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• Irish election exit poll predicts even split between three main parties

  29-11-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Sinn Féin and Fine Gael both scored 21% in the poll, slightly ahead of Fianna Fáil on 19%An exit poll in Ireland suggests a dead heat between Sinn Féin and the taoiseach’s party Fine Gael in the general election, with Fianna Fáil only slightly behind.The survey of first preference votes is the first real indication of how Ireland voted after three weeks of canvassing in the snap election called by Simon Harris. Continue reading...
  
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• 'I couldn’t stop watching': Personal stories of how porn obsession takes over lives

  29-11-2024 22:18 via bbc.com
  
  What happens when watching porn takes over your life?
  
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• Zelenskyy says Ukrainian territory should be under ‘Nato umbrella’ to stop war

  29-11-2024 22:12 via theguardian.com
  
  President suggests bringing Kyiv-controlled land into western military pact could stop ‘hot stage’ of warVolodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested that Ukrainian territory under his control should be taken under the “Nato umbrella” to try to stop the “hot stage” of the war with Russia.Speaking to Sky News, the Ukrainian president said that such a proposal has “never been considered” by Ukraine because it has never “officially” been offered. Con
  
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• Ireland votes in a close-run election where incumbents hope to cling on to power

  29-11-2024 21:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Ireland is voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government — and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of incumbents being ousted by disgruntled voters after years of pandemic, international instability and cost-of-living pressures.Polls opened at 7 a.m.. (0700GMT), and Ireland’s 3.8 million voters are selecting 174 lawmakers to sit in the Dail, the lower house of parliament.2,000-YEAR-OLD FIG UNEARTHED IN IRELAND MARKS ‘OLDEST EXAMPLE
  
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• Leicester man who assaulted girlfriend then slept as she died sentenced to life

  29-11-2024 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Raj Sidpara, 50, given minimum 21-year sentence after punching, kicking and stamping on Tarnjeet RiazA man who murdered his girlfriend by punching, kicking and stamping on her before falling asleep and leaving her to die has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years.Raj Sidpara, 50, was convicted of the murder of Tarnjeet Riaz, also known by her maiden name Chagger, at Leicester crown court last week. Continue reading...
  
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• Enraged passenger unloads flurry of punches on airport worker, wild video shows

  29-11-2024 21:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Fight or flight?A furious airline passenger was captured on wild video unleashing a flurry of punches on an airport worker over an apparent check-in delay dispute.The video, taken on Nov. 10, shows the enraged passenger thumping the worker from behind in front of the check-in counter at Terminal 1 of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia, according to a report by Viral News. The staff member can be seen cowering down to fend off the attack and then turns and squares up to th
  
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• At least 27 people dead and 100 missing after boat capsizes in Nigeria

  29-11-2024 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  About 200 passengers, mostly women, were on vessel that sunk in Niger RiverAt least 27 people have died and more than 100 are missing after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, authorities have said.About 200 passengers were on the boat that was going from the state of Kogi to neighbouring state of Niger when it capsized on the Niger River, the Niger state emergency management agency spokesperson, Ibrahim Audu, told the Associated Press. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘War followed us’: A Syrian family fled Beirut after Israeli bombardment to face repression, bombing at home

  29-11-2024 21:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Ahmed Yahia Dabbas fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape the relentless bombardment and frequent airstrikes carried out by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its Russian allies in northwest Syria.Dabbas, 37, moved to the southern suburbs of Beirut, where he found work as a doorman and began rebuilding a new life away from his war-torn country. He and his wife welcomed four children, two boys and two girls, now between the ages of 4 and 9.As Israel began its retaliator
  
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• Families' 15-year wait for mine deaths inquest

  29-11-2024 20:25 via bbc.com
  
  Four men died in 2011 when thousands of gallons of water flooded the mine they were working in.
  
