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Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europas icy shell
- MIT Technology Review

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s
Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of Jupiter’s
moon.

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Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
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During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at
Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of
the semester there was a lecture about neural networks. This was in
the fall of 2008, and I got the distinct impression—both from that
lecture and the textbook—that neural networks had become a
backwater.

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What happens to Trump's legal troubles now?
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Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024
election, according to AP and CNN projections, after he won
Wisconsinthe state that also gave him victory eight years agowhich
made it impossible for Vice President Kamala Harris to win the 270
Electoral College votes needed to clinch the presidency.















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Why Kamala Harris lost
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Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty
to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We
need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really
matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times.
Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want
you to believe.

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The Reddening of New York City - Curbed [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=89812&nl=daily]
It was a grim night. All over, and here too. Kamala Harris took New
York City as expected, but with a slightly smaller margin than what we
saw for Democrats in the 2020 election.Harris received 68 percent of
the citys vote to Trumps 30 percent with over 97 percent counted. This
was a dip from previous years: Joe Biden won 76 percent in 2020 and
Hillary Clinton won 79 percent in 2016.














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The Republicans gain control of the Senate - The Economist
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Expect big effects on policy and power in Washington next year

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Tesla Shares Hit RecordSoaring 12%And Elon Musk Becomes $15 Billion
Richer With Trump Victory - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=89812&nl=daily]
Shares of Tesla surged by 12% Wednesday morning, sending the companys
stock toward a new record while adding $15 billion to Elon Musks
fortune after Donald Trump was reelected as president, and lavished
praise on the worlds wealthiest person.














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Medicaid could be targeted for spending cuts under Trump - STAT
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But Medicaids transformation to a program mostly run by private
insurers adds an influential industry to its list of guardians,
alongside the rural hospitals that rely on the program to balance
their budgets.

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When a Performance Improvement Plan Could Help Your Employee - Harvard
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A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal approach to remedy an
employees performance gaps, including failures to meet specific job
goals orbehavior-related concerns. The plan outlines the existing
issues and defines what new outputs and behaviors are needed by when.
But is a PIP the right choice for your situation? Will it work? Is it
worth the effort? Here are some tips on determining if a PIP is the
right path and, if so, how to implement one optimally.














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When is a poll not a poll? - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=89812&nl=daily]
In this years New York Times/Siena College surveys, pollsters received
a response from only 2% of the people they contacted, the Times
reports. Response rates have been plunging for years: The Pew Research
Center reported a decline from 36% in 1997 to 6% in 2019. As a result,
pollsters do a lot of massaging of the data to produce a projection.
They use complex models based on age, race and education, but these
have plenty of opportunity for error because nonresponders can be very
different from the responders. Election analysts at NBC even found
evidence that pollsters manipulated their data to claim that races
were tied. They showed that projections for swing states had less than
the expected statistical fluctuations.

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Fed readies a rate cut and faces these four questions - WSJ
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The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates by a
quarter-percentage point at its meeting that ends Thursday. The bigger
question is how many more cuts officials expect will be warranted to
preserve a solid job market without reversing recent declines in
inflation.














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How Donald Trump wonby being Donald Trump - WSJ
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Throughout Trumps campaign, the Republican Party candidate was
bombastic, profane and frequently untruthful, claiming the 2020 race
was stolen from him, that he held no responsibility for the Jan. 6,
2021, attack on Congress and that President Biden had orchestrated his
criminal indictments and felony convictions.

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In one day, two of the biggest brakes on Israels Netanyahu disappeared
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He fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, his fiercest opponent
within his own government, and Donald Trump won the U.S. election.
Trump was widely believed to be less critical of Netanyahus policies
than his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.














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If your tattoo was designed by AI, does it have a soul? - WSJ
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She let the artist finish the job, which he told her included some
personal touches, since at that point the tattoo was nearly finished.
Its pretty, but it doesnt have a soul," she says.

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What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like? [medium]
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A while back, Karpathy tweeted that increasing the size of his matmul
made it run faster. Surprisingly, it’s not just relatively faster,
it takes less absolute time. In other words, despite doing more work,
it is executing in less time.














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Google Is Now Watermarking Its AI-Generated Text
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The chatbot revolution has left our world awash in AI-generated text:
It has infiltrated our news feeds, term papers, and inboxes. It's so
absurdly abundant that industries have sprung up to provide moves and
countermoves. Some companies offer services to identify AI-generated
text by analyzing the material, while others say their tools will
"humanize" your AI-generated text and make it undetectable. Both types
of tools have questionable performance, and as chatbots get better and
better, it will only get more difficult to tell whether words were
strung together by a human or an algorithm.

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Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation
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Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free
and open web
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While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla
Foundation — the parent of the Mozilla Corporation — describes
itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its
advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be
lessened going forward.

