<p>Former President Barack Obama urged Chuck Schumer to get Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election following the diastrous debate with Donald Trump. </p>

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Obama pushed Chuck Schumer to convince Biden to drop out, citing his own ‘frigid relationship’ with the president

<p>US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican governors at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 09, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida</p>

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Trump blasts FBI’s now-shuttered DEI office and hints at an investigation

<p>A woman is dead and a man was injured after three pit bulls attacked them at their Missouri home</p>

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Wife killed and husband hurt trying to save their pets from Pit Bull attack in their own backyard

<p>Autumn Mercado, 39, a mother-of-three, was found lying dead at the bottom of a stairwell at a home in Salt Lake City Monday afternoon </p>

Crime

Utah mom found dead at bottom of stairs, husband arrested after leaving body to go for beers

<p>New Jersey teacher Laura Caron during her virtual court hearing</p>

Crime

Teacher who ‘gave birth to 13-year-old’s baby’ was friends with his mom and acted as his guardian. What we know

New details in case of teacher, 34, who gave birth to student’s baby

<p>Protesters march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women’s March on Washington January 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Eight years later, organizers are preparing the People’s March </p>

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Eight years ago 500,000 marched in DC against Trump. He has returned and so has the protest - just on a smaller scale

<p>There have been more than 9 million illnesses recorded across the U.S. this flu season. Cases are spiking in several states, forcing hospitals to issue restrictions </p>

Where is the flu surging across the US? Hospitals restrict access as cases spike

<p>Vivek Ramaswamy is expected to announce a run for governor of Ohio after he was passed over for filling the state’s open Senate seat previously held by J.D. Vance. </p>

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Trump’s DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly announcing campaign for Ohio governor

<p>CNN was sued by US Navy veteran Zachary Young for defamation over a report on ‘black market’ Afghanistan evacuations. </p>

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CNN found liable for $5 million in defamation trial against US Navy veteran

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Israel security cabinet recommends approving ceasefire as hostage release to begin on Sunday

<p>File: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the district court in Tel Aviv</p>

<p>Tesla’s return-to-office policy mirrors that of CEO Elon Musk’s wish to cut out remote work for federal employees</p>

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Former Tesla executive sues Elon Musk’s company over remote work bait-and-switch that upended his life

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Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday

Latest: Could app still avoid going dark?

<p>Busta Rhymes performs on stage during the MTV EMAs 2024 held at Co-op Live on November 10, 2024 in Manchester, England</p>

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Busta Rhymes arrested and charged with third-degree assault

<p>Actor and director Greta Gerwig</p>

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia adaptation lands historic deal ahead of Netflix release

<p>Genesis Monita,19, and her sister were on their way to school in May 2023, when they stopped to order four breakfast tacos, slathered in BBQ sauce, at Bill Miller in San Antonio</p>

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Restaurant facing $1 million lawsuit over ‘dangerously hot’ sauce that burned teen girl

<p>Jamie Foxx on the red carpet for the special screening of “Back in Action”</p>

Jamie Foxx reveals his first thoughts when he woke up from his coma

<p>Wendy Williams’ family starts GoFundMe to free her from guardianship after star says she only has $15</p>

Wendy Williams’ family starts GoFundMe to free her from guardianship after star says she only has $15

<p>Ozempic is one of 15 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations. The negotiations will be handled by the incoming Trump administration </p>

Medicare announces 15 new drugs chosen for price negotiations, including popular weight loss drug Ozempic

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Trump’s inauguration to be moved indoors due to ‘dangerously cold weather’

<p>Trump’s Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem would not directly say whether she would rebuff his ‘hypothetical’ commands to withhold disaster aid to states with Democratic leadership </p>

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Kristi Noem won’t say if she would withhold disaster aid if Trump asks

<p>Biden endorses the creation of a 28th constitutional amendment to enshrine discrimination protections on the basis of sex </p>

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Biden claims Equal Rights Amendment is ‘law of the land’ after decades-long ratification fight

<p>Joe Biden has issued most pardons and commutations of any president </p>

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Biden sets record and commutes sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in final days as president

<p>Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Jasmine Crockett</p>

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett received creepy call from Republican staffer after Nancy Mace ‘threatened violence’

<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican governors at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 9 </p>

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A crypto council? Trump plans to make cryptocurrency a national priority

<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania</p>

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<p>Nelle Diala claims she was ‘wrongfully fired’ by Alaska Airlines for violating the airline’s social media policy after she posted a TikTok of herself twerking in the aisle of an empty plane</p>

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‘What’s wrong with a little twerk before work’: Flight attendant fired for TikTok video launches fundraiser

