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Donald Trump Jr. Emerges as a Loyal Enforcer
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In recent weeks, as the president-elect builds out his administration,
his son has served as something of a loyalty scanner. As they review
candidates at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the president-elect is concerned
with who looks good and who can deliver a message, people around them
say. His son is focused on whether they mean what they are saying, and
if they present a threat to the MAGA order.

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London's 900-Year-Old Food Markets to Close
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Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for
hundreds of years, face the axe.















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The FBI May Be on the Verge of Reopening the D.B. Cooper Case
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The 1971 unsolved hijacking mystery may get closure thanks to a long
hidden parachute.

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Family estrangement doesnt have to be forever
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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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How new digital workers will lead to an unlimited age
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Over the past two years, weve witnessed advances in AI that have
captured our imaginations with unprecedented capabilities in language
and ingenuity. And yet, as impressive as these developments have been,
theyre only the opening act. We are now entering a new era of
autonomous AI agents that take action on their own and augment the
work of humans. This isnt just an evolution of technology. Its a
revolution that will fundamentally redefine how humans work, live, and
connect with one another from this point forward.

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UK parliament deeply divided over assisted dying
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The U.K. is the latest among a string of European countries to attempt
to permit assisted dying. Irish MPs earlier this yearendorseda
parliamentary report calling for assisted dying. Similar attempts to
introduce legislation have been made recently inScotland,Jersey and
the Isle of Man.Meanwhile, France was debatingan assisted dying bill
earlier this year, but progress was interrupted due to a snap
election. And various forms of assisted dying are already legal in
Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.














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US Preps China Chip Curbs That Stop Short of Early Proposals -
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Rules would hit fewer Huawei suppliers than proposed earlier Micron,
Samsung and SK Hynix could see impact on China sales

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Elon Musks xAI goes after OpenAI - The Economist (No paywall)
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An underappreciated force behind great technological change is
intenseand pettyrivalry. In the war of the currents in the late 19th
century, Thomas Edison electrocuted stray animals to discredit Nikola
Tesla. A century later Steve Jobs traded insults with Bill Gates
during a battle between Apple and Microsoft. Even Silicon Valley, a
satirical HBO series, starts with a feudand the priceless quip: These
are billionaires, Richard. Humiliating each other is worth more to
them than we will make in a lifetime.














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Late Billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed May Have Sexually Abused More Than
100 People, London Police Say - Forbes (No paywall)
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Police officials in London said Wednesday that 90 more people have
come forward and accused late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed of sexual
assault, just two months after the BBC aired a documentary where 21
women accused the Egyptian-born British tycoon of sexual assault and
rape.

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It might be now or never for the BIOSECURE Act - STAT (No paywall)
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The BIOSECURE Act would restrict U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies from doing business with certain Chinese companies,
including WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics. The bill would increase
costs for drugmakers. The biopharma industry has come to rely heavily
on those companies for contract manufacturing and other important
services.














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Customers are quitting luxury brands as price hikes go too far - WSJ
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Demand for luxury goods is expected to be flat in 2024 at constant
exchange rates, according to consulting firm Bain, but things arent
stable below the surface. Luxury brands have lost more than 10% of
their usual customer base since 2022, Bain estimates. It is the first
time in memory that the sectors shopper numbers have shrunk. For the
past three decades, brands have focused on attracting new middle-class
consumers to expand their salesa democratization" of luxury that
helped triple the size of the business.

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Bidens surprising Middle East peace strategy: Working with Trump - WSJ
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Instead of slamming a White House-brokered Lebanon cease-fire between
Israel and Hezbollah announced Tuesday, Trump and his advisers have
stayed largely quiet about the diplomatic breakthrough, while Biden
administration officials shift their focus to a cease-fire in Gaza, a
much tougher task.














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Trumps Cabinet picks: The good, the bad and the ugly - WSJ (No
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Doug Burgum, Chris Wright, Linda McMahon and Brendan CarrVivek
Ramaswamy and Elon MuskMarco Rubio and Mike WaltzTulsi Gabbard and
Pete HegsethLori Chavez-DeRemerRobert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Biden to leave Trump with billions for Ukraine weapons - WSJ (No
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The Biden administration doesnt have enough time left to use the
billions of dollars lawmakers have authorized to arm Ukraine, U.S. and
congressional officials said, leaving in President-Elect Donald Trumps
hands what to do with the remaining money.














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Farm groups urge Trump not to deport farmworkers. Here's why
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Nearly half of the nation's approximately 2 million farmworkers lack
legal status. U.S.

