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Eight dead, including two children, in Brooklyn apartment collapse
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Eight dead, including two children, in Brooklyn apartment collapse

Eight people are dead, including two children, after an apartment building in New York City collapsed into an adjacent construction site Wednesday afternoon, leaving more than a dozen others injured as rescue crews continued searching the rubble Thursday. The three-story building in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood collapsed shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday while construction workers were […]

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Pence leaves door open on 2028 presidential run
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Pence leaves door open on 2028 presidential run

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who was President Trump’s second-in-command during his first term, is leaving the door open to a 2028 presidential bid. In a video interview with Fox News Digital published Thursday, Pence was pressed on if he was thinking about a presidential bid and a “timeline” on his decision, but did not...

Macron says there's 'no more US support’ for Ukraine
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Macron says there's 'no more US support’ for Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron voiced support for Ukraine in its ongoing war against Russia, noting that “there is no more U.S. support.” “Without Europeans … there is no support for Ukraine,” Macron told the press while attending the European Political Community Summit in Ireland, according to a clip posted Thursday on social platform X. “We...

Jensen Huang agrees to brief Congress on interactions with alleged spy, lawmakers say
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Jensen Huang agrees to brief Congress on interactions with alleged spy, lawmakers say

NBC News’ Allie Canal, Dan De Luce and Monica Alba join Meet the Press NOW to discuss ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with an alleged Chinese spy and potential implications for U.S. national security. New York Times trade and economics reporter Ana Swanson shares her reporting on Jensen Huang as he agrees to speak with U.S. lawmakers about the entanglement.


        Les Allemands regrettent Merkel... et vont admirer son nouveau portrait au musée
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Les Allemands regrettent Merkel... et vont admirer son nouveau portrait au musée

En Allemagne, les visiteurs se pressent devant le visage sévère, mais rassurant, de l'ancienne chancelière, immortalisé dans son portrait officiel fraîchement exposé au musée Bode de Berlin. Une vague de nostalgie qui contraste avec les critiques persistantes visant son bilan politique.

Delia Ramirez Wants Democrats to Meet the Moment
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Delia Ramirez Wants Democrats to Meet the Moment

Appearing on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday, President Donald Trump acknowledged that his immigration crackdown had been “too tough” and could have hurt Republicans in a midterm election that gave Democrats control of both chambers of Congress. The president said he’d “love to do something on immigration.” When asked what a deal with the Democratic […]

“Stop Stealing Our Imaginations”: Kids and Parents Are Protesting Google’s Classroom AI
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“Stop Stealing Our Imaginations”: Kids and Parents Are Protesting Google’s Classroom AI

Parents, students, educators, union members, artists, creatives, and community members stood outside Google’s New York City headquarters, located in the eerie corporate section of Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon to protest Google pushing its AI technology into schools.  It was a family event: Attendees of all ages held signs reading, “NO AI IN […]

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Top Intelligence Democrat Says GOP Should Renew Spy Program Before Democrats Take Over

On Wednesday, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes (D–Conn.), urged Republicans to “take the win” and renew President Donald Trump’s warrantless mass surveillance powers during the lame-duck session.  Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—a provision used by US intelligence agencies to spy on the electronic communications of […]

How science informs author Emily St. John Mandel’s fiction
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How science informs author Emily St. John Mandel’s fiction

Emily St. John Mandel in September 2016. | Ulf Andersen/Getty Images The world is full of unanswered questions and strange ideas. Do parallel universes exist? What would it look like if a pandemic wiped out life as we know it? Is time travel possible?  I host the science podcast Unexplainable, where we often speak to scientists about their attempts to puzzle through life’s greatest mysteries, but academic researchers aren’t the only people wrestling with these concepts. On the latest episode o

DC police identify accused Logan Circle gunman, signal potential motive
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DC police identify accused Logan Circle gunman, signal potential motive

Washington, D.C. police identified the suspected gunman accused of shooting five people, including one fatally, in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday, according to the Associated Press. Three sources, including two law enforcement officials, told the AP that a man named Matt Lambert is the preliminary suspect. Law enforcement has not publicly announced the suspect’s identity....

Hegseth awards medal to Arlington Guard sentinel who shouted at his party to keep quiet at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Hegseth awards medal to Arlington Guard sentinel who shouted at his party to keep quiet at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday honored the military guard who rebuked the Pentagon chief’s entourage for talking and laughing as the soldier stood watch at the Arlington National Cemetery. The soldier, Army Specialist Thomas Iglesias, went viral Wednesday after being captured on live television yelling out instructions for the group Hegseth was with […]

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