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A forgotten chapter: The stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki during the atomic bombing 12/30/2025 09:46pm • NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) ��� Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing is little known, and family and researchers have been collecting and Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port city over weapons shipment from UAE for separatists 12/30/2025 08:39pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as ���extremely dangerous.��� The bombing followed China flexes blockade capabilities near Taiwan on second day of military drills 12/30/2025 08:31pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� China's People's Liberation Army staged a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, unleashing a live-fire show of force as part of what it called ���Justice Mission 2025" to demonstrate its ability to deter any external support for the island it cla National Guard arrives in New Orleans for 1st New Year's since Bourbon Street attack 12/30/2025 08:17pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� National Guard members arrived in New Orleans Tuesday to help with safety measures ahead of New Year's celebrations as city officials are still seeking permanent security solutions nearly a year after a truck attack on Bourbon Street left 14 dead. The rampage, in which a man dr Roses in the rain? New Year's Day parade in Pasadena gets wet forecast. Bundle up for NYC ball drop 12/30/2025 04:59pm • For the first time in 20 years, rain is expected to intrude on the Rose Parade in Southern California, a venerable New Year's Day event that attracts thousands of spectators and is watched by millions more on TV. Storms caused Christmas week flooding, mudslides and other miseries across the region. Oysters, crab and $400,000 worth of lobster meat stolen in New England 12/30/2025 04:46pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each other in New England. The first seafood vanished on Nov. 22 in Falmouth, Maine, where authorities suspect someone stole 14 cage ECHL players ratify new labor deal, ending strike that had postponed games 12/30/2025 02:39pm • The Professional Hockey Players��� Association announced Tuesday that its membership had ratified a new, five-year collective bargaining agreement with the ECHL following a strike that forced the postponement of 41 games since last week. The new agreement will run through the 2029-30 season for the Derailed train in Kentucky causes a chemical leak and sparks a fire 12/30/2025 02:32pm • TRENTON, Ky. (AP) ��� A derailed CSX train leaked a flammable chemical and sparked a fire in a rural part of southern Kentucky on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a shelter-in-place order that was later lifted for nearby residents. No injuries were reported after 31 rail cars derailed at abou Channel Tunnel disruption affects Eurostar and vehicle shuttle between France and England 12/30/2025 12:39pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail services through the undersea Channel Tunnel connecting the United Kingdom and continental Europe on Tuesday, operators said, stranding passengers during the busy end-of-year holidays. At Paris' Gare du Nord station, Jamie and Issy Gil IRS increases 2026 business mileage rate by 2.5 cents 12/30/2025 12:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The standard mileage rate for the business use of a car, truck, van or other vehicle will increase by 2.5 cents in 2026. The IRS announced Monday that beginning Jan. 1, the standard mileage rate for a qualifying vehicle will be 72.5 cents per mile, up 2.5 cents from 2025. The r What's inside Mexico's Popocat��petl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano 12/30/2025 11:50am • POPOCAT��PETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) ��� In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocat��petl volcano, one of the world���s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five years, th Duke's unlikely ACC title season set to end against Arizona State in Sun Bowl 12/30/2025 10:58am • EL PASO, Texas (AP) ��� Duke's unlikely Atlantic Coast Conference title didn't get the Blue Devils anywhere close to the College Football Playoff berth that's supposed to go to every Power Four conference champion. The consolation prize comes Wednesday in the Sun Bowl against Arizona State, a team j European and Canadian leaders discuss US-led peace efforts in Russia-Ukraine war 12/30/2025 10:22am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Leaders from Europe and Canada held talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv sparred over Russian claims, denied by Ukraine, of a mass drone attack on a lakeside residence used by President Vladimir Father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin dies after house fire, mother critically injured 12/30/2025 10:03am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived, officials said Monday. Firefighters arrived Sunday night at a two-story home near Stanley that was mostly engulfe Russia's nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles have entered active service, Moscow says 12/30/2025 07:44am • Russia���s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service in Belarus, Russia���s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as the U.S. efforts to broker a deal to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine have entered a pivotal stage. The ministry released a video showing combat vehicles that