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Mother found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2-year-old’s Benadryl death

People reports that a Virginia judge accepted Leandra Andrade’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the 2022 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Lanoix. According to court and media accounts, Andrade was found unconscious at the Cutty Shark hotel in Virginia Beach in

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Flash flooding forces evacuation at Wye River on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road

Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Wye River camping ground after a severe thunderstorm caused flash flooding on Victoria’s south-west coast, closing the Great Ocean Road and washing cars and caravans out to sea. An emergency warning covered the Wye, Kennett and Cumberland rivers after thunderstorms dumped more

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Construction crane collapses on Rama 2 expressway near Bangkok, killing at least two

A construction crane collapsed onto an expressway on the outskirts of Bangkok on Thursday, killing at least two people, an official said. The accident occurred in Samut Sakhon Province and was the second fatal crane episode in Thailand in as many days. It was not immediately clear what caused the

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New Jersey woman arrested on double-homicide charges after two children found dead

People reported that in a Jan. 14 press release Somerset County authorities and Hillsborough Township Chief of Police Michael McMahon said they arrested 35-year-old Priyatharsini Natarajan on double-homicide charges after her husband returned to the couple’s Shell Court home and found their two children unconscious. The release said a

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54-year-old woman killed by alleged drunk driver while on electric scooter

In a statement to People on Wednesday, Jan. 14, an NYPD spokesperson identified Blancamir Arias-Miranda, 54, as the woman who died after being struck by an alleged drunk driver while riding an electric scooter just blocks from her home. Officers responded to a 9-1-1 call at approximately 1:45 a.

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New Yorker James Luckey-Lange released among Americans freed in Venezuela

James Luckey-Lange, a 28-year-old New Yorker, was among several U.S. citizens released this week from Venezuela’s prison system, his family said. He had been reported missing in early December. Mr. Luckey-Lange, the son of the late musician Diane Luckey (known as Q Lazzarus), was confirmed released by his

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NTSB: Boeing had flagged MD-11F assembly fractures before Louisville UPS crash

The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report on Wednesday that a UPS cargo MD-11F that crashed in Louisville, Ky., last year had a structural flaw that Boeing had previously concluded would not affect flight safety. The N.T.S.B. said cracks in the assembly holding the left-side

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White House meeting fails to resolve U.S.-Denmark dispute over Greenland

A high-level meeting at the White House on Wednesday yielded no breakthrough in the standoff between President Trump and Denmark over Greenland, Denmark’s foreign minister said, as several NATO countries announced plans to send troops to the territory. Speaking after a sit-down with Vice President J.D. Vance and

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Gulf Arab allies press U.S. to avoid strike on Iran

Powerful Gulf Arab allies of President Trump are urging his administration to pursue diplomacy rather than a military strike on Iran as Mr. Trump explores whether to attack the country amid nationwide protests and a violent government crackdown, the report said. Mr. Trump has also said he was "told

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Renfrew Christie, Scholar Who Helped Sabotage Apartheid Nuclear Program, Dies at 76

Renfrew Christie, a South African scholar whose undercover work for the African National Congress helped hobble the apartheid government’s secret nuclear weapons program in the 1980s, died on Dec. 21 at his home in Cape Town. He was 76, and the cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter Camilla

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U.S. brokers sale of stranded Venezuelan oil after capture of Maduro

The United States government is brokering the sale of millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil that have been trapped in the country since a partial blockade imposed by the Trump administration, people familiar with the deal said. The sales effort, organized by the Department of Energy, follows the capture of

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China posts record $1.189tn trade surplus in 2025 despite US tariffs

China reported a record $1.189tn full-year trade surplus for 2025, customs data showed, while its producers prepare for three more years of a Trump administration set on shifting US orders to other markets. Outbound shipments grew 6.6% year-on-year in December after a 5.9% rise in November, beating

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Iran expected to execute protester Erfan Soltani as Trump warns of 'strong action'

Iran was expected to execute a protester on Wednesday for the first time during the current wave of antigovernment unrest, human rights groups and family members said, identifying him as Erfan Soltani, 26, from an area west of Tehran. The Norway-based Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and relatives said Soltani

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Venezuelan envoy Félix Plasencia to travel to Washington to begin embassy reopening

Félix Plasencia, an envoy of Venezuela’s interim government, planned to travel to Washington on Thursday to meet U.S. officials and begin the process of reopening the Venezuelan embassy, according to Venezuelans and Americans familiar with the matter. The trip would mark the first official visit to the U.

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Experts warn U.S. seizure of Greenland could paralyze NATO

President Trump has threatened to seize control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, raising concerns that the move could test or destroy the trans‑Atlantic NATO alliance. Top diplomats from Greenland and Denmark will meet with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White

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Greenlanders Alarmed by Trump’s Interest in Buying Their Island

People across Greenland have reacted with “shock, anger, confusion and fear” to President Trump’s interest in buying or taking over the autonomous Danish territory, residents and reporting from Nuuk say. Senior Greenlandic officials voiced strong opposition. Pipaluk Lynge, leader of the Parliament’s foreign and security policy committee, said,

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Greenland’s melting ice affects sea levels, shipping and mineral access

Greenland, the world’s largest island, is losing ice at a rapid pace, with scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute reporting a loss of 105 billion metric tons of ice in the 12 months ending Aug. 31, 2025, a trend driven by Arctic warming that is at least twice as

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UN committee finds Australia exposed Iranian asylum seeker to torture on Manus Island

A UN committee against torture has found that Australia exposed an Iranian asylum seeker to torture and ill-treatment during years in detention, amounting to a breach of international obligations. The man arrived on Christmas Island by boat in 2013 and was transferred to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where

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Japan and South Korea leaders play K-pop drums together in Nara summit

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea played drums to K-pop at a summit in Nara, Japan, in a lighthearted session meant to signal warming ties between the two countries. The impromptu performance came after a joint news conference in a hotel conference

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Retired English couple die days apart after scuba diving accident in Maldives

A retired couple from England, Elaine and Malcolm Richmond, 70 and 71, died three days apart following a "scuba diving accident" while on vacation on the island of Ellaidhoo in the Maldives, People reports. Their funeral director, Simon Hope of Stubbins and Hope in the Derbyshire village where

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Kushner and Witkoff reportedly travel to Moscow for talks with Putin

Independent.co reports Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, and envoy Steve Witkoff are reportedly travelling to Moscow to pursue peace talks with Vladimir Putin. They could meet with the Russian president this month to negotiate an end to the conflict, though a specific date has not yet been agreed.

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U.S., Danish and Greenland ministers to meet at White House amid Greenland dispute

The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland are expected to meet on Wednesday with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House, with tensions rising over President Trump’s push to buy or take over Greenland. It will be the first such meeting between

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Wainwright’s Coast to Coast to be upgraded to National Trail

Natural England is progressing a project to designate Alfred Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk as a National Trail, upgrading the unofficial route that runs from St Bees Head on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. The route, more than 190 miles long and

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3-year-old dies after attack by grandmother's dog in Minnesota

People reports that 3-year-old Beckett Brown died after being attacked by his grandmother's American bulldog at her New York Mills, Minn., home on Sunday, Jan. 11. The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office said the toddler climbed into the outdoor enclosure for Kristen Nelson's dog;

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Trump warns of strong action if Iran begins executing protesters; deaths exceed 2,500

Independent.co reports that President Donald Trump has threatened "very strong action" if the Iranian government begins hanging protesters, and the US Department of State consular affairs has urged Americans to flee Iran. Trump told CBS News: "I haven't heard about the hanging. If they