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[l] at 11/22/24 6:36pm
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as his choice for treasury secretary and first-term official Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget.
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[l] at 11/22/24 4:58pm
Attorneys for Daniel Penny, accused of manslaughter in last year's death of a Black homeless man on the New York City subway, rested their case Friday after disputing his chokehold actually caused the man's death.
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[l] at 11/22/24 3:25pm
A federal jury in Minnesota on Friday found two men guilty of human smuggling in a case in which a family from India froze to death along the Canada-U. S. border in 2022.
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[l] at 11/22/24 2:48pm
A draft finance deal Friday at the U.N. COP29 climate and environment talks proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion a year to poorer nations in climate funding. Developing countries want more money.
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[l] at 11/22/24 1:45pm
A majority of the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to a state-authored curriculum under intense scrutiny in recent months for its heavy inclusion of biblical teachings.
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[l] at 11/22/24 1:28pm
Israel Friday continued widespread bombing attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon in a series of air strikes near Beirut and Tyre, killing at least 47 and wounding 22 in the Baalbek district northeast of Beirut.
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[l] at 11/22/24 12:45pm
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday invited Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his country and confirmed he will not honor an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.
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[l] at 11/22/24 12:20pm
A "historic" rezoning plan in New York City that would open the way for 80,000 new housing units has been approved by an important City Council committee.
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[l] at 11/22/24 11:41am
Prison officials in Alabama have executed convicted murderer Carey Dale Grayson, marking the state's sixth death sentence and third using the nitrogen gas method so far this year.
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[l] at 11/22/24 10:43am
Homeland Security announced on Friday that it was blacklisting 29 Chinese-based companies under the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, bringing the number of companies banned under the law to 107.
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[l] at 11/22/24 10:34am
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by Facebook as the social media company attempts to shield itself from a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analyitica data privacy scandal.
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[l] at 11/22/24 10:15am
A draft finance deal Friday at the U.N. COP29 climate and environment talks proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion a year to poorer nations in climate funding. Developing countries want more money.
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[l] at 11/22/24 9:57am
President-elect Donald Trump will no longer be sentenced for his 34 criminal convictions next week after a New York judge ordered the case be put on hold Friday.
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[l] at 11/22/24 9:44am
Amazon said on Friday that it will provide $4 billion more into the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Anthropic with its Amazon Web Service becoming its primary cloud and training partner.
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[l] at 11/22/24 9:23am
Train service is resuming and people are returning to the South Terminal at London Gatwick Airport after a security alert forced the evacuation of part of the city's secondary international hub Friday.
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[l] at 11/22/24 9:09am
DIRECTV  said Thursday it is terminating its effort to buy the DISH satellite TV provider effective Friday at 11:59 p.m. DirectTV said the deal was derailed by DISH DBS note holder's failure to agree to debt terms.
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[l] at 11/22/24 8:32am
A suspicious package found outside the U.S. Embassy in London Friday was destroyed in a controlled explosion as London police closed Ponton Road near the embassy.
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[l] at 11/22/24 8:28am
President-elect Donald Trump is filling out his cabinet with people who have shown him loyalty since he entered the world of politics in 2016.
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[l] at 11/22/24 8:26am
An independent inquiry group on Friday recommended to the British Competition and Markets Authority to investigate Apple and Google over their dominance of mobile web browsers and apps in the country.
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[l] at 11/22/24 7:11am
Spain's government said Friday five low-cost airlines have been fined $186.32 million for what Minister of Social Rights Pablo Bustinduy said were abusive practices like charging more for hand luggage or reserving seats.
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[l] at 11/22/24 7:01am
In hopes of tackling continuing issues of inflation, the Japanese government okayed a wide-ranging economic package worth $250 billion to address racing energy costs and benefit a lot of low-income families.

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