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The Majesty and Mystery of Night Migration, in a Stunning Poem Turned to Music
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House Passes Defense Bill, Clearing It for Biden   “By God, let’s reform it, but do not let it expire,” said Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut and the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee. “If it expires, Americans and allies will die.”
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America’s Aging Farmworkers Don’t Have a Safety Net  By high school, Park was attending classes with his peers during the day and enrolled in a four-year online law school program at night. He graduated high school two years later and received his law degree earlier this year.
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Blame your landlord for inflation's stubborn persistence  Does that mean that pre-covid levels of relative housing affordability are coming back? No. But at least American wages, which are still rising faster than before the pandemic thanks to increased worker power, will have a chance to make up some lost ground.
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Misleading BP's board has cost its former CEO $40 million  In May 2007, John Browne, who had been CEO for a decade, resigned suddenly after lying to a court about how his relationship, which put him in the throes of a perjury accusation and led to a newspaper outing details of his personal life. He had been set to resign two months later due to to high-profile mishaps, including a deadly refinery blast in Texas and an oil spill in Alaska.
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Shein Accused of ‘Mafia-Style’ Tactics by Rival Temu  As Temu becomes more prominent, it is starting to face some of the same criticisms. In June, lawmakers accused the platform of providing an unchecked channel that allows goods made with forced labor to flow into the United States. Critics also say its use of de minimis is unfair to American retailers.
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William G. Connolly, Editor Who Updated The Times, Dies at 86  Clay Risen is an obituaries reporter for The Times. Previously, he was a senior editor on the Politics desk and a deputy op-ed editor on the Opinion desk. He is the author, most recently, of “American Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Original Spirit.” More about Clay Risen
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Impeachment vote boosts Biden campaign fundraising  Despite Biden\'s low approval ratings, his campaign has already raised massive sums toward his bid for a second term. His fundraising operation raked in over $71 million in the third quarter, far exceeding the totals posted by Trump and other Republican presidential contenders.
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Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD  Finally, Intel\'s fifth-generation Xeon processors power servers deployed by large organizations like cloud companies. Intel didn\'t share pricing, but the previous Xeon cost thousands of dollars. Intel\'s Xeon processors are often paired with Nvidia GPUs in the systems that are used for training and deploying generative AI. In some systems, eight GPUs are paired to one or two Xeon CPUs.
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Judge sentences Black child, 10, to three months of probation for peeing in public  “Sentencing anyone, let alone a young child, to probation under these facts is sure to add to the trauma and denigration this child has suffered since their arrest,” Ndiaye said. “This is all the more proof that we need to severely limit police interactions with civilians, from petty retail theft to traffic stops and even so-called ‘quality of life’ offenses. For Black people in America, it is a matter of life and death.”
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A Bull Market Is Coming: 2 Super Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist Before They Skyrocket in 2024  Bank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Randi Zuckerberg, a former director of market development and spokeswoman for Facebook and sister to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is a member of The Motley Fool\'s board of directors. Harsh Chauhan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Bank of America, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Oracle. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Where McDonald's new CosMc's drive-thru's are expanding to next  Social media users gave more positive reviews of the restaurant. One Reddit user hailed the Pomegranate Hibiscus slush and the McPops “delicious,” but complained that she waited in line for four and a half hours for her order. Other reviewers also spoke of long wait times, which started at about 30 minutes.
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Stranger Things – The First Shadow review: The theatrical spin-off from the Netflix mega-hit is funny and thrilling  A show like this is artistically successful if it\'s enjoyable in its own right but also provides an authentic-feeling addition to the Stranger Things universe. It ticks both those boxes. On the night I attended, the audience cheered when the lights went down, applauded the prologue and the end of the first act and gave a standing ovation at the end. Does it advance our understanding of the human condition or illuminate any of the eternal verities? Probably not. But it is a great night out filled with thrills, gasps and laughs.
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TikTok faces watchdog probe after supplying inaccurate information  Parents could also request the removal of a child\'s account, if they submitted specific account details and returned a signed form verifying their relationship to the child. However, not a single parent had contacted Twitch to request removal of a child\'s account over the 12 months from August 2022, the platform said.
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Twitch revamps rules on sexual content  Much content that was previously banned will now be allowed, as long as it is appropriately labelled, including that which \"deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or the pelvic region\", body painting and what it dubs \"erotic dances\" that include people removing their clothes.
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Driverless car firm Cruise to cut 900 jobs  In one incident from August 2023, the self-driving car hit someone at 1.4mph, while in the other incident, from October, the driverless car dragged a woman who had been thrown into its path after getting hit by another car, which was being driven by a person.
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The quest to find healthy and cheap sweeteners  Dr Shanhope believes, contrary to the WHO\'s recommendation, non-sugar sweeteners can be helpful in controlling weight and reducing diabetes risk. She points out that the WHO based its recommendation on only one type of study.
