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A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border town. Videos posted on social media showed people falling from a roof after they were trapped by the fire at the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in the border town of Poipet. Many of those insides, both customers and staff, were from neighboring Thailand. In a video posted by Cambodia’s firefighting agency, onlookers could be heard shouting pleas to rescue people trapped on the roof of the hotel complex,

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December 29, 2022
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Last month, TV anchor Judy Woodruff had some news of her own: She is stepping down from “PBS NewsHour” on Friday, Dec. 30. One of the most respected and honored journalists on television could have retired. Instead, she’s embarking on a new PBS project, “America at the Crossroads,” where she’ll spend the next two years traveling around the country trying to figure out what voters want, what they need, and how to repair the deep divides.One subject close to her heart that she wants to highlight? People with disabilities.Her oldest son, Jeffrey Hunt, was born with what she calls a “very mild” case of spina bifida. When he was a teenager, what was supposed to

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December 29, 2022
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Air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine this morning as Russia unleashed around 120 missiles in a savage barrage which targeted the capital Kyiv and several other major cities.’A massive air raid. More than 100 missiles in several waves,’ presidential office adviser Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Facebook, while another adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claimed more than 120 missiles had been fired at Ukraine.Mayors of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv and the western city of Lviv all reported that Russian missiles had caused a series of explosions, while blasts were also heard in Zhytomyr Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk according to local media reports.The brutal blitz came hard

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December 29, 2022
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As the death toll from a powerful blizzard in western New York rose to near 40 on Wednesday, the Erie County executive, who has himself faced increasing criticism, lashed out at the mayor of Buffalo over his efforts to clear the city’s streets.“The city, unfortunately, is always the last one to open,” Mark Poloncarz, the county executive, said at a press briefing. “It’s embarrassing, to tell you the truth.”I don’t want to see this anymore — I’m sick of it — I’m a city resident myself,” Mr. Poloncarz said. “I know the mayor’s not thrilled to hear it, but I don’t care anymore. I want it done.”Mayor Byron Brown, in a separate news conference, suggested that Mr. Poloncarz was struggling with the stress of the

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December 29, 2022
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has paid $23.75 million for a penthouse in Palm Beach, according to property records and people familiar with the purchase. The deal sets a record for the priciest condominium ever sold in the affluent South Florida town, records show. The oceanfront condominium was listed for $26.5 million in September by the estate of Erving Wolf, an oil and gas executive who died in 2018, and his wife, Joyce Wolf, who died this year. Maya Lin, their daughter-in-law, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., helped to renovate the apartment. The Wolf family didn’t respond to a request for comment. The Wolfs purchased

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December 29, 2022
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Southwest Airlines pilot and flight attendant unions warned for years that the company’s rickety computer systems left the airline vulnerable. The carrier stuck with outdated technology and never heeded those warnings, they say.Southwest’s overwhelmed technology — a scenario fueled by a punishing winter storm — left it this week facing some of the most difficult days in its half-century history, in some cases forcing managers to solve problems with pen and paper while crew members wait on hold for hours with schedulers.The wave of cancellations continued to frustrate tens of thousands of travelers, as Southwest scrubbed roughly 2,500 flights on both Wednesday

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December 29, 2022
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The Nassau County district attorney announced that she is opening an investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), whose surprise victory in November was quickly followed by revelations that he lied about his business experience, educational background, and family ancestry.The district attorney, Anne T. Donnelly (R), said in a statement: “The numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated” with Santos “are nothing short of stunning.” The residents in the congressional district “must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress” and “if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.” Donnelly’s spokesman, Brendan Brosh, said

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December 29, 2022
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Rep. Jamie Raskin announced on Wednesday that he’d been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, “a serious but curable form of cancer.”With the benefit of early detection and fine doctors, the help of my extraordinary staff, the love of Sarah and our daughters and sons-in-law (actual and to-be) and family and friends, and the support of my beloved constituents and my colleagues in the House, I plan to get through this and, in the meantime, to keep making progress every day in Congress for American democracy,” the Maryland Democrat said in a statement The congressman said he was diagnosed after “several days of tests” and would “embark on a course of chemo

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December 29, 2022
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A top aide to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used an alias from “Silence of the Lambs” while helping a former client secure a bid to fly asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in September.DeSantis’ public safety czar, Larry Keefe, used a private email address under the pseudonym Clarice Starling to help private contractor Vertol Systems Company win the opportunity to operate the state’s controversial migrant flight program, WTVJ reported last week. Emails between Keefe — who formally represented Vertol for years in the private sector — and CEO James Montgomerie were not initially turned over in connection with a lawsuit, despite Montgomerie’s testimony

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December 28, 2022
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The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the U.S., a federal health official said on Wednesday. All travelers two years of age and older originating from China, Hong Kong, or Macau will be required to get tested for Covid two days before their departure to the U.S., the health official said. The requirements, which apply regardless of nationality and vaccination status, starting Jan. 5. The testing requirements come as China battles a major outbreak of the virus after easing its stringent zero-Covid policy in the wake of social unrest earlier this year. The U.S. has limited information on the situation

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December 28, 2022
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There is nothing soft and cuddly about the way Disney protects the characters it brings to life.This is a company that once forced a Florida daycare center to remove an unauthorized Minnie Mouse mural. In 2006, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child’s gravestone would violate its copyright. The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright protections in 1998 that the result was derisively nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.For the first time, however, one of Disney’s marquee characters — Mickey himself — is set to enter the public domain. “Steamboat Willie,” the 1928 short film that introduced Mickey to the world, will lose

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December 28, 2022
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The U.S. recorded more than 100 million formally diagnosed and reported Covid-19 cases this week, but the number of Americans who’ve actually had the virus since the beginning of the pandemic is probably more than twice as high.Covid-19 has easily infected more than 200 million in the U.S. alone since the beginning of the pandemic — some people more than once. The virus continues to evolve into more transmissible variants that dodge immunity from vaccination and prior infection, making transmission incredibly difficult to control as we go into the fourth year of the pandemic.The U.S. officially recorded more than 100 million cases as of Tuesday, just under one-third of

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