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Adrian Gonzales, 52, was acquitted on 29 child endangerment charges

“Everyone has a story…” “Those were words out of my dad’s mouth on more than one occasion,” said Amy Redford tonight at the Sundance Film Festival welcome presser, underscoring the theme of the event’s final edition in Park City, UT before it departs for its new home of Boulder, Colo. next year. In a touching […]

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Paris, France (AFP) Jan 19, 2026
Countries including France and Britain are considering following Australia's lead by banning children and some teenagers from using social media, but experts are still locked in a debate over the effectiveness of the move. Supporters of a ban warn that action needs to be taken to tackle deteriorating mental health among young people, but others say the evidence is inconclusive and want a mor

Beijing Jan 21, 2026
Beijing vowed on Wednesday that it would "safeguard" the rights and interests of Chinese businesses if the European Union pushes on with plans to ban "high-risk" foreign telecoms suppliers, a move seen as targeting China. Brussels unveiled the proposal on Tuesday as part of plans to revise its cybersecurity rules in a bid to bolster Europe's defences against a surge in cyber attacks. It

Kariwa, Japan (AFP) Jan 21, 2026
The world's biggest nuclear power plant was restarted Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its Japanese operator said, despite persistent safety concerns among residents. The plant was "started at 19:02" (1002 GMT), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) spokesman Tatsuya Matoba told AFP of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture. The regional governor

London (AFP) Jan 19, 2026
A British court on Monday rejected Australian mining giant BHP's bid to appeal a ruling holding it liable for one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, bringing victim compensation closer. A dam collapse in 2015 at an iron-ore mine run by a firm co-owned by BHP killed 19 people and unleashed a deluge of toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest, rivers and the ocean. In November,

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 19, 2026
EU plans to ban "forever chemicals" will likely not see the light before the tail end of the year, EU officials said Monday, foreshadowing a possible delay. Brussels has said that prohibiting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in everyday consumer goods - from pizza boxes to clothing - is a "priority". But the related proposal promised for this year is unlikely to be ready befo

Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 20, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday issued a new rule to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters, bringing the United States a step closer to unilaterally launching the controversial industry. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 113-page document consolidates what is currently a two-step permitting process - one for exploration and another for com

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universite Paris-Saclay report that dark matter in the early universe may have started out moving at nearly the speed of light, challenging the long held assumption that it had to be born cold and slow. Their work suggests that the universe's dominant unseen matter component could have been incredibly hot at birth yet still cooled suffic

An attorney representing some of the jewelry companies impacted in the heist said Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores’s deportation ‘exposes a gap in the system that deserves transparency’

Nine months ago, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum instructing his administration to "achieve maximum speed and efficiency" in moving to block invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

According to the news agency, the agreement also envisages intensified NATO activity in the Arctic, stronger security for Greenland, and the extraction of raw materials on the island

Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin made a huge statement on star batter Suryakumar Yadav's breezy knock in the first T20I against New Zealand.

Biffle died last month along with his wife, Cristina, and their two children, Emma and Ryder, when their private jet crashed into the runway at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.

Trump claims Russia agreed to join Peace Board, Putin says there's a rider

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EXCLUSIVE- WPP Media Snags SC Johnsons North America Account

President Donald Trump keeps toying with the use of the Insurrection Act to essentially declare an emergency state that mobilizes military forces in American cities — something he has considered many times in the past, even to potentially seize voting machines after his election loss in 2020.