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Behind the beard: What America’s Santas do when Christmas is over
After weeks of living inside the red suit, professional Santas navigate burnout, reflection and an unexpectedly lonely January.
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Why New Year’s Eve concerts were cancelled at the Kennedy Center
How a naming decision tied to Donald Trump triggered artist withdrawals, political backlash, and a widening culture war at a national arts institution
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Trump’s Ukraine peace push runs into Russia’s red lines
Why negotiations that once promised a quick deal are now confronting the hardest questions of territory, security guarantees and power
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Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right
A 27-year-old Gallup and USA Today poll captured equal parts optimism and anxiety, and the mood shift since then is the real story.
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Canada’s assisted-dying debate reaches its hardest case
A Toronto woman’s plea to end her life has become the test of whether mental illness alone should qualify for medical assistance in dying
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Why Ukrainian men are risking death to avoid the front line
As the war grinds on and manpower thins, illegal crossings, deadly journeys and moral strain are reshaping Ukraine’s mobilisation crisis.
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What the US looks like when immigration slows to a trickle
A year into tighter rules, labour shortages, ageing towns and strained public services show how deeply immigration supports everyday American life.
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When Washington chased UFOs: The 1952 sightings that still have no answer
From Cold War radar alarms to modern pilot reports, the mystery over the US capital never fully went away.
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Wrong man, wrong cell: How a forgotten letter exposed a murder conviction in Brooklyn
An overlooked confession, tunnel vision in policing and the long road from incarceration to exoneration.
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“What’s the internet?”: Bezos claims he heard 40 ‘no’s before Amazon got its first yes
In 1995, Jeff Bezos pitched dozens of investors for seed money — and many first wanted an explanation of the internet itself.
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From open prison to no-fly zone: How İmralı became Turkey’s most symbolic island
A six-kilometre island in the Sea of Marmara has served as an open prison, an execution site and a fortress of solitary confinement, and its competing meanings now sit uncomfortably at the heart of Turkey’s uneasy peace debate.
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What the latest Epstein files reveal and why they are stirring controversy
Newly released Justice Department documents deepen questions about the Epstein investigation, the handling of politically sensitive material, and how President Donald Trump’s name appears in the records.
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Did DOGE actually cut spending? The numbers say no
How Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in the US upended agencies, cut thousands of contracts and grants, yet failed to meaningfully reduce federal spending.
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A “60 Minutes” story on deportations was stopped at the last minute. Viewers are watching it anyway
A 13-minute segment on Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison was postponed hours before broadcast, then leaked in full via a Canadian affiliate, intensifying a newsroom backlash and a political storm.
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Why Scotch demand is falling and what distilleries are doing about it
Falling global sales, weaker US demand and a 10 per cent tariff are leaving distilleries with a surplus of maturing stock, prompting production cuts, warehouse expansion and fresh anxiety for rural jobs and investment.
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Bondi gunmen allegedly threw homemade explosives and trained for weeks before attack, police say
Court documents detail alleged planning, reconnaissance and extremist material linked to the deadly Hanukkah attack at Bondi Beach.
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Who is Jeff Landry, Trump’s pick as special envoy to Greenland?
The Louisiana governor is a fierce Trump loyalist with a combative domestic record, but little experience in foreign policy or Arctic diplomacy.
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Assad’s life after power: Inside the Syrian strongman’s luxurious exile in Russia
From Moscow penthouses to Dubai yacht parties, a New York Times investigation traces how Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle escaped accountability after the fall of the Syrian regime.
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Jim Beam halts bourbon production for 2026 as the American whiskey boom turns into a bust
A year-long shutdown at the bourbon giant’s flagship Kentucky distillery highlights falling demand, excess inventory and shifting drinking habits.
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From caviar to cherries: How China is turning luxury foods into a domestic powerhouse
Low-cost domestic producers are replacing imports, pushing prices down in China and, in some categories, starting to compete globally.
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Report flags suspicious crypto flows after US plea deal, Binance rejects findings
Leaked internal files reviewed by the Financial Times show that accounts with red flags kept operating on the world’s largest crypto exchange even after its 2023 US criminal settlement.
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How China built a homegrown arms industry to rival the West
New jet engines and warships underline Beijing’s push for military self-sufficiency as imports fall and exports rise.
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A year of upheaval inside the US federal government during Trump’s second term
Executive orders, DOGE-led cuts and mass resignations reshaped Washington’s bureaucracy and forced nearly 300,000 federal workers out.
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US Democrats protest plan to link Trump’s name to national monuments and the Kennedy Center
A protest by a senior Democratic senator has reopened an old argument in American politics: who gets remembered in stone, and who decides when history has already passed its verdict.
