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The first open hearing in the impeachment investigation into President Donald’s Trump dealings with Ukraine started on Wednesday morning. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and the ranking Republican on the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes of California delivered opening remarks. Click through to watch their full statements.

A massive fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular towers, but Paris fire chief...

A massive fire engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, toppling its spire and sending thick plumes of smoke high into the sky.

Angry, fired up and anxious. This is how some voters feel about voting in this year’s midterm elections. They took to Twitter, comparing how they cast their ballot in 2016 during the presidential election to how they’re doing it in 2018. One post compared a shirtless Leonardo Dicaprio gleefully holding a water gun to the actor portraying fur trapper Hugh...

Eighth-grade teacher Ari Mascarenhas could have picked high-tech gadgets or modern apps to help his students learn Portuguese, but he instead went old school with the World Cup sticker book.

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team includes some of the most conservative opponents to illegal immigration, NBC News reported. Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state, who is a champion of tough anti-illegal immigration laws and ideas, has been hired as part of the team. According to a document obtained by The New York Times, Danielle Cutrona is leading the “Immigration Reform...

Snowboarder Chloe Kim put on quite a show at the Olympics on behalf of Team USA and now she’s back in the States, taking a well-deserved victory lap.

Mr. T pities the fool who doesn’t watch curling at the Olympics! The actor was among a group of celebrities and former Olympians watching the 2018 Winter Games and expressing their admiration and support for Team USA.

NBC’s primetime figure skating announcers Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski promised to wear lots of bling and high heels at the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. Oh, how they’ve delivered. Halfway through the Pyeongchang Games the former Olympians have dazzled the audience with their sparkly and coordinating outfits, courtesty of their many suitcases. Weir debut ensemble in the commentator’s booth last...

While snowboarders and free skiers soar in the air, doing back flips, twists and gravity-defying leaps at the Olympics, on the ground judges are feverishly recording the tricks and details of the athletes’ runs on a steno sheet. To an untrained eye, their short-hand notes may look like scribbles in a foreign language or a mathematical equation. But to a...

It’s been frigid at the Pyeongchang Games but the cold didn’t deter three Canadian moguls skiers from cheering on their fellow skier sans shirts.

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If you thought curling was an amusing Olympic sport, you probably haven’t seen ski ballet. Ski ballet, a hybrid of figure skating and gymnastics, made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport at the Calgary Games in 1988. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, ballet remained in the demonstration category while other freestyle skiing disciplines– moguls and aerials–...

Unified Korea women’s hockey team lost their Olympics debut match to Switzerland on Saturday in Pyeongchang, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of North Korea’s cheerleaders. “Go for it, go for it, our players, go for it,” chanted the cheerleaders, sporting coordinated red outfits and waving the unified Korea flag. Switzerland dominated the joint Korean hockey team 8-0. Chanting elevated...

Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are heading to Pyeongchang as NBC’s prime-time figure skating announcers and the fashion-forward duo is already mulling their sartorial choices. Expect a lot of high heels — for both of them — sparkles and wardrobe changes, they say.

A major London bookmaker has suspended betting on whether Prince Harry will marry American actress Meghan Markle in 2018 amid rumors an engagement may be announced soon.

A car bomb in Baghdad has killed at least 23 people and wounded 45 others Monday, Iraqi officials said. The police and hospital officials said the attack– which comes on the 14th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq– targeted a commercial area in Baghdad’s southwestern Amil neighborhood. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to...

BMW is recalling more than 230,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The automaker says the vehicles may have had a driver’s air bag replaced with a Takata inflator after a crash or in a previous recall. The vehicles originally were built with inflators made by another company. The recall covers certain...

The FBI has joined an investigation into the road-rage killing of a 3-year-old boy, who police say was fatally shot while riding in the backseat of his grandmother’s car in Little Rock, Arkansas. The FBI also announced Monday that it’s offering a $20,000 reward in the case. The city of Little Rock is also offering a $20,000 reward. Authorities say...