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US-Iran talks fail to find deal but Gulf truce holds for now
- Iran and the United States failed to strike a deal Sunday to end the war in the Middle East, but there was no immediate return to hostilities and the region clung to hope that a fragile truce would hold.    US Vice President JD Vance left Pakistan after the talks — the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the 1979 Islamic revolution — and warned that Washington had made Tehran its ...

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Manhattan DA launches investigation into sexual assault allegation against Eric Swalwell
- No compatible source was found for this media. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Saturday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault against Rep. Eric Swalwell, a day after that a former staffer for the California Democrat accused him of having sex with her when she was unable to consent. "We urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division ...

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Man with machete fatally shot at NYC's Grand Central after slashing attack, NYPD says
- A man with a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City's Grand Central on Saturday before he was fatally shot by police, officials said.  The NYPD said officers encountered the armed man on the 4/5/6 subway platform at Grand Central-42nd Street at around 9:40 a.m. after a civilian alerted them and they found a slashing victim. The man, identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, was armed with a ...

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Jubilant return of Artemis II shadowed by 'extinction-level' cuts to Nasa: 'It's discordant'
- were "almost poets", Nasa's administrator, Jared Isaacman, declared on Friday, referring to their They were, he said, "ambassadors for humanity" as they became the first humans to travel to the moon and return safely to Earth since 1972, on a mission that broke a Meanwhile, the mood at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday night was one of jubilation and celebration as the Orion capsule made a Nasa ...

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Manhattan DA's office to investigate Swalwell sexual assault allegation
- The Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York has launched an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., NBC News confirmed Saturday. Multiple women in the last two days have come forward alleging that Swalwell sexually assaulted or harassed them while serving in Congress, including one who alleged he assaulted her in New York. Swalwell has denied the allegations. A ...

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