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Searchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale in the late 19th century, completing a quest that began almost 60 years ago. Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, announced Friday that a team led by Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn found the Lac La Belle about 20 miles (32 kilometers) offshore between Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, in October 2022. Ehorn told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Sunday that the announcement was delayed because his team wanted to include a th

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

Israeli move to designate large parts of West Bank as state land condemned as ‘de facto annexation’

No clear path to ending the partial government shutdown as lawmakers dig in over DHS oversight

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Hungarian opposition leader Magyar vows to pull Hungary back toward the West in campaign launch

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar launched his party's election campaign in Budapest on Sunday, vowing to restore Hungary's Western orientation just eight weeks before he faces Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a pivotal vote. Magyar, a former insider in Orbán's nationalist Fidesz party, burst onto Hungary's political scene in 2024 after breaking with his political community and quickly forming the center-right Tisza party. After taking around 30% of the vote in European Parliament elections in June 2024, he has grown Tisza into the most formidable politic

Iran’s top diplomat to attend 'indirect' talks with US in Geneva, state-run IRNA news agency says

Trump's border czar says 'small' security force will remain in Minnesota after enforcement drawdown

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Israel will begin contentious West Bank land registration in new step to deepen control

Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development, according to a government decision on Sunday. It paves the way for the resumption of “settlement of land title” processes, which had been frozen in the West Bank since the Mideast War in 1967. It means that when Israel begins the land registration process for a certain area, anyone with a claim to the land must submit documents proving ownership. The Israeli anti-sett

Justice Department lists hundreds of prominent people named in Epstein files in letter to Congress

Chinese automakers want to come to US. They could be here fairly soon

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States ready to seize Supreme Court redistricting decision amid countdown to midterm elections

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill arrived at the Supreme Court shortly before 10 a.m. on January 9 and took a seat in the spectator section of the columned courtroom. When US Solicitor General John Sauer, the Trump administration’s top courtroom lawyer, entered a few minutes later, he cut across the room to warmly greet her.Murrill was waiting for ruling in a redistricting case that could unwind protections for Blacks and Latinos under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The decision could simultaneously boost the GOP’s chances in the US House of Representatives this year.Louisiana, backed by

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Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church and state. It’s just the beginning

At first glance, the December meeting of a little-known government panel looked like ordinary bureaucratic business.But then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s advisory board opened its proceedings in an unusual way: with a Christian prayer.The benediction was delivered by a White House official. “Thank you for your son, Jesus, who died for our sins,” the official said at one point, according to two sources who attended the meeting.Under President Donald Trump, moments like this, rare in recent administrations, are becoming commonplace. A series of faith initiatives championed b

Crown prince urges the world to stand with the people of Iran as 250,000 rally in Munich

Architect submits most-detailed renderings so far for White House ballroom

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New Jersey man found guilty of killing brother and his family, then lighting fires to cover it up

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of killing four relatives in what prosecutors said was a murder and arson plot spawned by a soured business relationship between the man and his younger brother. Paul Caneiro, 59, was found guilty on four counts of murder, two counts of aggravated arson, and two weapons counts in the 2018 killing of his brother, Keith Caneiro, 50; Keith’s wife, Jennifer, 45, and their two young children. A Monmouth County jury handed down the verdict after deliberating Friday for about five hours. Caneiro now faces a potential l

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Obama compares ICE’s ‘rogue behavior’ in Minnesota to dictatorships

Former President Barack Obama criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ conduct in Minnesota as dangerous, saying “the rogue behavior” is akin to what “we’ve seen in authoritarian countries” and “in dictatorships.”The comments, which came during a wide-ranging interview with liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen out Saturday, are the latest example of the former president reneging on his long-standing strategy of minimizing his public presence to allow the next generation of Democrats to emerge. He deliberately took a back-seat role during former President Joe Biden�

Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say

Hundreds of agents search for Nancy Guthrie as her case spotlights other families left behind

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Rubio reassures Europe’s leaders of US backing — but only if they change course

Secretary of State Marco Rubio applied a velvet glove to the Trump administration’s still-clenched fist during his high-profile speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, offering some reassurance to uneasy European leaders that the US remains committed to their long-standing partnership but without backing away from its underlying demand that they change course on a number of fronts.Rubio’s message that Washington is not looking to abandon the transatlantic alliance was well-received by European allies in the audience who just one year ago sat stone-faced as Vice President

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Mikaela Shiffrin's giant slalom at Milan Cortina ended without a medal but plenty of optimism

Mikaela Shiffrin stood at the start gate atop the giant slalom course at sun-splashed Tofane and made a promise to herself. “I’m going to do this whole thing here,” she said. Considering the path the American star has taken to reach the Milan Cortina Olympics, and to this event in particular, that was enough. So while the leaderboard near the finish line during Sunday's GS needed to flip to the second page before Shiffrin's name appeared in 11th, the most decorated skier in the history of the sport didn't view her finish as a disappointment.

Venezuela’s quiet opposition leader: Why Edmundo González is on the sidelines of a power struggle

Russian opposition figure Navalny killed by toxin found in poison dart frogs, Europeans say

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Trump says Board of Peace will unveil $5 billion in Gaza reconstruction pledges at inaugural meeting

President Donald Trump said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory. The pledges will be formally announced when board members gather in Washington on Thursday for their first meeting, he said. “The Board of Peace will prove to be the most consequential International Body in History, and it is my honor to serve as its Chairman,” Trump said in a social media posting announcing the ple

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Former Ukrainian minister detained by anti-corruption authorities while trying to leave the country

A former Ukrainian energy minister has been detained in connection with a major corruption scandal while trying to leave the country, authorities said on Sunday.Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau (NABU) said its detectives “detained the former minister of energy as part of the Midas case,” referencing a wide-ranging investigation into corruption in Ukraine’s energy sector that triggered a major political crisis last year.“Initial investigative actions are ongoing, carried out in accordance with the requirements of the law,” NABU added in a statement, without naming the former ministe