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Huge landslide cleaves off the edge of a town in Sicily and forces the evacuation of 1,500 people
ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday toured a southern town in Sicily where days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a massive landslide that cleaved off the town’s edge, collapsing houses and forcing the evacuation of over 1,500 people. The area of the landslide spanned 2.5 miles...
Darian Mensah joins Miami Hurricanes after legal battle with Duke
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Darian Mensah has enrolled at Miami, giving the Hurricanes another standout transfer at quarterback as they come off a season when they went to the national championship game and got into the College Football Playoff for the first time. Mensah transferred to Miami from ACC rival...
Judge rules Massachusetts offshore wind project halted by Trump administration can continue
BOSTON — A federal judge said Tuesday that a nearly completed Massachusetts offshore wind project can continue, as the industry successfully challenges the Trump administration in court. At U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Brian Murphy halted the administration’s stop work order for Vineyard Wind, citing the potential economic losses...
Judge finds Virginia Democrats’ redistricting resolution illegal; new Maryland map advances
RICHMOND, Va. — Democrats ran into a setback on Tuesday in Virginia to fight back against President Donald Trump’s congressional redistricting efforts, but they took a step forward in Maryland, though obstacles remain for enacting a new congressional map there. A Virginia judge ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment letting...
Man sprays unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar and is tackled at Minneapolis town hallVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of...
Devils trade Ondrej Palat and picks to the Islanders for Maxim Tsyplakov
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils traded Ondrej Palat to the division-rival New York Islanders on Tuesday night, moving on from the veteran winger they had been trying to deal for quite some time. The Devils sent a third-round pick in the draft this year and 2027 sixth-rounder with...
Bill Belichick snubbed by Pro Football Hall of Fame in first year of eligibility, report says
Six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick didn’t get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, according to a report from ESPN. Citing four unidentified sources, ESPN reported Tuesday that Belichick didn’t receive the necessary 40 votes from the 50-person panel of...
Investigators say deadly midair collision near D.C. followed years of ignored warnings about traffic
WASHINGTON — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington, D.C. The placement of a helicopter route...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff ‘we’re toast’ if they continue on current path
Addressing her staff three months into her job as CBS News boss, Bari Weiss on Tuesday invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking and said that if the network continues with its current strategy, “we’re toast.” Squirrel Hill native Weiss announced the hiring of 18 new...
Tough coaching helped Patriots’ Drake Maye flourish in 2nd season
Drake Maye got the tough coaching he wanted and thrived. The 23-year-old is one victory away from being the youngest quarterback in NFL history to win a Super Bowl. He is grateful to have coach Mike Vrabel and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels in New England. The Patriots went from 4-13...
Bitter cold grips the eastern U.S. as winter storm deaths rise and power outages lingerVideo
Three Texas siblings who perished in an icy pond were among several dozen deaths in states gripped by frigid cold Tuesday as crews scrambled to repair hundreds of thousands of power outages in the shivering South and forecasters warned the winter weather is expected to get worse. Brutal cold lingered...
Coco Gauff’s racket-shattering exit at Aussie Open means Aryna Sabalenka will meet Elina Svitolina in semis
MELBOURNE, Australia — A searing hot day turned into a sweltering night at the Australian Open and eventually Coco Gauff let off steam, shattering her racket after a lopsided loss to Elina Svitolina that cost her a place in the semifinals. Day 10 of the season-opening major began with top-ranked...
Families of 2 men killed in boat strike sue Trump administration over attack they call ‘unlawful’
WASHINGTON — Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tuesday, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.” The lawsuit is thought to be the first wrongful death case...
Yale to waive all costs for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000
Yale University is eliminating tuition and other costs for all new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year, joining a growing number of elite campuses that are slashing costs for middle- and lower-income families. The Ivy League school announced the change Tuesday and said it will take effect...
South Carolina measles outbreak surpasses Texas’ 2025 total, with little sign of slowing
The South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas’ 2025 outbreak, as health officials have logged almost 600 new cases in just over a month. The outbreak centered in northwestern Spartanburg County is showing little sign of slowing down, with health officials saying Tuesday that 789...
Shooting involving Border Patrol leaves 1 in critical condition in Arizona
ARIVACA, Ariz. — A man who authorities say was involved in a smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a federal helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said. Federal agents were attempting to apprehend the 34-year-old Arizona man...
UPS retires fleet of MD-11 aircraft involved in deadly Kentucky crash
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — UPS announced Tuesday that it has retired its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo planes just months after one crashed during takeoff, causing 15 deaths in Louisville. CEO Carol Tome said during a fourth-quarter earnings call that UPS decided to “accelerate our plans and retire all MD-11...
Investigator describes intense air traffic at time of deadly midair collision near D.C.Video
WASHINGTON — The air traffic controller who was managing numerous aircraft around Reagan National Airport felt a “little overwhelmed” just a few minutes before an American Airlines jet collided midair with an Army helicopter near Washington D.C., killing 67 people last year, an investigator said Tuesday at a National Transportation...
U.S. sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, prompting concern and confusion in Italy
MILAN — News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U.S. delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated...
Bills promote offensive coordinator Joe Brady to take over as head coach
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills stayed in-house by promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady as their new head coach on Tuesday, in a move that provides continuity to a Josh Allen-led perennial winner that has accomplished everything short of reaching a Super Bowl. The team announced Brady agreed to...
TikTok settles as social media giants face landmark trial over youth addiction claims
LOS ANGELES — TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies — along with Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube — facing claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm...
Trump’s immigration crackdown led to drop in U.S. growth rate last year as population hit 342 million
ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nation’s growth rate as the U.S. population reached nearly 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp...
Duke, QB Darian Mensah reach settlement to resolve legal fight over his transfer
Duke and Darian Mensah have reached a settlement in their legal fight over the quarterback’s plan to transfer, clearing the way for him to move on. The school and Mensah’s agency released statements Tuesday confirming a deal without providing any details. It came roughly a week after Duke filed a...
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AIVideo
Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday and advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited risks of nuclear war,...
Carney rolls his eyes at U.S. Treasury secretary, telling Trump he meant what he said at Davos
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told President Donald Trump that he meant what he said in his speech at Davos, and told him Canada plans to diversify away from the United States with a dozen new trade deals. Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S....
