The Labor Department is investigating a complaint alleging misconduct by Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

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The Houston Texans' elite defense showed up when it counted on Monday night as they helped topped the Pittsburgh Steelers, 30-6, in their Wild Card Round matchup.

ICE says three of the deaths came after the men suffered drug and heart-related issues

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President has publicly obsessed with not winning the prize, awarded last year to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has arrived in Japan for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, aiming to improve the sometimes-strained relationship as Tokyo faces a deepening row with China

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Josh Cavallo says his opportunities were blocked ‘because of who I choose to love’

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The Trump administration has been hounded with allegations that its ongoing strike campaign against alleged drug boats have violated the laws of war

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The controversial healthcare conglomerate is accused of systematically diagnosing patients with as many conditions as possible to maximize Medicare subsidies

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network

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“PBS News Weekend,” the companion to the weekday “NewsHour” program, has signed off, eliminated due to federal funding cuts to public broadcasting

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, have moved into the official mayoral residence in Manhattan, leaving behind their leaky one-bedroom apartment in Queens

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A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed six people during a late night rampage

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Wild success of television series drives huge demand for Game Changers novels, with Australian booksellers reporting significant customer orders

A seventh book in Rachel Reid’s gay romance series that inspired the TV drama Heated Rivalry will be out later this year but Australian fans are still struggling to get their hands on a physical copy of any of the preceding six books.

Unrivalled, the next instalment in the Canadian author’s Game Changers series, will be released internationally on 29 September, the publisher HarperCollins announced on Tuesday.

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"I strive to do good things in this world. I am very grateful and blessed to have this opportunity to be happy."

Pledging to “supercharge” innovation at the War Department, Hegseth said the Pentagon is “done running a peacetime science fair while our potential adversaries are running a wartime arms race.” 

Almost all remaining festival board members have resigned following backlash to decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author

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Adelaide writers’ week 2026 has been cancelled after more than 180 authors and speakers dropped out in protest of the decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the Adelaide festival board announced the event, which was scheduled to begin at the end of February, would no longer go ahead. The statement also said the remaining members of the board would resign – with the exception of the Adelaide city council representative whose term expires in February.

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The "Dilbert" creator is reportedly in hospice at his home in Northern California.

Being on a line with Pageau, also Holmstrom’s penalty-killing partner, has always seemed to help the Swede’s game. But his torrid last month — 13 points in 14 games, plus an absurd 84.19 goals for percentage at 5-on-5, per Evolving Hockey — comes down to much more than that.