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Children making AI-generated child abuse images, says charity (www.bbc.com)

Death of Henry Kissinger met with polarized reaction around the world (apnews.com)

Criticism of Kissinger was especially strong on social media, where he was widely referred to as a war criminal....

Cyber Monday sales reach $12.4B driven by 'Buy Now, Pay Later' (www.foxbusiness.com)

Watch: US police chase 12-year-old in stolen forklift (www.bbc.com)

Police say preliminary investigations show the vehicle was unlocked with the key inside when it was taken.

Burlington, Vermont, shooting live updates: 3 Palestinian U.S. college students shot on their way to dinner (www.nbcnews.com)

Widespread election fraud claims by Republicans don't match the evidence (www.brookings.edu)

We are less than one year away from Election Day and although there has been no new evidence or litigation regarding election fraud in the 2020 election, many people continue to believe that the 2020 election was flawed. In the summer, a poll by the Associated Press showed that 22% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats have high...

Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border (www.nytimes.com)

The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China....

Giulia Cecchettin's killing sparks Italian reckoning over femicide (www.bbc.co.uk)

“It is often said ‘not all men’. But they are always men,”

US electric vehicle sales to hit record this year, but still lag behind China and Germany (apnews.com)

Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy. That will be up from 7.3% of new car sales in 2022....

The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender (www.inquirer.com)

Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms for Liberty chapter....

Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI names its third CEO in 3 days (www.cnn.com)

Argentina Takes Leap Into Unknown With Javier Milei as President (www.bloomberg.com)

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of the 39th president and advocate for mental health, dies at 96 (abcnews.go.com)

Connecticut judge sets new primary date for mayor’s race tainted by alleged ballot box stuffing (apnews.com)

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has set Jan. 23 as the date for a new Democratic primary election in the Bridgeport mayor’s race after having tossed out the September election results because of alleged ballot box stuffing.

New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with climate change (apnews.com)

Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston....

Trump’s Most Unhinged Plans for His Second Term (nymag.com)

Australia: Sydney University sacks immune-compromised academic for insisting on COVID safety (www.wsws.org)

Unless Niko Tiliopoulos’s sacking is defeated, it will set a precedent for use throughout the tertiary education industry to victimise and sack educators who refuse, for critical health reasons, to adhere to the intensifying “return to campus” offensive.

Nearly 450 patients at Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis (abcnews.go.com)

They went viral for their Thanksgiving dinner eight years ago. Now they’re inviting you. (www.inquirer.com)

Not really an invite, so much as a ticket for sale.

'Can't buy new jeans': Argentina inflation hits 143% as shoppers tighten belts (www.reuters.com)

A U.K. Researcher Has Unearthed the Original 19th-Century Photo Featured on an Iconic Led Zeppelin Album Cover (news.artnet.com)

The image was found in an album of photographs taken by Ernest Howard Farmer. … The man Farmer photographed has also been identified as Lot Long (1823–93), who was a widower residing in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere, when the image was taken.

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