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Many highways are blocked and train services have been suspended, leaving a number of tourists stranded for days at Machu Picchu with no transport from the UNESCO World Heritage site to an international airport almost 50 miles away in Cusco. Colorado resident Tom Gray’s group had managed to take the …

“Saturday Night Live’s” final show of 2022 doubled as a send-off for Cecily Strong, who exited amid her 11th season and as one of the longest-tenured female cast members. The show announced her departure on Twitter ahead of Saturday’s airing, stating, “Tonight we send off one of the best to …

Three people were killed in a three-alarm fire in Pittsburgh overnight, according to officials. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responded shortly before 2 a.m. to the 3400 block of McClure Avenue after receiving multiple calls for a house on fire early Saturday morning. The fire started off as two-alarm, with …

An Arizona judge on Friday dismissed Republican Mark Finchem’s lawsuit seeking a new secretary of state election after he lost the race in November to Democrat Adrian Fontes. In her ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Julian dismissed Finchem’s lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, …

WASHINGTON — A growing number of consumers are falling behind on their car payments, a trend financial analysts fear will continue, in a sign of the strain soaring car prices and prolonged inflation are having on household budgets.  Repossessions tumbled at the start of the pandemic when Americans got a …

Several high-profile journalists who were suspended from Twitter on Thursday evening were reinstated early Saturday. “The people have spoken,” Elon Musk tweeted. Twitter users voted in a poll posted by Musk to reinstate the accounts, which were cut off without warning. The social media platform’s new owner has recently used Twitter …

Investigators from the Department of Justice reviewed numerous email exchanges between Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., Trump lawyer John Eastman and two DOJ officials who were pushing the then-president’s plan to overturn the 2020 election results, newly unsealed court filings show. On Friday, the chief judge of D.C. federal court revealed …

A lavender and chamomile-scented aromatherapy spray contaminated with deadly bacteria that killed two people in 2021 also killed one of the victim’s pet raccoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. In October 2021, investigators with the CDC discovered the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei in the lavender and chamomile …

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent a letter to tech billionaire Elon Musk on Friday expressing concern that Twitter’s approach to child safety had “rapidly deteriorated” since Musk bought the social media site in October.  The letter follows reports from several news outlets, including NBC News, about Musk’s …

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era policy designed to restrict immigration at the southern border. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas said in his decision that he would put on hold termination of the policy that required …