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Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Axel Clavier felt like he was suffocating inside the Swiss Alpine bar where moments before he'd been ringing in the new year with friends and dozens of other revelers. The 16-year-old from Paris escaped the inferno, which broke out after midnight Thursday, by forcing a window open with a table. But about 40 other partygoers died, including one of Clavier's friends, falling ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Donald Trump has insisted that 'genetics' allows him to maintain his fast-food-based diet and his frequent use of aspirin Reality star Dr. Drew Pinsky has reiterated Donald Trump's health claims that the president made in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. Trump told ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States is "locked and loaded" to respond if Iran kills protesters, prompting Tehran to warn that intervention would destabilise the region. Protesters and security forces clashed in several Iranian cities on Thursday, with six reported killed, the first deaths since the unrest escalated. Shopkeepers in the capital Tehran went on strike Sunday over high ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
US cuts proposed levies to between 2% and 14% despite accusing Italian producers of selling at unfairly low prices The US government has slashed proposed tariffs on Italian pasta that would have almost doubled the cost of many brands for shoppers. Donald Trump had threatened to impose tariffs as high as 92% on Italian pasta companies , after accusing 13 producers including Barilla, La Molisana and Pastificio Lucio ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
A woman has died in a rare suspected mountain lion attack in Colorado on Thursday, officials said. Hikers told authorities they saw a mountain lion near a person who was lying on the ground 100 yards away around 12:15 p.m., on the Crosier Mountain trail in unincorporated Larimer County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news release. The hikers scared the lion away by throwing rocks and then attended to the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 -
Nicolás Maduro said Thursday that his government is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States after months of American military pressure targeting drug trafficking networks tied to his government. In a pre-taped interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet that aired on state television, Maduro said Venezuela is "ready" to discuss a drug-trafficking deal with the U.S. He called on the ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he's dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort. "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!" he said in a social media post Wednesday. Governors ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
Home » Florida Politics » WASHINGTON – The U.S. military revealed Wednesday it struck five suspected narco-terrorist vessels over the course of two days. The attacks killed a total of eight people, with some jumping overboard and possibly surviving. The U.S. Southern Command issued a statement on the social media platform X. They attached footage of the initial strikes, which took place on Dec. ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
Carson Beck was able to avoid the question as well as he was able to sidestep any Ohio State pass rush when he was asked on ESPN which team he would prefer to play in the College Football Playoff semifinals, Ole Miss or Georgia. The obvious answer is Georgia, where Beck was the starting quarterback in the 2023 and '24 seasons. Beck isn't there anymore, and on Wednesday in Arlington, Texas, he led No. 10 Miami to a ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
New mayor, 34, was sworn in by state attorney general Letitia James in old beaux-arts city hall subway station Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station – a prelude to daylong celebrations set to include a second, public swearing-in and a block party outside city hall. Mamdani, 34, was sworn into office by the New ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
By The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America cruise ship Thursday off Cuba, the agency said. The woman went into the water as the ship, the Neiuw Statendam, was sailing about 40 miles northeast of the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago off Cuba's northern coast, the Coast Guard said in a statement. The search is being conducted by the crew of the Cutter ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
CK Smith 2 min read President Donald Trump used his veto power late last year to reject two bipartisan bills — moves that have drawn criticism from lawmakers and tribal leaders who say the decisions were shaped by political tensions and past legal fights as much as policy concerns. On Dec. 30, Trump vetoed H.R. 131 , the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act , aimed at extending repayment terms for a ...
Source: yahoo.com
Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump slammed George Clooney as an "average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics," adding the actor "wasn't a movie star at all" and has garnered "more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies." In a scathing New Year's Eve Truth Social post , Trump called the "Jay Kelly" star and his wife, ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Former special counsel led Justice Department prosecution of Trump following the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters after he lost the 2020 election Donald Trump was "most culpable" for the January 6 riot and would have been convicted in court had the case ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
FOXBORO — Patriots defensive lineman Christian Barmore is facing a domestic assault charge for allegedly throwing the mother of his child to the floor earlier this year, according to court documents in the second case to surface this week involving allegations that a high-profile Patriot struck a woman. Barmore, 26, has yet to be arraigned or enter a plea on the charge of misdemeanor assault and battery on a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com