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• Jewish children, teens violently attacked in London: 'streets are no longer safe'

  29-11-2024 20:06 via foxnews.com
  
  The latest targets of antisemitic attacks spreading through Western Europe were Jewish teens and children in the United Kingdom. On Thursday, two buses carrying students from a London Jewish school were attacked at a bus stop by a swarm of around ten teens from a nearby school who wielded large rocks, the Jewish Chronicle reported.Four teens boarded one of the double-decker buses and went to the second level, where they began to swear at students and give them the middle finger. One 12-year-old
  
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• Hamas attacker opens fire at Israeli bus in West Bank, injuring at least 8: report

  29-11-2024 20:02 via foxnews.com
  
  An alleged gunman from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas opened fire Friday at an Israeli bus in the West Bank, injuring eight people, including four soldiers, reports say. The incident near the settlement of Ariel ended when the attacker, identified by Hamas as 46-year-old Samer Hussein, was killed by Israeli troops. "As a result of the shooting attack, four IDF soldiers were lightly injured and were evacuated to a hospital to receive medical treatment," the Israel Defense Forces
  
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• Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions

  29-11-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Litigants say AI company used their articles to train its popular ChatGPT software without authorizationCanada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software.The suit, filed on Friday in Ontario’s superior court of justice, calls for punitive damages, a share of profits made by OpenAI from
  
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• Met accidentally reveals names of alleged Westminster ‘honeytrap’ victims

  29-11-2024 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Police officer inadvertently disclosed identities and contact details in email update to alleged victimsThe Metropolitan police revealed the names of alleged victims of the Westminster “honeytrap” scandal in an accidentally sent email, it has emerged.A police officer emailed some alleged victims updating them on the case, which is due to be heard in court, but inadvertently revealed their names and contact details to each other. Continue reading...
  
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• MPs back landmark bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales

  29-11-2024 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will be given right to die under proposed legislationMPs have taken a historic step toward legalising assisted dying in England and Wales by backing a bill that would give some terminally ill people the right to end their own lives.Campaigners in favour of the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill said it was a significant move towards giving people more choice over the way they die, after the Commons backed the bill by 330 votes for to
  
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• UK lawmakers vote in favor of bill legalizing assisted dying

  29-11-2024 19:14 via foxnews.com
  
  This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).England and Wales edged closer to legalizing assisted dying after lawmakers approved a contentious bill in the House of Commons on Friday to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives.Lawmakers voted 330 to 275 in Britain’s lower house for the assisted dying bill, which will now be sent on to further scrutiny in Parliam
  
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• School bus driver charged with holding girl captive for 12 years

  29-11-2024 18:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A Colombian school bus driver allegedly abducted a 7-year-old girl and held her captive for more than a decade until she escaped earlier this year, prosecutors have revealed. The suspect, identified as Carlos Humberto Grisales Higuita, is now facing charges of simple kidnapping, sexual abuse with a minor under 14 years of age, sexual acts with a minor under 14 years of age and pornography with a person under 18 years of age, according to prosecutors in Medellín, Colombia. "
  
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• 87+ absolute best Black Friday deals of 2024

  29-11-2024 18:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Discover the best Black Friday deals here. Explore trending products and sales from Amazon, Apple, Lego, Nintendo, PS5, HBO Max, Athleta, Skims and more.
  
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• Snowstorm threatens to disrupt holiday travel

  29-11-2024 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  Another round of snow is coming that could disrupt holiday travel. NBC News' Angie Lassman reports on where the brunt of the storm will hit. 
  
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• Romanian court defers decision on annulling presidential vote

  29-11-2024 18:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Court has ordered recount of vote won by far-right candidate and will decide whether it needs to be rerunRomania’s constitutional court has deferred a decision on whether to annul the first-round vote in the country’s presidential election until Monday, a day after parliamentary elections in which far-right parties are forecast to post major gains.The court, which had already ordered a recount, considered for two hours on Friday a request to annul the 24 November vote, which was won
  
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• Shohei Ohtani claims interpreter bought valuable baseball cards using star’s money

  29-11-2024 18:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani claimed in court papers this week that his former interpreter is in “wrongful possession” of valuable baseball cards that rightfully belong to him.
  
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• Everything our readers are shopping on Black Friday 2024 (so far)

  29-11-2024 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Discover Black Friday bestsellers on items from Apple, Anker, Amazon and Tile Mate.
  
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• Leader of Ireland’s Social Democrats gives birth to baby girl on polling day

  29-11-2024 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Holly Cairns announces birth of daughter on day of Ireland’s general election
  • Ireland’s election: the parties, the issues and the votingThe leader of Ireland’s Social Democrats party has announced the birth of a baby daughter on the day of the country’s general election.Holly Cairns, who is standing for re-election in the Cork South-West constituency, posted on Instagram: “She’s here. We are completely in love with her.” Continue reading...
  
