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The US military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions.
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Melinda Dillon, actress who played crisis and comedy, dies at 83
She played a remarkably varied set of women in crises: the mousy Honey in Broadway's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a mother seeking her alien-abducted son in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and the doting matriarch in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story."

Boston Medical Center’s emergency department to be closed until Tuesday due to burst pipe
Ambulances will be diverted to other hospitals until the emergency department is reopened, the hospital said. Those in need of urgent care are also being asked to go to other nearby hospitals, the hospital said in a statement Saturday night.

Wareham firefighters battle frigid temperatures, icy conditions, in 3-alarm house fire
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