Contempt is one of US lawmakers’ politically messiest and, until recent years, least-used powers.
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The Mail on Sunday newspaper claimed the then-prince passed Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard.
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Analysis: The Trump administration has signed several mineral access agreements and negotiated bilateral arrangements.
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The WHO said a shipment of essential prosthetic supplies recently made it into Gaza. That appears to be the first significant shipment for the past two years.
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Appointed by the local administration as Village Security Volunteers, they guarded the empty homes after many residents were forced to flee and with fewer security officials stationed nearby than usual.
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Trump announced the agreement to restart the ceasefire in a social media posting following calls with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
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Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near the city of Darwin say the creature is now the earliest known mega-predator of the modern shark lineage.
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The S&P 500 fell 1.1% from its all-time high for its worst day in three weeks.
Business
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Trollope's bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England.
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The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that people do.
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46-year-old Ashley Wasielewski said she was walking laps at a park in Savannah, Georgia when an unidentified person poured liquid over her head.
Crime and Justice
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The move prevents the assets, estimated to total around 210 billion euros (NZ$424 billion), from being used in any negotiations to end the war without European approval.
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Republicans have lost a series of elections over the past month, some resoundingly.
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In a personal video message, the 77-year-old monarch said that an early diagnosis and "effective intervention" had helped improve his health condition.
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The photos released by Democratic lawmakers were a small part of more than 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein.
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Police said the man lived and worked in Toronto at the time of the homicides and had a history of sexual assault, and investigators believe there could be more victims.
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Australian taxpayers are missing out on up to AU$11.8 billion (NZ$13.5 billion) in foregone revenue each year.
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The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main Japanese island.
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The judge called Do Kwon's offending "a fraud on an epic, generational scale".
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The chant and song was selected among 67 traditions honoured by UNESCO, including Italian cooking and Ghanaian highlife music.
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Social media platform filed a challenge to the High Court to repeal the legislation, arguing it raised issues on privacy and political expression.
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"Contraceptive drugs and products" will not be tax-exempt as of January 1, according to the country's newest value-added tax law.
Health
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David William James created the child abuse material while working at six out-of-school centres in Sydney's north and city centres.
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Home near San Francisco seen under a blue sky when it suddenly explodes, spewing jagged wood and other debris spiralling into the air.
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The seizure marked a dramatic escalation in Donald Trump's campaign to pressure strongman Nicolás Maduro by cutting off access to oil, which has long been the lifeblood of Venezuela's economy.
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