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[ad_1] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom duked it out in a roughly two-hour debate Thursday that was heavy on contrasts between their leadership of two of the nation’s largest states but lighter on references to the ongoing presidential primaries — the race one of the men …

[ad_1] Health officials are warning shoppers to stay away from some cantaloupe sold at certain stores after 18 more illnesses linked to the fruit were reported amid an ongoing salmonella outbreak. Since some brands of cantaloupe were first recalled earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and …

[ad_1] Kevin Franke, husband of former family vlogger Ruby Franke and patriarch of the 8 Passengers YouTube channel, filed a petition for divorce Wednesday, according to a domestic relations injunction obtained by NBC News. The divorce filing comes roughly three months after Ruby Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, …

[ad_1] ‘We cried and we hugged each other,’ says father of released Palestinian teenager Mithil Aggarwal and Samra Zulfaqar Mohammad Salima returned home Tuesday to his worried father and siblings who broke down in tears and hugged him. The 16-year-old was imprisoned by Israeli forces earlier this year for “throwing …

[ad_1] It’s officially Christmas at Rockefeller Center And just like that, after 91 years of tradition, the massive and iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been lit, officially ringing in the Christmas spirit from New York and around the world. A view of the lit tree during the Rockefeller Center …

[ad_1] Speaking at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday, Elon Musk, the owner of social media site X (formerly Twitter), scoffed at advertisers boycotting the platform because of antisemitic posts he amplified there. “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f—yourself.” …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned in a major address on Wednesday about repercussions if Americans don’t condemn antisemitism, which has increased since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official ever in U.S. history, laid out in a 45-minute speech how …

[ad_1] All survived mostly intact for more than 1,000 years, despite war, earthquakes, foreign invasions and the temple’s makeover first as a church and then a mosque. But in 1687, the Parthenon was blown up by a besieging Venetian army, and many of the works were lost. The survivors are …

[ad_1] Life expectancy in the U.S. ticked upward in 2022, following two years of significant declines driven primarily by the Covid pandemic, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Wednesday.  The CDC data showed that life expectancy at birth — how long a baby born in …

[ad_1] Santos has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the federal charges. On the social media site X, Santos said he told Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., he would be “standing for the expulsion vote,” and warned his colleagues that they would be setting a bad precedent if they …