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Dungeons & Dragons causes controversy with rule change over identity
Some Dungeons & Dragons gamers are frustrated by new rule changes in which character traits have been "divorced from biological identity," in an apparent attempt to be more inclusive.
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Biden closes government as 'mark of respect' for late former President Jimmy Carter
President Biden on Monday signed an executive order closing executive offices of the government for late former President Jimmy Carter's funeral on Jan. 9.
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It’s Your Last Chance to Save on Paramount+ — Sign Up for $2 per Month
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Texas' Arch Manning shoots down transfer rumors ahead of CFP game
Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning shot down rumors he planned on entering the transfer portal once the 2024-25 season was finished.
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Horndog MTA workers engaged in on-the-clock hanky-panky, cozied up in car while working the rails: inspector general
The supervisor regularly "assigned the Trackworker to flag for him'' and she provided "flagging protection for his nightly assignments on the roadbed,'' the report said.
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Chinese hackers infiltrate US Treasury in major cyberattack, officials tell Congress
A China state-backed actor successfully breached US Treasury Department workstations and accessed "unclassified" documents via a cloud service intrusion earlier this month, officials told a key Senate committee.
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Where Owner Finds Golden Retriever 20 Mins After Coming Home Melts Hearts
The owner searched for Rex after noticing he was being quiet only to find him face-deep in his ball pit of toys.
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Rank-and-file bank workers sell client data to online scammers: report
Low-level bank employees continue to get caught selling personal information, exposing a major weakness in bank security, according to a report.
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How the two sole survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash lived — thanks to their seats
The two sole survivors aboard the Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people lived because they were seated at the rear of the aircraft -- which is statistically the safest place to be on a commercial aircraft.
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Photos: Former President Carter redefined post-presidency role
The Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and resolving global conflicts.
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Trump's Vote of Confidence
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump transition, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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Luigi Mangione retains Harvey Weinstein’s prison consultant Craig Rothfeld
Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, but has pleaded not guilty, and Rothfeld was reportedly at his hearing.
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How Bad Are Norovirus, Bird Flu Outbreaks? Cases Compared to Past Years
Cases of norovirus and bird flu are on the rise compared to last year, according to data from the CDC.
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Dominique Pelicot Won't Appeal Prison Sentence for Drugging, Raping Wife
Dominique Pelicot said he wants to spare his ex-wife from a "new ordeal" of another trial, according to his lawyer.
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Hamas spent 7 years collecting intel on security cameras, guards and even a kindergarten in Israeli communities massacred on Oct. 7: report
Eerie footage showed various surveillance shots of the communities along the border that Hamas terrorists were able to monitor and use for their eventual attack.
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Inside the Guardian Angels’ new mission to take back subways as New Yorkers ready to fight back against transit chaos
The Post tagged along as the Guardian Angels launched subway patrols for the first time since 1980 amid a spike in transit crime -- and New Yorkers are on board.
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Mexico to give citizens phone app with ‘panic button’ to alert kin, consulates if ICE nabs them as Trump deportation looms
Mexico also has already set up shelters along its northern border with the US to receive deported Mexican migrants.
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Back Moon December 2024: How to See the Rare New Moon Phenomenon Tonight
The next black moon will not happen for another two and a half years.
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Deion Sanders calls out ‘IDIOTS’ over rumors of his involvement in NFL draft futures of sons Shedeur, Shilo
Sanders appears to have seen some speculation that he is already plotting to hold out his sons from playing on certain teams.
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WATCH: What will the legacy of Jimmy Carter be?
ABC News contributor and opinions editor at large at the Washington Post, Michael Duffy joined ABC News Live to discuss the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter.
