After a largely mild end to 2023, cold jet stream air from the polar vortex appears set to descend on parts of the U.S. later this week, adding to a chaotic January that saw reports of several deaths, heavy snow and tornadoes Tuesday.
Cameron Green was on Wednesday elevated to Australia’s Test XI after selectors opted not to pick a specialist opener to replace the retired David Warner for the series-opening match against West Indies in Adelaide, starting January 17. Without releasing a batting order, CA confirmed allrounder Green would start.
Development projects such as dams, roads, power plants, and mines can displace communities and damage the land and rivers that they need for their livelihoods. Over the past decades, communities affected by large-scale development projects and their civil society allies have worked together to advocate for the creation of accountability mechanisms to address these problems.
Stiff competition and management warning of a slowdown have wiped $82 billion off Meituan's market cap in 2023.
Riots in the four Ecuadorian prisons broke out on January 8, the day after the office of the country’s attorney general said it was investigating a possible prison escape by Fito, the leader of the los Choneros criminal gang
Actress Ashley Judd joins "All There Is With Anderson Cooper" to discuss how she has coped with the death of her mother Naomi Judd, who died by suicide in 2022.
He has been addressing several independent rallies in the State following his early release from jail after being imprisoned in a road rage case
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Alan Belcher and ex-UFC champion Junior dos Santos will collide for the heavyweight title of Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Bare-Knuckle MMA promotion on March 2 in Orlando, Fla.
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The Lebanese terror organization is believed to be the first to use these precise weapons to target civilian structures. Thus far, hundreds of buildings have been damaged - and now even communities that were not evacuated early in the conflict could be within firing range
South Africa accuses the Middle Eastern nation of genocide against the people of Palestine.
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| GP | W | L | OTL | SOL | GF | GA | Pts | |
| Prince George | 40 | 28 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 176 | 109 | 56 |
| Victoria | 39 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 139 | 140 | 49 |
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A World shearing record that stood for just three days has been broken this afternoon in a coastal King Country woolshed. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, passed the target of 386 about 3.40pm and will shear on to the scheduled finish at 5pm, ...
“I’ve seen some pretty gruesome crime scenes and this was just … it was creepy."
Ecuador's TC Televisión live programming was interrupted by hooded and armed men as the Guayaquil-based network was on air. The hooded men forced the staff onto the floor. Ecuador's police told CNN all staff and hostages that were in the TC Televisión facility in Guayaquil as armed men stormed its installation are alive, and that they have arrested all the armed men that entered the station.
Trump has reportedly strayed from any winnable (or even plausible) argument to find himself in a stuck in a strange place of his own doing.
Читать дальше...The U.S. Coast Guard, in two different interceptions, seized over 2,450 pounds of cocaine valued at about $32 million, in the Caribbean Sea.
If you no longer look forward to going to work, it might be time for a change.
Jeff Glor reports on dangerous storms across the country, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's prostate cancer diagnosis, and nanoplastics in bottled water.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said displaced Palestinians must be permitted to return to their homes in the Gaza when the timing is right and announced Israel had agreed to a plan that could allow that to happen.
THE mother of former First Lady Melania Trump has died at 78.
Melania described her mom Amalija Knavs as a “strong woman who always carried herself with grace, warmth, and dignity” in the heartbreaking announcement.
GettyAmalija Knavs, seen walking with her daughter former first lady Melania Trump in 2018, has died[/caption] The heartbreaking announcement came after Melania missed the Trump family holiday celebration to care for her motherInstagram/kimberlyguilfoyle Amalija... Читать дальше...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns scored 23 of his 28 points in the first half and the Minnesota Timberwolves…
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A Long Island, New York financial advisory firm is a “boiling, alcohol-fueled sexual cauldron,” with certain offices reserved for for “sexual hookups” only, according to a former employee who says the company’s top executives fashion themselves after convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, the real-life “Wolf of Wall Street.”
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