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Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei was enthusiastically received at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The warm welcome extended to Milei is a sign of where free-market radicalism is headed amid the deepening crisis of neoliberalism.

NBC News projects that more voters chose not to pick a candidate at all than back Haley. Trump wasn’t on the ballot, since he's participating in Thursday's caucus, instead.

Rashida Tlaib just announced a whopping $3.7 million fundraising haul for the last quarter of 2023, after being censured by Congress for her support of Palestine. Her fundraising success shows pro-Palestine politics can go head-to-head with the Israel lobby.

As the 2024 election heats up, an onslaught of political ads is being funded by dark money groups. Broadcast and tech lobbies are preventing the disclosure of the groups’ identities, leaving voters in the dark about the corporate interests behind these ads.

Dauwalter’s triumphs extend beyond UTMB; her victories in the Moab 240 and other major races challenge conventional assumptions about gender differences in ultra-endurance sports. The ongoing debate on whether longer race distances neutralize gender gaps has gained traction, prompting research and discussions within the running community.

Six-year-old Hind was last heard from trapped in a car surrounded by bodies - then the line went dead.

Sir Tim Clark criticises the plane-maker after a panel on a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet blew out in the air.

A New York anti–money laundering bill meant to crack down on anonymous real estate shell companies was seriously weakened through changes by Governor Kathy Hochul after she received millions of dollars in campaign financing from real estate interests.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said the federal government is extending its ban on foreign homebuyers for another two years as part of efforts to ease Canada's housing crisis.

The strikes from the United States and United Kingdom targeted Houthi sites, including 'deeply buried' weapons caches, as well as air defence systems.

Lai Ching-te has been elected Taiwan's next president in a vote widely presented as a rebuke to China. But millions of Taiwanese were more concerned by economic issues than geopolitics, with low-wage young voters swinging behind a third-party insurgent.

Trader Joe’s, the supposedly progressive grocery chain, has joined Elon Musk’s SpaceX in attacking the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board. The employer class can’t stomach any obstacles to its union busting.

Ukraine is asking the Canadian government for 83,000 mothballed CRV7 attack rockets to meet urgent military needs. Ottawa is concerned the rockets may be unsafe to ship.

Two new studies track the effect of police violence on Black Americans. One study ties police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances.

Federal prosecutors say the brother of a man who was the prime suspect in five arsons affecting Jewish institutions in the Boston area has been extradited from Sweden. Alexander Giannakakis

The Ohio Supreme Court has given Republican Attorney General Dave Yost until Monday to respond to the legal claims of the coalition of civil rights organizations that is challenging his rejection of a package of proposed voter protections they are working to place on November’s ballot.

Militants are using a combination of weapons in their extensive arsenal to target commercial ships.

Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether large SUVs should be subject to a threefold increase in parking charges as the French capital presses on with long-term plans to become a fully bikeable city.

The referendum, less than a year after city residents voted to ban e-scooters, aims to triple parking fees for cars of 1.6 tonnes and more to 18 euros ($19) an hour in order to discourage "bulky, polluting" cars, City Hall said.

The new tariff would also apply to electric cars of 2 tonnes and more.

"Heavier, more dangerous, more polluting ... SUVs are an environmental disaster," Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said on X.

A Palestinian doctor says Israeli forces in Gaza detained him when they overran a hospital and subjected him to abuse during 45 days of captivity including sleep deprivation and constant shackling and blindfolding before releasing him last week.

The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, said the city's police officers were ramping up their presence across places of worship and major infrastructure points following an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he called "bigoted" and "Islamophobic."

Sullivan said the U.S. intends "to take additional strikes and additional action" after it launched airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militant groups, but he did not specify where.

GOP state lawmakers are pushing the most extreme versions of laws that restrict transgender people from using restrooms since North Carolina enacted HB 2 in 2016.

Pumping of seawater will contaminate underground freshwater and ruin the conditions of life in Gaza, experts say.

An alliance of ethnic forces has gained much ground in military-ruled Myanmar, but some fear the movement may splinter.

One of the people injured was in a serious condition; the other two were more lightly hurt, police said.