The Trump administration averted power grid failure during weekend snowstorm by keeping coal plants online that Biden planned to close, the Energy Department says.

Ecuador said it submitted a diplomatic protest to the United States after an ICE agent allegedly tried to enter its Minneapolis consulate on Tuesday.

Curren Price, a Los Angeles city council member, will face trial on 12 felony corruption charges after judge finds sufficient evidence in preliminary hearing.

Giannis Antetokounmpo's mother reminisced on a past trip to Miami after a Wednesday report that the Bucks star forward wants out of Milwaukee.

The Browns are hiring Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken for the top job after a lengthy search, which saw multiple candidates withdraw from the process.

"She was talking a lot of crap off to the side."

One CBS News employee told The Independent that King’s comments were an “utter disappointment."

Around 40 seconds after the plane had begun takeoff, sparks could be seen flying out of the right landing gear.

In November 2017, Nevils filed a complaint with NBC, accusing the news anchor of sexual misconduct. Within 24 hours, he was fired from the network.

In November 2017, Nevils filed a complaint with NBC, accusing the news anchor of sexual misconduct. Within 24 hours, he was fired from the network.

Trump border czar Tom Homan has claimed a "lot of progress" is being made in Minnesota since he trekked to the state late Monday at the president's request.

Bombo … what?

Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School who pleaded guilty to a felony charge last year, is accused in the lawsuit of soliciting naked photos of students and sharing them online.

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All you need is a good hairdo.

Border czar Tom Homan vowed that far-left groups funding and coordinating attacks on ICE agents and operations will be dealt with.

The child actor has given glimpses via X over the years of his family's Arkansas homestead, from nature walks to holiday celebrations.

Border czar Tom Homan in Minneapolis says ‘no agency is perfect’ and acknowledges improvements that need to be made to federal immigration enforcement

• ‘Nothing has changed’: Minneapolis on edge despite Trump’s de-escalation vow

“I do not want to hear that “everything that’s been done here has been perfect”, Homan said, without referring specifically to the fatal shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Homan noted that while no “agency is perfect” he did not come to Minneapolis to create “headlines”. The federal immigration enforcement surge is “going to improve because of changes we’re making”, he said.

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After 40 years with the organization, the trumpeter and impresario will end his role as managing and artistic director in July 2027.

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Giving passengers right to additional carry-on baggage would be ‘terrible for the consumer’, warns airline CEO

EasyJet said proposals to enforce free additional cabin bags on planes across Europe are a “lunatic idea”, warning of fare rises and flight delays if legislation goes through.

The European parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to give all passengers the right to carry on a small case, as well as the free underseat bags currently permitted.

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Paul Patterson, who represented the firm at the public inquiry, will become non-executive chair in March

The European boss of Fujitsu, the company behind the Horizon software at the heart of the Post Office IT scandal, is to step down from his role in March.

Paul Patterson, who is the chief executive of the European division of the company, will become non-executive chair of Fujitsu’s UK business, where he will “continue managing the company’s response” to the inquiry into the scandal.

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A unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will join a US delegation to the Winter Olympics in Italy, sparking confusion and uproar in the country.

Guardian reporter Jakub Krupa looks at what role the agency, which is embroiled in a violent US immigration crackdown, might have at the Milan-Cortina Games.

ICE said agents would 'vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organisations' but not run enforcement operations.

Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said the the agents would be unwelcome in the city. 'This is a militia that kills,' he said

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From sending fewer text messages to being selective with your gardening, this is how Guardian Australia readers are making life a little easier

• Read more summer essentials

At the beginning of the year, we asked experts on how we can go easier on ourselves. They gave us 52 ways to do less in life, from day-to-day tasks to longer-term planning.

We also wanted to know what you’ll be doing less of in 2026. Here, nine readers share their strategies.

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I travel to my friend’s house with a bag of dice and other strange accoutrements that, in an 80s teen film, would lead to me being thrown into a dumpster. I love it

Recently, I reached out to a friend to see if they wanted to see the second Wicked film, only to realise the last time I’d seen them had been a full year – when we went to the first Wicked film. Oops. For a musical about friendship, it’s really lacking a number where Elphaba and Glinda try to schedule a lunch four months in advance.

I wish this was a one-off blip in my regimented friendship schedule, but all through 2025 I played the world’s slowest game of message tennis. I’d invite a pal for dinner, only for the world to turn, the seasons pass, grey hairs gather at my temples, before a date was finally locked in.

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In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country’s main stages – fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo

When Zindzi Okenyo takes the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) stage in June for John Patrick Shanley’s Tony award-winning play Doubt – the role played by Viola Davis in the film – it will be a particularly special moment: her fourth main-stage role playing a black woman in a 20-year theatre career. “I’m really excited about it, I haven’t had a black role for so long,” she says.

For the last five years, Okenyo has been working behind the scenes to create more opportunities and safer spaces for black performers, not as an actor but as a director. When we meet in mid-January, she’s in rehearsals for her production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Pulitzer and Tony award-winning dysfunctional family dramedy Purpose, opening at STC next week – with an entirely black cast.

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