Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025

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Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones under a new law restricting the use of devices in schools

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Trump had previously addressed Mahomes’s wife Brittany and thanked her for supporting his campaign

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The artist finally secured the best album award for her country record at the Grammys

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Government intends to reduce the federal workforce by 5 to 10 percent in offering buyout to hundreds of thousands of employees

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The president treats rule of law as ‘an impediment to his policy goals,’ federal judge says

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Spurs lead 1-0 on aggregate with winner set to face Newcastle at Wembley

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OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump

The stoves were involved in at least 28 house fires, three of which killed pets

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The reality star remains hopeful that Donald Trump will grant him a pardon

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The detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah last year killed nearly 40 people, including children

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The California wildfires were driven by gusting winds and extremely dry conditions

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The Education Department says it is investigating potential civil rights violations at two universities and a high school sports league that allowed transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams

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The “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special will include guest appearances by Tom Hanks, Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle and numerous other stars who’ve been associated with the show over the years

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The Grammy and Pulitzer-winning rapper says ‘storytelling’ will be at the heart of his performance

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Family, friends and journalists gathered at a memorial service at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street to pay tribute to The Independent’s world affairs editor

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more fire resistant in a wind-driven wildfire after years of delay

EXCLUSIVE: The 14-year-old, born and raised in Yonkers, enjoyed going to the mall, the movies and messing around with her friends during recess and outside of class, classmates told The Independent

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Starbucks Rewards members can claim any tall hot or iced coffee on the house

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Last season’s Super Bowl featured trick plays, clutch performances and plenty of high drama as Kansas City rallied for a 25-22 overtime win against San Francisco

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Virginia McCaskey was the team’s matriarch for over 40 years

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The Arsenal youngster tripped Wolves defender Matt Doherty to prevent a counter-attack and was shown a straight red card at Molineux on January 25.

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Conductor Daniel Barenboim says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

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Trump’s executive order excluding trans girls and women from female sport is likely to face legal challenges

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A federal scientific publication has returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of wildfires in Hawaii and California

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Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe

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Sarah Boyack said the comments from Douglas Lumsden were ‘utterly negative and inaccurate’.

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‘John Lewin defamed Lunsford by publicly referring to him as a "quisling," which means a Nazi collaborator’ stated Prosecutor Brock Lunsford’s tort

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Breakthrough brings quantum computing closer to large-scale practical use

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Lindsey Vonn’s skiing comeback at the age of 40 means she can’t go to the Super Bowl, an event on her schedule when she was retired for the last five years

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The 22-year-old Northampton player will start at fly-half while Marcus Smith replaces Freddie Steward at full-back.

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Lawmakers in the House are proposing to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from U.S. government devices

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The website is one of thousands to be taken down after the president’s anti-DEI executive order

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Exclusive: Kemi Badenoch’s hardline immigration policy appears to be a response to Tory voters turning to Reform UK, a new poll suggests

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The ECB have confirmed that the tournament fixture will go ahead despite calls for England to boycott over the Taliban’s treatment of women

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Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus decades as principal owner, has died

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Florence Mirsky, who dated record producer Scott Storch, says she’s taking ‘full accountability’ for her behavior

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West and Censori attended the Super Bowl together in 2024

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The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, says an Israeli ban on his institution has not forced it to halt its services so far but that in the long run, the agency faces an “existential threat.”

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