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Emergency Blackouts Across Ukraine After 'Massive' Missile Attack
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Russia has launched a "massive strike" on Ukraine's energy
infrastructure, the country's energy minister said, as explosions were
reported in several cities.













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Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail for third time in sex trafficking case
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Sean "Diddy" Combs has been denied bail for the third time by a judge
in New York City.

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Swedish PM says Baltic sea now 'high risk' after suspected cable
sabotage
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The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said the Baltic sea
is now a "high risk" zone as he met Nordic and Baltic leaders days
after a suspected sabotage attack on undersea cables.

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Australia's social media ban for kids is closer to becoming law
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia's House of Representatives on
Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years
old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the
world-first law.

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Tell the Senate: Don't Weaponize the Treasury Department Against
Nonprofits
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Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that
would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its
tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law,
H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the
executive branch.

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France says Netanyahu has 'immunity' from ICC arrest warrants
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Provisions for immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal
Court apply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French
foreign ministry said Wednesday. It said the Israeli leader was
covered by immunity rules that apply to states which are not a party
to the ICC.

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The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab
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In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication
line that would produce integrated circuits in less than one day.

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Microsoft Hacking Warning--450 Million Windows Users Must Now Act
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A stark reminder this week that 450 million Windows users must now act
to ensure their PCs and data remain safe. Microsoft has provided a $12
billion solution to the problem, but it won't protect everyone. Just
make sure you're not caught out.

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Seoul blanketed by heaviest November snow on record
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Seoul has recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began
over a century ago in 1907. The South Korean capital was covered with
at least 16 cm of snow on Wednesday - beating the city's previous
record of 12.4cm from November 1972.

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Romania asks EU to investigate TikTok's election handling after
ultranationalist's stunning win
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Researchers are now picking apart just how Georgescu -- who gathered
more than 370,000 followers on his TikTok account -- managed his
sudden rise in the polls, picking apart the activity around his online
profile.

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NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels
under Greenland ice sheet
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NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland
got an unprecedented view of an abandoned "city under the ice" built
by the U.S. military during the Cold War.

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This malaria vaccine is delivered by a mosquito bite
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Scientists have developed a new vaccination strategy for malaria --
boosting immunity through bites from genetically engineered
mosquitoes. The immunization is delivered through insects infected
with modified versions of the parasite that causes malaria.

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Android Settings You May Not Know About
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From using less mobile data to live captions for videos, these
settings will make your phone run more smoothly.

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How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World's First Writing System
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The Mesopotamian Origins of Modern Civilization

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Want to Raise a Kid in Canada? That'll Be $293,000
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Between the housing crisis, an underperforming child care system,
soaring food costs, and a status-driven culture that encourages
top-of-the-line purchases, from strollers to high chairs, parenthood
now comes with a hefty price tag.

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Scaling a Startup in Emerging Markets - Harvard Business Review (No
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If youre a fast-growing company in an emerging economy, you need a
strategy for competing in your home market in the short term. But you
also need a longer-term strategy that will help you grow beyond that
initial market.

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Cheap Ozempic? How Millions of Americans With Obesity May Get Access
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The rule would require Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight-loss
drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound for a large segment of Americans who are
obese.

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The biggest Thanksgiving guest faux pas, according to etiquette
experts
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All Americans are hoping for a happy, healthy, and harmonious
Thanksgiving. So if you're a guest at someone else's home for the big
day, you've got to be on your best behaviorlest you upset your
generous hosts.

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What Google Off-loading Chrome Would Mean for Users - The New Yorker
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Using the Internet sometimes seems disconcertingly synonymous with
using Google. Google Search, the most popular search engine on the
planet, indexes the open Internet, driving traffic to Web sites, and
Google Ads provides the revenue that publishers survive on. Gmail is
how some two billion people receive their e-mail; many Gmail in-boxes
have been accumulating messages for a decade or more. Last, but
certainly not least, the companys browser, Google Chrome, is what a
staggering three billion people use to navigate the Internet.
According to some estimates, Google holds nearly ninety per cent
market share in search engines in the U.S. Chrome, in turn, provides
the audience data that Googles ads leverage to target users, and links
the companys other services together. When youre using Chrome, it is
smoothest and easiest to also use Googles search, mail, and even new
generative-A.I. programs such as Gemini. Google Chrome is the top of a
slippery funnel that users slide down, deeper into the Google
ecosystemwhich is precisely why, following a landmark antitrust
ruling, the United States Department of Justice is trying to wrest
Chrome away from the company.

