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LAUSD abruptly ends new admissions rules for gifted students amid parent fury over standards

LAUSD planned to change the admission policy for honors programs at elite schools, sparking debate over equitable access to programs for gifted students.
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Biden meeting with families of American hostages held by Hamas
President Biden is meeting Wednesday with the families of American hostages held in Gaza.
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1 in 3 kids learn about sex from ‘violent and degrading’ porn, report reveals
The research found young people viewed pornography for the first time, on average, at 13.6-years-old – often before they’d been given the tools to understand what was they were seeing.
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La Selección Colombia ilusiona a su país, mientras que una artista barranquillera los cautivó a ellos
María Rueda se convirtió en sensación en las redes sociales al crear y regalar balones pintados personalizados a jugadores de la selección colombiana.
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How much are tickets for the Bills vs. Chiefs game at Highmark Stadium?
This is the first time the rivals are meeting since Kansas City beat Buffalo in the AFC Divisional round in January.
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Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, he posted on his social media platform Wednesday afternoon.
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Mysterious glowing sea slug discovered that eats like Venus fly trap: scientists
New study on the "devious" Bathydevius caudactylus was a quarter of a century in the making.
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Don’t spill your secrets after a few glasses! Rewire your relationship with alcohol with this app
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LAPD apprehends homeless man suspected of raping several women
Police said the homeless man is suspected of being involved in four sexual assault cases and detectives investigating the cases are seeking additional victims.
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Trump nominates Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general in surprise pick
President-elect selected Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as his Attorney General Wednesday in a surprising pick.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he'll ask for a vote of confidence in December
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February.
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Your sleep routine sucks. Give it an upgrade with this luxe satin sleep set
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Spain arrests top police officer after over $21 million found in home
Spanish police arrested Oscar Sanchez Gil along with 15 other people as part of a probe into the country's largest-ever cocaine bust.
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Trump taps Matt Gaetz for attorney general
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Trump to nominate Matt Gaetz for attorney general
Trump will nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general, according to a social media post.
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Gov. Hochul to relaunch controversial NYC congestion pricing: sources
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce plans Thursday to resurrect congestion pricing with a $9 base toll, The Post has learned. Hochul’s congestion pricing revamp – which was confirmed by multiple sources – would lower the $15 toll on cars entering Lower Manhattan originally slated to begin in June, before the governor put it on an...
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How far has gold's price dropped in November?
The price of gold was on a record run ... until this month. Here's what to know (and what to do) right now.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Megalopolis’ on VOD, Francis Ford Coppola’s Ambitious Yet Inscrutable Passion Project
I don't have TIME for this shit, man!
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Nets vs. Celtics prediction: NBA picks, odds, bets Wednesday
The Celtics will play their second game in as many days when they visit the Nets on Wednesday night.
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Jack Hughes hits big milestone in Devils’ win over Stanley Cup champs
Trey Matthews, host of the ‘Locked on Devils’ podcast, shares his reaction to the Devils’ impressive 4-1 road win over the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers and Jack Hughes reaching a big career milestone with Brandon London.
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Hugh Jackman’s ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness subtly reacts to his alleged affair with Sutton Foster
Hugh Jackman's ex appears to be weighing in on his alleged affair with Sutton Foster.
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ABC brass scramble to bring in pro-Trump voices to ‘The View’ and other shows: ‘Panic mode’
ABC News brass are in "panic mode" as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on “The View,” as well as those on other shows, The Post has learned.
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Trump's DOD pick, Fox's Pete Hegseth, once mocked him for getting advice from TV news
Donald Trump this week tapped Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defense -- despite the Fox News host having previously criticized him before he was elected in 2016.
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Trump Gets His Second Trifecta
Here’s what he can—and likely can’t—accomplish with GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
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Lefty newspaper Guardian won’t post on Elon Musk’s X due to ‘far-right conspiracy theories and racism’
The London-based left-leaning newspaper recently offered staffers free mental health counseling to cope with President-elect Donald Trump's victory.
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Travis Kelce's and Patrick Mahomes' homes were broken into just days apart
The FBI is reportedly investigating burglaries at the homes of Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. The string of burglaries happened early last month while neither of them were home. At least $20,000 in cash was taken from Kelce's home. Neither one has addressed the burglaries publicly.
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Why does Musk want to join Trump during second term as president?
Elon Musk will have to balance the many business dealings he has with the U.S. government as he contemplates joining President-elect Donald Trump for his second term in office. David Yaffe-Bellany, a crypto and technology reporter at The New York Times, joins CBS News with more on Trump's plan to create a temporary agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk may help lead.
