Tag: country
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Halloween week heat across the country will shatter October records
The final few days of October will feature roughly 100 new daily record highs as the thermometer soars to summer-like levels Monday through Thursday. For locations like Washington, D.C. and New York City, a forecast high near 80 degrees on Thursday will make it feel more like Labor Day in terms of the warm temperatures…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un calls South Korea a foreign, hostile country
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea is a foreign and hostile nation, state news agency KCNA reported Friday, with photos showing Kim conferring with high-ranking soldiers and poring over a map labeled “Seoul” at a command post. Kim discussed the use of “offensive forces” against the South as…
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New York family sues funeral home after 96-year-old woman’s casket is sent to wrong country
A New York City family is suing a funeral home for mistakenly sending their mother’s casket to another country for burial. Carmen Maldonado died two days after her 96th birthday. Her wish was to be buried in Ecuador next to her husband. Her family, who lives in Queens, was preparing for the funeral in Ecuador…
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Trump says big companies have ‘raped our country’ in economic speech
Former President Donald Trump said during an economic address Thursday that the United States has allowed “big companies” to “come in and raid and rape our country.” “‘Oh, he used the word rape.’ That’s right. I used the word rape,” Trump said at the Detroit Economic Club after his remarks were met with what sounded…
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Mickey Guyton talks new album ‘House on Fire’ and the state of country music
The nation is finally beginning to see that “country music is for everyone,” and Mickey Guyton loves it. Guyton, 41, has been a trailblazer in country music for years: In 2021, she became the first Black woman to co-host the Academy of Country Music Awards and the first Black woman solo artist to be nominated…
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Kris Kristofferson, country music star and actor who starred in ‘A Star is Born,’ dies at 88
Kris Kristofferson, actor, musician and long-haired activist who embodied the countercultural spirit of postwar America, died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, a representative confirmed. He was 88. “It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 28 at home,” a…
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Two-thirds of voters say the country is on the wrong track ahead of the 2024 election
Two in three voters say the country is on the “wrong track,” as voters weigh whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump would be better able to change that less than two months from Election Day. The latest NBC News national poll finds 65% of registered voters surveyed earlier this month say…
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Clay Higgins rips Haitian immigrants, warns them to get ‘out of our country’
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere” in a post on social media Wednesday, saying migrants from the Caribbean nation, the majority of whom are in the U.S. legally, should “get their ass out of our country.” Higgins rant on X — which was deleted hours later — came…
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How birria took over restaurant menus across the country
Birria, which was once known as a regional Mexican food, has taken on a life of its own in the U.S., becoming a social media star and fast-food darling. Traditionally, birria is a beef or goat stew, slow cooked with spices and chiles to give the meat lots of flavor. Birria tacos use the slow-cooked…
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Marxist-leaning president takes power in Sri Lanka, a country long led by dynasties
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families which is emerging from its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades. Millions of Sri Lankans had voted for the opposition parliamentarian, putting faith in his graft-fighting…