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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her concession speech at Howard University in D.C. after her loss to Donald Trump.
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The two deciding factors that Team Kamala could not overcome

In analysing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.

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President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., closes a door to a private meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance.
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Sex probe on Trump A-G pick Gaetz told he paid women $15K

Records exhibited during closed-door testimony displayed 27 PayPal and Venmo payments totalling over $US10,000 paid to the two female witnesses, a source close to the investigation said.

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Cher in 1966.
Culture
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Cher, ever the chameleon, shows her true colours

In the first volume of her memoir, the veteran pop diva is utterly candid about her early years, her relationship with Sonny and her path to independence.

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A sign warns of land mines in Ukraine's Kherson region in 2023.
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Biden undoes own policy in his latest move to arm Ukraine

It comes as part of a sweep of urgent actions the lame-duck Biden administration is taking to help Kyiv’s faltering war effort.

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THE WASHINGTON POST: ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ Heather Morgan gets prison time for role in huge bitcoin theft.
Business
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‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ sentenced for huge bitcoin theft

THE WASHINGTON POST: To the internet, she’s a rapper named Razzlekhan who claimed to have more pizzazz than Genghis Khan. But to prosecutors, she’s one half of the ‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’.

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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before TUESDAY 12:01 A.M. ET, NOV. 19, 2024. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** FILE — Ukrainians remove a Russian soldier’s body from a building at the Sudzha border post in Russia, on the border with Ukraine, Sept. 12, 2024. Concrete information about Russian casualties is sparse, but some journalists and researchers have found innovative ways to count them, and British and Ukrainian military officials, as well as BBC researchers, claim that Russia suffered its highest rate of dead and injured soldiers in the month of October as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
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The New York Times

Russia suffered colossal losses in Ukraine. Is it depleted?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Russia’s military made its largest territorial gains in more than two years in October, as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — but at a heavy cost.

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President Joe Biden has given Kyiv permission to use the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for strikes inside Russia.
World
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Moscow warns US missile move puts NATO at war with Russia

President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use American longer-range missiles for strikes inside Russia presented another grave provocation by the West, according to a spokesman for Vladimir Putin.

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Joe Biden met with his Chinese counterpart XI Jinping one last time after the APEC Summit, but they seemed to have a message for a man who wasn’t in the room.
World
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Biden and Xi meet, seem to aim cautionary comments at Trump

Joe Biden has met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping one last time to cool rising tensions between their countries. But they seemed to aim their messages at a man who wasn’t in the room: Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump’s victory alone has set off alarms among some of his most outspoken critics, as well as within parts of the intelligence and national security communities he denigrated as the ‘deep state’.
US Politics
The Washington Post

Go bags ready: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge

Donald Trump’s victory alone has set off alarms among some of his most outspoken critics, as well as within parts of the intelligence and national security communities he denigrated as the ‘deep state’.

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Argentine President Javier Milei speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 24, 2024. MUST CREDIT: Tom Brenner for The Washington Post
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Argentina’s president considers exiting Paris agreement

Javier Milei’s move to withdraw the South American country from the climate agreement is part of a broader review of all international policy.

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce an Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal at the White House on Jan. 28, 2020. (MUST CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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Israel prepares Lebanon cease-fire plan as ‘gift’ to Trump

THE WASHINGTON POST: A close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump and Jared Kushner this week that Israel is rushing to advance a cease-fire deal in Lebanon.

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AARON PATRICK: Donald Trump has created a new, more powerful Republican Party. His victory rewrites the laws of US politics. More than that, it could influence right-wing parties around the world.
opinion
US Politics
The Washington Post

Trump can keep campaign promises or be popular. Not both

JENNIFER RUBIN: The question remains, whether Trump goes down a disastrous road to economic ruin or, instead, chooses a more popular agenda that could endear him and his party to a larger swath of voters.

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
opinion
Opinion
The Washington Post

Why Donald Trump, a liar, seems honest to his supporters

F.D. FLAM: Donald Trump won with surprising decisiveness, despite his evasiveness and failure to justify his extraordinary claims. It’s tempting to conclude that we live in some kind of post-truth society.

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THE WASHINGTON POST: Sitting for long hours is bad for our health. Standing up may not be much better, though.
Health
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Your standing desk isn’t making you any healthier

THE WASHINGTON POST: Sitting for long hours is bad for our health. Standing up may not be much better, though.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump called Putin after election win with Ukraine warning

President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election.

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