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Our Daughter and Her Husband Got in a Devastating Fight Five Years Ago. We’re the Ones Left Paying the Price.
Now he's "busy" every Christmas.
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Save over $1,400 on this 98-Inch TCL Smart TV during Amazon’s early Black Friday deal drop
Watch the big game, bigger with this early Black Friday deal.
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“Your body, my choice”: The misogynist MAGA attack, explained
Donald Trump leaves a campaign event on September 17, 2024. Donald Trump is headed to the White House, again, so it’s not surprising that Americans are again contending with a rise in hate speech.  This time around, one of the attack lines is “your body, my choice.” Attributed by some to an election night post on X by white supremacist Nick Fuentes that read “Your body, my choice. Forever,” the phrase transforms the longstanding feminist and abortion-rights slogan “My body, my choice” into an attack on women’s autonomy, and, at worst, a threat of rape. In the days following the election, TikTok creators have reported seeing the phrase crop up in comments on their videos, according to a report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a global nonpartisan think tank that studies disinformation and extremism. One creator said she had to delete a video because commenters were “saying they couldn’t wait until I get raped or ‘your body my choice.’”  Girls and young women are also hearing the line in schools, according to family members, with one mom posting on Facebook that her daughter had heard it three times on campus, and that boys told her to “sleep with one eye open tonight.” Instances of the phrase increased 4,600 percent on X between last Thursday and Friday, according to the report. Meanwhile, Fuentes’s original post has been reposted more than 35,000 times.  The spike in sexist hate is a reflection of one of the dominant narratives of the election: that it was essentially a triumph of men over women. Trump tailored much of his campaign to disaffected American men — especially young men, many of whom feel they are victims of discrimination and who have expressed resentment against feminist movements like Me Too. For a lot of these men, the election feels like vindication, and for some, it’s more than that: a chance to put women back in their place.  For anyone on the receiving end of the misogynist insults in the last few days, meanwhile, the phrase feels like a scary harbinger of things to come. At the same time, experts told Vox that Americans have experienced this kind of hate speech before, particularly in the aftermath of Trump’s first election in 2016 — and that history can hold lessons for navigating the present. The phrase is part of a larger pattern of misogyny The feminist phrase “my body, my choice” was used regularly in chants at rallies by 1970, though it’s not clear who originally coined it, said Laura Prieto, program director of Our Bodies Ourselves Today, a digital platform that is an iteration of the iconic reproductive health book Our Bodies, Ourselves. In the years before Roe v. Wade, it was a call for abortion rights, but it was also “a statement about women demanding their right as equal human beings to have decision-making power over what happened to them,” Prieto said. The term has become less popular on the left in recent years, especially after it was adopted by anti-vaccine activists. Now “my body, my choice” has been co-opted by Fuentes and others, who have transformed it into a tool to harass and intimidate women.  Others aren’t using the phrase, but are echoing the idea that with Trump’s election, women must submit to the will of men. On social media, posts have ranged from “more coded misogyny” to “very direct threats of rape,” Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and one of the authors of the report, told Vox. Many of the sexist posts stem from “manosphere” influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers, according to the report — Tate, for example, posted on X on November 7, “I saw a woman crossing the road today but I just kept my foot down. Right of way? You no longer have rights.”  “Manosphere” creators are part of a larger online ecosystem directed at men that’s lurched hard to the right in recent years, and helped carry Trump to victory, Vox’s Rebecca Jennings reported. Fifty-five percent of male voters cast their ballots for Trump this year, compared with just 45 percent of female voters, according to exit polling by the Washington Post. (Though we ought to note that exit polling is preliminary, and therefore unreliable, data.) Online, that gender divide emerged before the election. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue reports spotting a rise in misogynistic posts (including calls to repeal the 19th amendment) starting in October, apparently in response to the Harris campaign’s focus on women voters and reproductive rights. The spread of the posts “demonstrated the influence of an increasingly vindictive set of online actors, who appear to be using the election results as a permission structure to more overtly and aggressively espouse narratives about curbing women’s rights,” Frances-Wright and co-author Moustafa Ayad write in their report. A similar pattern emerged after Trump’s first election in 2016, when civil rights groups and law enforcement agencies saw a spike in hate speech and attacks on women and people perceived to be Muslim or immigrants — all groups Trump explicitly or implicitly denigrated in his first campaign. The harassment even made its way into classrooms; a BuzzFeed analysis found more than 50 incidents of a student invoking Trump’s name or message to attack a classmate during the 2016-17 school year. The fact that the attacks aren’t new doesn’t make them less scary for the people on the receiving end. “It is very traumatic, particularly the younger that you are,” Frances-Wright said. Implicit threats of rape can feel doubly frightening in a country where Trump just cruised to victory despite multiple allegations of sexual assault. How to counter post-election hate Since the harassment people are experiencing today is part of a longstanding pattern, however, there’s an existing playbook to counteract it. Some organizations, including schools and bookstores, have issued statements in recent days clarifying that they will not tolerate discrimination or harassment. How to report harassment If you or someone you know is experiencing harassment right now, help is available: The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a list of resources for dealing with online harassment. Our Bodies, Ourselves Today maintains a list of groups fighting gender-based violence. The Anti-Violence Project works against hate directed at LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. It’s also a time to remember the long history of “my body, my choice,” and everything it stood for — including hardships for women that must have seemed, at times, impossible to overcome, including a lack of many basic rights like the ability to open credit cards in their names or serve on juries.  “A lot of things that we take for granted, just because they seem to be really powerful right now, it doesn’t mean that they always will be,” Prieto said. “The one thing you can count on is that things are going to change.”
