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Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office confirms wildfire death toll rises to 16
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Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office confirms wildfire death toll rises to 16

Firefighters work to put out flames in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 11, 2025, as the Palisades Fire continues to burn. Agustin Paullier | Afp | Getty Images LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office confirmed the death toll from the wildfires ravaging the area has […]

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Airlines extend travel waivers due to LA wildfires
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Airlines extend travel waivers due to LA wildfires

In this aerial view taken from a helicopter, burned homes are seen during the Palisades fire in the Malibu area of Los Angeles county, California on January 9, 2025.  Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images Airlines have extended travel waivers for Los Angeles airports as wildfires continue to burn in the area. American Airlines, […]

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Los Angeles wildfires latest: Nearly 180,000 people under evacuation orders, county sheriff says
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Los Angeles wildfires latest: Nearly 180,000 people under evacuation orders, county sheriff says

Oscar nominations delayed amid wildfires Preparations continue along Hollywood Blvd for the 96th Academy Awards Awards in Los Angeles, California U.S., March 8, 2024.  Mike Blake | Reuters The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has delayed the nomination voting period for the 97th Oscars Ceremony by two days. The delay will push the […]

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Police probe motive in New Orleans truck rampage
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Police probe motive in New Orleans truck rampage

FBI investigators arrive at the scene where the white Ford F-150 pickup truck that crashed into a work lift after allegedly driving into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025.  Matthew Hinton | Afp | Getty Images Investigators in New Orleans were searching on […]

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Boeing 737-800, the model that crashed in South Korea, is one of the world’s most popular aircraft
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Boeing 737-800, the model that crashed in South Korea, is one of the world’s most popular aircraft

A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 taking off from Osaka Kansai airport.  Fabrizio Gandolfo | Lightrocket | Getty Images Accident investigators are trying to figure out what caused a Jeju Air flight to belly land without its landing gear down at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two of the 181 people on […]

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Jimmy Carter, the farmer, president and Nobel peace crusader, dies at age 100
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Jimmy Carter, the farmer, president and Nobel peace crusader, dies at age 100

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up his Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. During his acceptance speech, Carter urged others to work for peace. Arne Knudsen | Getty Images News | Getty Images Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became a U.S. president and a Nobel Prize-winning activist for peace […]

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At least 28 dead in fiery aircraft crash in South Korea, Yonhap reports
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At least 28 dead in fiery aircraft crash in South Korea, Yonhap reports

Firefighters carry out extinguishing operations on an aircraft which drove off runaway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, on Dec. 29, 2024. Yonhap | Via Reuters At least 28 people were killed when an airliner went off the runway and slammed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport […]

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German Christmas market attack suspect remanded in custody
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German Christmas market attack suspect remanded in custody

Police vans and ambulances stand next to the annual Christmas market in the city center following a possible terror incident on December 20, 2024 in Magdeburg, Germany. Craig Stennett | Getty Images News | Getty Images Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor accused of killing four women and a nine-year-old boy by driving into a Christmas market […]

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Invesco launches ETF to maximize on the tech concentration craze
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Invesco launches ETF to maximize on the tech concentration craze

ETF Edge Invesco launches ETF to maximize on the tech concentration craze Published Sat, Dec 14 202411:00 AM EST Krysta Escobar WATCH LIVE Source

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Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83
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Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83

Art Cashin, UBS’ director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange and a man The Washington Post called “Wall Street’s version of Walter Cronkite,” has died. He was 83 and had been a regular on CNBC for more than 25 years. In the intensely competitive and often vicious world of stock market commentary, […]

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