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It is one of the 20th century’s most memorable images: a naked girl, screaming, running from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. More than a half-century later, a new documentary is calling into question who took it — and the retired Associated Press photographer long credited for the photo insists it was his, while his longtime employer says it has no evidence of anyone else being behind the camera. […]

It is one of the 20th century’s most memorable images: a naked girl, screaming, running from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. More than a half-century later, a new documentary is calling into question who took it — and the retired Associated Press photographer long credited for the photo insists it was his, while his longtime employer says it has no evidence of anyone else being behind the camera. […]

(Reuters) – Scott Bessent, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Treasury Department, on Thursday said the question of eliminating the U.S. debt limit is “nuanced,” but said if Trump wants to do so he will work with him and with Congress to get it done. “The debt limit is a very nuanced convention,” Bessent told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in response to a question from U.S. Senator […]

(Reuters) – Scott Bessent, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Treasury Department, on Thursday said the question of eliminating the U.S. debt limit is “nuanced,” but said if Trump wants to do so he will work with him and with Congress to get it done. “The debt limit is a very nuanced convention,” Bessent told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in response to a question from U.S. Senator […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks dipped on Thursday as a jump in the prior session cooled, while investors eyed the most recent corporate earnings and gauged economic data to determine the path of Federal Reserve rate cuts. A benign reading on inflation calmed fears about a renewal in price pressures and strong bank earnings helped the three major U.S. indexes notch their biggest one-day percentage gain since Nov. 6 on […]

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A national television audience watched Zane Gonzalez adjust his socks on the sideline and fix his hair multiple times before putting his helmet on and taking the field to kick the winning field goal in an NFL playoff game Sunday night. Those watching did not see Gonzalez as a kid writing and rewriting papers and taking walks outside with his father or playing soccer to get […]

NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s chief diplomat on Thursday called on Israel and Hamas to implement a Gaza ceasefire plan “without any delay,” raising pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the deal. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty delivered the message at a sensitive time in efforts to end a devastating 15-month conflict. A day after U.S. President Joe Biden and other international mediators announced the ceasefire […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to be the state’s next U.S. senator. The announcement comes after President-elect Donald Trump nominated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida’s senior senator since 2010, to be secretary of state. Five things to know about the Republican attorney general, who has served as the state’s top law enforcement officer since 2019: Moody has spent […]

Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy” during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a department likely to play a central role in President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slash federal regulations and promote oil and gas development. “The American people elected President Trump last November in part due to serious concerns about upward economic mobility,” Zeldin said. “A big part […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shaw Zhao was worried even before he arrived in Los Angeles last week: His father’s neighborhood was in an evacuation zone as deadly wildfires raged in the metropolitan area, and Zhao hadn’t heard from the 84-year-old the previous night. As he made his way from the airport to Zhi-feng Zhao’s home in the Altadena neighborhood on Jan. 8, he was stopped by police blockades. So he […]