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Hungary's opposition flexes muscle with mass rally against Orban

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Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Backers of Magyar’s Tisza party lined the capital’s Andrassy Avenue for more than a mile on Sunday ahead of the April 12 vote. ...Read more

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Pentagon sees Iran war lasting up to six weeks, Trump aide says

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A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks.

Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the war will conclude lies with Trump. He was among several...Read more

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Man dies after he's punched in face on Penn Station subway platform over bump

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A 55-year-old man died after a man he bumped into on a Penn Station subway platform punched him in the face, sources familiar with the incident said Sunday.

The two men were walking near each other when the victim bumped into the attacker on the uptown C and E platform about 6:55 p.m. Saturday, sparking an argument, the sources said.

The ...Read more

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Epstein files show reach extended into Maryland, from soccer team to science

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In addition to the specific revelations in the files released by the Department of Justice on the Jeffrey Epstein case, another takeaway emerges: the sheer breadth of the convicted sex offender’s reach.

The millions of documents released to date contain references to individuals and groups from seemingly everywhere, including Maryland, where ...Read more

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Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience

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In one of his latest missives on social media, President Trump complained that he wasn't getting enough credit for "totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise."

"We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time," he wrote of a war that has crippled the global supply of oil, ...Read more

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Penn GLP-1 study finds small increase in risk of osteoporosis and gout

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John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more

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Orban ramps up anti-Ukraine talk in pre-vote showdown with rival

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Prime Minister Viktor Orban ratcheted up his anti-Ukraine rhetoric, casting next month’s Hungarian election as a choice between sticking with him or installing a puppet of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Orban, the European Union leader who is closest to Russia and also an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told a crowd outside the Hungarian...Read more

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Trump is searching for an endgame to the Iran war

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After two weeks of war with Iran, the Trump administration is being forced to temper its expectations of a swift end to the conflict, with U.S. intelligence and defense officials expressing doubt it can achieve the overthrow of Iran's government and the destruction of its nuclear program through military means.

It was an outcome forewarned by ...Read more

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US, China trade talks kick off in Paris ahead of Trump-Xi summit

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Trade negotiators led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this month.

The trade negotiators are expected to review the latest developments in a truce reached in November and discuss ...Read more

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Wild US weather halts flights, dumps snow and knocks out power

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Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms are swirling toward the eastern U.S. having knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power ...Read more

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Long COVID leaves thousands of LA County residents sick, broke and ignored

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LOS ANGELES — In the three years since Los Angeles County declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, mask sales have dwindled, unopened tests have expired in their boxes and people have returned to in-person school, work and socializing.

But for thousands of L.A. County residents living with the complex, chronic condition known...Read more

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Turning the Altadena fire into a civil rights crusade: Was discrimination against Black residents at play?

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LOS ANGELES — A prominent civil rights attorney who represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin announced he’s gathering evidence for a possible federal discrimination lawsuit against Los Angeles County over its response to the Eaton fire.

Attorney Ben Crump has joined the growing ranks of officials and ...Read more

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AI 'man camps' offer golf, free steaks to lure workers in Texas

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Companies competing for workers to build data centers are finding that a motel room with sluggish Wi-Fi isn’t much of a draw. Try free steaks and golf simulators.

As data-center development has exploded with the rise of artificial intelligence, competition for water and power supplies is pushing construction further into rural areas that ...Read more

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Oil expats desperately needed in Venezuela don't want to go home

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Venezuela needs more than money to revive its battered oil industry.

It needs a sprawling diaspora of oil workers who fled the Caribbean country under President Nicolás Maduro to return. Even with the former strongman now sitting in a U.S. jail, that’s a hard sell.

Twenty years of repression and economic collapse forced many geologists, ...Read more

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After detainments and deportations, the lives left behind in Minnesota

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ST. PETER, Minn. — Mercedes checked her phone again, waiting for her husband to call from the detention center.

Forty-one days earlier, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had detained Paco as he walked to his car. Mercedes said she had watched from the window of their mobile home as agents handcuffed him.

Paco was undocumented...Read more

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Kentuckian among 6 US service members killed in refueling plane crash in Iraq

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — A 34-year-old Kentuckian is among the six American service members who died in a plane crash in Iraq on Thursday.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt was assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., according to a Saturday news release from the Department of Defense.

Pruitt is the ...Read more

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Actress Lily Collins 'still speechless' after stolen engagement ring found by Chicago's Joe the Jeweler

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CHICAGO — Joe Hakimian gestures toward the glittering rings sitting inside glass cases at his downtown jewelry shop, Hakimian Imports. There’s the rare-colored gems he picked up at estate sales, and a sparkling 8-carat diamond that covers the finger. He even had an 18k gold brooch shaped like a tennis racket for sale this week.

But perhaps...Read more

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More than 32,000 without power in Colorado amid high winds

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DENVER — More than 30,000 homes and businesses lost power on Saturday as high winds blew across Colorado, according to several of the state’s energy utilities.

Roughly 18,000 of those outages were Xcel Energy customers in Colorado’s foothills, who lost power when the utility’s preemptive safety shutoffs started at 2 p.m. Saturday, ...Read more

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Zoo Miami visitors are told to leave after second bomb threat in 2 days

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MIAMI — Zoo Miami abruptly closed Saturday afternoon after a bomb threat for the second day in a row, according to a social media post from the zoo.

More than 100 cars were stuck in traffic on the road leading out of the attraction.

The zoo also had a bomb threat on Friday afternoon. The zoo closed after “an anonymous phone call reporting ...Read more

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Chicago's St. Patrick's Day traditions live with green-dyed river and parade

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CHICAGO — Downtown Chicago looked like a sea of green, or more precisely a river of green, on Saturday as crowds gathered for the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities.

Just before 10 a.m., boats from Shoreline Sightseeing carrying members of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union 130 sprayed bright green dye into the ...Read more