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What in the World? - Foreign Policy

Test yourself on the week of Nov. 2: The United States votes, Interpol convenes its General Assembly, and several cabinet ministers get the boot.

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Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs - The Economist
Policy commitments made by President-elect Donald Trump often lack precision. Not so on November 4th, the final day of campaigning, at a rally in North Carolina. Mr Trump kicked it off by announcing that one of his first calls as president would be to Mexicos President Claudia Sheinbaum. Im going to inform her, on day one or sooner, that if they dont stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I am going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States of America. Mr Trumps policy could not have been much clearer. Youre the first ones Ive told it to, he told the cheering crowd.


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January 6 rioters celebrate likely Trump pardon: "Finally coming home"
Donald Trump's electoral victory on November 5 has sparked an explosion of enthusiasm among imprisoned January 6 rioters and their supporters, as many expect that the former president will pardon them once he returns office in 2025.






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Trump Will Soon Get Classified Briefings Again
Two years ago, the FBI raided Donald Trump's home to retrieve government records he had refused to return, including hundreds containing classified information. The indictment that followed alleged the former President had left classified information laying around next to a toilet and stacked on a ballroom stage.


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Border data shows North Korean students (not troops) are loving Russia
As Moscow continues to dodge the question on whether it has recruited North Korean troops to fight against Ukraine, journalists have noted a mysterious rise in the number of Pyongyang students traveling to Russia.




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US struggles to rush weapons to Ukraine before Trump takes office - WSJ
WASHINGTON : A Biden administration push to send billions of dollars of military equipment to Ukraine before it leaves office is facing major logistical hurdles and is raising concern that the transfers will deplete already-stretched U.S. stockpiles, officials said.


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The expanding fitness options for pregnant women - WSJ
Fitness for them no longer means quiet breathwork while sitting on a medicine ball. Plenty of pregnant women want to keep up their weightlifting, running, dance, boxing and Pilates routines through all three trimesters. Absent complications, doctors say, they should.




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How ChatGPT brought down an online education giant - WSJ
The online education company was for many years the go-to source for students who wanted help with their homework, or a potential tool for plagiarism. The shift to virtual learning during the pandemic sent subscriptions and its stock price to record highs.


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Meet These 7 Potential Leaders of Financial Agencies Under Trump - Inc
Trump transition team officials are considering retail brokerage Robinhoods top lawyer, as well as bank regulators and corporate attorneys, for a short list of key financial agency heads they expect to present to the president-elect soon, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter.




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Biotech analyst Brian Skorney and CEO Daphne Zohar weigh in on election results - STAT
Biotech analyst Brian Skorney and longtime biotech executive Daphne Zohar joined this weeks episode of The Readout LOUD to discuss how a new Trump administration may affect the Food and Drug Administration, the biotech industry, and stocks. Below are highlights from their conversation with hosts Elaine Chen, Adam Feuerstein, and Allison DeAngelis.


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Northern Lights Update: Heres Where Aurora Borealis May Be Visible Tonight Amid Geomagnetic Storm - Forbes
Geomagnetic storm conditions are expected on Saturday night, likely pulling the northern lights further south below the Canadian border, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast.




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Goldman Sachs stock jumps 6% after receiving order worth 1625 Cr from BSNL
One of the Goldman Sachs stocks specializing in end-to-end data network solutions has jumped by 5.73 percent after receiving an order from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for the development of the middle mile network worth Rs. 1,625.36 crore


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Are We Just Ignoring How Russia Openly Helped Trump on Election Night?
Polling locations in Democratic strongholds across several key battleground states received a slew of phony bomb threats on Election Day, and while the FBI deemed that none of the threats were credible, they still represent a disturbing feature of U.S. elections: alleged interference from Russia.




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What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage
This week, the Cut brings you True Romance: five days of stories about love as its actually lived. Im an advice columnist, so sometimes people ask me about how they can keep the romance alive in their marriages.


