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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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Israels Hidden War - Foreign Affairs

In August, Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s general security service,
the Shin Bet, wrote a remarkable letter to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and Israeli cabinet ministers. The letter didn’t get much
attention in Israel or abroad, but it went to the heart of the crisis
that has afflicted the country since the October 7, 2023, attack by
Hamas. Bar warned that intensifying attacks by Israeli settlers
against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which he called
“Jewish terrorism,” challenge “Israel’s national security”
and are a “large stain on Judaism.” He described a trend in which
“hilltop youth” (the term used in Israel for extremist settlers,
although some of these militants are long past their youth) in the
West Bank are not only assaulting Palestinians but also clashing with
Israeli security forces—all with the backing of senior members of
the government. The settler militias had gone from “evading the
security forces to attacking the security forces,” Bar wrote,
“from cutting themselves off from the establishment to receiving
legitimacy from certain officials in the establishment.”

Over the past year, events in the West Bank have been obscured first
by Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza and now by the war’s
escalation in Lebanon and Iranian strikes on Israeli territory. But
since October 7, 2023, the UN has recorded over 1,400 incidents of
settler attacks in the occupied territories (ranging from vandalism to
assault, arson, and live fire) that resulted in injury or property
damage and led to the displacement of 1,600 Palestinians from their
homes, an uptick after an already record-breaking year of settler
violence in 2023. Bar’s intervention in the summer came as Israeli
officials in the defense ministry and the Israel Defense Forces warned
that the West Bank was on the verge of an explosion that could cause
hundreds of Israeli fatalities in a new conflagration in Israel’s
multifront war.

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The AI chip wars could see the U.S. cap Nvidia and AMD exports
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which has investments in U.S.
tech startups, has set aside $40 billion to invest in AI technology,
the New York Times reported earlier this year. The fund is reportedly
working with top U.S. investors, including Andreessen Horowitz.

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Is it Better to Share or Hide a Secret? They Can Both Mentally and
Physically Weigh Us Down - Discover Magazine
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A secret is an odd thing. You cant see or touch it, and it doesnt take
up space in the physical world. Yet you can carry it around for years,
decades even, until it weighs you down so palpably that you need to
get it off your chest. Pretty heavy words for the ethereal contents of
your mind.















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Why This Tiny Island Chain in the Indian Ocean Could Affect Your
Websites Domain Name - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79271&nl=daily]
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom set in motion a minor
geopolitical change that, thanks to a weird bit of internet
cause-and-effect, could force many Silicon Valley companies to rename
their websites.

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Why a map of a fruit fly's brain has neuroscientists 'blown away' -
STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79271&nl=daily]
Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number
of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world
to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult fruit fly the
largest map of its kind, and an effort that will allow researchers to
better understand the brains inner workings.














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Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks - The Economist
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Nothing changes sentiment like price, according to one investing
maxim. The world-weary saying reflects the fact that after a
stockmarket surge speculators usually scramble for reasons to believe
further price rises are on the way. The recent surge inthe Chinese
market is one such example.

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Meet NEO Surveyor, NASAs near-Earth asteroid detector - New Scientist
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NASAs Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently
under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California. Once launched and operational, it will identify
potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that come within 48 million
kilometres of Earths orbit.














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What Sequoia Capital Can Teach Leaders About Sustaining Long-Term
Growth - Harvard Business Review [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79271&nl=daily]
Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 1972, grew to
become one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. The
firms investment track record includes the names of some of the
largest global companies.

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Two New Giant Pandas Are Arriving In Washington D.C. TodayHeres What
We Know - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79271&nl=daily]
A pair of two-year-old giant pandas will arrive in Washington D.C.
Tuesday morning to begin their stint at the National Zoo less than a
year after a fan-favorite cub of the species who was born stateside,
Xiao Qi Ji, was returned to China.














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Iranian general vows to 'obliterate all the Zionists'
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Gen. Ali Fadavi, a deputy commander in chief of the Guard, made the
threat as the Iranian regime waits for the expected retaliation by
Israel over the Oct. 1 attack, which saw the country fire hundreds of
missiles into Israel.