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• Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities

  29-11-2024 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Child safety experts say similar move in Britain would penalise young people for the failings of tech companiesHow Australia’s tough social media ban compares to laws in other countriesUK politics live – latest updatesChild safety experts have warned the UK government against enacting an Australian-style social media ban for children under 16, which they called a “retrograde step” that would “do more harm than good”.On Thursday, Australia became the first coun
  
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• Insurgents breach Syria’s second-largest city in a bid to reignite long-simmering war

  29-11-2024 17:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  BEIRUT — Islamist rebels breached neighborhoods in Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo and clashed with government military forces after detonating two car bombs Friday.
  
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• Two Tennessee tax preparers charged with stealing $65 million in Covid relief

  29-11-2024 17:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two tax preparers have been charged with defrauding the federal government of $65 million in Covid relief funds, according to federal prosecutors in Tennessee.
  
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• Ex-activist says FBI offered him deal to inform on fugitive arrested in Wales

  29-11-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Young says agency sought information from him about Daniel Andreas San Diego, who was on ‘most wanted terrorists’ listA former animal rights activist who was on the run from the FBI for more than seven years claims that he was offered a deal to inform on one of the organisation’s most wanted fugitives who was arrested this week in Wales.Peter Young, 47, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado, went on the run after being indicted in 1998 over a string of fur farm raids across
  
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• First look at Notre Dame Cathedral's restored interior five years after devastating fire

  29-11-2024 16:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Images and video that emerged Friday show the first glimpse inside the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire. French President Emmanuel Macron toured the iconic structure ahead of its reopening to the public on Dec. 8., describing the experience as "overwhelming," Reuters reported. Outside, the 12th-century monument is still a construction site, with scaffolding and cranes, but inside, the restoration – which included the removal of years of a
  
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• Inside the £4m mansion Jurgen Klopp called home

  29-11-2024 16:24 via bbc.com
  
  Take a peak behind the doors of the football manager's sumptuous former home, now for sale at £4.25m.
  
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• Israel cease-fire deal has critics worried over Biden, Obama officials looking to stymie incoming Trump admin

  29-11-2024 16:08 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM — Amid the start of a cease-fire on Wednesday between Israel and the Iranian regime-backed Hezbollah terrorist movement in Lebanon, some leading Republican lawmakers accused President Biden of browbeating Israel into a temporary suspension of the war as the Jewish state staged a near-takedown of the terror group's leadership and military structure. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reached the Litani River in Lebanon on Tuesday. A key war goal for the IDF is to push Hezbollah
  
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• British lawmakers back assisted dying bill after emotional debate

  29-11-2024 16:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  LONDON — British lawmakers voted on Friday in favor of a landmark bill that would for the first time help terminally ill adults end their lives.
  
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• New powder that captures carbon could be ‘quantum leap’ for industry

  29-11-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial useAn innocuous yellow powder, created in a lab, could be a new way to combat the climate crisis by absorbing carbon from the air.Just half a pound of the stuff may remove as much carbon dioxide as a tree can, according to early tests. Once the carbon is absorbed by the powder, it can be released into safe storage or be used in industrial processes, like carbonizing drinks. Continue
  
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• Brew with a view: Starbucks opens shop overlooking Korean DMZ

  29-11-2024 15:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Visitors to Aegibong Peace Ecopark have an extra reason to take in its observation tower: it now houses a Starbucks with views of the DMZ and North Korea.
  
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• Bolivia’s former top anti-drug official to be extradited to US for drug trafficking

  29-11-2024 15:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Maximiliano Dávila Pérez, arrested in Bolivia in 2022, was accused of using his position to help transport cocaineBolivia’s highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition of the country’s former top anti-narcotics official to the US to face charges of trafficking narcotics.Maximiliano Dávila Pérez briefly served as Bolivia’s top counter-narcotics official in 2019, before then president Evo Morales resigned. He later served as a police commander
  
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• The affordable housing shortage is reshaping parts of rural America 

  29-11-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  When Suzanne D’Amico moved from Dallas an hour north to Celina, Texas, there was one grocery store, longhorn cattle down the road and no lights on the horizon at night.
  
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• How a dissident Iranian director made a film in secret and then fled the country

  29-11-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Director Mohammad Rasoulof risked his life to make “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Iran. Then came the hard part.
  
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• Dads Caucus chair thinks its policies appeal to working-class voters, even 'bros'

  29-11-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., said that with housing and child care costing so much "there's nothing left," voters and especially men want those issues front and center.
  
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• This Target worker prefers retail and TikTok income to using her degree

  29-11-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  How are you making ends meet in the current economy?
  