<p>Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni</p>

Blake Lively responds to ‘abuser’ Justin Baldoni’s countersuit

SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket blows up after launch lighting up evening sky

<p>At least one person is dead after a shooting at a shopping mall in North Carolina </p>

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One dead at North Carolina’s North Hills mall as Raleigh police rush to scene

<p>Former American Airlines CEO shares the travel tip he swears by </p>

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Former American Airlines CEO shares his number one flying hack

Doug Parker served as the chief executive for American Airlines from 2001 to 2023

<p>The blaze is unrelated to the California wildfires around 300 kilometres south </p>

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More than 1,000 evacuated after fire breaks out at California battery plant

British playwright and award winning actress Joan Plowright dies at age 95

<p>Jim Acosta may soon be moved to midnights even though he is one of the most popular hosts on CNN </p>

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CNN reportedly looking to bury Jim Acosta in graveyard shift to ‘throw a bone to Trump’

<p>Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday flat in Portugal in May 2007</p>

‘Currently no prospect’ of Madeleine McCann suspect facing charges, German prosecutor says

Anne Robinson explains reason behind her rudeness on The Weakest Link

<p>Georgia Republican State Senator Colton Moore outside the Capitol in 2023 </p>

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Chaos in Georgia capitol as banned Republican lawmaker tackled outside House chamber

<p>It’s common to hear stories of recovering bulimics, as well as those with anorexia, accessing Ozempic through back channels</p>

‘It’s alarming’: How Ozempic is being misused and worsening eating disorders

<p>Insurrectionists pictured during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Two Proud Boys members are now facing new charges after they pled guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding more than two years ago </p>

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Proud Boys members hit with new January 6 charges

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Zuckerberg lawyer skewers his ‘toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness’ as he drops Meta as client

<p>The publisher of a prominent Supreme Court news site has been indicted in Maryland </p>

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Top attorney and Supreme Court news site publisher accused of using company funds to cover poker debts

<p>A Joshua tree pictured in Las Vegas, overlooking a golf course. Several Nevandas are angry that a new solar farm project destroyed several of the iconic tress</p>

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Nevada residents outraged as famed Joshua trees are bulldozed to make way for solar farm

<p>Bad news for US fliers as world’s safest airlines are revealed</p>

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Bad news for US fliers as world’s safest airlines are revealed

TikTok star Chris O’Donnell dies, aged 31

Liam Payne’s dad sued for $10m by friend of late One Direction singer

<p>North Korean troops are fighting in Russia’s Kursk region </p>

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Putin’s forces locked onto French plane as North Korea troops may ‘be dead by April’

Severance season two is strange, stylish and totally engrossing

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‘I’m not voting’: Stephen King demands Oscars cancelation after California fires

<p>The late musician Mac Miller pictured at a drum set in 2013</p>

Mac Miller’s posthumous album is a wonderful, if unsettling, reminder of a talent lost

<p>UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down as he walked to the company’s annual investor meeting in mid-town Manhattan on December 4. The healthcare company has lost has lost $63 billion in value since the murder </p>

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UnitedHealth has lost $63 billion in value since former CEO Brian Thompson’s shocking murder

<p>Damon Wayans</p>

Former SNL cast member opens up on the sketch that got him fired: ‘I snapped’

<p>David Lynch has passed away at 78 </p>

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David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78

<p>Burned trees from the Palisades Fire are seen from Will Rogers State Park, with the City of Los Angeles in the background, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday. The region is now in severe drought after months without rain. Droughts are expected to become more wide-reaching, frequent and extreme </p>

Droughts across the West are getting worse - and scientists warn it’s not going to get any better

Cameron Diaz trolls Trump with Elon Musk claim

<p>Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather are on trial for child abuse charges </p>

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Trial hears Black adopted children of white couple were made to sleep on cardboard and were monitored by cameras

<p>Miami police cars block an intersection on January 16, 2025, as part of their investigation into a man who attacked four homeless people earlier that morning, killing two.</p>

Crime

Man with stick kills two homeless people in Miami in ‘unprovoked’ attack

<p>Police in Texas rush K9 officer Rocky to an air ambulance after he was shot during a shootout with an armed suspect on Wednesday</p>

Crime

Heartbreaking moment police rush wounded K9 from shootout with a suspect

<p>Pastor Enoch Ankiwale preached about forgiveness on Sunday. On Monday, he was arrested for alleged sexual battery and kidnapping</p>

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An Oklahoma pastor preached about forgiveness. The next day, he was arrested for sexual battery

<p>Major Michael Stockin, an anesthesiologist and pain management doctor at Madigan Army Medical Center was given the maximum allowable sentence after he took a plea deal</p>

