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Hacked-up bodies found inside coolers aboard trucks — along with warning message from Mexican cartel

An undetermined number of hacked-up bodies have been found in two vehicles abandoned on a bridge in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz, prosecutors said Monday. A banner left on one of the vehicles included an apparent warning message from a powerful cartel. The bodies were found Sunday in the city of Tuxpan, not far from the Gulf coast. The …

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Fulton County says cyberattack did not impact Trump election interference case

Officials said the court and other systems in Georgia’s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump was unaffected. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a “widespread system outage” from a “cybersecurity incident,” county commission Chair Robb Pitts said Monday …

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Ex-Pakistan leader Imran Khan gets 10 years for revealing state secrets, in latest controversial legal move

Islamabad — A Pakistani court convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets on Tuesday and sentenced him to 10 years – the latest in a slew of legal cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned former cricket star just days ahead of parliamentary elections. The Islamist politician, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote …

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Nikki Haley on White House bid: This is just getting started

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, facing an uphill battle heading into the Republican nominating contest in South Carolina, said the race is “just getting started” and appeared undeterred by polls that show former President Donald Trump leading in her home state. “I just got to South Carolina,” Haley said in an interview on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. “We just left …

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U.K. mulls recognizing a Palestinian state to advance two-state solution, defuse Israel-Hamas war

London — The United Kingdom “will look at the issue of recognizing a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations,” British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Monday at a London reception for Arab ambassadors. The U.K., like the United States, supports a two-state solution to the decades-old crisis in the Middle East, whereby Israelis and Palestinians would negotiate an end …

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Tickets to Super Bowl 2024 are the most expensive ever, Seat Geek says

The 2024Super Bowl matchup is set — the San Francisco 49ers will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11. The game will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+, but if you want to see the game in person, you’ll have to shell out a pretty penny. The average ticket price is a whopping $12,082 …

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Will mortgage rates fall after this weeks Fed meeting?

After keeping rates paused since last summer, all eyes will turn to the Federal Reserve this week as they meet for the first time in 2024. On the agenda will be the future of the benchmark interest rate range, which currently sits between 5.25% and 5.50% —the highest it’s been in decades. The Fed had been consistently raising that rate …

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Noah Kahan opens up about his surreal Grammy Awards nomination and path to success

Noah Kahan will contend for his firstGrammy Awardwhen the ceremony gets underway on Sunday, Feb. 4. But the singer-songwriter, whose latest record earned him a coveted nomination in the Best New Artist category, has been rehearsing his Grammys acceptance speech since childhood. “When I was falling asleep, I would practice my Grammys speech when I was a little kid,” Kahan …

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White House Medical Unit gave controlled substances to ineligible staff, watchdog finds

A Pentagon watchdog found a slew of problems with the White House Medical Unit that took place during the Trump administration, including that the unit provided controlled substances to ineligible White House staff. A new report from the Department of Defense inspector general found the military-run White House Medical Unit provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services …

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What will happen to home prices if mortgage rates fall?

While the Federal Reserve wants to see inflation heading toward 2.0%, December 2023 brought an increase of 0.3%, moving the Consumer Price Index (CPI) up to 3.4%. Still, many expect the federal funds rate to stay at 5.33% this month and decrease later this year. But what will that mean for the housing market overall – and prices, in general? …

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