Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped the Trump administration's Tuesday boat strike briefing as "a joke," describing it as "a communication of opinion."

A court filing by a group with deep ties to the pipeline company Energy Transfer raises questions about the growing use of amicus briefs in litigation.

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ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.

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A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. “We were their friends, and we will miss them forever.”

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The AI-powered IRMO M1 exoskeleton features four modes including turbo, eco, training and rest for hiking, running, cycling and sports with eight-hour battery life.

China sues Sen. Eric Schmitt for $50 billion over his pandemic lawsuit. The Missouri Republican refuses to back down from the fight.

The "Being Charlie" writer pestered the celebrities with bizarre questions and was eventually asked to leave the comedian's holiday bash.

• All 48 competing nations to get minimum of $10.5m

• Fifa Council approval comes amid ticket price row

Fifa has announced a 50% increase in World Cup prize money for next year’s tournament, with the champions set to take home $50m (£37.5m) as a reward for their success.

The news comes days after there was widespread public outrage over the price of seats at the tournament, to be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Fifa this week announced a limited number of discount tickets for fans of participating countries.

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Binkley joined the new cast of Vanderpump Rules for Season 12.

Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins

"You don't want to set me off," Nick eerily admitted in the 2016 interview about "Being Charlie," which made his dad burst into laughter.

Rob Reiner’s drug-addled son is due in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to face charges for murdering both his parents, a day after he was a no-show over medical issues. Nick Reiner, 32, is due to make an initial appearance at Los Angeles Municipal Court a day after he was officially charged with fatally...

Russian president vows to liberate ‘historic lands’ in hardline speech, showing no signs of compromise on invasion goals

ShinyHunters group reportedly behind the hack affecting data of 200m users thought to be from before 2021

Hackers have accessed the search history and viewing habits of premium users of Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular pornography websites.

A gang has reportedly accessed more than 200m data records, including premium members’ email addresses, search and viewing activities and locations. Pornhub is a heavily used site and says it has more than 100m daily visits globally.

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Trump has ordered a ‘total and complete’ blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from the country

We will get a sense later in the day on whether the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has any misgivings about Donald Trump’s strategy towards Venezuela, when a war powers resolution intended to halt his escalation against the country comes up for a vote.

Proposed by Democrat James McGovern, the resolution would require the president to remove troops from the country’s vicinity. It has 39 Democratic co-sponsors, and, perhaps crucially, three Republicans: Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Kentucky. The latter two are not on good terms with the president.

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Investment firm concerned about tougher debt terms and the risk of delays to the vast project

Food bloggers liken Richard Hart to Christopher Columbus for ‘stomping’ on a country that has welcomed him

A noted British baker has provoked a furore in Mexico by saying on a podcast the country does not “really have much of a bread culture”.

Richard Hart, who opened the Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City in June, also said the country’s wheat was “not good … completely highly processed, full of additives” and its sandwiches – tortas – were made “on these white ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made”.

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Make ahead and impress your guests with crunchy-topped hazelnut creme brulees and a centrepiece chocolate fondant bundt cake

Even though our to-do lists are longer and our homes busier than ever, there’s something about Christmas that gives us the extra chutzpah to bake. And not just any baking, but baking for a crowd. So, with this in mind, here are two crowdpleasing recipes – a rich hazelnut “Nutcracker” creme brulee and a resplendent chocolate fondant bundt cake – with a few make-ahead and shortcut secrets to give you a head start.

Nicola Lamb is a pastry chef and author of the weekly Kitchen Projects newsletter and Sift, published by Ebury Press at £30. To order a copy for £27, go to guardianbookshop.com

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First lady Melania Trump is taking center stage, with the first teaser trailer for a highly anticipated documentary dropping Wednesday.

Jaxson Dart's propensity to fight for every yard has made it open season on the Giants quarterback.

Family members can be sweet and relentless but how can we aid our relatives in the age of new tech and device addiction

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I don’t want to sound dramatic but, a few weeks ago, something happened that has completely changed how I view online material. I fell for AI-generated content. For someone who is constantly squabbling with older relatives about how little they question what they see online, this was a profoundly unsettling and humbling experience. And it made me think about how, during this holiday period, we could all use this as an opportunity to approach those conversations with the “WhatsApp aunties” more sensitively.

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Romy Reiner learned from paramedics that her mother had been killed after she discovered the slain body of her Hollywood director father inside the couple's Los Angeles home.

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From November 1 onward to New Year's Day we are inundated with the background sounds of the most wonderful time of the year. For some, its fa-la-la-la f--k off with a quarter of retail employees citing holiday music as a source of psychic strain and emotional damage. Crippling carols and all, Christmas music is an...