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Elon Musk is on a collision course with Stephen Miller
Elon Musk (second from left) and Stephen Miller (third from left) arrive with President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers on November 13, 2024, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A bitter public feud split the MAGA movement over the holidays, as supporters of high-skilled legal immigration like Elon Musk argued vociferously (and sometimes profanely) with the right’s immigration critics over the topic of H-1B visas. Musk, like many tech executives, strongly supports that program, which lets companies bring skilled foreign workers to the US for specific jobs — indeed, Musk said he once had such a visa himself. Critics on the right have long argued that it suppresses wages for American workers, while proponents say it attracts top talent and helps American businesses succeed. “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face,” Musk posted on X. “I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” That particular missive was aimed at an X poster with a small following. And yet Musk’s real nemesis on the issue is someone with far more power, influence, and bureaucratic savvy: Stephen Miller. Miller is the hardline anti-immigration ideologue who effectively oversaw immigration policy for the first Trump administration as a senior White House aide. He spent Trump’s first term mastering the workings of the federal bureaucracy and was one of only a few high-level appointees to remain in the boss’s good graces. In Trump’s second term, he’ll have another high-level role, as deputy White House chief of policy. As I wrote in a September profile, Miller is the architect of Trump’s mass deportation agenda — but he’s also pushed hard to restrict legal immigration including H-1B visas specifically, despite his boss’s sometimes contradictory impulses on the issue. In Trump’s first term, Miller was tenacious enough that he eventually got his way: The administration cited the pandemic to “temporarily” suspend all H-1B visas while crafting rules designed to drastically limit the program. So while Musk might be encouraged by the broadly positive comments on H-1B visas Trump made to a reporter on Saturday — the president-elect said he’s “been a believer in H-1B” — the real question is: Can Musk win a policy war with Miller? Why MAGA fans started attacking each other on X over H-1B visas during the holidays The GOP coalition has long been split on high-skilled immigration. The party’s pro-business faction has supported it, arguing it brings in the best talent and helps American companies succeed and compete globally. But the nativist or populist right opposes it as a plot by cosmopolitan elites to avoid paying American workers. Trump has straddled this divide, often praising H1-B visas, while appointees like Miller worked to limit them. (“Big Tech is replacing Americans,” Miller tweeted last year.) The divide took on a new dynamic over the summer, when several wealthy tech figures — such as Musk and David Sacks — endorsed Trump. Appearing on All-In, a podcast hosted by Sacks and other venture capitalists, Trump was pressed to promise to expand high-skilled immigration. “I do promise,” Trump said. He also mused (without being asked) that international students graduating from US colleges should “automatically” get a green card to stay and work. (Afterward, his campaign walked this back, saying that only after “aggressive vetting” would “the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions” be allowed to stay.) After the election, Trump named Musk and former biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will seemingly be some sort of outside advisory body issuing recommendations on how the administration should cut regulations and spending. Trump also named Sacks the “A.I. & Crypto Czar.” The current brouhaha was kicked off by far-right activist and provocateur Laura Loomer last week, after Trump announced that another venture capitalist, Sriram Krishnan, would join the White House to work on AI policy. Loomer called the appointment “deeply disturbing.” She pointed to a November X post in which Krishnan wrote that “anything to remove country caps for green cards / unlock skilled immigration would be huge,” saying this “is not America First policy.” From there, the conflict spiraled: Sacks defended Krishnan, but the attacks from Loomer and her supporters continued, with many taking on an ugly racial or ethnic dynamic (since about 70 percent of recent H-1B recipients have been from India). Loomer denounced “third-world invaders from India,” said “our country was built by white Europeans,” and asked “why are people in India still shitting in the water they bathe and drink from?” Musk got involved, insisting “there is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” calling this “the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” He also issued the aforementioned “FUCK YOURSELF in the face” post and promised to “go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon called Musk a “toddler” who needs a “wellness check” from Child Protective Services and said there should be “zero H-1B visas.” Eventually, Ramaswamy joined the fray in a lengthy X post, arguing that the reason “top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans” is that “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.” He condemned the idea of valuing “the jock over the valedictorian” and criticized American cultural products like the TV shows Boy Meets World