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TOKYO — Japan’s coast guard has found a person and debris in the ocean where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan, officials said. The cause of the crash and the status of the person and the others on the aircraft were not immediately known, coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa […]

GottaHaveRockandRoll is excited to present the “Holy Grail” of Elvis Presley jewelry, the iconic and famous “Lion Claw” necklace. This relic was originally displayed at the Elvis Presley Museum, later being given to Jimmy Velvet. Jimmy Velvet was once described as “The Godfather of memorabilia” by Rolling Stone Magazine. Jimmy Velvet even described the Elvis Lion […]

PARIS — Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next week. Extreme heat, air pollution and the increasing spread of deadly infectious diseases are just some of the reasons […]

Three young men of Palestinian descent who were in Burlington for a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot and injured — one seriously — near the University of Vermont, police said Sunday. Authorities said the attack may have been a hate crime. The shootings occurred at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday near the UVM campus, according to […]

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Aden, raising the stakes amid […]

LONDON — One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey. The iceberg, known as A23a, split from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. But it became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in […]

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON — Hamas said its armed wing has handed over 13 Israeli hostages and four foreign nationals to the International Red Cross in Gaza Saturday night. The group is traveling to Egypt’s shared border with the enclave, a Qatari source told Reuters. Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari echoed this in an earlier social media […]

Authorities on Friday identified those missing or killed in a southeast Alaska landslide this week as five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who made a longshot bid for the state’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives last year. Timothy Heller, 44, and Beth Heller, 36 — plus their children Mara, 16; […]

Paris Hilton has surprised fans by announcing the arrival of a baby girl named London. The 42-year-old celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday by sharing a picture of a pink baby onesie bearing the name “London”. The outfit lay on a pink blanket next to a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses and a cuddly animal. In the caption, […]

Ukraine said Wednesday Russia launched 14 drones and a cruise missile as part of its latest attacks. The Ukrainian air force said its air defenses downed all of the drones, which were directed at parts of central, southeastern and western Ukraine. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. The Ukrainian military also […]