2 mn readA winter storm is forecast to spread ice and snow across portions of the central and eastern U.S. today, bringing widespread travel troubles and also the threat of power outages. Although snow is expected in some spots, most of the precipitation is expected to fall as a mix of freezing rain and sleet starting later […]
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< 1 mn readGoogle is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” […]
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4 mn readDonald Trump’s apparent plans to shutter the US Agency for International Development without congressional authority represent another unprecedented move by a president who, since taking office two weeks ago, has been testing the limits of his office by defying longstanding legal and political principles, legal experts told CNN. The decades-old agency appeared to be in […]
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5 mn readSeven people are dead, including one in a car on the ground, after a twin-engine medevac jet carrying a child patient and her mother crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia Friday night, the mayor said Saturday morning. At least 19 were injured on the ground. The six people on the plane were Mexican nationals, […]
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4 mn readUS stocks dropped sharply Monday — and chipmaker Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value — after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry. DeepSeek, a one-year-old startup, revealed a stunning capability last week: It presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1, […]
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3 mn readThe Kansas City Chiefs are one win from an unprecedented NFL ‘three-peat’ after beating the Buffalo Bills to reach Super Bowl 59. The Chiefs held on for a thrilling 32-29 win over the Bills to become the first back-to-back champions to return to the Super Bowl. It is the fifth time in six years that […]
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