A Florida killer was kicked out of her own sentencing hearing when she bizarrely declared that the courtroom was a "satan synagogue" and launched multiple outbursts, forcing the judge to remove her.

Talk is cheap when it comes to relationships. Helen Coffey digs into the latest form of commitment-phobia and asks the experts why some people promise the world and then fail to deliver

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Her wry, revealing memoir 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' spent a year and a half on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list, and now Jennifer Aniston is set to star in a screen adaptation. As she releases her debut novel, Jennette McCurdy tells Annabel Nugent about how she swapped child stardom for literary acclaim

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The second seed benefited from the roof shutting on Rod Laver Arena as play on outside courts was suspended.

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Macklin Celebrini has shown the Rangers what an impactful top-overall pick can do for an organization. 

“Ineligible non-citizens have no place to receive welfare benefits,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.

Anti-ICE agitators, including activists and clergy, swarmed outside the entrance of the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis Friday.

Federal immigration officials say more than 100 people have been detained in Maine this week as part of an enforcement surge targeting what ICE calls “the worst of the worst.”

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US policy document suggests South Korea take primary responsibility, as Pentagon prioritises defending US homeland

The Pentagon foresees a “more limited” role in deterring North Korea, with South Korea taking primary responsibility for the task, a Pentagon policy document released on Friday said, in a move likely to raise concern in Seoul.

South Korea hosts about 28,500 US troops in combined defence against North Korea’s military threat and Seoul has raised its defence budget by 7.5% for this year.

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The sicko educator was initially charged with sending the vile messages to the young boy during a virtual learning day.

Arch Manning underwent off-season foot surgery, the school announced on Friday.

He endured years of frustration before emerging as the N.F.L.’s most valuable player.

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Kyiv is facing prolonged winter power outages as Russian missile and drone attacks continue to damage Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

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Alex Honnold's free solo climb of the iconic building in Taiwan's capital city was supposed to be broadcast live on Netflix on Saturday local time, or Friday evening for viewers in the US.

Each deportation costs thousands, plus additional taxpayer impacts because of police overtime and lost business due to Trump crackdowns

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Whatever happens in the fourth-round match between defending champion Madison Keys and fellow American Jessica Pegula at the Australian Open, Keys has already nailed the promo for it

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A nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom has attracted thousands of members by encouraging residents to “get fit by doing good.”

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The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.

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Trump has laid waste to the Atlantic alliance — the Greenland crisis shows what needs to be done

There are fears that Europe is exhausted with the war, worries about Trump’s logic but some hope of a silver lining

In the Benedikt cafe in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, one wall is covered by a giant map with countries and territories cut out of lacquered wooden pieces, with Greenland at its apex.

The waiter has not been following news of the Greenland crisis and Donald Trump’s desire to annex the Danish territory. But the echoes of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin’s imperial land grab of the waiter’s own country are clear to him. “They’re crazy. The pair of them.”

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Wolves killed more than 2,100 reindeer in Finland last year, and herders are blaming the Ukraine war

Juha Kujala no longer knows how many reindeer will return to his farm from the forest each December. The 54-year-old herder releases his animals into the wilderness on the 830-mile Finnish-Russian border each spring to grow fat on lichens, grass and mushrooms, just as his ancestors have done for generations.

But since 2022, grisly discoveries of reindeer skeletons on the forest floor have disrupted this ancient way of life. The culprits, according to Kujala: wolves from Russia.

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Behind the crisis caused by Donald Trump’s threats is a much bigger change: the waning of US hegemony and the coming of a multi-polar age

Reflections on a decade that was less traumatic than it promised to be

New national dietary guidelines place a renewed emphasis on protein

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