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An updated death toll in what Somalis have described as their 9/11 has risen.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called top military officials from around the world to a meeting in Virginia next week. The reason for this unusual gathering isn't known.

President Biden said he would fire anyone who was a jerk at work. But that's not what happened when his science adviser Eric Lander was found to have created a toxic workplace.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., traveled to Brazil recently to meet the country's new minister of racial equality.

Vito, a pug from Chapel Hill, N.C., beat out more than 1,900 dogs representing more than 200 breeds and varieties that competed in this year's event.

The Finns took No. 1 on the annual World Happiness Report, while perennial leaders Norway and Denmark weren't far behind. Meanwhile, the study devoted a chapter to the decline of happiness in the U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump says that prosecuting his former rival isn't off the table. But earlier on Tuesday, aide Kellyanne Conway implied his administration won't pursue that campaign promise.

The former Texas governor once wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy. Perry and Donald Trump have doubted climate science, an key area of research at some of the department's 17 national labs.

Siegal Sadetzki said Tuesday that Israeli leaders ignored her warnings and the country reopened too fast. "The compass handling the pandemic lost its direction," she said in her resignation letter.

The grim news was expected as the number of open homicide cases continued to climb month after month, making the last 12 months the deadliest on record — an average of 91 deaths per day.