and Friends — praising instead the 2014 film Whiplash, which portrayed an instructor’s psychological abuse of a jazz drummer aspiring to artistic greatness (directed by Ramaswamy’s Harvard University classmate). As for Miller, he has not weighed in explicitly. But later on the day of Ramaswamy’s post, Miller posted on X, without explanation, excerpts from a 2020 speech when Trump praised the culture and achievements of the American people, calling them “the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the Earth.” Some on the nativist right, like Bannon, interpreted Miller’s post as a rebuttal to Ramaswamy — and a reminder of who will really hold power in the White House. Miller, who oversaw the White House speechwriting office, may have had a hand in crafting Trump’s words there — just as he will have a major role in crafting immigration policy in 2025 and likely beyond. Can Musk supplant Miller? Now, if you believe what Trump says currently, he’s pro H-1B. “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump told the New York Post on Saturday. “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” he continued. (However, the New York Times reported Trump “appears to have only sparingly used” the H-1B — but that his companies had often used the very different H-2 visas for “jobs like cooks, housekeepers, and waiters.”) But Trump has previously spoken more negatively about the program. “We should end it,” he said in 2016, calling it “very bad for workers.” (“The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: These are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay,” he said in a campaign statement that March.) And the biggest problem for Musk and his tech allies is that, if they want H-1B expansion, they’d have to go through Miller, a formidable opponent. Trump has sent mixed signals on legal immigration, but Miller has made his agenda clear: He wants much less of it. In 2020, when Trump announced “temporary” suspensions on legal immigration during the pandemic, Miller privately told allies this was just the first step in a broader strategy: “The most important thing is to turn off the faucet of new immigrant labor.” And in contrast to ideological allies like Bannon and Miller’s one-time boss Jeff Sessions, who flamed out of government and lost Trump’s favor, Miller has lasted, becoming a seemingly permanent fixture in Trumpworld — being dubbed “the president of immigration.” He exerted such vast policy influence in Trump’s first term in part due to his focus on bureaucratic minutia, in part because he could get other appointees fired, in part because he helped craft Trump’s words in prepared speeches, and in part because he was unshakably loyal to the boss and savvy at making alliances with other top officials. But mostly it was because other staffers believed, with good reason, that he and Trump had a mind meld on immigration — that he was speaking for the boss. So the venture capitalists and tech executives who have more recently joined Trump’s coalition and hope to be rewarded with their preferred H-1B policy changes will face a challenge getting past Miller. Trump may say things, but it’s Miller who turns those things into policy, and who knows how to slow-walk or squelch proposals he dislikes. So long as Miller holds Trump’s favor, and so long as he remains effectively in charge of immigration policy, betting on restrictionism is the only reasonable bet. Finally, there’s yet another twist to this messy saga — shortly before this dispute began last week, Trump announced he’d chosen a new appointee to join Musk and Ramaswamy at DOGE. Her name? Katie Miller — Stephen’s wife. “Congratulations to Stephen and Katie!” Trump posted.
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WATCH: Jimmy Carter's niece says he 'was a man of his word'
Kim Fuller, the niece of former President Jimmy Carter, reflects on her uncle's life and legacy.
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Kourtney Kardashian shares rare photo of her and Travis Barker’s blended family at Christmas Eve celebration
The "Kardashians" star posed with her four kids, Mason, Penelope, Reign and Rocky, along with her husband's son, Landon, and his stepdaughter, Atiana.
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FBI warns South American crime groups targeting star athletes in burglaries: report
The robberies of the homes of some of the most famous athletes in the U.S., including Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, are reportedly led by South American crime groups.
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Whopping 64M visitors flocked to NYC in 2024 as Big Apple tourism set to make ‘full recovery’ from COVID by next year
It’s a tourism de force. The Big Apple ushered in a whopping 64.3 million visitors in 2024 — and is on track to bounce back to pre-COVID tourism levels next year, officials said. This year’s comeback marked the second-highest tourist count in city history, and reflected a 3.5% increase in visitors from 2023, according to...
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Pregnant With Norovirus? Here's Everything You Need to Know
The CDC has reported 91 outbreaks of norovirus during the week of December 5, up from an average of 65 during the same period from 2012 to 2020.
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Meet the content creators harnessing AI —and how they use it to make thousands per month
Online influencers are raking in as much as $60,000 per month in passive income on AI generated content posted to social media.