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Polymarket ‘whale’ raked in $85M on Trump win — millions more than previously reported
The French Polymarket 'whale' raked in more than $50 million more than previously reported on President-elect Donald Trump's win.
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Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence: 'Fearless spirit'
In a statement on Wednesday, President-elect Trump announced that he is appointing Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence in his new Cabinet.
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FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source
The incident occured just a week after Polymarket successfully predicted President-elect Donald Trump's win.
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Trump taps former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard represented Hawaii in the U.S. House from 2013 to 2021.
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Biden, Xi to meet on Saturday in Peru, US officials say
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on Saturday in Peru; they are expected to hold talks 'spanning a range of global hot spots.'
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Sydney Sweeney calls out ‘fake’ message of ‘women empowering other women’ in Hollywood: ‘None of it’s happening’
"None of it’s happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the other s--t that they say behind everyone’s back," the "Euphoria" star told Vanity Fair.
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Quincy Jones’ cause of death revealed: report
The music mogul passed away earlier this month at the age of 91.
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Trump picks Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense | Reporter Replay
Fox News personality and Army National Guard member Peter Hegseth’s latest book slamming the military’s embrace of “woke” ideologies helped secure his nomination for secretary of defense by President-elect Donald Trump.
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Patrick Mahomes speaks out on ‘frustrating’ home burglary
Patrick Mahomes said he was disappointed about a burglary that took place at his Belton, Missouri estate just after midnight on Oct. 6.
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Judge blocks Louisiana mandate to display Ten Commandments in schools
A federal judge stopped the Louisiana mandate requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in the classroom.
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Pete Hegseth’s Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War Crimes
Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.
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Trump picks Democrat-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence
Gabbard, a former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee who endorsed Trump and joined the Republican party late in the 2024 campaign, will oversee America's 17 intelligence agencies in the powerful post.
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Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is Trump's pick for director of national intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard -- a military veteran who once sought the Democratic presidential nomination, was chosen by Trump to be his director of national intelligence.
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'Blue Bloods' actress reportedly found after mysterious weekslong disappearance
Chanel Banks was found safe in Texas after her family reported the actress missing. The "Gossip Girl" star's family had last heard from Banks on Oct. 30.
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Senator-elect Jim Justice’s team denies report claiming Babydog banned from Senate floor
Senator-elect Jim Justice's team is clearing the air after it was reported earlier Tuesday that his famous pooch Babydog was banned from the Senate floor.
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Social media erupts after Biden appears jubilant in Trump White House meeting
President Biden's smiling demeanor during a White House meeting welcoming President-elect Trump this week sparked social media speculation
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Knicks vs. Bulls prediction: NBA picks, best bets, odds
The Knicks (5-5) will try to extend their winning streak to two games when they host the Bulls on Wednesday night. 
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Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?
Health officials say risk remains low—but that could change.
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Musk joins Trump in D.C. for meetings
Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for meetings with Republicans in Congress before the president-elect's transition meeting with President Biden. Musk and Trump's bond remains as questions emerge about how he can serve the administration. Gregory Korte, a White House and politics correspondent at Bloomberg, joins CBS News with more.
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