The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month’s summit.

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An inside look at Sunday's Jets-Browns NFL Week 10 matchup at MetLife Stadium:  

Super typhoon comes just days after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed 204 people in the Philippines

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Newly re-elected Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey is facing backlash from conservatives for giving a victory speech in Somali and saying that Minneapolis welcomes Somalians.

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, former reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the most infamous in all Great Lakes history, as family members and maritime history followers honor the 50th anniversary of the disaster

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The 53-year-old allegedly committed the heinous attack in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Dec. 30, 2017.

An FDNY firefighter was tragically killed while battling a five-alarm blaze in Brooklyn Saturday night, officials said.

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist

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The Belfast actor won an Ifta award and a Bafta nod for their performance as an IRA soldier in last year’s ‘Say Nothing’. Now they speak to Annabel Nugent about their latest role in ‘Trespasses’, the long-lasting effects of the Troubles – and why they’d be more than happy playing Irish roles for the rest of their life

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Last week, 7,000 people – including Tom Cruise – descended on the West Sussex town for an event that divides local opinion

In the nearly 30 years that Diane Juchau has lived in East Grinstead, not many days live as long in the memory as the day she saw Tom Cruise on the high street. “I saw him a couple of years ago walking past Iceland,” she said.

It may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime anecdote but, this week, Cruise was back – and, when the purpose for his visit was revealed, the chance sighting of the Mission: Impossible star in a West Sussex town makes a lot more sense.

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Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.

Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader.

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Daily swims, power naps and five meals a day – not tips from the latest hit wellbeing podcast, but longstanding traditions that have kept generations healthy in Iceland, Ukraine, France and more …

Iceland: swimming pool culture

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The president, played by cast member James Austin Johnson, heralded a win for Republicans after the Supreme Court ruled that they could ‘stop feeding poor people’ and prices had ‘plummeted up!’

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This week, TravelSmart is bringing you a taste of Louisiana. Global Travel Editor Annabel Grossman shares some of the best places to visit, from the jazz-filled streets of New Orleans to Lafayette’s wildlife-filled Atchafalaya Basin.

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The news that the actor Pauline Collins had died touched a nerve for Terri White. Brought up in a working-class culture, surrounded by Shirley Valentines (Rita, Sue and Bob too), she wondered, where on earth did they all go?

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The New Jersey rock star is preparing for his band’s first tour in four years after undergoing risky but crucial vocal surgery. He speaks with Roisin O’Connor about new album ‘Forever (Legendary Edition)’, why he’s OK with being vulnerable, and his joy over his growing family

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The Man Who Pays His Way: Captain of first-ever easyJet flight was on secondment from British Airways

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As two TV presenters and a politician have already fallen foul of the rabid ‘where’s your poppy?’ brigade and actor Mark Rylance has been branded ‘woke’ for donning a symbol of pacifism, Helen Coffey wonders how a simple act of remembrance became so politically charged

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More victims might still be found at sea some three days after the sinking of the vessel, which left Myanmar with about 300 people on board

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has inducted its 2025 class, celebrating influential musicians and figures

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Chaos erupted in a Big Apple courtroom Saturday night as the family of the 12-year-old girl allegedly raped in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing-project building came to blows with the twisted homeless creep accused of carrying out the horrific attack.

Igor Shesterkin opened the season looking the part of the league’s highest-paid goaltender. For nearly three weeks, he’s largely been living on reputation. While the offense again gave the Rangers no chance of pulling out their first home win of the season, the star goaltender couldn’t match his close friend, Ilya Sorokin, in the Islanders’...

US airlines canceled more than 2,500 weekend flights by Saturday evening as the Federal Aviation Administration’s mandate to reduce air traffic because of the government shutdown showed no signs of easing.

Illegal gold mining is growing in Ghana, one of the world's top gold producers

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