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Firefighters and rescue team members work at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday.

Plane crashes and bursts into flames at an airport in South Korea, killing 179

Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall.

South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo speaks at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament votes to impeach acting president

The impeachments of the country's president and then acting-president worsen the nation's political turmoil, deepen its economic uncertainty and hurt its international image.

Willa Fitzgerald as The Lady in "Strange Darling." (2023)

Midday Movies: Films to be thankful for

Local critics pick overlooked films of 2024 to be grateful for.

Google has a contract with the Israeli government where it provides the country with cloud computing services. Not all Google employees are happy about that.

Google worker says the company is 'silencing our voices' after dozens are fired

The tech giant fired 28 employees who took part in a protest over the company's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government. One fired worker tells her story.

Britain's Benjamin Proud prepares to compete in a semifinal of the men's 50m freestyle swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on Wednesday.

Why are Olympic swimmers bundled up like they're competing in the Winter Games?

As Team U.S.A. climbs the Olympics swimming charts, searches for "why do swimmers wear parkas?" are trending on Google.

Lebanese officials say eight people were killed in an October airstrike on this 19th century Greek Catholic church in the village of Derdghaya. The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike, but said it was targeting terrorists who it says embed near or beneath cultural heritage sites.

What the Israel-Hezbollah war did to Lebanon's cultural heritage sites

Part of a Crusader castle crumbled. An 18th century minaret felled. Church mosaics burned. Archaeologists are assessing damage to UNESCO World Heritage Sites from Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Syria.

Some California users of Google were not able to access local news on Friday after the tech giant restricted news links in the state in response to a bill that would force the tech giant to pay publishers.

Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay

The company on Friday said it has started blocking California-based news outlets to protest a pending bill that supporters say would extend a lifeline to the ailing news industry.

Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career -- and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson in the Dikan Center in the capital city of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He's holding a copy of the center's oldest book, The Gold Coast Yesterday and Today, published in the early 1940s.

Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library

Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.

The FCC's Brendan Carr testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee oversight hearing in March 2022. The FCC is funded by, and responsible to Congress.

Trump taps FCC's Brendan Carr to lead the agency

Carr was seen as a pretty conventional Republican with a pro-corporate outlook for most of his career. More recently, he has embraced Trumpian themes about social media, tech and television companies.

Vice President Harris delivers a speech on artificial intelligence in London on Nov. 1, 2023.

Tech luminaries and VCs go all-in on Kamala Harris campaign, 5 things to know

Harris started her political career in the Bay Area. And since launching her campaign, donations from Silicon Valley have poured in. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll go easy on Big Tech.

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