A breakdown in Pakistan’s national power grid plunged the country of 212 million people into darkness on Saturday night, officials said.
A nation on edge braces for this week’s transfer of power
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The nation is entering inauguration week with an unnerving police and military presence guarding the vestiges of democracy -- with Americans holding their breath as federal officials warn about threats of violence a...
‘WandaVision’ flexes some different muscles as Marvel adds its power to Disney+
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Marvel flexes different muscles with "WandaVision," leveraging major assets while stretching its creative formula in this first series for Disney+. The result wields more of a scalpel than a hammer, wryly celebratin...
Capitol riot tears GOP apart as it seeks a return to power in 2022
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Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, defended President Donald Trump on Wednesday when asked if his ally bore any responsibility for inciting a riot at t...
Biden to nominate ex-UN Ambassador Samantha Power to lead US humanitarian aid agency
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Washington President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate former US diplomat and longtime human rights advocate Samantha Power to lead the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the nation's prima...
The power of a real apology
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Jessica DuLong is a Brooklyn-based journalist, ghostwriter, book coach and the author of "Saved at the Seawall: Stories From the September 11 Boat Lift" and "My River Chronicles: Rediscovering the Work that Built Ame...
More than 150,000 customers left without power in Texas and Louisiana as major snowstorm moves across the South
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More than 150,000 customers are without power across Texas and Louisiana as a powerful snowstorm moves through the southern states early Monday morning. Poor road conditions are possible across Texas and Louisiana d...
Trump asking aides and lawyers about self-pardon power
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President Donald Trump has been asking aides and lawyers, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone, about his self-pardon power, multiple sources told CNN. Some of those conversations have happened in recent wee...
Israeli soldier shoots and paralyzes Palestinian man in dispute over power generator
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An Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian man, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down, after an altercation over a portable electric generator, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Video of the incident, ...
Mob attacks and sets ablaze a Hindu temple in northwestern Pakistan
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A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a century-old Hindu temple on Wednesday, officials said, prompting condemnations from the Muslim-majority country's Hindu community. Hindus are the largest non-M...
The peace, insights and life-rescuing power of the rosary and other religious prayer beads
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I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the girls the same, ...
Woman rescued after car plunges off a cliff, landing on a San Francisco beach
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A woman was transported in "serious condition" after a car went off a cliff onto a beach in San Francisco on Christmas morning, according to tweets from the city's fire department. The car went over a cliff at Fort...
Ho Oh No! Santa gets tangled up in some power lines
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Instead of helming Santa's sleigh, a Santa Claus impersonator took to the skies in a hang glider-like aircraft to spread some early holiday cheer -- and wound up tangled in power lines. The would-be Kris Kringle wa...