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TikTok makes app unavailable for U.S. users ahead of ban
TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the social media platform was supposed to go into effect.
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Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended
Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stormed a Seoul court Sunday after a judge extended the impeached leader's detention over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law.The president said he would attempt to show the "purpose and legitimacy of the martial law declaration", in a statement issued Sunday through his lawyers.
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Mexican authorities to seal secret tunnel on US border
A clandestine tunnel discovered on the US-Mexico border allowing entry from Ciudad Juarez into the Texan city of El Paso will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official said Saturday, adding that its construction was under investigation.According to the Mexican newspaper Reforma, the fire was started by some of the migrants who were camping there to resist attempts by immigration authorities to detain them and transfer them to Mexico City for later deportation.
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Will a day care worker who says she was wrongfully convicted be freed?
Melissa Calusinski has been behind bars in Illinois for 16 years in a case plagued by allegations of evidence manipulation, coerced confession and flawed medical opinions.
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Missing woman's sister says TikTok pleas helped generate tips
Megan Kingsbury says her TikTok posts about finding her sister Maddi Kingsbury who vanished in 2023 helped the investigation and gained nationwide attention.
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Allegations of manipulated evidence fuel day care worker's clemency push
Melissa Calusinski was convicted and sentenced to 31 years in prison for the death of a 16-month-old in her care, but her attorneys argue that critical evidence that might have cleared her was manipulated.
AFP
60 killed in Colombia guerilla violence
The death toll from attacks by ELN rebels in Colombia has risen to 60 in the country's restive Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, officials said Saturday.Around 60 people have been killed across Catatumbo, Colombia's Ombudsman Office said late Saturday, while some residents were "taking refuge in the mountains" to escape the violence.
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Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts more than 1,000 times this month
A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report Sunday as efforts were underway to evacuate thousands of villagers living near the rumbling mountain.It added that the volcano had erupted 17 times on Sunday alone.
TODAY
TikTok ban: Step-by-step instructions on how to download videos and data
A potential ban on TikTok could cause the app to disappear as soon as Jan. 19. Here's how to save your favorite videos and download data if app gets banned.
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A father at the bedside of his son, a surfer and a woman who stayed behind with her beloved pets are among wildfire victims
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 24 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his son’s bedside.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire delayed until Hamas provides hostage list
A ceasefire deal endorsed by Israel and Hamas was delayed from going into effect Sunday.
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What we know about the victims killed in the California wildfires
At least two of the people killed in the Southern California wildfires tried to protect the homes where they raised families and lived for decades, while another stayed behind with his son who had cerebral palsy and could not evacuate.
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California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, what caused them, who is affected and more
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area.
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Taliban deputy tells leader there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girls
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province. In Afghanistan, women and girls can only be treated by female doctors and health professionals.
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Middle East latest: Gaza ceasefire is delayed over dispute between Hamas and Israel
The Israeli military says it “continues to attack” inside the Gaza Strip as a dispute with Hamas delayed the start of a planned ceasefire. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the military’s chief spokesman, said the truce would not begin until Hamas hands over the names of three hostages to be released later on Sunday, echoing an earlier statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas blamed the delay in handing over the names on “technical field reasons.”
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How Baltimore is saving lives by offering young men resources when they put down the guns
With his dad in prison and his mom suffering from alcoholism, Malik Grant faced abandonment and instability early on. Two years later, Grant has an apartment and a full-time job with the city’s Department of Public Works. Grant, 29, is among about 200 people receiving support through Baltimore’s relatively new Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which targets the root causes of gun violence: hopelessness, joblessness, poverty, mental health, substance abuse, housing instability, poor conflict resolution and more.
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Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work
On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass. The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the plain fields of Texas. The proliferation of sheep on solar farms is part of a broader trend — solar grazing — that has exploded alongside the solar industry.
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Families of wildfire victims mired in grief, questioning what more could have been done
The house was burning with her brother-in-law and nephew inside when Jackie McDaniels flagged down a firetruck and begged for help. "Whoever is in there is no longer alive,” she recalled one of the firemen telling her before urging her to flee her Altadena neighborhood. Now McDaniels, like so many, is facing the gripping realities of grief and questions about what more could have been done.
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Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office
When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King’s legacy. It's a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill the late reverend's dream of non-violent social revolution. The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump’s rhetoric and stances on race and civil rights during his third presidential campaign.

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