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• Israel destroys Hezbollah's 'largest precision-guided missiles manufacturing site' as group vows to 'fight'

  29-11-2024 13:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel’s military says it destroyed Hezbollah’s "largest precision-guided missiles manufacturing site" as a lawmaker is vowing that the terrorist group will "fight and resist" any attacks on Lebanon. The announcement from the Israel Defense Forces came as both sides entered a ceasefire deal, which is now in its third day Friday. During the 60-day first phase of the deal, Hezbollah and Israeli forces are to withdraw from south Lebanon, and the Lebanese military is to step in
  
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• Ukraine's Zelenskyy ordered missile strikes into Russia hours after trip to front lines with Fox News

  29-11-2024 13:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sat stoically across the table in the cafeteria car of the moving train. His dark sweater, matching the pitch black sky outside, had the Ukrainian gold coat of arms embroidered over his heart."If we have permission plus missiles, you will hear the results on the battlefield." Zelenskyy said with a slight smirk on his face. "For today we didn’t use it."Hours later, Ukraine’s wartime leader would order six U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to be
  
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• Get a first glimpse inside the newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral

  29-11-2024 13:47 via today.com
  Five years after an inferno tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the famed landmark is now just days away from its historic reopening. French President Emmanuel Macron visited the cathedral, calling the rebuilding “a once-in-a-century restoration." NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY. 
  
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• It started with Elon. Now there’s another celebrity Musk in China: His mother.

  29-11-2024 13:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk is big in China — but his mother is a rapidly rising star there as well.
  
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• First Thing: Trump victory ‘not a mandate for radical change’

  29-11-2024 13:05 via theguardian.com
  
  US expert says models showed voters did not seek sweeping transformation. Plus: hiker found alive after 50 days lostGood morning.Despite Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the presidential election, a political scientist who developed a model that correctly predicted his sweep of battleground states warns that voters have not necessarily given the president-elect a mandate to make radical changes.What did Trump’s Ukraine envoy pick controversially propose? The retired lieutenant gene
  
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• Undiagnosed depression in cancer patients is one of the biggest gaps in treatment

  29-11-2024 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed in cancer patients. The neglect takes a significant toll.
  
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• Trump cabinet picks shaped by new power centers in his orbit

  29-11-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Boris Epshteyn, Susie Wiles and JD Vance hold outsized influence in the president-elect’s administration selectionsDonald Trump’s picks for the incoming administration are being shaped by a combination of different power centers including one-man influences like top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and combined groups led by chief of staff Susie Wiles and vice-president-elect JD Vance.The president-elect appears to have settled on a number of cabinet nominees himself without being aggres
  
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• Even in blue Colorado, vaccine advocates worry about RFK Jr’s appeal and ‘medical freedom’ movement

  29-11-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Growing rates of infectious disease in state’s most populous region could indicate increased ‘vaccine hesitancy’In deep blue Colorado, one of the only states that did not shift right in the 2024 presidential election, vaccine advocates see openings for Robert F Kennedy Jr.An environmental lawyer and the nation’s most prominent propagator of vaccine misinformation, Kennedy is now the embodiment of where left meets right – the scion of a political dynasty who first ra
  
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• China sentences journalist to seven years on spy charges, family says

  29-11-2024 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’A veteran Chinese state media journalist has been sentenced by a Beijing court to seven years in prison on espionage charges, his family has said.Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with a Japanese diplomat at a Beijing restaurant. Continue reading...
  
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• Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’

  29-11-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The electric car brand was once a liberal favourite – but the CEO’s embrace of Trump has led to an angry backlashAs Elon Musk has embraced Donald Trump and various far-right conspiracy theories, he has left behind an aghast cohort of Tesla owners who suddenly feel embarrassed by their own cars. Many of them are now publicly displaying their dismay at Musk on their vehicles.Sales of anti-Musk stickers have boomed since the world’s richest man declared his support for Trump and h
  
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• Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m

  29-11-2024 11:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last weekThe cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels,Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew para
  
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• The College Football Playoff is almost here. These games could decide the bracket.

  29-11-2024 11:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Entering the final weekend of the season, this is the last chance for many teams to make their case for inclusion into the College Football Playoff.
  
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• The 76ers were built for playoff success, but they’re closer to the No. 1 draft pick

  29-11-2024 11:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  It would be hard to dispute that the Philadelphia 76ers had a great offseason.
  
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