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Black Friday Is Over, but the Best Sound Is Always on Sale. Check Out the 55+ Handpicked Headphone Deals Now
- Shop deals curated by our expert deal finders Well Black Friday is officially over but there are still plenty of incredible deals to be found on headphones or earbuds . CNET's shopping experts have been rounding up the truly great deals on premium models going for less, as well as earbuds including those rated for workouts. If you've got your eyes on a new pair of AirPods or some Beats for your daily commute, these ...

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POLITICS  
US halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports days after a shooting near the White House that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition. Investigators continued Saturday to seek a motive in the shooting, in which the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, now faces charges including first-degree ...

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WORLD   TECHNOLOGY  
Airlines work to fix software glitch on A320 aircraft and some flights are disrupted
- Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month. Airbus said Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning ...

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Authorities probe corruption and negligence in Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades
- Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died. An intense fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court complex in Hong Kong's northern suburbs Wednesday afternoon, with flames covering seven of eight of the towers. The complex was home to some 4,800 residents, some of whom had raised safety concerns about the ...

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Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo will keep his job after Hurts, Barkley struggle again
- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The chants started early from fed-up Eagles fans, and they were booming as the inept offensive plays piled up in yet another loss. "Fire Kevin! Fire Kevin!" Eagles fans made their vote to dump offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo heard throughout Friday's 24-15 loss to the Chicago Bears. Coach Nick Sirianni made yet another call the fans won't like: Patullo is staying. "We're not changing ...

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POLITICS  
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
- President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking  and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The president explained his decision on social media by posting that "according to many people that I greatly respect," Hernandez was "treated very harshly and unfairly." In March of ...

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MEDICINE   POLITICS  
Measles deaths plummet but infections surge worldwide
- Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000. However, an estimated 95 000 people, mostly children younger than 5 years of age, died due to measles in 2024. While this is among the lowest annual tolls recorded since 2000, ...

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Northwestern University agrees to pay $75 million as part of deal with Trump administration that restores frozen funds
- Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as part of a settlement with the Trump administration which restores previously frozen federal funding and ends a monthslong investigation over government allegations of "unlawful discrimination," including "race-based admissions" and a "hostile" environment for Jewish students, the Department of Justice announced Friday. The agreement requires Northwestern to ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump says he will cancel all Biden executive orders signed by autopen – as it happened
- In social media post Trump claims baselessly that Biden did not sign off on the orders himself, escalating longstanding campaign against his predecessor From Donald Trump has said that he is cancelling all executive orders signed by his predecessor Joe Biden using an autopen. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% ...

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The 52 Best Walmart Black Friday Deals
- is here, and we're updating this story hourly. To find the best deals in every category, follow all of   Walmart's Black Friday sale is officially here, and as with all big box store sales, there's a lot to parse through. I've done the hard work and clicked through hundreds of pages of deals to find the best ones, from discounted Dyson vacuum cleaners to Hanes sweats to LEGO kits. Almost everything on this ...

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WORLD  
Video shows Israeli soldiers execute 2 Palestinians as they surrender in West Bank raid, rights group says
- Israeli human rights group B'Tselem shared a video on Thursday that it says shows Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinian men who had surrendered during a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank . The video, which B'Tselem credits to Palestine TV and which CBS News has not independently verified, appears to show Israeli soldiers surrounding a garage-style door on a building as two men emerge with their ...

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Two-time major champion Fuzzy Zoeller, haunted by racist joke, dies aged 74 | World News
- The golf star finished his career with 10 PGA Tour wins but his legacy was marked by comments he made about Tiger Woods. Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion, has died at the age of 74. The American, who became embroiled in a racism controversy for a joke he made about Tiger Woods , finished his career with 10 PGA Tour wins and two titles on the PGA Tour Champions. He is still the last golfer to win the Masters ...

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WORLD  
Pope joins patriarchs from East and West at historic Christian site in Turkey to pray for unity - The
- IZNIK: Pope Leo XIV joined Eastern and Western patriarchs and priests Friday in commemorating an important anniversary in Christian history, gathering at the site in Turkey of an unprecedented A.D. 325 meeting of bishops to pray that Christians might once again be united. Leo, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and other Christian leaders met on the shores of Lake Iznik, the site of the Council of Nicaea that ...

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POLITICS  
Zelenskyy's chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home
- – Ukrainian President announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in , after Yermak's residence was searched by at the heart of Ukraine's government was that risked disrupting his negotiating strategy at a time when Kyiv is under intense U.S. pressure to sign a peace deal nearly four years after Yermak has long been a trusted ...

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POLITICS  
Trump administration halts all asylum decisions in wake of DC National Guard shooting
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article An Afghan national has been accused of carrying out the deadly shooting near the White House Wednesday The Trump administration has halted all decisions regarding migrants seeking asylum in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members. The suspected shooter, Rahmanullah ...

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SCIENCE  
The Story of Cat Domestication Just Got a Major Twist
- Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . D espite oodles of data on dog domestication, the exact origins of our feline friends have long remained fuzzy. We do know that pet cats retained many of their wild cat ancestors' characteristics. This—perhaps not surprising many cat caretakers—makes pet cats technically "semidomesticated." But scientists have squabbled over precisely where and when such ...

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