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Biden pushes to triple tariffs on Chinese steel, aluminum
U.S. President Joe Biden urged a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, citing "unfair competition" as he seeks to win blue-collar votes in November's election.
Landmark Trump hush money criminal trial to start in New York
Donald Trump goes to court Monday as the first U.S. ex-president ever to be criminally prosecuted, a seismic moment for the United States as the presumptive Republican nominee campaigns to re-take the White House.
There are casualties, flights are cancelled, schools are closed VIDEO
The storm caused traffic chaos, and one person was killed.
In Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old man was killed on a snowmobile when he ran into a downed wire, Newbury police said.
Due to the snowstorm, about 1,500 flights were canceled, mainly in New York and Boston, while another 2,700 were delayed, the BBC reports.
Fierce winter weather slams US, dozens dead
Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials and U.S. media reported Friday, as large swathes of the country brace for new winter wallops.
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Harvard president says she was ousted by 'lies, insults'
Harvard University's former president said Wednesday following her resignation that she made mistakes but insisted she was the target of a sustained campaign of lies and personal insults.
Claudine Gay stepped down Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack over plagiarism accusations and her response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war.
An animal shelter is empty for the first time
Just two weeks ago, the Adams County, Pennsylvania, SPCA was near capacity as its kennels were filled with dogs needing homes. Now, for the first time in nearly 50 years, there are no dogs at the facility and the recent residents are spending the holidays with their new families.
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Dragasakis resigns from SYRIZA central committee
Yannis Dragasakis, who served as deputy prime minister in Alexis Tsipras' government, has resigned from the central committee of SYRIZA.
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Whispered Lines | Athens | November 9 – December 9
A polyglot, with knowledge of the Ancient and Modern Greek languages, Darryl Keith Babatunde Smith (b. 1992) presents 15 of his works on paper at the Athens Art Gallery (athensartgallery.gr).
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Trump calls on GOP to rally around him as he threatens primary challenges
At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
Turkish student accepted to prestigious film school in US
A Turkish student who followed her dream of making a career in cinema despite her family's expectation of her becoming a doctor has been accepted to the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts, one of the world's most prestigious film schools, where only 24 students are admitted each year.