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The New York Times

Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’ Pleads With Trump to Save Her Country’s Democracy

In a series of rare in-depth interviews, Venezuela’s opposition leader called life in hiding “a difficult test” and asserted that Mr. Trump could gain an early “foreign policy victory” by pushing Nicolás Maduro from office. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/world/americas/venezuela-trump-maria-machado-democracy.html Author : Julie Turkewitz Publish date : 2024-11-18 13:48:47 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

Senate GOP initiates Thune-engineered slow down as Schumer looks to stack judicial votes

Senate GOP initiates Thune-engineered slow down as Schumer looks to stack judicial votes
Senate Republicans opted to delay votes and draw out floor action on Monday night after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sought to stack additional judicial confirmation votes on the calendar ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Two sources familiar told Fox News Digital that the plan to slow down the Senate was spearheaded by Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., who was recently elected as the next Republican Senate leader. "If Sen. Schumer thought Senate Republicans would just roll over and allow him to quickly confirm multiple Biden-appointed judges to lifetime jobs in the final weeks of the Democrat majority, he thought
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FOX News

TSA intercepts loaded handgun found in flight crew member’s carry-on at DC-area airport

TSA intercepts loaded handgun found in flight crew member's carry-on at DC-area airport
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, cited a member of an airline flight crew on Friday, after they were found to be in possession of a loaded handgun at one of the airport’s checkpoints.The TSA said in a news release that the female flight crew member, who has not been named, was carrying a 9 mm pistol that was loaded with nine bullets, including one in the chamber.Once TSA officers came across the firearm, they immediately notified police from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (WMAA), who responded to the checkpoint, confiscated the
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The Washington Post

This play about a pivotal friendship is D.C. theater at its best

Veteran performers Holly Twyford and Kate Eastwood Norris star in Studio Theatre’s “Summer, 1976.” Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2024/11/18/summer-1976-studio-holly-twyford-kate-eastwood-norris/ Author : Trey Graham Publish date : 2024-11-19 00:09:16 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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The New York Times

COP29 Climate Talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, Head Into Final Stretch

Senior ministers are arriving in an effort to break a deadlock over the summit’s main goal: funding to help lower-income countries hit hard by global warming. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/climate/cop29-climate-summit-final-stretch.html Author : David Gelles and Brad Plumer Publish date : 2024-11-18 13:49:22 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

Whoopi Goldberg does not address back-and-forth with bakery during ‘The View’

Whoopi Goldberg does not address back-and-forth with bakery during 'The View'
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg did not further address the back-and-forth between herself and a Staten Island bakery, during "The View" on Monday, after she accused the bakery of denying her service over her politics. Goldberg and her co-hosts celebrated her 69th birthday on Wednesday with Charlotte Russe desserts, a nostalgic New York treat. Goldberg told the audience her birthday order had almost fallen through due to what she claimed was the bakery’s objection to her left-wing political stance."They said that their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff, but folks went and got them anyway, which is why I’m
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The Washington Post

Netanyahu says Israel damaged ‘component’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Oct. strikes

Netanyahu said Monday that a “specific component” of Iran’s nuclear program had been damaged in last month’s Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/israel-war-news-lebanon-iran-hamas-gaza-palestine/ Author : Mikhail Klimentov, Lior Soroka, Kareem Fahim, Amanda Coletta, Sammy Westfall Publish date : 2024-11-18 23:27:11 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

Trump nominates former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy for Secretary of Transportation

Trump nominates former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy for Secretary of Transportation
President-elect Trump announced that he is nominating former Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation."Sean has been a tremendous and well-liked public servant, starting his career as a District Attorney for Ashland, Wisconsin, and later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District," Trump said in his announcement on Monday. "Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild our Nation’s Infrastructure, and fulfill our Mission of ushering in The Golden Age of Travel, focusing on Safety, Efficiency, and
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The Washington Post

Trump team says president-elect is only official spokesman on Ukraine

Biden administration officials say that they have minimal contact with their successors, noting that transition teams still have not signed the memorandums of understanding that would facilitate the briefings and conversations that are typically done ahead of a handoff. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/waltz-trump-ukraine-russia-atacms/ Author : Marianne LeVine, Michael Birnbaum Publish date : 2024-11-18 22:50:11 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

Cruz says UN draft resolution against Israel is aimed at undermining incoming Trump admin, GOP Congress

