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Haley and DeSantis tear into each other's records in a hostile head-to-head Republican debate 01/10/2024 11:19pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In their most hostile encounter yet, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis attacked each other early and often in Wednesday's Republican primary debate rather than focus on Donald Trump, the absent front-runner, as both tried to demonstrate they were the strongest alternative to the Alabama's Nick Saban retires after 7 national titles, most in major college football history 01/10/2024 10:51pm • Nick Saban’s coaching reign has come to an end. His dominance over college football, however, will forever linger in lore. Saban, who won seven national championships — more than any major college football coach — and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse that shattered an Associated ‘We’re back to governing’: Maryland General Assembly opens annual 90-day legislative session 01/10/2024 09:54pm • Maryland’s Senate president vowed a return to a more normal 90-day General Assembly session following four years marked by transition and pandemic. The house of delegates and Senate returned to Annapolis on Wednesday and gaveled in the 446th legislative session. A winter storm that 24 hours ear NYC issues vacate orders to stabilize historic Jewish sites following discovery of 60-foot tunnel 01/10/2024 09:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York building officials have issued emergency work orders to stabilize a historic synagogue and its neighboring structures after an illicit underground tunnel was discovered at the sanctuary earlier this week. An investigation by the city's Department of Buildings uncovered a Snow in the West and flooding in the Northeast. And more foul weather is on the way 01/10/2024 09:04pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Drenching rains, flooding and fierce winds stranded vehicles, shuttered schools and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in the Northeast, the swan song of a bout of violent weather that battered most of the United States. Forecasters warned Wednesday that more misery wa Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says 01/10/2024 08:58pm • GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. 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