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The Trump administration on Tuesday designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them. The U.S. State Department said Clan del Golfo, which is based in Colombia, has been listed both as a foreign and a global terrorist group, calling it a “violent and powerful criminal organization” that uses cocaine trafficking to fund violent activities. “Clan del Golfo is responsible for terrorist attacks against public officials, law

The US labels another Latin American cartel a terrorist group as the anti-drug war escalates

Vance acknowledges Americans’ economic pain in speech that contrasts with Trump’s tone on affordability

16 states sue Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds

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Texas sues utility company to recover damages from historic wildfire sparked by downed power lines

Texas has sued the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history, a deadly blaze that destroyed homes and livestock and charred miles of landscape, causing more than $1 billion in damage. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by state Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses Southwestern Public Service Company, which operates in Texas as Xcel Energy, of negligence in its upkeep of aging utility poles. It seeks to recover economic damages incurred by the state and prevent the company from passing those costs on to customers. The Smokehouse Cr

Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others

From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected

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Europe backtracks on ban of new combustion engine cars, in setback to tackling climate change

Plans to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars in the European Union by 2035 have been thrown into turmoil after pressure from car manufacturers.On Tuesday, the European Commission proposed applying the ban, approved in 2023, to only 90% of vehicles, down from 100%. This means the remaining 10% of new cars made after 2035 could still be plug-in hybrid vehicles or those with internal combustion engines.The move, unveiled by the EU’s executive arm alongside other measures to support the bloc’s car industry, represents a setback for tackling climate change, although the commission’s pr

Full video showing follow-up strike on alleged drug boat won’t be released to the public, Hegseth says

Trump will go to Delaware for the dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria

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An aspiring neurosurgeon and a ‘faithful bright light:’ What we know about the two students killed in the Brown mass shooting

As college students across the country wrap up their fall 2025 semesters, finishing grueling finals and preparing to head home for the holidays, students at Brown University in Rhode Island ended theirs abruptly after a mass shooting on campus Saturday killed two of their own and wounded nine others.The campus remains on edge, plagued with fear and overwhelming anxiety with the perpetrator still at large. Authorities are pursuing a new lead based on photos and videos of someone taken hours before the attack, and the FBI has announced a $50,000 reward leading to an arrest and conviction. A pers

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Vance acknowledges Americans’ economic pain in speech that contrasts with Trump’s tone on affordability

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday sought to rally gloomy Pennsylvania voters behind the Trump administration’s economic agenda, alleviate their cost-of living concerns — and accomplish it all more efficiently than President Donald Trump had done a week before.Returning to the swing state just days after Trump delivered a winding and digressive affordability speech, Vance credited the administration’s policies for driving job growth and new investments. He heaped blame on former President Joe Biden, whose administration he asserted sparked high costs that the GOP is now struggling to bri

Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean

Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged to pro-Trump pundit

Unemployment rate hit a four-year high last month

The US labor market grew even more exclusive in November.Unemployment rose to a four-year high of 4.6% in November, and the economy added 64,000 jobs last month, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Tuesday.Last month’s job gains, which came in higher than expected, followed a 105,000-job loss for October, according to a jobs report that was one of the most atypical in recent history.The longest-ever federal shutdown cast a large shadow over the critical economic indicator. Statistical agencies were largely dark from October 1 to November 12 and were unable to collect, process

Prosecutors will charge Rob Reiner’s son Nick with 2 counts of murder in killing of his parents

Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, Los Angeles County prosecutors said Tuesday. Nick Reiner, 32, will be charged in the death of the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced at a news conference with LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell. Prosecutors plan to file the charges, two counts of first degree murder special circumstances of multiple murders, later Tuesday. They will also include a special allegation tha

Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet amid an escalating feud over Charlie Kirk’s assassination

The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6%

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FIFA slashes price of some World Cup tickets to $60 after global fan backlash

FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185. It was a rare climbdown by the soccer body and its president Gianni Infantino after soaking up waves of criticism for World Cup strategies, including top-dollar prices and closer political alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump. FIFA said Tuesday that $60 tickets will be made available for every game at the tournament in North America, going to the national federations whose team

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A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday. The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, exper

Football fans slam "disgraceful" ticket prices for next year's World Cup

Los Angeles 2028 organizers promise affordable Olympic tickets amid World Cup controversy

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Driver who rammed through crowd at Liverpool soccer parade sentenced to over 21 years

A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League championship was sentenced Tuesday to more than 21 years in prison. Paul Doyle rammed his minivan through a sea of fans on May 26 in two minutes of horror that ended only when a bystander got in the vehicle and forced it into park. It came to a rest atop people. “You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror," Judge Andrew Menary told Doyle in

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Second levee fails in Washington, forcing more evacuations, as atmospheric river renews flood threat

A second levee failed just outside of Seattle as rivers once again surge from more atmospheric river-fueled rain, setting off deadly flooding in parts of western Washington.Precautionary evacuations were ordered for around 1,300 people in Pacific, Washington, Tuesday morning due to the levee breach along the White River, King County emergency management told CNN. The river hit major flood stage, the most severe level, Monday morning, but has since fallen.The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for part of the city, located nearly 30 miles south of Seattle, just after 1:30 a.m