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131st Rose Parade welcomes colorful floats, marching bands

After a flyover by a B-2 stealth bomber, marching bands and floral floats took to the streets under mostly sunny California skies as the 131st Rose Parade drew hundreds of thousands of spectators on New Year’s Day.

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T.S. Eliot letters to confidante to be unveiled after 60 years

About 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale will be unveiled this week. Scholars from around the world will be traveling to Princeton in the first days they are available.

Australia sends aid to wildfire towns as death toll reaches 17

Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide.

2 days of clashes at US embassy end as Iran-backed militia leaves

Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 more prepared for possible deployment in the next several days.