LSU’s Angel Reese, Alexis Morris comment on apparent feud with Caitlin Clark after national championship win over Iowa

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz says police alerted him about a 'potential threat' on his life
Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida said that police notified him this week about an arrest in connection with a "potential threat on my life" amid heightened concerns about political violence.
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Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen is reelected in Nevada, securing battleground seat
Rosen, a first-term senator, campaigned on abortion rights and positioned herself as a nonideological politician, a formula that also worked for the state’s senior senator, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, in her own reelection bid two years ago. Brown, a retired Army captain who moved to Nevada from Texas in 2018 and has never held elected office, unsuccessfully tried to ride President-elect Donald Trump's strong showing in the working-class state.
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10 stabbed in Seattle over two days in random attacks that may be connected
Five people were stabbed in an apparently random attack in Seattle on Friday, and police are investigating whether the suspect may have stabbed five other people since Thursday morning.
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100-year-old Royal Air Force veteran will join UK memorial service for the first time
Michael Woods has visited his wife, Mary, every day since she moved into a nursing home two years ago. For the first time since he left the RAF in 1947, Woods will take part in Britain’s national Remembrance Day service, joining thousands of veterans as they march past the Cenotaph war memorial in central London to honor those who died during the world wars and all the conflicts that followed. “It’s a great privilege for me to do this,” said Woods, a mechanic who kept Lancaster bombers flying during the war.
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Louisiana lawmakers advance Gov. Jeff Landry's tax cut bills
Louisiana lawmakers advanced bills to flatten the state's income tax rate and repeal the corporate franchise tax in a special legislative session focused on a sweeping tax reform package championed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. The session started earlier this week and the bills quickly cleared committees despite pushback from Democratic lawmakers and groups such as those representing the film industry, which are set to lose tax breaks. The state House of Representatives could vote on the bills early next week.
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A push for school choice fell short in Trump's first term. He may now have a more willing Congress
The election of Donald Trump returns an ally of school choice to the White House, this time with a Republican-controlled Senate — and potentially House — that could be more supportive of proposals that fizzled during his first term. Although proposals to expand private schooling suffered high-profile defeats in several states, Trump’s victory has brought new optimism to advocates of supporting school choice at the federal level. One of their main priorities: tax credits for donations to organizations that provide private school scholarships.
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Calmer winds help firefighters make progress against California's Mountain Fire
Calmer winds helped California firefighters battle the once out-of-control Mountain Fire on Friday as they continued to defend homes from the destructive blaze, officials said.
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The Boy Scouts inspired Norman Rockwell. His works will now help pay abuse survivors
In one Norman Rockwell painting, a family proudly welcomes a beaming Boy Scout home from camp, his duffel bag in hand. In another of Rockwell's achingly idyllic works, a Cub Scout stands on a chair to measure the chest of his older brother, a Boy Scout who has taped his fitness record to his bedroom wall. Many of the works from the Boy Scouts of America’s collection are as interwoven into American life as the organization itself, having been featured on magazine covers, calendars and even used to sell war bonds.
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The Democrats are starting to discuss party chair candidates for the second Trump era
Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek a second term, opening a job that must be filled by March 1, according to the party's bylaws. Who takes the position will speak volumes about how the party wants to present itself going forward and what issues members believe hampered Democrats against Trump in 2024. The incoming chair will also oversee the party’s 2028 nominating process, a complex and contentious exercise that will make that person central to the next presidential election.
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A record 13 women will be governors next year after New Hampshire elected Kelly Ayotte
The election of Republican Kelly Ayotte as New Hampshire's governor means 13 women will serve as a state's chief executive next year, breaking the record of 12 set after the 2022 elections. “It matters to have women in those roles to normalize the image of women in political leadership and even more specifically in executive leadership, where they’re the sole leader, not just a member of a team,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was floated as a potential Democratic nominee for president after President Biden exited the race.
AFP
N. Korea jams GPS signals, affecting ships, aircraft in South
North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea, Seoul's military said."North Korea conducted GPS jamming provocations in Haeju and Kaesong yesterday and today," Seoul's joint chiefs of staff said in a statement Saturday, adding several vessels and dozens of civilian aircraft were experiencing "some operational disruptions".
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Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike
Anti-abortion advocates say there is still work to be done to further restrict access to abortion when Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House next year. “Now the work begins to dismantle the pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration," the Susan B. Anthony List, the powerful anti-abortion lobby, said in a statement Wednesday. “President Trump’s first-term pro-life accomplishments are the baseline for his second term.”
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Japan's prime minister vows military buildup and deeper ties with the US as regional tension rises
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge Saturday to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump. Ishiba, who made the comments at an annual troop review held at Camp Asaka in the Tokyo suburbs, said the security environment surrounding Japan and the international community has significantly worsened due to escalating tensions with China, Russia and North Korea.
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Menendez brothers timeline: A look at the murders, the trials and the effort to free them
Follow a timeline of key dates to know after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their mother and father at the family’s Beverly Hills home in 1989.
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UN sanctions 2 generals from Sudan's paramilitary force for key roles in war against the military
The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including Darfur. The U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured, and recently warned that the country has been pushed to the brink of famine.
AFP
Over 130 homes lost in California wildfire as winds drop
Firefighters grappling with a blaze that has destroyed at least 130 homes in California said Friday they had made progress in their fight as a turn in the weather offered a break.The change in weather meant fire crews were able to make progress in their fight, said Nick Cleary of the Ventura County Fire Department, with 14 percent of the perimeter of the blaze contained.
AFP
Indonesia volcano catapults vast ash tower into sky
A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) into the sky, days after it killed nine people and forced thousands of locals to evacuate.The mountain on Thursday spewed an ash tower eight kilometres high, which locals said was one of the biggest they had ever seen.
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Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen will win reelection in Nevada, CNN projects
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen will win reelection in Nevada, CNN projects, holding off Republicans from adding to their incoming majority in the US Senate.
TODAY
15 National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day deals for cluckin’ good savings
Here are all the best deals for National Chicken Sandwich Day from McDonald's, KFC, Popeyes, Wingstop, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jollibee, Grubhub and Burger King.
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North Korean GPS manipulation disrupted dozens of planes and vessels, South Korea says
South Korea’s military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for the second-straight day on Saturday, affecting an unspecified number of flights and vessel operations. Tensions between the rival Koreas have escalated as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his advancing nuclear and missile program and engages in electronic and psychological warfare, such as flying thousands of balloons to drop trash and anti-South Korean propaganda leaflets in the South.

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