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Israel Faces a Fierce and Evasive Foe in Hezbollah's Drones
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TEL AVIV, Israel One of the worst mass casualty strikes on Israel in a
year of war came not from dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles nor the
repeated barrages of rocket fire launched by Hamas and Hezbollah.
Instead, it was a single drone.














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Google has a new nuclear partnership to power its AI ambitions
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On Monday, Alphabet announced its commissioned several new small
modular reactors from Alameda, California-based nuclear power startup
Kairos Power

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Two more weeks to go: Connect with Meta, Dropbox, J.P. Morgan, and HP
at Disrupt | TechCrunch
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Thank you to Braindate for being the official networking provider at
Disrupt 2024. Braindates are knowledge-sharing conversations that you
book with others to have either one-on-one or in small groups on-site
in the Braindate Lounge. They’re the best way to brainstorm, solve
challenges, and share expertise or experiences while connecting with
new (brilliant!) people. 














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Keep's AIOps platform helps ops teams reduce alert fatigue |
TechCrunch
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Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded SiliconFilter and
wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite). Frederic covers enterprise,
cloud, developer tools, Google, Microsoft, gadgets, transportation and
anything else he finds interesting. He owns just over a 50th of a
bitcoin.

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Why Gusto has stayed focused on serving small businesses
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“We love fixing stuff in people’s lives,” Reeves said. “The
truth is, we’re still early. If you look at marketshare,
walletshare, and the product mix we have live today, there’s just a
lot more work to do. So we’re eager to go get that work done.”














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Amplitude buys Command AI to bolster its app engagement offerings |
TechCrunch
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Command AI is Amplitude’s third acquisition since its founding a
decade ago. In 2020, Amplitude bought ClearBrain, a predictive
analytics company, and in 2021, it purchased data pipeline firm
Iteratively.

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Monogoto, an innovator in 'connectivity as a service,' raises $27M |
TechCrunch
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Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a
staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for
other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile,
digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect.













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Xscape is building multicolor lasers to connect chips within data
centers | TechCrunch
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Xscape certainly has its work cut out for it. Aside from Ayar and
Celestial, the firm competes with Intel in the multibillion-dollar
silicon photonics market. Intel claims to have shipped more than 8
billion photonics chips and 3.2 million on-chip lasers since 2016.

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Port hosts internal tool hubs for devs | TechCrunch
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“We’ll use the funds from the Series B to scale our operations and
enhance our service offerings,” he added. “A significant portion
of this funding will go toward enhancing our product range to not only
serve developers, but also extend our reach to security teams, product
managers, and leadership.”

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The A.D.L. of Asian America - The New Yorker
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Earlier this year, the Asian American Foundation (TAAF), a new
philanthropic nonprofit co-founded by billionaires of Asian descent,
hosted an invite-only summit in Manhattan. The event was timed to
coincide with Asian American heritage month, and featured celebrities
such as the actors Michelle Yeoh and Steven Yeun. TAAF had launched in
the spring of 2021, in response to a wave of violence directed against
East and Southeast Asian Americans. The organizers hoped to defend,
and be the leading voice for, a beleaguered community, with the goal
of ending discrimination, slander, and violence.

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Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved - Scientific
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Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because we can
find something we can call music in every society, says musicologist
Yuto Ozaki of Keio University in Tokyo. But did singing evolve as a
mere by-product of speaking or with its own unique role in human
society? To investigate this question, Ozaki and a large team of
collaborators compared samples of songs and speech from around the
world. These categories can vary wildly across cultures: songs can be
lilting lullabies or rhythmic chants or wailing laments, and some
spoken languages have more musical qualities, such as tonal languages,
which convey meaning through pitch.

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The rise and fall? of the New Progressive Economics
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The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated
to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more
important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But
in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have
an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members.

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Kamala Harris is warning Polish Americans not to vote for Donald
Trump. Many will.
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DUPONT, Pennsylvania Despite being in America for several generations,
the Poles of Pennsylvania still make Polish liqueurs at Christmas and
Polish baskets at Easter. They cook kiebasa and sauerkraut and even
refer to each other by Polish nicknames.

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Nearly 100 People Are Still Missing in North Carolina After Hurricane
Helene
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Thousands of federal, state and National Guard workers have descended
on the region to help with hurricane recovery, and Mr. Cooper said
that some progress has been made. Rattling through the latest
statistics, he said that there were just under 13,000 reported power
outages, compared with one million in the immediate aftermath of the
storm. About 580 roads remain closed, down from about 1,200.

