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Authorities say the number of people missing are in the single figures.

Heavy rains in New Zealand have caused widespread damage and left thousands without power.

A senior United Nations official calling Israel's demolition of its East Jerusalem compound illegal, saying it's leased the land from the country of Jordan for decades.

Israel says it owns the land, setting up what NPR's Emily Fang reports is another showdown between Israel and the U.N.

Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah.

The festival features 90 premieres, including potential Oscar nominees, and celebrations are planned to honor the legacy of founder Robert Redford, who died in September.

This year's festival, the final one to be held in Park City, Sundance moving to Boulder, Colorado next year.

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After a nearly three-week trial, a Texas jury has acquitted a former Uvalde School police officer for his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.

Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports.

To Europe now, where there is a sense of relief after President Trump said he will not pursue military force to take control of Greenland.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today, Trump ruled out military force and said on social media that he will no longer impose additional tariffs.

But NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports on concern that the crisis may be far from over.

President Trump has lately downplayed the possibility of sending military forces to Minnesota, but a military police battalion in North Carolina has been put on alert, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.

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The governors of both North and South Carolina have declared states of emergency ahead of that winter storm forecasters are warning about.

A winter storm watches in effect from New Mexico to the Appalachian Mountains, and forecasters say it could cause power outages across the South this weekend.

Experts expect frigid conditions to persist into early next month.

A new report finds as many as 11 million Americans used magic mushrooms in the past year.