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- What this Black Friday weekend is show ing about the US economy

- Le Bal des Debutantes París 2025

- Lilly Wachowski tells us what fascism does and is

- Gunman fires on members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington DC last Wednesday

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- Nicki Minaj delivers speech at UN to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria

- Urban Raccoons Are Showing Signs of Early Domestication, With Shorter Snouts Than Their Rural Cousins

- Trump Mamdani meeting at White House

- US set to label Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization (AP Breakdown )

- Vance and Trump not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral service and George W. Bush's eulogy

- Grindr Presents 'I Wool Survive': How We Connected Gay Sheep to the NYC Runway

- Trump Welcomes Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince

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- Michelle Obama says US 'Not Ready' for Woman President

- The U.S.’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in the Caribbean Sea yesterday, joining nearly a dozen other naval warships there.

- In a reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

- US Border Patrol arrests 81 on first day of Charlotte immigration crackdown

- Tech leaders including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are proposing AI data centers in space.

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• The US Mint ended penny production Wednesday in Philadelphia after 230 years.
• Planned Parenthood says it’s getting harder to fulfill its mission while also prioritizing essential services.
• Teen Vogue closes.
• More than 15 years after Limelight closed, a new exhibit at Left Bank Books in the West Village offers a rare glimpse into the club's inner workings, runaway success and ultimate implosion.

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• ‘No hire’ job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply
• Elon Musk bounded to the stage of the company's AGM accompanied by dancing robots after shareholders approved his pay package.
• The Senate voted 60-40 on Sunday night to move forward with a temporary funding package aimed at ending the 40-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.
• Sydney Sweeny GQ interview

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- FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown

- Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes

- High court’s conservative majority halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on passports

- President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for their popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy

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- White House attack

- Federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1st due to shutdown

- Trad son

- Military mobilization into Latin America

- US passport falls to 12th place