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A Boeing 737 MAX 9 for Alaska Airlines is pictured along with other aircraft at Renton Municipal Airport adjacent to Boeing's factory in Washington. Alaska Airlines resumed service of its 737 MAX 9 fleet on January 26, 2024, three weeks after an emergency landing prompted sweeping inspections of the aircraft.

National

The Boeing 737 Max 9 takes off again, but the company faces more turbulence ahead

6:00am January 27, 2024

by Joel Rose

The first 737 Max 9 planes have started flying again after a fuselage panel blew off in midair last week. But industry analysts say Boeing's reputation will take a lot longer to repair.

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Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur.

An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician

5:01am January 27, 2024

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.

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Reema Karki, shown at her home in Nepal, received a letter informing her that her husband, Pritam Karki, had died on Nov. 15 while serving in the Russian military in Ukraine.

World News

Nepal wants its men back from Russia's war in Ukraine after deaths on the front

5:00am January 27, 2024

Russia recruits Nepali men with promises of citizenship and enticing wages. But after news of at least 10 Nepali troops killed, Nepal's government and families want to bring their soldiers home.

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Friends Gloria Smith, left, and Venita Epps say working elections is important. "It is my passion and my duty as a citizen in Fulton County," Epps says.

Politics & Government

They watched 2 election workers face abuse, and it's compelling them to serve in 2024

5:00am January 27, 2024

by Sam Gringlas

Even though two 2020 election workers in Fulton County, Ga., endured an onslaught of threats and harassment following baseless fraud claims, people there are eager to serve as poll workers this year.

Billie Eilish at the 32nd Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards Gala in Los Angeles, Oct. 8 2022. The pop star is flanked by her mother Maggie Baird (left) and EMA CEO Debbie Levin.

Arts

Hollywood has been giving out climate change-focused awards for 33 years. Who knew?

5:00am January 27, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

Now in its 33rd year, the Environmental Media Awards might be the most celebrity-studded awards ceremony you've never heard of.

A police officer inspects a public transportation vehicle at a checkpoint in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024.

World News

Haitians are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment

1:31am January 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

Uncertainty have been spreading since Friday's ruling, blocking the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force, with violence reaching new records as gangs tighten their grip on Haiti's capital.

A bronze statue of legendary baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from a park in Wichita, Kan., during the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.

National

Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from a Kansas park

12:31am January 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

A prized statue of Jackie Robinson was stolen from a public park in Kansas, spurring a police search and outrage across the city of Wichita.

Sports

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after sex abuse suit

11:31pm January 26, 2024

by The Associated Press

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigned Friday from WWE's parent company the day after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct.

E. Jean Carroll leaves a New York court on Friday after a jury order former President Donald Trump $83.3 million for defaming her.

Politics & Government

Jury orders Trump to pay $83 million for defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll

7:36pm January 26, 2024

by Ximena Bustillo

This is the second time Trump has been ordered pay Carroll. Last year he was mandated by a jury to pay $5 million for a separate instance of defamation.

Palestinians try to extinguish a fire at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center that displaced people use as a shelter on Jan. 24, 2024.

World News

'It felt like my head burst': Survivors recount attack on U.N. facility

7:18pm January 26, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Some of the people injured from this week's attack on a United Nations training facility in Khan Younis are receiving treatment in Rafah.

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