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This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers
When it went public in 2011, over a decade after the companys founding, Pandora employed fewer than 40 engineers.




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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?


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How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Dont Want To
Theres that project youve left on the backburner the one with the deadline thats growing uncomfortably near. And theres the client whose phone call you really should return the one that does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time.




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How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves
My wife and I had 12 children over the course of 15 1/2 years. Today, our oldest is 37 and our youngest is 22.I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my kids almost anything. But my wife and I decided not to.


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The Greatest Sales Deck Ive Ever Seen
A few months ago, my friend Tim took a new sales job at a Series C tech company that had raised over $60 million from A-list investors. Hes one of the best salespeople I know, but soon after starting, he emailed me to say he was struggling.


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Women Once Ruled the Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia?
How the tech industry sabotaged itself and its own pipeline of talent.


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Tulip Mania: The Classic Story of a Dutch Financial Bubble Is Mostly Wrong
Tulip mania wasnt the irrational chaos the popular narrative portrays. But there are still lessons to be learned.


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Aretha Franklins Ghostwriter on the Singers Enduring Mysteries
Biographer David Ritz tells the story of the five years he spent with Aretha, getting to know the famously guarded Queen of Soul and trying to understand the pain behind her genius.


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Scientists Just Discovered a Super Easy Way to Increase the Health Benefits of Your Daily Walk
For many people, walking is the simplest and most doable form of exercise. All thats required is slipping on a pair of comfy shoes and opening your door. But do you need to do anything special to reap the health benefits of a daily stroll?


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Mars could have supported life more recently than previously believed: Study
A new study from Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab challenges previous estimates about the lifespan of Mars' magnetic field, suggesting it may have lasted until 3.9 billion years ago.


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How ChatGPT brought down an online education giant
Most companies are starting to figure out how artificial intelligence will change the way they do business. Chegg is trying to avoid becoming its first major victim.


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My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and Twitter
Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this decision.


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Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B | TechCrunch
“Things always take way longer than you expect. And I think the people that actually just focus on their well-being are the ones that survive,” he said. “If you can survive, at the end of the day, you’ll have a shot at winning.”


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US Inflation Progress Gets Harder in Last Mile Down
Analysts expect a hawkish tone to the minutes of the Brazilian central bank’s Nov. 6 decision to hike to 11.25%. At the same time, forward guidance may be in short supply given that Brazil’s government had yet to commit to spending cuts, and all the wild cards inherent following the US election.


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A New Study Discovered 20 Ways to Strengthen Your Friendships
Americans face many challenges, from social division to the climate crisis to tech disruptionbut one challenge is probably making dealing with all the others just a little more difficult. America is in a friendship drought.


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Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language and went right back to her pitch: long commute, full-time, no benefits.No way, I thought.


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The Four Things That Make Practically Everyone Feel Loved, According to a New Survey
Americans are out of sync with each other about many things. But not this.


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The Weight Debate in Health Care - Scientific American
Rachel Feltman: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least one in five U.S. adults in each state are categorized as, quote, unquote, living with obesity. But for many of those people, having physicians focus on their size is far from helpful. In fact, theres research to suggest that our fixation on weight could be preventing us from actually helping people live healthy lives.


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It Can Happen Here - The New Yorker
On the morning after Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, in 2016, the White House was a funereal place. For weeks, Barack Obama and his inner circle had worried about Hillary Clintons campaignthe failure to visit crucial battleground states with sufficient frequency, the snooty crack about deplorables, James Comeys last-minute letter to Congress about her e-mails. But, for all the troubling signs and missteps, they were optimistic that, in a tighter-than-expected race, America would elect the first woman to the Presidency. A legacy, a continuity, would prevail.


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Donald Trumps US presidential election win creates fresh controversy for FIFA World Cup 2026 planning
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in three North American countries; USA, Canada and Mexico. It is the first time the tournament will be held by three nations, and the first North American World Cup since 1994. The final will be held in the US, at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.


