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NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of shooting down United Healthcare’s CEO outside a Manhattan hotel is now jailed in New York, awaiting arraignment Monday on a state murder charge after he was returned to the city in dramatic fashion to be prosecuted in several courts. Feathered and wearing orange prison overalls, 26-year-old Luigi […]

Auf den ersten Blick ist das Productportfolio vom iPhone überschaubar. A normal iPhone, a Pro model and then still SE. Finished. Aber wie so often, ist es dann leider doch nicht ganz so einfach. Beim zweiten Blick one notices among other differences the display size and technology, different camera and the processor. Aubeurs auch noch […]

Afghanistan's young spin talent AM Ghazanfar has taken five wickets in their series-clinching, eight-wicket ODI triumph over Zimbabwe in Harare.

For many years, Venezuelans understood instinctively what was meant when someone invoked la situación in conversation. The rich started leaving the country because of la situación. One would be crazy to drive at night, given la situación del país. The main features of this “situation of the country,” in the years around President Hugo Chávez’s […]

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the in the 2nd century BC, after a small […]

LONDON — A which police are treating as an attack, is the latest in a grim series of events in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. There have been a spate of such attacks over the past decade, some committed by groups but most by individuals. The motives – where they could be […]

At end-of-year celebrations, some bosses give their employees gifts of appreciation and extend warm wishes. On Saturday, Pope Francis used his annual Christmas message to the leaders of the Vatican’s various departments to admonish them. Again. “A church community lives in joyful and fraternal harmony to the extent that its members walk in the life […]

Elon Musk has stirred controversy in Germany after calling Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “incompetent fool” and backing the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. In a post on X, Musk first reshared a video by right-wing influencer Naomi Seibt in which she criticizes Friedrich Merz, one of the leading candidates to become Germany’s next […]

ABUJA, Nigeria — Ten people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in Nigeria’s capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Christmas event, the police said Saturday. The stampede occurred in the early morning hours at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in […]

Hanukkah, , begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays provides an auspicious occasion for interfaith engagement. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish […]