The world’s strongest material could be used to make clean drinking water
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The holiday spending spree is fueled by ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ shoppers
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Continue Reading US life expectancy rebounded in 2022 but not back to pre-pandemic levels
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Continue Reading Senate Majority Leader Schumer warns that antisemitism is on the rise as he pushes for Israel aid
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Continue Reading The US economy grew by 5.2% in the third quarter, even faster than previously estimated
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Continue Reading Feminist website Jezebel will be relaunched by Paste Magazine less then a month after shutting down
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Continue Reading Top diplomats meet in North Macedonia for OSCE but some boycott Lavrov’s expected attendance
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Continue Reading GOP considers holding formal vote to authorize Biden impeachment as White House questions legitimacy
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Continue Reading Video of rich kid beating parking guard outrages Mexico, already plagued by class divisions
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Continue Reading China presents UN with vague Mideast peace plan as US promotes its own role in easing the Gaza war
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Continue Reading Lawsuit seeks $5M for Black former delivery driver who says white men shot at him in Mississippi
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Continue Reading Letters reveal gruesome misdeeds of a Victorian man lauded by the scientific community
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Continue Reading Look of the Week: Timothée Chalamet is wearing a shirtless suit, again
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Continue Reading Deutsche Bank was keen to land a ‘whale’ of a client in Trump, documents at his fraud trial show
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Continue Reading US Navy warship shoots down drone launched by Houthis from Yemen, official says
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Continue Reading Body of 9-year-old girl in wheelchair ‘left to rot’ after drowning death, OC DA says; mother charged
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Idaho homeowners receive average 18% property tax reduction
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Continue Reading Jury to decide whether officer fatally shooting handcuffed man was justified
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Continue Reading Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank
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Continue Reading Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank
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Continue Reading ‘American Symphony’ plays Jon Batiste’s twin tale in a year of triumph and turmoil
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Continue Reading Maine offers free university tuition to Lewiston shooting victims, families
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Continue Reading Boy who was 12 when he fatally ran over his foster mother gets 2 years in custody
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Continue Reading Actor Jonathan Majors in court for expected start of jury selection in New York assault trial
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Continue Reading Wolverines receive protection under Endangered Species Act as climate change threatens their habitat
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Continue Reading Algeria passes law to protect media freedom. Others used to imprison journalists remain on the books
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Continue Reading German authorities arrest a 15-year-old on suspicion of planning an attack
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Continue Reading Israel assessing Hamas claim youngest hostage and family members are dead
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Continue Reading Inheritance money in dispute after death of woman who made millions off sale of T-rex remains
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Melaleuca awards long-time employees with $3.4 million in Longevity Bonuses
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Continue Reading Nigeria’s leader presents $34 billion spending plan for 2024, prioritizing the economy, security
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Continue Reading Finland closes last crossing point with Russia, sealing off entire border as tensions rise
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Continue Reading US sanctions financial network tied to Iranian oil sales
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Grand Teton announces change to backcountry camping permits
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PCSD 25 hosts 2nd annual Apprenticeship-Plus Night
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Continue Reading Opposition protesters in Kosovo use flares and tear gas to protest against a war crimes court
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Continue Reading Consumer Reports: Electric vehicles less reliable, on average, than conventional cars and trucks
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Continue Reading South Africa march demands a permanent Gaza cease-fire on day of solidarity with Palestinians
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Continue Reading Court clears France’s justice minister of conflict of interest
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Continue Reading Five journalists were shot in one day in Mexico, officials confirm
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Continue Reading Elton John to address Britain’s Parliament in an event marking World AIDS Day
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Continue Reading Wolverines threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy mountain refuges, US says
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Continue Reading Mali’s government will probe Tuareg rebel leaders as crucial 2015 peace deal appears to crumble
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Continue Reading US says wolverines are threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy refuges in the Rocky Mountains
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Continue Reading Israel compares Hamas to the Islamic State group. But the comparison misses the mark in key ways
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Continue Reading Pakistan acquits ex-Premier Nawaz Sharif in a graft case. He’s now closer to running in elections
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Continue Reading UK’s Sunak ramps up criticism of Greek leader in Parthenon Marbles spat
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Continue Reading Australian police officer charged with manslaughter over death of 95-year-old woman tasered in nursing home
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Continue Reading Gay couple in Nepal becomes the 1st to officially register same-sex marriage in the country
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Continue Reading 3 people killed in explosion at Ohio auto shop
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Continue Reading In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis
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Continue Reading Argentina’s president-elect announces his pick for economy minister
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Continue Reading Edmunds tests the best automotive hands-free driving systems
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Continue Reading Blinken seeks a new extension of the Gaza cease-fire as he heads again to the Middle East
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Continue Reading COP28 leader hits back at allegations he used climate talks to strike oil deals
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Continue Reading Hate crimes explained: Could suspect who shot 3 Palestinian students be charged with a hate crime?
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Continue Reading 5 things to know for Nov. 29: Israel, Presidential race, Gas prices, Fruit recall, France smoking ban
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Continue Reading Dutch version of controversial book on British royal family taken off shelves in Netherlands
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Continue Reading 5 ancient Native American inventions that are still used in our modern world
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Continue Reading At least 40 civilians killed by al-Qaida-linked rebels in a Burkina Faso town, UN rights office says
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Continue Reading Emirati-designated COP28 leader forcefully denies report UAE wanted to seek oil deals in summit
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Continue Reading India opens an investigation after US says it disrupted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader
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Continue Reading Biden targeting GOP’s Boebert in fresh political attack on Republicans
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Continue Reading Sweden’s economy shrinks in the third quarter to signal that a recession may have hit the country
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Continue Reading Toyota selling part of Denso stake to raise cash to develop electric vehicles
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Continue Reading An ailing Pope Francis appears at a weekly audience but says he’s not well and has aide read speech
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Continue Reading Indigenous community in Ecuador wins legal fight to reclaim ancestral land after more than 80 years
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Continue Reading Kuwait’s ruling emir, 86, was hospitalized due to an emergency health problem but reportedly stable
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Continue Reading This 10-month old is among the children still held captive or missing in Gaza
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Continue Reading Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned
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Continue Reading Search and rescue operations underway after US special operations aircraft crashes off coast of Japan
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Continue Reading Myanmar and China conduct naval drills together as fighting surges in border area
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Continue Reading Australia proposes new laws to detain potentially dangerous migrants who can’t be deported
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Continue Reading US military Osprey aircraft with 8 aboard crashes into the sea off southern Japan
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Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian shares mostly fall after Wall Street rallies
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Continue Reading ‘I kissed her but she wouldn’t wake up.’ Grandfather grieves for 3-year-old granddaughter killed as she slept in Gaza
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Continue Reading ‘I kissed her but she wouldn’t wake up.’ Grandfather grieves for 3-year-old granddaughter killed as she slept in Gaza
By Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Picking through the rubble of his destroyed home, Khaled Nabhan lifts…
Continue Reading New Zealand leader plans to ban cellphone use in schools and end tobacco controls in first 100 days
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Continue Reading Kansas will redesign its planned 2024 license plate after hundreds of people complained it doesn’t represent the state
By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Kansas is going back to the drawing board after hundreds of people blasted the state’s new license plate design…
Continue Reading A Hong Kong Court hears final arguments in subversion trial of pro-democracy activists
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Continue Reading Charges against a woman who police say was struck by Charlotte officers have been dropped
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Continue Reading Rosalynn Carter set for funeral and burial in the town where she and her husband were born
By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will receive her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she was…
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