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Welcome, 2026! Here are the landmark events that will happen in the new year.

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House votes to revive Obamacare funds as senators plot a scaled-back bill

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White House details plans for Trump's new ballroom

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Senate votes to display Jan. 6 plaque after House GOP refuses to hang it at Capitol

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Meghan Trainor addresses Ashley Tisdale's toxic mom group takedown

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Trump's exit from global climate treaty leaves U.S. without a voice in negotiations

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NASA considers rare early ISS crew return due to astronaut's medical issue

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A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct.

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Mysterious interstellar object '3I/ATLAS' makes its closest approach to Earth

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New technology helps paralyzed patients move

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Video shows wild wolf appearing to use a tool to steal fish

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Geomagnetic storm sparks rare northern lights display

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Nearly 30 million Americans are diagnosed with alcohol use disorder, but the amount of funding to research what causes alcoholism tends to be less than funding allocated to research other well-known diseases like cancer. But now, one man is trying to change that. NBC News' Kate Snow has more.

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2026 will be the year NASA astronauts fly around the moon again — if all goes to plan

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'My jaw was completely locked shut': Doctors worry about rising tetanus cases as vaccine rates drop

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Cannabis reclassification could 'open the floodgates' for research, scientists say

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As storms inundated Washington state, federal grants for flood mitigation work sat on hold

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NASA's new leader makes his priorities clear on day one

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Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is confirmed as new NASA chief

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Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center

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Thousands of dinosaur footprints found near Winter Olympics venue in Italy

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Washington infrastructure begins to fail as atmospheric rivers pummel the state

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Arctic is again the hottest it's been in 125 years, NOAA report says

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Josh Shapiro launches re-election bid with a speech that could foreshadow 2028

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ICE officer who fatally shot Minnesota woman was dragged by car during June immigration arrest

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Vance says death of Minnesota woman killed by ICE was 'a tragedy of her own making'

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House fails to override Trump's vetoes of two Republican bills

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Kansas City Chiefs, NFL acknowledge Rashee Rice domestic abuse allegations

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Israel says Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov will head Gaza peace board

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Harvey Weinstein considering guilty plea ahead of third sex assault trial

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New DOJ opinion offers legal justification for Maduro seizure, Trump officials tell Congress

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Venezuela says it will release an 'important number' of political prisoners

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Figure skater Alisa Efimova's Olympic dream hinges on last-minute U.S. citizenship approval

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Wisconsin man accused of killing parents to fund Trump assassination plot pleads guilty to homicide

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Judge rules that a fifth federal prosecutor appointed by Pam Bondi is serving unlawfully

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WNBA lockout threat looms as league and players negotiate new contract

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Senate advances measure to restrict Trump's power to use military force in Venezuela

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U.S. tanker seizures put pressure on Russian 'shadow fleet' and Putin's economy

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Dark web users cite Grok as tool for making 'criminal imagery' of kids, UK watchdog says

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