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Mark Robinson Sues CNN Over
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CNN declined to comment on the lawsuit. The network has said that it
connected the porn-site comments to Mr. Robinson by matching his email
address and the username “minisoldr” to other online accounts
belonging to him. CNN also reported that the “minisoldr” account
had discussed topics that corresponded with Mr. Robinson’s interests
and biographical information, such as his age and the length of his
marriage.

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U.S. holiday sales could reach $989 billion despite economic
uncertainty
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Jack Kleinhenz, NRF’s chief economist, expressed optimism about the
pace of economic activity in the second half of the year. While
household finances appear to be in “good shape,” he noted that the
group forecasts that Americans “will spend more cautiously” this
holiday season.

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Americans are more underwater on their car loans than ever before
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“Consider vehicles proven to have higher resale values, or ones that
offer other financial benefits like better mpg or lower insurance
costs,” Drury said. “But most importantly: Find a car you really
want and like, because if you don’t you’ll probably end up making
the same mistake of trading in your newish vehicle too soon.”

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America just set an EV sales record
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Tesla currently markets the top selling EVs in America, with the
Cybertruck becoming the third best-selling EV in America, just behind
the company’s Model 3 and Y cars. Ford makes the best-selling
non-Tesla EV with the Mustang Mach E.

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Boeing is about to send thousands of pink slips
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The strike is costing Boeing about $50 million a day in badly needed
cash, according to some analysts. To that end, the company recently
said that will try to raise as much as $35 billion in capital markets
on top of $10 billion it borrowed earlier this year.

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Profits Leap at Goldman Sachs as Banks See Steady Economy
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A bank executive, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity,
said that trading activity — a core part of any investment bank —
came in stronger than expected in September, the same period that the
Federal Reserve announced a large cut in interest rates.

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The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar's Head Brand
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It is odd, to say the least, when a top executive of a company claims
not to know who his boss is. And Boar’s Head is no fly-by-night
enterprise. The company is one of the country’s most recognizable
deli-meat brands; it generates what employees and others estimate as
roughly $3 billion in annual revenue and employs thousands of people.

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With $32 Billion in Aid, Native Americans Push Against History of
Neglect
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That package, primarily meant to address the economic and public
health crises caused by Covid-19, included $32 billion in short- and
longer-term assistance for tribes and reservations: aid for households
and tribal government coffers, community development grants, health
services and infrastructure; as well as access to the $10 billion
State Small Business Credit Initiative program, which previously
excluded tribal nations.

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American consumers are increasingly underwater on their car loans
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The current situation with upside-down loans is largely a result of
consumers who purchased new vehicles in 2021 and 2022 amid a lack of
inventory due to the Covid-19 pandemic and parts shortages. Many then
paid full price or more, with their vehicles depreciating faster than
expected as the auto industry and inventories normalized.

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Amazon is using tech from a Khosla Ventures-backed startup to run
robot warehouses at Whole Foods
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Hoggett wrote in the blog post that Amazon is looking to "eliminate
those extra trips" shoppers take to other grocery stores. The average
American shops at two different grocery stores per week, whether to
maximize their cost savings, shop from a broader range of products or
take advantage of different promotions, according to an April
study from market research firm Drive Research.

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Justin Trudeau's Accusations Spotlight Reach of India's Intelligence
Agencies
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The Canadian authorities said on Monday that they believe six
diplomats were part of a broad criminal network, spread across the
country, involved in intimidation, harassment and extortion aimed at
Canadian Sikhs, as well as homicides.

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UnitedHealth forecasts 2025 profit below Street estimates, shares fall
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The cut was partially due to a hit of 10 cents per share related to
the February cyberattack on UnitedHealth's technology unit, Change.
The company now sees a business disruption impact of $705 million, or
75 cents a share, this year from the hack that caused massive payment
and other disruptions across the United States.

