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Who is Laura Loomer, President Trump's self-described chief 'loyalty enforcer'?The New Yorker's Antonia Hitchens describes how Loomer went from a conspiracy theorist to a close ally of Trump who's gotten government officials she claims are disloyal to the president fired.
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Greetings from the Arctic Circle, where an icebreaker ship drew polar bears' attentionFar-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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Cleto Escobedo III, leader of Jimmy Kimmel's house band, dies at 59Escobedo had been leading Kimmel's house band since the show launched in 2003. The musician and the comedian were childhood friends in Las Vegas.
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The U.S. saw vivid northern lights as far south as Florida ? and more could be comingStrong geomagnetic storms brought colorful northern lights to the skies above many states on Tuesday night. Forecasters are expecting more on Wednesday.
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Immigrants with obesity, diabetes and other health problems may be denied visasNew guidance from the Trump administration directs visa officers to consider common health ailments, including obesity and diabetes, when would-be immigrants seek to enter the U.S.
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New Epstein emails appear to reveal more Trump tiesDemocrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails from the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump.
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Flight issues could linger after shutdown. And, Google's lawsuit targeting scammersEven if the government shutdown ends this week, flight disruptions are expected to linger. And, Google has launched a lawsuit targeting text message scammers.
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It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
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They found a 'bucket of lentils.' Then it blew up. The menace of Gaza's unexploded ordnanceThe United Nations Mine Action Service estimates between 5% and 10% of Israeli weapons fired into Gaza in the past two years failed to detonate, and unexploded ordnance has killed at least 328 people.
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Google launches a lawsuit targeting text message scammersEver gotten a text saying you forgot to pay a nonexistent road toll or need to pick up a mystery package? Google's going after the scammers behind those messages.
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Starmer says he 'never authorised' attacks on ministers after leadership rowConservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused the prime minister of running a "toxic" Downing Street.
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Henry Zeffman: Efforts to shore up Starmer's leadership may have backfiredBriefings aimed at seeing off leadership plots may have left the PM more vulnerable, some in Labour fear.
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Italy investigates claims that tourists paid to shoot at civilians in Bosnian warItalians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
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Youth detention guard 'possibly most prolific sex offender in British history'An inquiry catalogues missed opportunities to stop abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre.
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Victims' commissioner Baroness Newlove dies aged 63Baroness Helen Newlove has been remembered as a commissioner who stood up for all victims.
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£220 ?for a cut-up sock' - Apple's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed onlineMany took aim at the high price online, while others made fun of its striking likeness to a piece of footwear.
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Woman fatally stabbed in neck in Birmingham was 'shining light', family sayThe family of Katie Fox, who died after being stabbed in the neck in Birmingham, pay tribute to her.
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Major corruption scandal engulfs top Zelensky alliesThe Ukrainian president has called for the justice and energy ministers to be removed from their posts.
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Driving test rules to change and military examiners brought in to cut backlogThe Transport Secretary has announced new measures to tackle the continuing backlog of driving tests.
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Streeting accuses doctors' union of acting 'like cartel' ahead of latest strikeThe health secretary launches strongest criticism yet of the union ahead of Friday's strike by resident doctors.
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First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun
Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets
Astronomers have made the first definitive observation of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on a nearby star.?
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Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape
Vendors (still) keep mum
An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.?
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Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line
Apple, the reassuringly expensive US technology brand, is selling a sock in which iPhone owners can house their gadget.?
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VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free ? thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.?
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Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
End of support? Not quite
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).?
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Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere
Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks
Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon hit its limits.?
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Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme
Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy
The European Commission is preparing to block Chinese institutions from significant portions of its ?95.5 billion ($110 billion) Horizon Europe research program, citing intellectual property risks and links between Chinese universities and Beijing's military.?
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MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows
Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
As Microsoft's Task Manager celebrates three decades - and grapples with its modern tendency to leave orphaned processes behind - its creator has shared the story of how the much loved troubleshooting tool came to be.?
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Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware
This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners
Broadcom will let its hardware allies self-certify their boxes as compliant with a new spec it developed that describes rigs ready to run AI workloads under its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.?
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Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
Updated Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users? and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.?
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Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deepsA recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals' survival strategies.
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Meta?s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startupAI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don?t Die trailer ushers in AI apocalypse
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Review: New Framework Laptop 16 takes a fresh stab at the upgradeable laptop GPU
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Formula with ?cleanest ingredients? recalled after 15 babies get botulismCases span 12 states. All affected babies have been hospitalized, but no deaths reported.
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Google vows to stop scam E-Z Pass and USPS texts plaguing Americans"Phishing for dummies" kits make it easier to scam millions, Google alleged.
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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutesIn 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer?and accidentally invented a new technique.
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Google says new cloud-based ?Private AI Compute? is just as secure as local processingNew system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Google's AI servers.
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Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes
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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare ?moral rights? verdictRedditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.
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