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FEMA Fires Employee for Telling Hurricane Milton Relief Workers to Skip Houses With Trump Signs
“I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA, and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct,” she said.


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Could the Bond Market Stymie Trump's Economic Plans?
The United States sells Treasury bonds and notes to fund big parts of the federal government. These auctions provide the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, and the yields on Treasuries are viewed as a real-time gauge of the country’s financial health. Yields tend to climb when investors anticipate economic growth accelerating inflation, and expect the Fed may have to raise rates to slow the economy. Higher yields mean the government pays more to borrow.


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Opinion | Trump Is About to Face the Choice That Dooms Many Presidencies
Electoral success has a thousand fathers, each with his own agenda.


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Thousands call for Valencia's leader to resign over deadly floods response
Eva Saldaña of Greenpeace Spain has suggested that oil and gas companies "foot the bill" for this natural disaster, arguing that those industries have known about the climate crisis for more than six decades.


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More arrests expected in Amsterdam over violence on Israeli football fans
The US president, Joe Biden, condemned the attacks on Thursday as “despicable” and said they “echo dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted”. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, was shocked by the violence in Amsterdam, a UN spokesperson said.


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Tens of thousands gather to celebrate fall of Berlin Wall 35 years ago
Musicians were planning to sing Heroes by David Bowie and Freiheit (Freedom) by the German rockstar Marius Müller-Westernhagen, among other songs. Song lyrics will be displayed on large screens so that the audience can sing along.


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Engadget review recap: Two new Macs, the PS5 Pro and more
I know I teased the Sonos Arc Ultra review for this week, but our audio expert (hi!) needed a little more testing time with the soundbar. I doubly promise that one is coming early next week for your Veterans Day reading. We still have one new Mac on the horizon, and we're expecting to wrap up the iMac (2024) review next week too. And there's yet another Amazon review coming soon with the updated Fire HD 8.


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Trump flips Nevada as Democrat Jacky Rosen holds on to state's Senate seat
Most polls showed Rosen ahead of Brown for weeks before the election, and she maintained a three-to-one fundraising and spending advantage over her opponent. But the race tightened significantly before election day. Brown was boosted by a Pac linked to the Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, which spent $6m on last-minute ads appealing to Maga voters: "President Trump and Nevada need Sam Brown in the Senate."


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Ask an Advisor: I'm Still Working at 77. Am I Allowed to Skip RMDs?
Brandon Renfro, CFP®, is a SmartAsset financial planning columnist and answers reader questions on personal finance and tax topics. Got a question you’d like answered? Email [email protected] and your question may be answered in a future column.


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What's next for nuclear stocks after regulatory pushback?
“I think Constellation is the most buyable dip," he said. "Constellation … is by far and away the largest nuclear operator, more than three times more megawatt capacity than the next competitor. And we think that in our view, nuclear is really one of the best ways to service this type of demand from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, [and Magnificent Seven] names that have large needs for power.”


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Palantir Stock vs. Microsoft Stock: Wall Street Says Only 1 Will Head Higher From Here
Adam Levy has positions in Microsoft. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Jefferies Financial Group, Microsoft, and Palantir Technologies. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Can Anything Save Super Micro Computer?
On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:


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Warren Buffett Invested $99 Billion of His Portfolio in 2 Stocks That Could Rise 19% and 20%, According to a Couple of Wall Street Analysts
On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:


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Move Over Nvidia and Palantir, This AI Juggernaut Is Up 628% Year to Date. Can the Stock's Momentum Continue?
Geoffrey Seiler has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends AppLovin, Nvidia, and Palantir Technologies. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Boeing Just Lost $10 a Share -- and It Wasn't All Because of the Strike
Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.


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Super Micro Computer Shares Fall Again on Latest Update. Is the Bottom In, or Is There More Downside Ahead for the Stock?
Geoffrey Seiler has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Think It's Too Late to Buy Nvidia? Here's the Biggest Reason Why There's Still Time.
On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:




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