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World Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won re-election Friday to the U.S. House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Johnson convinced two holdouts to flip and support him to once again winContinue Reading

The Duchess of Sussex will star in a new Netflix series, but so far, With Love, Meghan, isn’t getting much love. Meghan revealed the trailer for her new Netflix series on Instagram on Thursday after ending a five-year social media absence. The eight-episode series, filmed in Montecito, Calif., will drop on Jan. 15, accordingContinue Reading

World A judge Friday set U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — a little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but promised not to jail him. Trump convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying businessContinue Reading

World U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable,” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ‘The hot stage of the war can end quite quickly, if Trump is strong in his position’The AssociatedContinue Reading

World Investigators call off attempt to arrest South Korea president after 6-hour standoffSouth Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff on Friday during which he defied their attempt to detain him. It’s the latest confrontation in a political crisis that hasContinue Reading

World Mexican airline Aeromexico had the world’s best record for on-time arrivals in 2024, according to an annual ranking released Thursday. Delta Air Lines scored the highest among U.S. carriers despite a computer outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations in July. WestJet and Air Canada had on-time ratings belowContinue Reading

World The highly decorated army soldier inside the Tesla Cybertruck that burst into flames outside the Las Vegas Trump hotel shot himself in the head before the explosion, and likely planned to cause more damage, officials said Thursday. But the explosive was rudimentary and the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much ofContinue Reading

World Israeli airstrikes killed at least 54 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said. The director general of Gaza’s police department and his aide were killed in the strike, according to the Gaza interior ministry. Gaza’s Islamic JihadContinue Reading

World South Korean police said on Thursday they had raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of their investigation into Sunday’s crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on the country’s soil. Investigators look for documents related to operation and maintenance of aircraftThomson Reuters ·Continue Reading