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Trump keeps lead as Iowa Republicans prepare for caucuses in brutal cold Iowa Republicans are gearing up for a chilly Monday evening as they head to the presidential caucuses, with Donald Trump maintaining a solid lead in the race for the party’s nomination. The caucuses, starting at 7 pm CT, kick off the 2024 presidential primary, providing a key indicator of whether Trump’s primary rivals, particularly Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, have made any headway against his strong polling lead. Despite facing legal challenges with 91 felony counts across four cases, Trump remains ahead in Iowa. The latest Des Moines…

US shoots down missile from Houthi-run area fired towards warship The US military has shot down a missile launched from a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen targeting the USS Laboon in the Red Sea. The anti-ship cruise missile was neutralised by a US fighter aircraft off the coast of Hudaydah, with no reported injuries or damage during the incident on Sunday afternoon. This event follows joint US-UK airstrikes in Yemen to degrade the military capabilities of the Houthi rebels, who have been posing a threat to Red Sea cargo ships. The strikes, conducted on Friday, targeted around 30 locations, including arms…

Two inmates who died in Alabama state prisons were returned to their families without a heart, brain and other organs.

US lawmakers slam Biden for launching Houthi strikes without backing from Congress The Independent says President Joe Biden has come under fire from some lawmakers for failing to consult Congress before the US, together with the UK, carried out scores of airstrikes against Houthi rebel fighters in Yemen in retaliation against attacks in the Red Sea. Massive explosions were seen in Yemeni cities, including Sanaa and Hodeidah, in the early hours of Friday morning, with the US military saying 60 strikes were launched against 16 sites linked to the Houthis’ military operations. The US launched Operation Prosperity Guardian three weeks…

Ex-President Donald Trump held a town hall and a press conference around his civil fraud trial shortly after his wife Melania’s mother died.

An elderly couple were discovered dead in their home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with their heater reaching 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

A chance discovery in a Lithuanian church cellar in 2017 led to the unearthing of a collection of lost stories of Jewish teenagers depicting their lives in the 1930s. Ken Krimstein, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, was so moved by the autobiographical accounts that he travelled to Vilnius to read them in person.

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Chris Christie exits 2024 White House race with parting shot at Trump Chris Christie has dropped out of the US presidential race with a parting shot at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.  “I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again,” he said. He has faced pressure to step aside and allow the party to unify around one candidate who can take on Trump for the Republican vote. He has not yet endorsed another candidate. But on a hot mic just before he announced he was…

One person is dead after an avalanche struck the Palisades Tahoe ski resort in California.

Ex-President Donald Trump said a finding against his presidential immunity claim would be ‘the opening of Pandora’s box’.

Multiple bodies were discovered in an Oldsmobile submerged in a pond in front of Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, Florida.

The suspected extraterrestrials were caught on camera by an eyewitness.

A plug door fell off one of the jets run by Alaska Airlines mid-flight last Friday.

Deobra Redden returned to Las Vegas court heavily restrained after lunging at a judge who denied him bail.

Cannibal tree frogs will eat anything that will fit in their mouths and can grow up to the size of a human hand.

Video released of ‘persons of interest’ in the deaths of pregnant teen Savannah Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra in San Antonio, Texas.

Six family members heading back from Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Texas were killed in a head-on crash with a teen driver.

Johnny and Melissa Soto disappeared from their family’s home in San Diego, California, five days before Christmas.

Sophia Simmons allegedly beat her ‘school-aged’ daughter to death and left the body in a dumpster in Phoenix on Christmas Eve.

A shooting at Citadel Mall in Colorado Springs on Christmas Eve killed one man and injured three others.

The shipping container was delivered from the US.

Gor Adamyan was shot dead by road rage driver in California 10 days before Christmas.

Her son was found tied up with ropes.

A four-month-old boy was found alive on a tree after a tornado tossed him from a mobile home in Clarksville, Tennessee.