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Twin lava fountains from Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures

Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky.

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Jill Biden’s new memoir will offer her perspective on the decision to end Biden’s 2024 reelection bid

A political spouse for nearly 50 years, Jill Biden said she has never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week stretch when her husband ended his political career, instead saving her thoughts for the pages of her soon-to-be-released memoir.

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‘He wants to get out’: Insiders spill about Trump’s panicked plan to leave Iran

White House insiders divulged what President Donald Trump was considering next after the U.S. and Israel started launching military strikes in Iran, a Wall Street Journal reporter said Wednesday. Josh Dawsey, WSJ political investigations reporter, told a CNN panel that

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‘Don’t know about it’: Trump plays dumb after US military admits it hit Iranian school

President Donald Trump claimed not to know that the U.S. military determined that it was responsible for killing about 150 people in the accidental bombing of an Iranian girls’ school. “Day 11, and as you know, we’re doing something that

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Trump goal that resulted in deadly school attack questioned as priority by military intel

One of President Donald Trump’s stated objectives for the war in Iran hasn’t historically been considered a priority. The 79-year-old president told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that there is “practically nothing left to target,” so he believes

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Man taken into custody after driving van into White House security gate

The Secret Service said the man crashed into the temporary security barrier just before 6:30 a.m. He was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.

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No Nobles Day: Britain’s Parliament boots its last hereditary Lords after 700 years

Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to “an archaic and undemocratic principle.” The removed aristocrats are 92 of the House of Lords’ 800 members. (Image credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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IEA agrees to release record volume of emergency oil reserves in effort to calm prices

The Paris-based organization said it will make 400 million barrels of oil available from its members’ emergency reserves.

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British prime minister was warned of ‘reputational risk’ in appointing Mandelson, files show

Concerns were raised in a document sent to Prime Minister Keir Starmer in December 2024 when he was considering appointing Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador because of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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