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Month: December 2025

Hong Kong holds a legislative election Sunday after a fire raised governance concerns

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades is piling pressure on Beijing’s “patriots-only” governance system, casting a shadow on elections widely seen as a further step to tighten control over the city’s legislature. Sunday’s vote to elect new lawmakers to Hong Kong’s 90-member Legislative Council

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a Cabinet Meeting in the White House in Washington

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on

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Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors went back to

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Ecuador’s Otavalo Indigenous people use anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press JATUN RUMI, Ecuador (AP) — High in the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of young Otavalo Indigenous people is using anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language, especially among Otavalo children. They produced an animated short film titled “We’re Aya” that follows the adventures of

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Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A high-traffic “dinosaur freeway” may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia. Traveling along this busy route were theropods — three-toed, bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs, which left behind thousands of fossil footprints. Paleontologists have now described their tracks for the first time, offering a rare glimpse

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Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the

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Police recover a swallowed Fabergé pendant after a 6-day wait for it to reappear

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing the jewelry in an Auckland store. They said the pendant was recovered Thursday night after it exited the suspect’s gastrointestinal tract

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