The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.

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A ruling late Sunday offered a possible reprieve for people who receive assistance from the program known as SNAP.

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Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.

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Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

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The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

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After days of pressure, two top executives quit after a memo by a former adviser said that the public broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump.

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Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.

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Pokrovsk, a city formerly home to around 60,000, is ground zero for Russia's latest offensive in Moscow's nearly three-year-old invasion of its neighbor.

Americans spend upwards of $800 million on pumpkin spice items every year

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Thirteen people remain hospitalized after a train collision in Slovakia

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from prison and placed under judicial supervision, a Paris appeals court ruled Monday.

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In just one month the Albanese government’s under-16s social media ban will come into effect. But popular gaming platform Roblox, where children are exposed to inappropriate or violent content and grooming, is not covered under the ban.

Senior correspondent Sarah Martin joins Nour Haydar to talk about her chilling experience posing as an eight-year-old girl on the popular online platform.

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It contains a stain-remover pen, silent fidget toy and a few Band-Aids, and Matilda Boseley never leaves home without it

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As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm’s vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimism

It is the $1.4tn (£1.1tn) question. How can a loss-making startup such as OpenAI afford such a staggering spending commitment?

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The International Olympic Committee will enact a new policy that will ban transgender athletes from competing against women, according to multiple reports.

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"So we parallel each other," James Remar said. "She married her duty and I married my duty."

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from his “nightmare” in a French jail just 20 days into a five-year sentence for his role in an alleged electoral funding conspiracy linked to the late Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi’s regime. Read More

Reagan-appointed federal Judge Mark Wolf resigned his lifetime appointment to publicly criticize what he calls President Donald Trump's "assault" on judicial independence and the rule of law.

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President Donald Trump’s legal team said the statements in a BBC documentary were "fabricated and aired by the BBC," giving the president no choice but to take legal action.