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Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, Oxfam said Monday in its annual inequality report. The combined wealth of the world’s most wealthy rose from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in just 12 months, the global charity said Sunday. It …

ABUJA, Nigeria — The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response agency said Sunday. The blast happened in the early hours of Saturday near the Suleja area of Niger state after individuals attempted to transfer gasoline from a crashed …

Share Final: Bills 27, Ravens 25 The Bills are advancing to the AFC Championship Game! Buffalo held off a furious Ravens comeback in the fourth quarter. Mark Andrews dropped a potential game-tying two-point conversion. The Bills will now play the defending champion Chiefs for the right to go to the …

The Philadelphia Eagles rode star running back Saquon Barkley all year to a division title, and now they are one win away from a conference championship. The MVP candidate, just the ninth player in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, continued his career year …

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump plans to sign more than 50 executive orders Monday — and possibly more than 100 — on the first day of his second presidency, according to a person in his transition operation. Trump, who is scheduled to take the oath of office inside the Capitol at …

ALTADENA, Calif. — A neighbor did what thousands were urged not to do when he stayed behind amid mandatory wildfire evacuations and saved his home and multiple others nearby with garden hoses and the help of a few fellow residents. Antonio Antonetti, 66, said it wasn’t in his fabric to run …

The coincidence that Martin Luther King Jr. Day lands on the same  Monday as Donald Trump’s inauguration isn’t a cause for concern, according to Bernice King, the late civil rights icon’s daughter. In an interview with MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Saturday, she said the timing provides an opportunity to reflect on …

Dick Vitale’s return to broadcasting following cancer treatments will be delayed after the ESPN college basketball analyst had an accident at his Florida home. Vitale announced Saturday he will not be on the call for next Saturday’s game between No. 3 Duke and Wake Forest after the accident caused short-term …

TikTok said Sunday that it would be restoring service to U.S. users after blocking it the evening before. In a statement, TikTok said its video platform was coming back online after President-elect Donald Trump provided the necessary assurances to the company’s service providers. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok …

The law, unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday, leaves the interpretation of a “qualified divestiture” up to the president. In his latest post, Trump seemed to lay out what would satisfy that definition for him. Trump said he “would like the United States to have a 50% ownership …