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ROME (AP) — Rescue crews on Wednesday found the body of a missing British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian alps, but a search for his friend was suspended by poor weather conditions.Experienced hikers Aziz Ziriat, 36, and Sam Harris, 35, had set out on Jan. 1 for a New Year’s Day excursion in Italy’s Adamello range. Italy’s Alpine rescue service said it received an alert about the men on Jan. 6, after they failed to make a scheduled flight home.After two days of fog, snow and avalanche warnings hampered searches, the service said rescuers guided by the…

Sens. Mark Kelly and Jacky Rosen will vote for the Laken Riley Act, becoming the fifth and sixth Senate Democrats who will back the legislation. To advance the legislation, which mandates detaining undocumented immigrants who are charged with theft or burglary, GOP senators need at least eight Democrats to join them in a procedural vote on Friday. More Democrats are expected to support the measure. “Senator Kelly will vote for the Laken Riley Act and looks forward to working with Republicans and Democrats on it and other solutions to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system,” said Kelly’s…

President Joe Biden was surprisingly candid when asked if he believed he could have served another four-year term in the White House.In an interview with USA Today published on Wednesday, Biden appeared confident that he could have defeated President-elect Donald Trump in November had he stayed on as the Democratic Party’s nominee, citing polling he said he went over.“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden said.But when asked whether he would have been in a position to serve as president for another four years, Biden conceded he wasn’t sure.“I don’t know,” he told USA Today’s Susan Page.…

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his New York state hush money sentencing that’s scheduled for Friday.Prosecutors have until 10:00 a.m. ET on Thursday to respond to the emergency filing, so we could learn after the state responds whether the high court will block Trump’s sentencing.“This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the Tuesday filing.Trump’s lead counsel on the filing is John Sauer,…

Fanned by high winds, a huge blaze in the Pacific Palisades area has prompted mass evacuations and a state of emergency A wind-whipped wildfire tore across the celebrity area of Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles on Tuesday, triggering the evacuation of more than 30,000 residents and putting 13,000 buildings under threat, Reuters has reported.According to officials cited by the news agency, the fire in the affluent neighborhood, between the coastal towns of Santa Monica and Malibu, has consumed nearly 12 square kilometers, sending up a plume of smoke, visible across LA.The fire was first reported at 10:30 a.m. local time…

Tencent, the Chinese social media and gaming giant, accelerated share buybacks in Hong Kong on Tuesday, marking its largest single-session repurchase in two decades. The move comes a day after the Pentagon designated the company as a Chinese military-linked business operating in the US. Bloomberg data shows Tencent bought 3.93 million Hong Kong-listed shares on Tuesday, the most since April 2006. Hong Kong-listed shares of China’s most valuable company are down a little more than 10% since Pentagon blacklisted it and several companies, including Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., chipmaker Changxin Memory Technologies Inc., Quectel Wireless, and drone maker Autel Robotics, on Monday. The update to the blacklist companies…

Austria’s FPO leader Herbert Kickl. Europe continues to experience a strong surge of patriotic, conservative, and anti-globalist forces, moving the continental needle to the right of the political specter. In Austria, such a political force – the Freedom Party (FPO) was the most voted in the December election with almost 29%, but when it came time to form a government, the establishment parties united to form a ‘firewall’ and deny the victors a place in the governing coalition. That’s what FPO leader Herbert Kickl called ‘a coalition of losers’. But the talks for this coalition broke down, and now it’s…

A hit on an 810th Naval Infantry Brigade vehicle last year.Ukrainian defense ministry capture For the second time in two weeks, Ukrainian forces have blown up a headquarters belonging to the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade. The battered brigade, one of the lead units for Russia’s two-month-old counteroffensive in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, just can’t catch a break. The “precision” raid hit the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s headquarters in Belaya on Tuesday, according to the Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv. It’s unclear what munitions the Ukrainians used, but Belaya is only 20 miles east of Sudzha—the anchor of the 250-square-mile…

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 20: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference … [+]Getty Images Washington is abuzz over whether Congress will address President-elect Trump’s ambitious policy agenda in one bill or two. But lawmakers must confront a more important question: How will Trump navigate between those Republicans whose top priority is cutting the size of the federal government and those who quietly worry about the political fallout from slashing popular programs? The dilemma: While Republican voters favor smaller government in concept, they often back specific programs. For example, a Pew Research survey finds 79…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company will be relocating its content moderation and trust and safety teams from California to Texas as part of a broader effort to promote free expression and address the extreme leftist bias introduced into its content moderation process at the hands of its woke Silicon Valley workforce. In a major shakeup to its content moderation practices, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to move the company’s U.S.-based content review operations from California to Texas. The decision, announced alongside other significant changes to Meta’s approach to content moderation, is aimed at building trust…