Cruz says UN draft resolution against Israel is aimed at undermining incoming Trump admin, GOP Congress
JERUSALEM— Just hours before the United Nations Security Council is slated to vote on an alleged anti-Israel resolution pushed by Algeria to impose an end on the Jewish state's war of self-defense against Hamas, the Biden administration has gone silent about how it will vote.The irony of the notoriously anti-Israel Algeria devising the resolution recalls the witty line of the late Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Abba Eban, who said, "If Algeria introduced a (U.N.) resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26
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The New York Times

Congestion Pricing Opponents Renew Attacks as NYC Plan Returns

Gov. Kathy Hochul is letting the tolling program move forward in January. Her critics have jumped on the chance to object to the reversal. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/nyregion/congestion-pricing-vote-mta.html Author : Ana Ley, Winnie Hu and Grace Ashford Publish date : 2024-11-18 21:43:28 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

RFK Jr. says kids ‘swimming’ in ‘poisonous’ foods as Dr. Marc Siegel calls out ‘sick care system’

RFK Jr. says kids 'swimming' in 'poisonous' foods as Dr. Marc Siegel calls out ‘sick care system’
Since President-elect Donald Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last week, there has been a heightened focus on Kennedy’s initiative to "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA).One of Kennedy’s widely reported goals has been to reduce kids’ consumption of ultraprocessed foods."We have a generation of kids who are swimming around in a toxic soup right now," Kennedy previously told Fox News. "We’re letting these industries corrupt our agencies and mass poison them."ULTRA-PROCESSED FOOD CONSUMPTION IN US POSES RISK FOR KIDSDr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst for Fox News, joined "Fox
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The New York Times

Mining Company Whose C.E.O. Was Detained Agrees to Pay Mali $160 Million

Three executives of the Australian company Resolute Mining were arrested this month. Mali, a major African gold producer, has been trying to increase its share of mining profits lately. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/world/africa/mali-mining-detensions.html Author : Ruth Maclean, Saikou Jammeh and Elian Peltier Publish date : 2024-11-18 21:30:55 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

Laken Riley’s alleged killer Jose Ibarra flew from ‘ground zero’ of migrant crisis to Georgia

Laken Riley's alleged killer Jose Ibarra flew from 'ground zero' of migrant crisis to Georgia
Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley in February while she was on a morning run, is back in court Monday for the second day of his trial.Security guards escorted Ibarra, who was wearing a striped shirt and black pants with handcuffs around his wrists, into Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard's courtroom at the Athens-Clarke County courthouse Monday around 7:15 a.m.Prosecutors say Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, while she was jogging along trails near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens the
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The Washington Post

The Chiefs might have needed a loss like this

After Josh Allen’s touchdown run lifted the Bills, the Chiefs lost their chance at undefeated history. They’re after something bigger. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/11/18/chiefs-undefeated-season-bills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage Author : Publish date : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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The New York Times

School Battles May Help Explain Why Democrats Declined in Some Suburbs

Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/schools-election-virginia-suburbs.html Author : Dana Goldstein Publish date : 2024-11-18 20:53:31 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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FOX News

‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kaley Cuoco shuts down parenting critics

‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kaley Cuoco shuts down parenting critics
Kaley Cuoco says enough is enough when it comes to mom shaming."The Big Bang Theory" star, who has 18-month-old daughter Matilda with her fiancé Tom Pelphrey, has dealt with her fair share of critics when it comes to her parenting style. Cuoco told E! News, "It's just this business, it's this life. It is what it is. But yeah, we got to stop the shaming." Cuoco noted that "everyone's got something to say about everything. There's no change before I had kids, to having kids, to where I am in my life." KALEY CUOCO SAYS SHE MAY HAVE ANOTHER CHILD BEFORE GETTING MARRIED:
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The Washington Post

Smithsonian removed American Art Museum director after staff complaints

Former director Stephanie Stebich is now a senior adviser at the Smithsonian after employees described a tumultuous tenure at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/11/18/smithsonian-american-art-museum-director-stephanie-stebich/ Author : Kriston Capps Publish date : 2024-11-18 10:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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The New York Times

Gisèle Pelicot’s Sons Tell of a ‘Devastated’ Family at Rape Trial in France

The men appeared in court, addressing their father, who admits to having drugged their mother over years and inviting dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/world/europe/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-france.html Author : Catherine Porter Publish date : 2024-11-18 19:59:33 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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