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Winter storm to bring snow, winds, ice and life-threatening chill to US

Brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge Saturday amid a continuing wave of Arctic storms that has hammered much of the country with blinding snow, freezing rain and whipping winds

Republicans push back on Biden plan to axe funds for anti-abortion centers

More than 7,000 comments have been submitted on the proposed rule, which includes a series of restrictions on how states would be able to spend TANF monies

Blinken meets Chinese, Japanese diplomats, seeks stability in Taiwan

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met a senior Chinese diplomat on Friday, as the Biden administration seeks to mitigate tensions over Taiwan as the island holds its presidential election

Trump ordered to pay The New York Times, its reporters $400K in legal fees

Donald Trump, who sought $100 million in damages, alleged Mary Trump, the Times and the reporters were motivated by a personal vendetta against him

Austin should have informed about his hospitalisation: President Biden

Prez Joe Biden said Friday that it was a lapse in judgment for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not to tell him about his hospitalization last week, but he still has confidence in his Pentagon chief

Oregon Supreme Court keeps Donald Trump on state's primary ballot

Only one of those lawsuits has been successful so far in Colorado, which last month ruled that Trump's role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol disqualified him from the presidency

US strikes another Houthi-controlled site after issuing Red Sea alerts

The U.S. military early Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that they have determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk

Ethnic guerrilla groups agreed to an immediate cease-fire: Myanmar army

Myanmar's military has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the country's northeast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

US govt investigating Boeing's design of part that blew off jetliner

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday that the investigation is focusing on plugs used to fill spots for extra exits when those doors are not required on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners

Collected $360 mn more from rich tax cheats, says IRS amid funding concerns

Along with the $122 million collected from delinquent millionaires last October, now nearly half a billion dollars in back taxes from rich tax cheats has been recouped, IRS leaders say

Amid Red Sea attacks, Tesla puts German factory production on hold

Tesla says it's temporarily halting most production at its German factory because of attacks in the Red Sea, a vital global shipping corridor

Myanmar military, ethnic groups agreed to immediate cease-fire: China

Myanmar has been wracked by violence that began after the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021

N Korea to welcome Russian tourists, country's first since pandemic: Report

The Kim-Putin summit deepened outside belief that North Korea is supplying conventional arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine, in return for high-tech Russian weapons technologies

Japan launches an intelligence satellite to watch for N Korean missiles

Japan launched a rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite Friday on a mission to watch movements at military sites in North Korea and improve responses to natural disasters

Israel to defend itself at UN's top court against genocide allegations

South African lawyers argued that the war is part of decades of Israeli oppression of Palestinians

US-led strikes on Houthi rebels draw attention back to war raging in Yemen

A Saudi-led coalition including the United Arab Emirates launched a war to back Yemen's exiled government in 2015

Canadian politician Ed Broadbent, a social democracy stalwart, dies at 87

Ed Broadbent, a social democracy stalwart who helped build up Canada's leftist New Democratic Party, has died. He was 87

Tesla is raising worker wages as auto union tries to raise its EV plants

Factory workers at Tesla have been told to expect pay raises this year, a move that comes as the United Auto Workers union tries to organize the electric vehicle maker's U.S. plants

Guyana rejects quest for US military base as dispute with Venezuela deepens

Nandlall and other officials in Guyana have sought to temper tensions with Venezuela over a disputed region known as Essequibo rich in oil and minerals

Donald Trump addresses civil fraud trial after judge receives bomb threat

After about six minutes, Judge Arthur Engoron who had denied Trump permission earlier to give a closing statement at the trial cut him off and recessed for lunch