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    UK ditches Mozambique gas loan, climate row claims a win

    The UK just bailed on backing a massive gas project in Mozambique after years of protest over climate damage and human rights disasters. Business secretary Peter Kyle yanked the £870 million loan guarantee from TotalEnergies, saying it doesn't serve British interests anymore. The whole thing has...
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    Shoppers skip Black Friday, retailers brace for lean times

    Black Friday flopped hard in the UK as people stayed home from stores over economic anxiety, and footfall tanked 2 percent compared to last year's already weak numbers. Online sales were mixed, with one day crashing but earlier in the week doing better. Experts are saying consumers are still...
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    UK hands pharma a sweeter NHS deal, drug giants eye return

    Britain is about to lock in a pharma deal with Washington that cuts US import tariffs on meds and forces the UK to spend more on NHS drugs. The agreement drops rebate rates for branded medicines and bumps up the cost-per-year threshold used to judge if treatments are worth it by about 25 percent...
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    Georgia GOP voters flip over power bills, data centers

    Lifelong Republican cattle ranchers in Georgia ditched their party for the first time over skyrocketing electric bills and a proposed data center next to their property. Two Democrats won massive upsets for utility board seats in some of the reddest counties after voters got fed up with rate...
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    Trump ditches exceptions, college student’s deportation signals a hard line

    Trump started his second term saying he might go easy on kids brought here young and Afghans stuck after the messy Biden withdrawal, but that all went out the window pretty fast. A college freshman who lived stateside for 12 years got shackled and deported when she tried flying home for...
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    Trump axes CDL schools, immigrant truckers hit hardest

    The Trump administration just yanked credentials from thousands of truck driver training schools and put a bunch more on notice. Transportation officials say they pulled accreditation from almost 3,000 centers for not meeting standards, and another 4,000 might get the boot within a month if they...
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    Trump clamps down on immigration, and legal status faces the axe

    Trump went full nuclear on immigration after an Afghan guy shot two National Guard members, and the crackdown is hitting legal immigrants harder than anything we've seen in forever. The administration paused every single asylum decision for people already here, started reviewing green cards from...
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    Deadly boat strike scrutiny grows, Hegseth pressed

    The White House is defending that boat strike from September, where they killed some suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean, and then apparently fired again to finish off whoever survived the first hit. Defense Secretary Hegseth gave orders to take out the boat and everyone on it, but...
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    Bishop Reginald Jackson, political powerhouse and civil rights force, dies at 71

    Bishop Reginald Jackson died from cardiac arrest at a hospital in Washington. The 71-year-old religious leader spent decades pushing Black voters to the polls and became a major player in both New Jersey and Georgia politics. His endorsement could apparently swing hundreds of thousands of church...
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    GOP scrambles as economy sours, Dems scent blood for midterms

    Politics has been absolutely unhinged since Thanksgiving ended, with Marjorie Taylor Greene rage-quitting Congress and exposing how fractured the Republican party has gotten. Trump dropped another immigration crackdown after troops got attacked in DC, and the economy is still a complete mess...
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    Cartel heir flips script, El Chapo’s son snatches kingpin for feds

    One of El Chapo's sons just admitted in a Chicago courtroom that he straight-up kidnapped his dad's old business partner and handed him over to American feds. Joaquín Guzmán López confessed to luring Ismael Zambada García out of hiding by pretending there was some political meeting to attend...
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    Hegseth under fire again, Pentagon drama hits new lows

    Hegseth is catching heat from all sides after reports dropped that he might have ordered troops to kill survivors from boat strikes off Venezuela. Trump started backing away over the weekend by saying he wouldn't have wanted a second strike, but Hegseth posted a meme of a cartoon turtle blowing...
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    Tennessee GOP sweats close race, safe seat turns nail-biter

    Republicans are freaking out about a special House election in Tennessee because their candidate is only ahead by like two points in a district Trump won by over 20. Speaker Mike Johnson flew in and got Trump on speakerphone to tell everyone the whole world is watching this race, which is pretty...
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    IRS treads into tip drama, OnlyFans stars left out in the cold

    The IRS is trying to figure out what counts as porn after Trump's tax break for tips got passed, and it's turning into a whole mess. Sex workers on OnlyFans were hyped about potentially claiming the new deduction, but the government said tips from prostitution or pornographic stuff don't...
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    Supreme Court tunes out billion-dollar piracy case, Cox gets a break

    The Supreme Court heard arguments about whether internet companies should get hit with massive damages when their customers pirate music online. Music labels sued Cox Communications back in 2018 because the company kept providing service to people who were constantly getting flagged for illegal...
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    Prosecutors get crafty in DC, Pirro finds a new lever

    Federal prosecutors in DC just got handed a weird new power after a judge said they can use local grand juries to charge serious federal crimes. The whole thing started when prosecutors tried getting an indictment from a federal grand jury for a gun case, got rejected, and then just went to a...
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    Justice Department graybeards out, Trump’s crew turns up the heat

    Trump's Solicitor General office is going through some wild changes under his former personal lawyer, John Sauer. More than half the frontline attorneys bounced by late November, which is way higher turnover than usual, even when administrations flip parties. The White House has been way more...
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    Georgia haunted by old ballots, Trump rewrites the rulebook

    Trump's election interference case in Georgia got tossed last week, but the fallout from 2020 is still messing with state politics heading into the midterms. The Justice Department has been going after Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor who originally charged Trump, and they've already sent out...
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    College dream shattered at the gate, student deported in chains

    A 19-year-old college freshman got detained at Boston Logan International Airport while trying to catch a flight to surprise her dad for Thanksgiving, and she ended up getting deported to Honduras two days later. Any Lucía López Belloza had been living in the US since she was 7, but apparently...
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    Trump’s drug boat strikes under fire, Congress demands answers

    Some big-name lawmakers from both parties are saying the military might have done a war crime during Trump's boat attacks in the Caribbean. A recent report claims Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told troops to kill everyone on suspected drug-smuggling boats, and that led to a second strike being...
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