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My Not-So-Perfect Holiday Shopping Excursion With A.I. Chatbots  This time, Merchat was definitive: the back support cushion, which was portable. Merchat detailed the differences between a memory-foam cushion and a firmer one, then further grouped memory-foam cushions into three categories and displayed the top four results for each, all under $100.
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The Markets Are Getting Ahead of the Fed  Without certain knowledge, the best most investors can do is to be positioned for all eventualities. That means staying diversified, with broad holdings of stocks and bonds. Hang in, and hope for the best.
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Europe’s Central Banks Are Not Ready to Even Talk About Cutting Rates  Policymakers at the bank remain divided on how best to ensure inflation drops quickly and sustainably. Six of the bank’s nine-person rate-setting committee, including Mr. Bailey, voted to hold rates. But the three others voted to increase the rate by a quarter point, arguing that there was a need to push against the risk of “more deeply embedded” inflation, according to the minutes. Despite weak economic growth, household incomes, once adjusted for inflation, were improving and the labor market was tight, the three policymakers said.
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TikTok Quietly Changes User Terms Amid Growing Legal Scrutiny  A coalition of more than 40 state attorneys general is investigating the social media giant’s treatment of young users. The bipartisan investigation, announced last year and led by Tennessee and Colorado, is seeking to determine whether the company engaged in unfair and deceptive conduct that harmed the mental health of children and teens.
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Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures  “Maugham,” his 1980 biography of the British playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham, drew the special admiration of critics. In his Times review, Mr. Lehmann-Haupt wrote that Mr. Morgan “never fails to fetch your attention back with some marvelous detail,” adding that “one dare not skip a word of Mr. Morgan’s text.”
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Mother Jones to Merge With the Center for Investigative Reporting  Ms. Jeffery said that journalists would work together on investigative projects that would be published across multiple platforms, including online, print, audio and video. She said the organization would work on a “multipronged effort to reach existing audiences, reach new, younger and more diverse audiences and have multiple forms of revenue” to ensure they could continue offering open access to their work without a paywall.
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Powell, Fed’s Chair, Unleashes the Bulls  Ephrat Livni reports from Washington on the intersection of business and policy for DealBook. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Quartz, covering law and politics, and has practiced law in the public and private sectors. More about Ephrat Livni
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Punchbowl News Strikes Deal to Buy Data Start-Up  The deal is a sign of an increasingly popular approach among digital news start-ups. Instead of trying to cover the whole world and rely on advertising, the outlets are focused on narrow lanes of coverage that people are willing to pay for.
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Struggling Cruise Cuts About 25 Percent of Its Workers  Waymo, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is still offering a driverless taxi service in San Francisco. The industry’s leaders consider the city to be a critical proving ground for the technology’s potential and the viability of the $8 trillion market that it could create.
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GM to lay off 1,300 Michigan workers as vehicles end production  \"Lansing Grand River Assembly informed employees today that the plant will adjust staffing levels due to the end of Camaro production,\" GM said in a statement. \"As a result, about 350 employees will be affected beginning Jan. 2. GM anticipates having job opportunities for all impacted team members per the provisions of the UAW-GM National Agreement.\"
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Bull on the tracks delays trains in New York, New Jersey  The transit agency tweeted a photo of the long-horned bull staring from the tracks in Newark as officials said rail service to and from New York was subject to 45-minute delays due to police activity dealing with the high-stakes chase.
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GM's Cruise laying off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce: Read the memo here  This is one of the hardest days we\'ve had so far because so many talented people are leaving. I\'m thankful we had the chance to work together, and I know I speak on behalf of so many Cruisers who will be reaching out to those departing to help with our professional networks and references. On behalf of the SLT, the Cruise Board and GM, I\'m truly grateful to everyone who has played a role in building Cruise and who has poured so much into the promise of making our roads safer and our world better.
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Cadillac reveals three-row Vistiq to round out electric SUV lineup  The electric SUVs â Optiq, Lyriq, Vistiq and Escalade IQ â are expected to replace their gas-engine counterparts in Cadillac\'s lineup by 2030, when the brand has said it will exclusively offer EVs. It\'s also producing a bespoke $300,000-plus Celestiq hatchback.
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Amazon to connect Kuiper satellites with laser links to boost space internet network  The company plans to include laser links from the outset in production of its commercial Kuiper satellites, with the network planned to consist of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit. To date, Amazon has ordered 97 rocket launches to begin deploying its satellites in the first half of next year. In full, Amazon expects to invest upward of $10 billion to build Kuiper.
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Retail sales rose 0.3% in November vs. expectations for a decline  Both reports come the day after the Federal Reserve indicated that enough progress has been made in the inflation fight to start lowering interest rates next year. According to projections following the policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, central bank officials expect to cut about 0.75 percentage point off short-term borrowing rates in 2024.
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Five Takeaways From Putin’s Marathon Annual News Conference  Russia’s presidential election was barely mentioned, suggesting that Mr. Putin may view the outcome of the race as a foregone conclusion. With the political system under his firm control, Mr. Putin is widely expected to win another six-year term in the election in March.
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