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House adjourned until noon today as McCarthy becomes the first nominee for speaker in 100 years to fail to win the first vote. Plus, the truth behind 10 of the biggest health beliefsDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning….
Natural History Museum bought album of images by pioneering scientist in 1899 and has now digitised themFor most farming families in 19th-century rural Vermont, winter snowstorms were dreaded and endured. But for Wilson Bentley, snow was a source of in…
Incoming bomb cyclone system threatens to wreak havoc in the drought-stricken state while doing little to alleviate its water woesMillions of Californians are being lashed by yet another destructive winter storm that arrived on Wednesday, with meteorol…
Business groups fear government will halve energy support after March, while commuters face more disruption on the railwayHouseholds in the UK spent £1.1bn more on groceries in December than a year earlier, taking Christmas spending to a record £12.8bn…
Tom Suozzi, Santos’s forerunner for New York’s third district, says the Republican winner should be ‘removed by Congress’The Democrat who vacated the US House seat won by the controversial Republican George Santos said Congress was letting in “a conman…
Megan Hess and her mother Shirley Koch defrauded distraught families and dismembered bodies for illegal saleA former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 5…
California had returned land seized from Willa and Charles Bruce in 1920 to their heirs last year as part of its reparations policyA southern California beachfront property that was taken from a Black couple through eminent domain a century ago and ret…
Avengers actor posts photo from hospital bed as authorities reveal more details of ‘tragic accident’ that saw star ‘run over’ by 6,500kg snow plowJeremy Renner has issued his first statement since he was hit by his own snow plow, with authorities revea…
Landlord alleges the social media company owes back rent for its California Street branch in San FranciscoElon Musk is trying to slash expenses at Twitter as close to zero as possible while his personal wealth shrinks – and this apparently has included…
He was one of three space jocks during the 1968 11-day mission that garnered an Emmy award for live reports beamed from Earth orbitWalter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa’s Apollo program, …