Thanksgiving Travel amid heightened terror threats

Yahoo Finance
Fraught but necessary: The money conversation when one half of a couple retires
Nearly half of couples haven’t figured out how they will recreate their paychecks in retirement. Talking about it is essential.
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AFP
Israel says its forces kill 10 militants in West Bank raid
The Israeli army said Saturday troops had killed 10 militants in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The army said that over more than 40 hours it had "eliminated 10 terrorists" and made eight arrests around Nur Shams.
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AFP
Erdogan urges Palestinian unity after meeting Hamas chief
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel's war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on Saturday, his office said. "Even if only I, Tayyip Erdogan, remain, I will continue as long as God gives me my life, to defend the Palestinian struggle and to be the voice of the oppressed Palestinian people," the president said Wednesday when he announced Haniyeh's visit.
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AFP
Kenya pays military homage to army chief killed in copter crash
With a 19-gun cannon salute and a religious ceremony Kenya on Saturday paid a military tribute to its army chief who died in a helicopter accident this week.Ogolla and nine other military officials died on Thursday when their helicopter went down in a remote region in the west of the country, just short of a year since his appointment as armed forces head by Ruto.
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CNN
11-year-old’s fossil discovery reveals ancient creature larger than a blue whale
This week, encounter the largest marine reptile ever to roam the seas, see a rainbow-like phenomenon on another planet, marvel at underwater bees, and more.
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AFP
Ukraine and Russia trade strikes as US gears up for key vote
Ukraine and Russia both accused each other of deadly strikes on civilians Saturday, as US lawmakers prepared to vote on a $61 billion aid package Kyiv hopes will boost its flagging war effort.Ukraine has in recent months pleaded for more air defences from its Western allies as it struggles to fend off a surge in deadly attacks on civilian infrastructure.
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Yahoo Finance
How Jay Powell and the Fed pivoted back to higher for longer
Fed Chair Jay Powell and other Fed officials struck a more hawkish stance this past week, setting off a new debate across Wall Street about how the rest of 2024 could play out.
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CNN
US sailor found guilty at court martial on attempted espionage charges
A US sailor who served in Japan was found guilty on Friday at a general court martial for attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order.
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AccuWeather
Frosty mornings will mean trouble for plants in the Midwest and East into the new week
Despite recent episodes of warm weather, a few rounds of frosts and freezes are ahead for parts of the eastern half of the country into the last full week of April. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that temperatures can get low enough in this region to threaten vegetation. The blasts of chilly air will come in two rounds, first late in the weekend and during the early part of the new workweek, and then again midweek, as cold fronts sweep south from Canada. Temperatures for a few mornings can drop
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USA TODAY
California man goes missing after hiking in El Salvador, family pleads for help finding him
José Tomás Lainez, 54, was hiking in El Salvador on March 24 in the San Vicente area when he went missing. His family is desperate to bring him home.
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The New York Times
It Introduced Ozempic to the World. Now It Must Remake Itself.
BAGSVAERD, Denmark — Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen has a problem: Too many people want what he’s selling. Jorgensen is CEO of Novo Nordisk, a Danish drugmaker. Even if the company isn’t quite a household name, the TV jingle for its bestselling drug — “Oh-oh-ohhh-Ozempic!” — might ring in your ears. Across the United States, Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, have soared to celebrity status and helped make the company Europe’s most valuable public firm. It can’t make e
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The New York Times
Do Tanks Have a Place in 21st-Century Warfare?
The drone combat in Ukraine that is transforming modern warfare has begun taking a deadly toll on one of the most powerful symbols of American military might — the tank — and threatening to rewrite how it will be used in future conflicts. Over the past two months, Russian forces have taken out five of the 31 American-made M1 Abrams tanks that the Pentagon sent to Ukraine last fall, a senior U.S. official said. At least another three have been moderately damaged since the tanks were sent to front
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The New York Times
Israel’s Strike on Iran: A Limited Attack but a Potentially Big Signal
WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, Israel has rehearsed, time and again, bombing and missile campaigns that would take out Iran’s nuclear production capability, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the Natanz nuclear enrichment complex 75 miles to the north. That is not what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war Cabinet chose to do in the predawn hours of Friday, and in interviews, analysts and nuclear experts said the decision was telling. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from
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Associated Press
Satellite image analyzed by AP shows damage after Iranian attack on Israeli desert air base
An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of Tehran's unprecedented assault on the country damaged a taxiway, a satellite image analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows. The overall damage done to Nevatim air base in southern Israel was minor despite Iran launching hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
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The Conversation
Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there’s no smoke?
An electrical engineer explains how smoke detectors work, and how to reduce the chances of a false positive.
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The Conversation
Future Air Force officers get a 30,000-foot view of death in this course
Views on death and the afterlife vary from person to person and culture to culture. This course gives US Air Force cadets a broad perspective on mortality and its effects on people and society.
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The Conversation
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
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The Conversation
Harnessing the brain’s immune cells to stave off Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
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CNN
Senate passes surveillance bill despite contentious debate over privacy concerns
The Senate voted late Friday to reauthorize a key surveillance authority, avoiding a lapse in the controversial program.
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NBC News
Two imprisoned Georgia men say they were wrongly convicted, and blame a single informant
Sonny Bharadia and Erik Heard are serving life sentences in Georgia for different crimes. Both say Sterling Flint wrongly incriminated them.
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