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NASA is planning to bring forward a homecoming for stuck astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

NASA, SpaceX hatch new plan to get stuck astronauts home

After eight months stranded in space, NASA and SpaceX have announced a new plan to bring two stuck astronauts back to Earth.

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In this courtroom sketch, Salman Rushdie testifies on the witness stand gesturing how the attacker slashed his throat during the 2022 onstage attack.

‘I was dying’: Rushdie relives brutal stabbing in court

The bestselling author calmly recounted the horrific onstage knife assault in August 2022 that left him lying in ‘a lake’ of blood as his accused attacker sat 6m away from him in court.

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Detroit officials are examining their failure to help a family, after two children died of cold.

Homeless children die in car parked outside casino

Authorities are investigating the deaths of two children whose family were living in a van, parked in freezing temperatures outside a Casino.

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Adan Manzano was in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl for Telemundo Kansas City.

Bombshell evidence emerges in death of Super Bowl reporter

Police have revealed the first clue about just how the NFL journalist may have died.

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Motley Crue singer Vince Neil’s jet crashed in Arizona.

At least one dead after jet crash on airport runway

At least one person is dead and multiple others have been injured after one jet crashed into another on a runway at a US airport. 

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Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome.

Sports icon joins back-up dancers in Lamar’s halftime show

The decorated athlete made a cameo in Kendrick Lamar’s rousing performance alongside his high-energy back-up dancers.

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Author Salman Rushdie used the stabbing attack as inspiration for a new novel called Knife. (AP PHOTO)

Rushdie tipped to come face-to-face with accused stabber

Author Salman Rushdie is set to face the man who attacked him with a knife, and left him blind in one eye, during a criminal trial this week.

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A man walks past the US Treasury in Washington, DC, on February 6, 2025. Opponents to US President Donald Trump say he allowed Elon Musk -- the world's richest man and a major government contractor -- to break the law by accessing US Treasury payment systems that send out trillions of dollars and hold a welter of sensitive personal data. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

What is Elon Musk getting up to with the US payment system?

Many federal employees are frantically trying to work out what the Department of Government Efficiency has been doing inside the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a sensitive area of the Treasury?

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Elon Musk and his government efficiency department are being sued by 19 US states. (AP PHOTO)

US states sue to block Musk from people's personal data

A newly filed lawsuit says Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has no legal power to access the personal information of millions of Americans.

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Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in 2022.

How Jay-Z’s Roc Nation made the Super Bowl show cool again

The first Super Bowl halftime show featured a jazz trumpeter and two student marching bands. This year it will be headlined by Kendrick Lamar.

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Seven-year-old Elienisse Diaz Rodriguez fought for her life for two days after a drag racing crash.

School broken after seven-year-old student dies in drag-racing crash

The junior driver ‘fought for her life for two days’ before doctors told the family their ‘princess’ was dead.

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 Vice 2.0: Is Elon Musk the Trump administration’s version of Dick Cheney, arguably the most powerful US vice-president in recent memory.

Vice 2.0: Why Elon Musk is being compared to Dick Cheney

As he rips through the public service, the world’s richest man is being compared with the most-powerful vice president in US history.

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The Kremlin has long sought to be a partner with the West, Russia's Foreign Ministry says.

Russia says US must make first step to improve ties

The United States must take the first step in normalising relations with Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald J. Trump talk with reporters in the Oval Office.

Trump says US will make Gaza ‘Riviera of Middle East’

The US President’s audacious proposal followed his suggestion that Palestinians displaced from the enclave should be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory.

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A large portion of the damaged plane fuselage is lifted from the Potomac River.

Eerie sight as crashed plane parts retrieved from river

Six days after a passenger plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in a fiery crash that left no survivors, wreckage is still being retrieved from the Potomac River.

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