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Flight passengers ask if travelers can get whole cans of soda vs. just a cup: 'Annoying'
On Reddit, a social media user asked whether passengers can ask for a can of soda as opposed to just a cup of the bubbly beverage. Users weighed in with their thoughts.
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Liam Payne's manager, two hotel workers charged in One Direction singer's death
Liam Payne's manager is one of three people charged with manslaughter in the investigation into the One Direction singer's death in October.
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Map Shows States Where Murders Are Rising and Dropping Most
Nine states saw murder totals rise in the year to October, but overall, the trend is downward.
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WATCH: Wife reacts after receiving cake decorated with favorite 'Fourth Wing' character
We'd scream too if we received a cake with Xaden Riorsan's face on it.
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‘A Real Pain’ Comes to Digital, But When Will Jesse Eisenberg’s Movie Be Streaming on Hulu?
Eisenberg's drama earned four Golden Globe nominations.
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How to watch Lions vs. 49ers live for free on Monday Night Football
MNF ends with a rematch of last year's NFC Championship.
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This is how often you should really be washing your water bottle — doc says it’s not actually every day
"I know there are folks out there — I'm looking at you — that will go weeks without washing your crusty-a-- water bottle or maybe just a quick rinse before you fill it up," Dr. Jason Singh said.
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Why Paul Goldschmidt was the right move for the Yankees? | Pinstripe Post with Joel Sherman
Why Paul Goldschmidt was the right move for the Yankees? Watch the Pinstripe Post here: https://youtu.be/j0TW1e2DLJM
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Jimmy Carter's Legacy in the Middle East Is Both War and Peace | Opinion
What history will record of Jimmy Carter was that he was the first U.S. president to broker peace between Israel and an Arab country.
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Doorbell Rings, Giant Great Dane 'Unsure' Whether to Defend or Bring Toy
"It was just doordash big guy," the caption reads.
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Jets’ priorities become clear as first head coaching candidates made public
There are plenty of things to debate about what the Jets should be looking for both in a GM and a coach. One of those areas of debate is how important it is that the person has done the job before.
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Paul Rust Says James Franco Flipped Out On Set After Poor 2011 Oscars Reviews: “He Was In A Bad Mood”
"It reaches a point where I see James Franco stand up, kick a chair and storm out of the stage," Rust alleged.
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The most stunning images of 2024
Images from the eclipse, the Olympics in Paris and the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, stand out among the most impactful captured moments of the year. Jeffrey Henson Scales, a photography editor at The New York Times, joins CBS News with his team's top picks of the year.
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Liam Payne death investigation: 5 people charged in connection to One Direction singer's passing
Five people have been charged in connection to the death of Liam Payne. The British singer died in October after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires.
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Colts' DeForest Buckner Takes Massive Shot at Organization Following Playoffs Miss
Indianapolis Colts defensive end DeForet Buckner took a massive shot at the organization following the team missing out on the playoffs.
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Senior DOJ Officials Leaked Investigation Details Before Election: Report
A DOJ watchdog found that three officials violated policy by releasing details of the investigation to reporters.
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NYPD drones will hover over Times Square ball drop as cops prep for massive crowds
City officials say Gotham is still on high alert after Hamas’s surprise Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and led to the seizure of hundreds of hostages.
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Riot’s $250-million ‘Arcane’ TV series was a Netflix hit, financial miss
Riot believed the show would be the first of many produced by its new entertainment division, which would transform the Los-Angeles based company into the next Walt Disney Co.
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How Eagles fans tortured Jerry Jones during Cowboys’ ugly blowout loss
Jones appeared to be putting on his best poker face as the unwanted attention came with his squad getting absolutely crushed by the Eagles on Sunday in Philadelphia.
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Jennifer Lopez leaves Ben Affleck out of 2024 recap video: ‘The best is yet to come’
"In my low moments, I've learned to just feel the feelings and then let them go," J.Lo said in an interview clip included in the montage.
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Red Sox Blockbuster Trade Idea Would Land Boston New $427 Million Superstar
The Boston Red Sox tried to land Juan Soto. They were unsuccessful, but they could pivot to a different superstar.
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