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Former Beatle goes country ... again. Continue reading…

Southern California wildfire victims report looting after returning home to assess damages. And, President-elect Donald Trump is set for sentencing in a hush money conviction today.(Image credit: Ethan Swope)

California has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the system is seen as exploitative.(Image credit: Jae C. Hong)

Women from a Kyiv suburb traumatized by a 2022 massacre by Russian troops joined a volunteer air defense unit to take down Russia's drones — and deal with their fears.(Image credit: Oksana Parafeniuk for NPR)

This was the only one of Trump's criminal charges to reach and complete a trial, making him the first former or future U.S. president to be convicted of criminal charges.(Image credit: Michael M. Santiago)

He says there is a "complete misconception" of what he's like to work with. Continue reading…

Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfway through his term. On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure. While Carter was trying […]

a baby girl, born at sea on an overcrowded rubber dinghy, has been rescued with her mother.

As a tribute to a recently deceased friend, Cooper led a celebrity campaign to restore the Hollywood landmark. Continue reading…

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.(Image credit: Houssam Shbaro)