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Training and practice sessions were underway a day ahead of the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics as mixed doubles curling round robin play and preliminary round women's ice hockey matches began.

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Thirteen players were either in quarantine or isolation due to a norovirus that began affecting the team on Tuesday night.

Gov. Josh Shapiro said on the social platform X that the state’s police, emergency management agency and health department had responded to the fire.

Darcy Tinning, 19, allegedly made threat ahead of Herzog’s planned visit and made remark that constitutes hate speech, court hears

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A teenager has appeared in court after allegedly threatening the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, ahead of his contentious visit to Australia.

Darcy Tinning, 19, has been accused of threatening to shoot the head of state with a pistol in a 19 January post on the social media platform X. He’s also accused of threatening to kill Donald Trump.

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© Photograph: Samantha Manchee/AAP

© Photograph: Samantha Manchee/AAP

© Photograph: Samantha Manchee/AAP

LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas surrounded by family, his representative Jeremy Westby said in a statement.

The 32-year-old Mark McMorris, making his fourth appearance at the Olympics, was getting ready for Thursday night's qualifying, set for about 24 hours before the opening ceremony.

New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death.

A new kind of pill sharply reduced artery-clogging cholesterol in people who remain at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins, researchers reported Wednesday.

Armed extremists killed at least 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months.

The Puerto Rican singer’s highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time show has inspired non-Spanish speakers to study Puerto Rican dialect and slang

Bad Bunny is expected to perform the Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday entirely in Spanish – which has inspired fans to quickly learn the language.

In October, the Puerto Rican singer – born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – kicked off the 51st season of Saturday Night Live expressing pride over the achievement in Spanish, after which he said in English, “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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© Photograph: Alejandro Granadillo/AP

© Photograph: Alejandro Granadillo/AP

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Singer was member of vocal group that scored 1960s hits with Up, Up and Away and Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

Singer LaMonte McLemore has died. He was a founding member of the 5th Dimension, a vocal group whose smooth pop and soul sounds with a touch of psychedelia brought them big hits in the 1960s and 70s.

McLemore died on Tuesday aged 90 at his home in Las Vegas, surrounded by his family, his representative Jeremy Westby said in a statement. He died of natural causes after having a stroke.

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© Photograph: Harold P Matosia/AP

© Photograph: Harold P Matosia/AP

© Photograph: Harold P Matosia/AP

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors..

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