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In a shock offensive, insurgents breach Syria’s largest city for the first time since 2016
Insurgents breached Syria's largest city Friday and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016, according to a war monitor and fighters.
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JPMorgan's top biotech stock picks for 2025 as sector looks for a comeback year
While 2024 marked another "challenging" year for biotech stocks, some names could be slated for upside in the months ahead, according to JPMorgan.
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India's quarterly growth slumps to a near two-year low, well below expectations
The Reserve Bank of India had forecast an expansion of 7% for the period.
Business
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'Moana 2'-led Thanksgiving box office could be best in post-pandemic era
The trifecta of "Moana 2," "Wicked" and "Gladiator II" could make this year's Thanksgiving box office the best in years.
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Trump voters could fuel holiday spending, while Harris supporters may pull back
President-elect Donald Trump's supporters feel better about the economy's prospects now that he's in office, which means they'll likely spend more this holiday.
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College Football Playoff expansion boosts advertising, viewership at Disney
Disney's TV networks, including ABC and ESPN, are reaping the benefits of the expanded College Football Playoff format this season.
Technology
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Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
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In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
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"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in...The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."