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'God damn you!’ were the last words of King George V, spoken to a nurse attempting to administer an injection. It was a crotchety end for the 70-year-old pheasant-shooting, stamp-collecting king, who’d worked hard to uphold rigid…

The paradox of the Second World War is that to spend more than five years defending freedom and crushing the Nazis, we resorted to draconian measures – ‘fighting a war for democracy, while threatening to silence dissent’, as we read in…

According to the USGS, the earthquake has a magnitude of 5.2 in strength. Video from a Ring camera shows shaking inside a San Diego home and a startled cat.CALIFORNIA - Just 50 miles from downtown Los Angeles, a critical junction where…

Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight…

Starbucks Korea will simultaneously close all its stores for a mandatory history lesson, after a disastrous promotion that evoked memories of a pro-democracy massacre sparked public and political backlash.More than 2,000 stores will…

Also joining were Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, who has written for Beyoncé, Rihanna and Katy Perry; Walter Afanasieff, known for his work with Mariah Carey; Terry Britten, whose songs include Tina Turner's We Don't Need Another Hero;…

A Chinatown institution closed for good in November and is being reborn in an intimate space a few doors over. The exhibition Wing Noodles: The Heart of Chinatown, which runs from Saturday through March 7 at Chinatown House on de la…

WASHINGTON — Former Democratic President Joe Biden sued the Department of Justice on Tuesday, ​seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017.The lawsuit,…

Zohran Mamdani’s promise to seize the properties of landlords he deems unworthy should send a chill down the spine of every New Yorker. “When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and…

The Milky Way's core doesn't look like the ancient stellar graveyard many astronomers once thought it was.At the heart of a massive new survey from NASA's Hubble Space…