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Centers Chosen for U.S. Chip Revival Plan
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Last week the organization tasked with running the the biggest chunk
of U.S. CHIPS Act's US $13 billion R&D program made some significant
strides: The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) released
a strategic plan and selected the sites of two of three planned
facilities and released a new strategic plan. The locations of the two
sitesâa "design and collaboration" center in Sunnyvale, Calif., and a
lab devoted to advancing the leading edge of chipmaking, in Albany,
N.Y.âbuild on an existing ecosystem at each location, experts say.
The location of the third planned centerâa chip prototyping and
packaging site that could be especially critical for speeding
semiconductor startupsâis still a matter of speculation.

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Opinion | America Makes a Perilous Choice
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How American democracy can endure through a second Trump presidency.

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It's 'Trump's America'
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Trump became the first former president in more than 120 years to get
elected for a second nonconsecutive term by shifting the country to
the right. Compared to 2020, Trump made gains in every corner of the
country and with nearly every demographic group. He made big gains in
blue America, and appeared to make his largest gains among Hispanic
voters.

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Fighting Climate Change Was 'Never an America-Only Game'
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Banga said in the wake of Trump’s re-election, making strides in the
rest of the world will be more important than ever. “It was never an
America-only game,” he said. “It was always a developed world and
middle-income-country game.”

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Roblox details two new safety policies for protecting children
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Roblox has a rocky history when it comes to safety for youth and
preteen users. Since 2018, at least two dozen people have been
arrested by US policy on accusations of abducting or abusing child
victims met through Roblox.

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OpenAI bought the web domain Chat.com
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OpenAI hasn’t said how much it paid for Chat.com, but it confirmed
with TechCrunch that it bought the domain. And if you’re expecting
drastic changes from OpenAI’s chatbot, the move isn’t likely tied
to a ChatGPT rebrand. Regardless, the domain now redirects to the
world-changing AI tool.

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Cuba hit by second nationwide blackout as Hurricane Rafael makes
landfall
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Forecasters were expecting Rafael to weaken as it moved north toward
the US Gulf coast, though it was still predicted to bring heavy rains
into Florida and nearby areas of the south-east US by the late part of
the week.

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'Time for patriots': global far-right figures celebrate Trump's win
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But he said the result was excellent news for rightwing leaders and
opposition politicians across Latin America who had long considered
the US a role model. "They are going to be beating their drums for
months," Traumann said.

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Californians ordered to evacuate as explosive wildfires erupt
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Meanwhile, Pacific Gas and Electric Company cut the power to tens of
thousands of accounts across the state in an attempt to limit possible
ignitions during the dangerous conditions. Roughly 46,000 customers
were also without power across several counties, including in Los
Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara, after Southern California Edison
issued planned shutoffs to mitigate wildfire risks. The company
reported that another 228,000 more were at risk of losing power
through Thursday, due to the dangerous conditions.

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Kamala Harris concedes to Trump but urges supporters to 'never give
up'
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"I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the
benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case," she said. "America,
if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, billion
stars. The light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service."

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The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees
| TechCrunch
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Sarah has worked as a reporter for TechCrunch since August 2011. She
joined the company after having previously spent over three years at
ReadWriteWeb. Prior to her work as a reporter, Sarah worked in I.T.
across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.

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Pinstripe wants to redefine the way online sellers sell secondhand
clothing | TechCrunch
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Pinstripe is available in the App Store and on the web. It touts a few
thousand or so monthly active users and works with almost a dozen
retail partners, including Club Vintage, Lahn Shop, Leisure Centre,
and the Brooklyn Vintage Club.

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AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs
believe | TechCrunch
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Interestingly, as startups founded in 2024 launch out of the gate
using AI development processes, we could be witnessing the seeds of
the first future AI agent workforce. And the first people to get AI
agents as co-workers would be coders themselves. It’s a thought that
is equal parts ironic and prophetic.

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How Trump's election could affect the startup-friendly Inflation
Reduction Act | TechCrunch
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While Trump's administration is unlikely to be supportive of certain
climate tech startups, it will have a harder time ending the broadly
popular law.

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MoradaUno wants to make it easier to rent apartments in Mexico |
TechCrunch
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“It’s really cool to be able to give access [to] people that
otherwise would have not been able to rent,” Morales said. “Now
you’re giving them an option. That’s very powerful and exciting.
That kind of fuels us every day. And we’re also making the lives of
thousands of real estate agents better because they have better tools
and more efficient technology.”

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Jefferies Tells ESG Bosses to Keep Lawyers Close After Trump Win
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At the same time, shareholders may ask companies to disclose ESG risks
in accordance with requirements set by the International
Sustainability Standards Board, Jefferies said. The US Chamber of
Commerce has said it’s “not opposed to ESG or climate
disclosures.”

