arrest

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the world of hip-hop, 2024 has been full of drama, viral moments, triumphs and letdowns.
  
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• 8 changes following NBC News' reporting on unclaimed bodies used for medical research

  27-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  NBC News’ investigation into the University of North Texas Health Science Center's use of unclaimed bodies led to significant changes even before the first article ran.
  
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• Sailors killed in double Sydney to Hobart tragedy named ahead of ‘challenging night in the Bass Strait’

  27-12-2024 10:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Roy Quaden, 55, and Nick Smith, 65, dead after incidents on yachts Flying Fish Arctos and BowlineGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo sailors on separate Sydney to Hobart yachts, Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline, have died at sea on the first night of the race. They were fatally struck by a boom – a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the mainsail – and mainsheet on their respective boats amid wild weather conditions that forced line honours favourite Maste
  
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• WATCH: Typewriter poet's impromptu poetry helps strangers heal

  27-12-2024 10:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  London-based typewriter poet Olivia Dodd connects with strangers and writes meaningful poetry for them in a matter of minutes.
  
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• Armed for survival: How Oct 7 Hamas massacre transformed gun culture in Israel

  27-12-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  In the delivery room of a hospital in Jerusalem, as the contractions intensified and the midwife tried to help the laboring woman shift to a more comfortable position, the mother felt something strange."She told me something was hurting her," recalled Erga Froman, the midwife. "Then I realized it was my gun, which was holstered on a rotating belt and had shifted forward, touching her." After the baby was born, Froman's colleagues at the hospital took a photo of her standing next to the newborn,
  
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• South Korean interim president impeached just 2 weeks after former leader was ousted

  27-12-2024 09:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday over a short-lived martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos.
  
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• Trump's 'border czar' says family detention centers could play a role in deportation effort

  27-12-2024 04:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tom Homan, whom Donald Trump has chosen to oversee immigration and border security, said using detention centers for migrant families is still being discussed.
  
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• UN voices alarm after WHO chief caught up in deadly Israeli strike on Yemen airport

  27-12-2024 02:32 via theguardian.com
  
  UN secretary general decries escalatory actions on both sides after WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he was just metres from airport strike The United Nations chief has denounced the “escalation” in hostilities between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Israel, calling IDF strikes on targets including at the airport in Sana’a “especially alarming” after it came under attack while the head of the World Health Organization was about to board a plane.Israel struc
  
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• Pair of Christmas NFL games on Netflix set streaming records

  27-12-2024 02:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  About 65 million combined viewers watched a pair of NFL games on Netflix on Christmas Day to set streaming records.
  
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• Four in New Hampshire found dead on Christmas of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning

  27-12-2024 01:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Four people were found dead in a New Hampshire home on Christmas Day of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.
  
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