Extreme weather filled the headlines and the social media feeds all year, up to nearly the end as parts of Southern California — where fire had turned neighborhoods to ash in January — drowned in atmospheric rivers of rain.
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Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
29 Dec. 2025
The ambush is delivered courtesy of the Mangkwan Clan, a cult of kamikaze hedonists who rejected Eywa after a volcano reduced their corner of Pandora to ash, but the RDA is happy to seize on the chaos and launch their final attack on the Metkayina’s oceanic stronghold.
Other recreational opportunities include, but are not limited to, swimming in one of four separate pool areas, skating on an outdoor rink that is covered, lighted, and available for 20 weeks of the year, tennis, and there are hiking trails.
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Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
11 Jan. 2026
Attendees heard remarks from city leaders and lit candles in honor of Good.
Elsewhere, protesters torched government buildings in cities, including Lumar in Ilam province.
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Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
In Virginia, a dissident hinterland landowner named Nathaniel Bacon led a revolt by aggrieved Colonists that torched the English provincial capital at Jamestown.
The unusual discovery is shedding light on the complex nature of largely unknown funerary practices of African hunter-gatherers — and raises the question of why such effort was made to cremate only one person.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
The husband of the mayor of Bayport has been charged with stealing the skull of a woman before her body was cremated in 2001, while he was employed as a funeral director at a Stillwater-area funeral home.
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