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Donald Trump Wins the Presidential Election. Here's Why These 3 Stocks
Are Plunging Today.
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Bank of America is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Jon
Quast has positions in Five Below. The Motley Fool has positions in
and recommends Bank of America. The Motley Fool recommends Five Below
and Wayfair. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Billionaire Warren Buffett Just Sold More Than 300 Million Shares of 2
Favorite Stocks and Piled Into This Ultra-Safe Asset
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Bank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool
company. Bram Berkowitz has positions in Bank of America. The Motley
Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Bank of America, and
Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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What letting RFK Jr. 'go wild' might mean for Trump's FDA
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 In his victory speech, the president-elect name-checked Kennedy
again. “He’s going to help make America healthy again,” Trump
said. “He’s a great guy and he really means it. He wants to do
some things, and we’re gonna let him go to it.”

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What to Know About the Floods That Killed Over 200 in Spain
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VALENCIA, Spain In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy
downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path.
With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and
businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered.

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Donald Trumps Revenge - The New Yorker [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=89812&nl=daily]
Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an
aberration, a terrible mistakea consequential one, to be sure, yet
still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as
its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United
States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it
could be. His victory was a worst-case scenariothat a convicted felon,
a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who
tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the
nations Capitol, who calls America a garbage can for the world, and
who threatens retribution against his political enemies could winand
yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.

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Walmart and Other Retailers Cut Christmas Goods Imports This Year -
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Santa Claus is not delivering as many Christmas trees, toys and
decorations to the United States this year as in recent years, import
data shows, with retailers including Walmart bringing in less holiday
product ahead of what is expected to be a so-so holiday season.

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Five surprising things we learned from the 2024 results - WSJ
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Donald Trump won big. Polls predicted a tossup, but he ended up
running the table in swing state after swing state. His third election
could end up being his best. Many Americans thought his political
career was over after Jan. 6, 2021, but he emerged stronger and with
broader coattails, helping sweep more Republicans into power in
congressional races as well. This was a movement like nobody has ever
seen before," Trump said in the early hours of Wednesday.

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Turn that stockpile of miles or points into a trip - WSJ
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Americans are sitting on a massive stockpile of unused travel rewards.
Cardholders earned more than $34 billion in credit-card points alone
last year, according to reports from American Express, JPMorgan Chase
and Capital One.

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Americas friends and foes brace for a new world under Trump - WSJ
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Leaders of U.S. allies and adversaries on Wednesday braced for quick
shifts in American economic policy and the countrys approach to
relations with the rest of the world as the scale of Donald Trumps
victory became clear.

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Misinformation Really Does Spread like a Virus, Epidemiology Shows -
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Were increasingly aware of how misinformation can influence elections.
About 73% of Americans report seeing misleading election news, and
about half struggle to discern what is true or false.

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Voters Were Fed Up Over Immigration. They Voted for Trump.
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The surge in migration across the southern border, which reached
record levels during the Biden administration, has reverberated across
the country and hardened many Americans’ views on immigration.

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Trump Weighs Personnel Choices and Fields Congratulatory Calls
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Mr. Netanyahu had posted on social media, lavishing praise on Mr.
Trump. He called Mr. Trump’s victory “a new beginning for America
and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and
America.”

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How Trump Connected With So Many Americans
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We were standing inside a barn when she said this. Mr. Trump was a few
yards away, sitting at a big wooden table. Behind him were stacked
bales of hay and a John Deere tractor. He led a discussion about seed
cost and fertilizer and shale and animal feed. Farmers nodded along as
he reminded them how expensive everything had become because of
inflation. “I feel very comfortable with the farmers,” he said.
And they felt very comfortable with him.

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Grant Ujifusa, 82, Dies; Lobbied for Redress for Japanese Americans
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Mr. Ujifusa had been a founding editor of The Almanac of American
Politics, an insiders’ guide to the districts, voting records and
personalities of every member of Congress. Elders in the Japanese
American community believed he was uniquely positioned to win support
on Capitol Hill.

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Trump's Victory Is a Major Win for Elon Musk and Big-Money Politics
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When Mr. Musk first met with political advisers in the spring, he
focused on turning out 800,000 to a million “low-propensity”
voters in seven battleground states — people, especially in rural
areas, who might be inclined to vote for Mr. Trump but who had spotty
voting records. It is yet unclear whether Mr. Musk succeeded on that
metric, although Mr. Trump claimed a dominating margin in rural areas,
a focus of Mr. Musk’s.

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On Election Day, He Headed to the Capitol With a Manifesto and a Torch
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Capitol Police officials said the letter Mr. Olson carried to the
Capitol on Tuesday appeared to claim that he was protesting the war in
Gaza and the United States’ relationship with Israel.

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When Will Donald Trump Take Office?
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“I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will
never, ever let you down,” he told hundreds of thousands of people
gathered on the west side of the Capitol. “America will start
winning again, winning like never before.”

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