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Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S. The auto club AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 80 kilometers from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day, which would top […]

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, waded into Germany’s election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country’s savior. The AfD is running second in opinion polls and might be able to thwart either a center-right or center-left majority, but Germany’s mainstream, more centrist parties have […]

Snoop Dogg has opened up about Drake’s recent court filings against Universal Music Group. The rapper admitted he would have opted to resolve a feud “in the streets” after he became caught in the middle of an ongoing disagreement between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Drake, 38, recently filed lawsuits against Universal Music Group, including one […]

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russian forces were moving towards achieving their primary goals on the battlefield in Ukraine and touted what he said was the invincibility of Russia’s new hypersonic missile. Fielding questions on state TV during his annual question and answer session with Russians, Putin said Moscow’s forces were advancing […]

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its target interest rate but signaled it might take longer than previously expected to bring inflation down to the central bank’s target rate of 2% per year. That means there will likely be fewer rate reductions in 2025 than had been projected. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday called on U.S. lawmakers to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past Friday, raising the likelihood of a partial shutdown. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance called on lawmakers to pass a different temporary spending bill than the one unveiled on Tuesday, free from what they called […]

Pharrell Williams has been named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. The singer and fashion mogul was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for artistic education and entrepreneurship for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris on Tuesday. The role involves promoting initiatives such as protecting Indigenous cultures, advancing education and health care for women, […]

WASHINGTON — Top Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress unveiled a stopgap measure on Tuesday to keep federal agencies funded through March 14, which would avert a partial government shutdown that would otherwise begin Saturday. The measure would likely keep the roughly $6.2 trillion federal budget running at its current level, funding such programs and […]

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump contended Monday that the country’s military “for some reason” was keeping details secret about unexplained drones flying across the nighttime skies above the eastern United States, but the White House later minimized the drone sightings. “Our military knows … something strange is going on,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate […]

DENVER, COLORADO — Dozens of kids cheered on a festively decked-out plane in Denver on Saturday when the pilot announced their destination for the day: the North Pole. More than 100 children, some of whom have serious health issues, were then taken on a roughly 45-minute flight near the city before landing back at Denver International […]