Crime

Army anesthesiologist gets 13 years behind bars for abusing dozens of men during unnecessary exams

<p>Pilot David Allsop was arrested before flying from Savannah, Georgia to Chicago Wednesday because he was allegedly intoxicated </p>

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Southwest pilot pulled from cockpit by cops in front of stunned passengers after ‘showing up to work drunk’

<p>Suchir Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024</p>

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Family demands outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death

Chicago zoo sees ‘beloved’ seal and baby flamingo die from bird flu as virus mutates

<p>Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have gotten the go-ahead for their $1.4 billion hotel in Albania</p>

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Jared Kushner gets the green light on his $1.4 billion hotel project

Investigation

The A-Word: Watch the Independent TV documentary on abortion and America’s war on women

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Canceled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi Documentary

Inside Politics

<p>President Biden attends the Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony Thursday at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginial</p>

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Biden frets over failing ‘guardrails,’ sad about failure to sell wins in final TV interview

Biden warns of threat from new age of ‘robber barons’ in final address

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‘She seems a little angry:’ Kid Rock blasts Michelle Obama as it emerges she will not attend inauguration

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AOC disappointed in Dems who helped Mace’s immigration bill pass House

<p>Michelle Obama attended Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, but plans not to attend his second </p>

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How Team Trump feels about Michelle Obama avoiding Trump’s inauguration

<p>Mel Gibson sends angry wildfire message to California governor Gavin Newsom.</p>

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Mel Gibson had the same reaction as everyone to Trump giving him a new Hollywood role

Mel Gibson, Sly Stallone and Jon Voight join Trump administration

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Elon Musk and DOGE eye $120 billion in diversity cuts

<p>Billy Bush is now pushing a false claim that the reporter who first published the Access Hollywood tape was a groomsman at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. </p>

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How Trump's Access Hollywood scandal and Chelsea Clinton's wedding spawned a new MAGA conspiracy theory

<p>Official portraits of Donald J. Trump and JD Vance just days ahead of their inauguration - drew quick reactions on social media </p>

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Scowling Trump echoes mugshot in his official portrait - and social media quickly slams his and Vance’s pics

<p>Melania Trump took a swipe at the Obamas over the transition process </p>

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Melania takes a swipe at Obamas over ‘challenging’ transition as Michelle skips inauguration

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Gavin Newsom and Mike Johnson trade jabs over California wildfire aid

<p>Snoop Dog, rumored to be performing at the ‘Crypto Ball,’ pictured with Trump in 2011 </p>

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From a Snoop Dogg performance to brunch with Joe Rogan: Inside DC’s insane Trump inauguration parties

Culture

<p>The new Netflix show does not shy away from the era’s brutality </p>

The shocking truth behind Netflix’s new massacre drama

<p>Nelly is reportedly scheduled to perform at Donald Trump’s inaugural ball on January 20 </p>

Rapper Nelly to perform at a Donald Trump’s inaugural ball

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on motherhood and missing Iran after prison

<p>Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds</p>

Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 million

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Dane DeHaan's 'intense, solitary journey' filming American Primeval

Who is performing the national anthem at Trump’s inauguration?

Kat Dennings says ‘cruel’ casting director labelled her ‘too fat’

Lifestyle

<p>Shaquille O’Neal reveals celebrity friendships from Kendrick Lamar to John Summit</p>

Shaquille O’Neal reveals his celebrity friendships

<p>There’s a wide range of options out there, so, you’re bound to find something to suit </p>

Fitness and wellbeing

10 best sex toys for men in 2025, recommended by experts

<p>After a cracking year, M&S has found its way firmly back into our hearts</p>

How Marks and Spencer became the shop of the year

<p>The average pint will now set you back £4.79 </p>

Mapped: The price of a pint across the UK

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<p>Hollywood actor Tom Cruise honoured by US navy for his role in Top Gun</p>

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise honoured by US navy for his role in Top Gun

<p>Moment plane crashes into Hawaii building and bursts into flames captured on dashcam.</p>

Moment plane crashes into Hawaii building captured on dashcam

Car removed from swimming pool after driver crashes

<p>How the Grinch almost stole Christmas as police bodycam captures culprit in action.</p>

The Grinch almost steals Christmas before police catch him in action

Travel

<p>Simon Calder enjoyed luxury for less in the Polish city of Łódź</p>

We’ve been all over the world in 2024 – these were favorite places

Disney Treasure first look: Adventures with Aladdin and Donald Duck

<p>The property where the Duttons live in Yellowstone is a real life, working ranch in Montana </p>

Inside the real-life ranch where Yellowstone was filmed

<p>Atlanta makes the perfect city break for anyone into food, art and history </p>

Atlanta city guide: What to do and where to stay

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