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The man, who had been serving a life sentence, broke out of the state’s newest prison on Christmas Eve, officials said.

A civilian team at a base in Maryland disposed of Syrian toxins a decade ago after hundreds of people were killed in a nerve agent attack.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

More than half of the cats at the sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., died of the virus over the past several weeks.

An unusually powerful surf has already killed one man and destroyed part of a historic pier in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Flights were grounded for about an hour on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year, before the airline restored its systems. But heavy delays are expected.

Republicans in the Panhandle district he represented before stepping down last month said Mr. Gaetz had done good work in Congress and criticized the report as partisan.

Three people were rescued after part of the wharf, a major tourist attraction, collapsed in powerful surf, the authorities said.

A 37-page report detailed the findings from a yearslong investigation into allegations that Mr. Gaetz engaged in a range of illegal conduct. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

The Florida Republican resigned from the House and withdrew as Donald J. Trump’s attorney general nominee in the weeks before the report’s expected release.