11 h. ago ‘Steamnado’ phenomenon spotted in Texas as nation continues to battle frigid temperatures

The US National Weather Service is reassuring residents that they are harmless, despite being “very impressive and scary looking”.

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32 h. ago US storm cuts power to hundreds of thousands of homes and grounds flights

Snow, sleet, freezing rain and perilously cold temperatures forecast to sweep eastern two-thirds of nationMore than 500,000 households and businesses in the US are without power and more than 9,600 flights are expected to be cancelled ahead of a monster winter storm that threatens to paralyse eastern states with heavy snowfall.Forecasters said snow, sleet, freezing rain and dangerously frigid temperatures would sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation on Sunday and into next week. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Internet raises its collective eyebrow after Ted Cruz leaves Texas ahead of winter storm. But, he says he will be back

Cruz was spotted on a flight to California days before Texas is expected to get hit with a potentially deadly winter storm

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8 d. ago Iran warns world that any attack on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be declaration of war

Iran’s president makes comment in response to speculation Donald Trump is planning to assassinate or remove Iran’s supreme leaderIran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, warned on Sunday that any attack on the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would mean a declaration of war.In an apparent response to speculation that Donald Trump is considering an attempt to assassinate or remove Khamenei, Pezeshkian said in a post on X that “an attack on the great leader of our country is tantamount to a full-scale war with the Iranian nation.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Wild party antics of Traitor Rachel: Ahead of Friday's final, we reveal bizarre toilet stunt, why shocked friends told her to 'behave herself', her Parkinson's

She has divided the nation with her manipulative and ruthless behaviour as she audaciously continues her murderous ways in the hope of winning The Traitors' cash prize.

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1 week ago Exiled Iranian crown prince urges Trump to carry out 'surgical strike' on IRGC as he vows to return to the country and calls for global support

Reza Pahlavi has been spurring the international community to ramp up pressure on the government in Tehran as deadly protests continue to rock the Middle Eastern nation.

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1 week ago Iran closes airspace as state television sends Trump 'bullet won't miss' threat

Iran has shut its airspace following escalating tensions with the United States, as anti-government demonstrations continue to rage across the Middle Eastern nation

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2 w. ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Unsealed indictment reveals charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife

Venezuelan president accused of running a ‘corrupt’ government fuelled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded US with cocaineMaduro detained in New York after audacious raid – live updatesA newly unsealed US justice department indictment accuses the captured Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fuelled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the US with thousands of tons of cocaine.The arrest of Maduro and his wife in a stunning military operation early on Saturday in Venezuela sets the stage for a major test for US prosecutors as they seek to secure a conviction in a Manhattan courtroom against the longtime leader of the oil-rich South American nation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist’s work without consent

Hiroshi Nagai, in a post on X, has objected to his artwork being used by the agency to promote its deportation agenda The US Department of Homeland Security is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using his work without permission to promote deportations.In a post on X on New Year’s Eve, DHS posted a photo featuring a pristine and empty beach with palm trees and a vintage car. Written across the photo was “America after 100 million deportations,” along with a separate caption that said: “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.” Continue reading...

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