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The 10 products our readers bought most ahead of Black Friday (No. 1 will stop your doomscrolling)
- : The 10 products our readers bought most ahead of Black Friday (No. 1 will stop your doomscrolling) Black Friday is over, and we pulled the numbers on our top-selling products. Here's what we found. Show more (5 items) Follow ZDNET:  Add us as a preferred source  on Google. Black Friday is over, but lingering sales are still kicking. Now it's time to see what our readers have actually been buying. We've ...

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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  
Airbus: Flights resume as normal after software update warning
- Thousands of Airbus planes are being returned to normal service after being grounded for hours due to a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers. The aerospace giant - based in France - said around 6,000 of its A320 planes had been affected with most requiring a quick software update. Some 900 older planes need a replacement computer. French Transport Minister Philippe ...

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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 agrees to $75 million fine to settle Trump dispute
- CHICAGO - Northwestern University will pay a $75 million fine to settle allegations of antisemitism from the Trump administration, restoring hundreds of millions of federal funding, officials announced Friday. As part of the agreement, Northwestern also said it will continue following federal anti-discrimination laws, review its international admission policies and terminate an agreement reached with ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump news at a glance: president goes after Biden executive orders with baseless autopen claims
- Trump claims without evidence Biden did not sign off on orders himself in latest attack on predecessor – key US politics stories from Friday at a glance Donald Trump has declared he intends to cancel most of the executive orders signed by Joe Biden , his predecessor as president of the United States. In a post on social media, Trump claimed baselessly that Biden had not signed off on the orders himself, ...

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Heirloom-Quality Pocket Knife Deals Are Hotter Than Ever This Black Friday
- Since Black Friday has largely gone online, the rush of chasing down a discounted PlayStation at your local big box store isn't quite there anymore. But what we've gained from the digitization of Black Friday far outweighs what we've lost. Now, the best thing about the post-Thanksgiving shopping holiday is that you can find deals on stuff you actually want without catalog pre-planning or schlepping to the store ...

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WORLD  
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
- Israeli security forces shot and killed two Palestinian men who appeared to be unarmed and surrendering in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to video filmed by Palestine TV that was distributed by Reuters, and video shot by the news agency itself. The shooting comes amid mounting settler violence and ramped up operations by the IDF in the West Bank in recent weeks. The U.N. human rights rights office ...

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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 at historic Christian site in Turkey to commemorate creed and pray for unity
- Leo paid tribute to the country's tiny Catholic community and also visited a group of nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, who run a nursing home in Istanbul. IZNIK, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV joined Orthodox patriarchs and ecumenical leaders Friday in commemorating an important moment in Christian history, gathering at the site in Turkey of an unprecedented A.D. 325 meeting of bishops to pray that Christians ...

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POLITICS  
Top Zelenskyy aide at heart of U.S. peace talks is raided in corruption probe
- A top Ukrainian official at the heart of peace talks was thrust Friday into the center of a massive corruption scandal, threatening to further weaken President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a crucial moment in negotiations to end Russia's war . The home of Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy's powerful chief of staff, was searched early Friday by investigators with Ukraine's National Anticorruption Bureau, the NABU, which is leading ...

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POLITICS  
Trump pauses all asylum decisions: Order applies to all nationalities; follows shooting near White House - The
- Trump administration on Friday ordered US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers to stop making all asylum decisions, following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC. The pause comes after Wednesday's attack, which officials say was carried out by an Afghan man who received asylum earlier this year. One of the soldiers has died. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the ...

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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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