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Sony announces PlayStation The Concert, a world tour starting in 2025
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The tour will start on April 15, 2025 in Dublin before traveling to
cities around Europe like Paris, Oslo, London and Budapest. There
should also be stops in the US and other areas of the world, with Sony
planning to take the concert to more than 200 locations. While the
cities outside of Europe should be announced "soon," starting at 10AM
ET tomorrow, October 16, you can use the early access code
PLAYCONCERT24 to get tickets for the available dates.

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China calls allegations that it infiltrated US critical infrastructure
a 'political farce'
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A Chinese agency denies the US government's allegations that a
state-sponsored hacking group has infiltrated US critical
infrastructure to prepare for "potential geopolitical tensions and/or
military conflicts."

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More than 100 people died near the New Mexico border in 2024 ? a
tenfold increase in two years
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"It should not be a death sentence to come to the United States," Maj
Jon Day of Doña Ana county sheriff's office, told a recent
community gathering. "And when we push them into the desert areas
here, they're coming across and they're dying."

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'It's a kind of miracle': Russian man survives 66 days adrift on
inflatable boat
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An expert questioned by RIA Novosti recalled that in 1960, four Soviet
soldiers survived 49 days adrift on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean
that was found by the US aircraft carrier Keersarge.

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Rise in rough sleeper deaths in UK prompts call for shelter funds
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In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116
123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, you
can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat
on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis
counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11
14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org.

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Australia news live: Westpac and St George online banking hits
technical difficulties for third day in a row; Nedd Brockmann
completes 1,000 mile run
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As it happens, markets have lately become less confident about how
soon the RBA will start paring its key interest rate. There’s only
about a 12% chance of a cut at the bank’s next board meeting (4-5
November) and about a one-in-chance of a reduction in December.

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Bradford council leaders survive vote after new 50m venue stands empty
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She said Tory governments had taken hundreds of millions from Bradford
council and left the city with "a hole in the ground, a regeneration
company that delivered nothing and a crumbling Odeon building".

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Good gourd! Minnesota teacher clinches pumpkin weigh-off with 2,471-lb
winner
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Michael Jordan grew into an enormous, lumpy, orange pumpkin,
equivalent to about 2,110 basketballs, or about 275 average
jack-o’-lantern gourds. For comparison, Michael Jordan, the
basketball player, weighed 216lbs during his NBA career.

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Two US boys die in separate Halloween hayride tractor accidents
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A 17-year-old girl died at a haunted hayride in Maine 10 years ago
after it slipped down a hill and struck a tree, for example. More than
20 others were injured in the incident, per the Associated Press.

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Snakes and batters: reptile slithers into LA Dodgers' dugout during
MLB game
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"I got out there, and he's up in the corner - nobody could get him out
of there," Honeywell told MLB.com, which pointed out that the same
player had also encountered an alligator in a Florida minor-league
dugout in 2015. "But that's what we need every now and again - to see
some crazy stuff like this."

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Veterans dismissed over 'don't ask, don't tell' policy given honorable
discharges
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The change in designation will result in additional veteran benefits
for these service members and their families, some of which include
healthcare, tuition assistance, home loans and a military burial upon
death.

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'Height of blasphemy': Rufus Wainwright and Leonard Cohen estate
oppose Trump use of Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, meanwhile, remains a modern pop standard, performed by
dozens of artists since its initially overlooked release by Cohen in
1984. The most famous version was recorded by Jeff Buckley in 1994,
but that was inspired by John Cale's 1991 version, while Wainwright's
followed in 2001, recorded for the soundtrack of Shrek.

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US election extra: DJ Trump ? podcast
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The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our
journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our
readers to fund our work.

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Can You Guess What Percent Of People Have $4 Million? Here's A Look At
How Many Reach This Major Wealth Milestone
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Even if saving millions of dollars seems like a distant dream, losing
hope is unnecessary. Start by setting achievable goals, saving
consistently and monitoring your long-term financial health. The road
to retirement doesn't have to be intimidating. Ultimately, it's about
making smart financial choices that allow you to live comfortably, not
just chasing big numbers.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Says We Shouldn't Put Our Heads In The Sand,
'We Have To Find A Better Way To Help The People Who Get Hurt By AI'
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“It’s a little odd that public markets are quite elevated and IPOs
haven’t come very much yet,” he said. He believes that eventually,
companies will need to go public to provide liquidity for investors,
but for now, the private markets are strong enough to support them.

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