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A swimmer jumps from a jetty in an effort to cool off in Adelaide, Australia, as the country experiences record temperatures.

Australia Just Had Its Hottest Day On Record

The scorching temperatures are happening during a destructive wildfire season and a brutal drought. The average maximum temperature across the country on Tuesday was 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

The spike in hate crimes in 2020 follows a recent upward trend in bias incidents, and it was a 6% increase over the 7,287 bias-related offenses reported in 2019.

Hate Crimes Reach The Highest Level In More Than A Decade

The 6% spike in hate crimes reported by the FBI for 2020 follows a recent upward trend in incidents. But some experts and advocacy groups say the true number is probably even higher.

Travelers self-test for the coronavirus at a mobile testing site at New York City's Penn Station in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. The U.S. is currently seeing record hospitalizations for COVID-19, and health experts fear more surges are on their way.

Fauci Warns Of 'Surge Upon A Surge' As COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hit Yet Another High

More than 91,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Saturday — over 6,000 of them on ventilators. With the holiday season fast approaching, health experts fear the worst is yet to come.

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.

The U.S. will offer nearly 300,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine in the coming weeks

The Department of Health and Human Services will make 296,000 doses available in the coming weeks, and expects a total of 1.6 million doses to be available in the U.S. by the end of the year.

FILE - Students walk across the Gordon State College campus on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Barnesville, Ga. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Tuition and fees will stay mostly flat at Georgia public universities and colleges

Most in-state students will pay about the same to attend Georgia's public universities and colleges in the 2025-2026 academic year.

Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

New York State Police say the man was arrested after they received word from the FBI that that he made "threats to kill a member of Congress."

Amazon Studios Exec Roy Price Resigns Following Harassment Allegations

Price was suspended last week after producer Isa Hackett, who works on the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, said he had "repeatedly and persistently" propositioned her.

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Donald Trump is indicted on felony charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. How conservative media are covering the indictment. Fitch strips the U.S. of its Triple-A bond rating.

Singer Neil Diamond Back on the Charts

After nearly 50 years in the music business, Neil Diamond is on top of the world. The singer has topped the U.S. and British album charts with his new release, Home Before Dark.

Singer Songwriter Dion

Singer Songwriter Dion. He's just released a new record of doo-wop tunes Deja Nu (Collectables 2000). In the late 1950s, Dion and his band the Belmonts topped the chart with several pop hits, earning him the status of teen idol. Dion split amicably with the band in 1960 and continued to write Top 10 hits until the British Invasion changed the pop preference. Now, in his 50s, he continues to produce, write and sing new material. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

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