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Conan O'Brien breaks silence over killing of Rob and Michele Reiner after his holiday party

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LOS ANGELES — Hours before filmmaking legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, they attended a holiday party at Conan O'Brien's house.

Now, two months after the tragedy, the comedian has broken his silence about the death of his good friends.

"To have that experience of saying good night to ...Read more

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Trump says he will increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%

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President Donald Trump said he will increase the global 10% tariff he announced one day ago to 15% as he lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court over its ruling that his mechanism for applying tariffs was illegal.

“I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many...Read more

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'Today' show, TMZ take center stage in Nancy Guthrie abduction saga

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NEW YORK — In the three weeks since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her home in the dead of night, prominent media figures have transitioned from merely reporting on the baffling investigation to becoming central figures in the story.

For many outside the Tucson, Arizona, neighborhood where Nancy,...Read more

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Supreme Court draws a line with Trump by curbing tariff powers

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President Donald Trump finally pushed the U.S. Supreme Court too far.

With its rejection Friday of Trump’s claim of unbridled power to impose and remove tariffs, the court reasserted itself as a constitutional guardrail and laid out fresh limits on presidential authority. The decision follows a year in which the conservative-dominated court ...Read more

Coal-fired power plants are a source of mercury that people can ingest by eating fish. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA weakens rules meant to lower the risk

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For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch.

One of those risks was mercury poisoning.

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...Read more

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Clinics sour on CMS after agency scraps 10-year primary care program only months in

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CELO COMMUNITY, N.C. — On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina began to fill up with patients.

An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked past him, a stethoscope draped over her neck. The family physician waved and smiled back....Read more

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'A war room': Inside Epstein's campaign to influence public opinion

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In the winter of 2018, Jeffrey Epstein was afraid his world was crashing down.

The disgraced financier had spent millions of dollars over the previous decade rehabilitating his image after pleading guilty to solicitation charges in a Florida state court in 2008.

But a 2018 Miami Herald investigation documenting his crimes — and how he and ...Read more

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A fatal avalanche put a spotlight on the risks of backcountry skiing. Here's why people will keep going

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For anyone who has stood freezing in an endless lift line at a ski resort, or flinched as some out-of-control “rad Brad” whooshes by like a Red Bull-and-vodka-fueled missile, the allure of backcountry skiing needs no explanation.

Out there, far from the madding crowd, it can be just you and your friends, gliding through acres of untracked ...Read more

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Miami had a language law before English-only driving tests. See what happened

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MIAMI — Florida is having a language moment in 2026. But what language is it?

A new state law requires driving tests to be English-only. Florida, the state with the third largest foreign-born population, behind California and Texas, enacted the English-only driving tests in February. The law banished tests in Spanish and Creole.

Then there ...Read more

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Mexico, Canada get exemption to 10% US levy but USMCA risk looms

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of Donald Trump’s tariffs offers some relief to Mexico and Canada, but a much bigger set of risks still hangs over the trade relationship that joins the three countries.

The president said in the afternoon the U.S. would impose a 10% levy on foreign goods under a different law. It took ...Read more

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Supreme Court ruling against Trump's tariffs leaves Mexico in cautious wait-and-see mode

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Mexico's secretary of the economy, Marcelo Ebrard, urged "prudence" Friday in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating part of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff regimen.

"We have to see where this is going," Ebrard told reporters. "We have to see what measures (Washington) is going to take to figure out how it is going...Read more

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FBI investigates possible terrorist plot after driver tries to ram LADWP substation in Nevada

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A man is dead after trying to crash his vehicle into a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation not far from the Hoover Dam this week, authorities said, in what they alleged was an attempted terrorist attack.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill identified the suspect as 23-year-old Dawson Noah Maloney of ...Read more

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Detroit auto industry spared from Trump's latest tariff program

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Detroit’s automakers learned Friday night that they had been spared from tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.

Trump on Friday night put in place a flat 10% levy on foreign goods that is to take effect on Tuesday. But in a fact sheet, the White House affirmed that ...Read more

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Detroit automakers ask White House to be spared from new tariffs

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Detroit’s automakers asked the White House to shield them from new tariffs that President Donald Trump vowed to impose after the Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.

The American Automotive Policy Council, which represents General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Jeep-maker Stellantis NV, sent a letter to Trump’s trade team ...Read more

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Weeks in the making: How a brittle snowpack primed the Sierra for disaster

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The conditions that led to California’s deadliest avalanche in modern history began forming weeks ago, when the high Sierra’s snowpack thawed and froze again and again into glass-like shards of ice.

That fragile layer sat exposed for much of January, warming during the day and hardening at night. Then this week’s ...Read more

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What the Supreme Court's decision to strike down tariffs means for LA's trade-dependent economy

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LOS ANGELES — The Supreme Court's decision Friday to strike down the majority of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump could provide some relief to L.A.'s trade-reliant economy — but only if they are not reimposed again through other means.

The court's 6-3 ruling that Trump didn't have the authority to impose tariffs under the ...Read more

Fake immigration lawyers staged sham court hearings to scam migrants: feds

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Con artists posing as immigration lawyers created fake legal documents and even staged sham court proceedings to dupe migrants seeking legal pathways to U.S. residency out of their hard-earned money, according to a five-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday.

The indictment charges five defendants with wire fraud ...Read more

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Trump administration doesn't need to restore more President's House exhibits for now, appeals court says

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PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration won its first court victory in the President’s House case Friday afternoon, when a federal appeals judge paused the injunction ordering the restoration of the slavery exhibits to the site.

Third Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, a George W. Bush appointee, overruled a district judge�...Read more

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Fake immigration lawyers staged sham court hearings to scam migrants: feds

Con artists posing as immigration lawyers created fake legal documents and even staged sham court proceedings to dupe migrants seeking legal pathways to U.S. residency out of their hard-earned money, according to a five-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court...Read more

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Canada approves some Gulfstream jets after Trump threats

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Canada’s aviation regulator issued certificates for some Gulfstream jet models after President Donald Trump complained the country had “refused” to greenlight the aircraft and threatened tariffs and other measures in retaliation.

So-called Type Certificates, which Canada uses when a product meets airworthiness standards, were issued for ...Read more