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Shop Sustainably This Holiday Season with the Help of Consumer
Psychology - Scientific American (No paywall)
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Rachel Feltman: Its almost Thanksgiving, and you know what that means:
its already been Black Friday for, like, a week. What used to be a
post-turkey American shopping tradition has ballooned into a global
phenomenon of November sales. If youre feeling the urge to do some
serious damage to your bank account this week, youre definitely not
aloneand you shouldnt blame yourself; these sales are designed and
marketed to send you into a shopping spiral.

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Attention Investors: Betting Against the U.S. Is a Losing Strategy -
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When it comes to financial markets, U.S. exceptionalism isnt just a
narrative its a data-backed reality that underscores how far
international equities have lagged. Recent history suggests the
benefits of global diversification arent worth taking a potential hit
on American public companies.

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Holiday Shopping, Up Close and Personal
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Now Ms. Martino, 53, sits in a jewel box herself. Six years ago, she
started a business, Lemon Zesty, making tote bags and other items
printed with sassy images of her own creation. (She calls it “fresh
art with a sour twist.”) This year, she was selling her wares in a
stall at the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park, one of New
York’s largest seasonal markets, with some four million visitors.

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Are Airline Loyalty Programs Worth It?
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Ms. Brantner recalled a time when she had to spend $15,000 each year
with Delta to reach the top-tier status. Now the company is asking
customers to spend $28,000 annually to earn Diamond status. She also
learned that her American Express Delta Reserve credit card would be
imposing restrictions on how many times she could use the airline’s
Sky Club lounges — unless she spent at least $75,000 on her card
each year.

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As Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Takes Hold, Thousands in Lebanon Head
Home
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“We can finally go home. We’re so happy, thank God,” said Hanna
Trad, 39, who fled to Beirut in September, with her husband and three
children, from their southern village, Maarakeh. But she added that
she had heard that many of her neighbors had been killed and that the
windows of her house were shattered.

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Opinion | Is Communist China Coming for Your Turkey, Too?
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China has excellent reasons for wanting to ensure that its huge
population has enough to eat that have nothing to do with the United
States. Older Chinese generations still harbor painful memories of
mass hunger in the decades before China’s era of economic reform
began in the late 1970s. President Xi Jinping has reminisced about
going to bed hungry in his youth, with nothing but soup for dinner. He
has called food security “a red line that would trigger terrible
consequences were it ever to be compromised.”

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a??Massive attacka?? on Ukrainea??s power network under way, says
minister
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Kellogg told Voice of America at the Republican convention in July
that Ukraine's options were "quite clear". "If Ukraine doesn't want to
negotiate, fine, but then accept the fact that you can have enormous
losses in your cities and accept the fact that you will have your
children killed, accept the fact that you don't have 130,000 dead, you
will have 230,000-250,000," he said.

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Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah says its hands are still a??on the
triggera?? amid uneasy ceasefire
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The Biden administration is reportedly pushing ahead with a $680m arms
sales package to Israel. The package includes thousands of joint
direct attack munition kits (JDAMs) and hundreds of small-diameter
bombs, Reuters reported.

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Indian tech IPO pipeline swells as startups eye 2025 listings |
TechCrunch
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Tech companies and healthcare firms represent more than 50% of S&P 500
Index. The same firms account for less than 20% on India’s benchmark
Nifty 50. There’s a lot of room for growth for tech companies in
India, said Bharti. 

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Gaza deal appears distant even with Lebanon cease-fire
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JERUSALEM -- President Joe Biden has said he hopes the cease-fire
between Israel and Hezbollah can revive momentum toward a peace deal
between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the
running for DOGE and other Trump committees
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With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump's
transition team, Musk's buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture
capitalists, are reportedly being tapped to help out.

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Trump's hatchet woman: Pam Bondi is plotting revenge on the Department
of Justice
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Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when special
prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the Jan. 6
indictment and the appeal of the classified documents case dismissal
against Donald Trump.

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The 19th Explains: How bathroom bans on federal property would impact
trans Americans
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Congress has a long list of pressing priorities -- including funding
the federal government to prevent a shutdown -- that it is likely to
put off until 2025. One new item packed on that to-do list:
legislation introduced by GOP Rep.

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Appeals Court Again Blocks U.S. From Cutting Texas Border Wire Along
Rio Grande
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The Fifth Circuit has been hailed by some Trump-aligned Republicans as
a model for the future of conservative jurisprudence. Three of its
judges are often discussed as possible Supreme Court nominees during
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s second term. One of those three,
Stuart Kyle Duncan, wrote Wednesday’s ruling.

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Ohio Governor Signs Bathroom Restrictions for Transgender Students
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The state is one of at least a dozen states to set restrictions on
bathrooms for transgender students at public schools.

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This 22-Foot Turkey Roosts in a Region of Roadside Giants
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