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Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he's looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed

By JILL LAWLESS
Jan 07, 2025 11:12 am - Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win re-election, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes

Associated Press
Jan 07, 2025 8:00 am - Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

By THOMAS ADAMSON, SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY
Jan 07, 2025 7:31 am - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.
Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Jan 07, 2025 7:28 am - Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.
Nippon, US Steel file suit against Biden administration, union, and rival after $15 billion deal scuttled

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Jan 06, 2025 3:05 pm - Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a Biden administration decision to block Nippon's proposed $15 billion acquisition of the Pittsburgh company and said that the head of the Steelworkers union and a rival steelmaker worked together to scuttle the buyout.
Top Federal Reserve bank regulator, under fire from GOP, to step down next month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Jan 06, 2025 2:56 pm - The Federal Reserve’s top financial regulator said Monday that he would resign next month, avoiding a potential confrontation with the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in the Senate.
McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Jan 06, 2025 2:47 pm - McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision outlawing affirmative action in college admissions. McDonald's is the ...
Judge denies Trump’s bid to halt Friday's hush money case sentencing while they appeal to block it

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Jan 06, 2025 12:13 pm - President-elect Donald Trump was thwarted Monday in his bid to indefinitely postpone this week’s sentencing in his hush money case while he appeals a ruling that upheld the verdict and put him on course to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes.
The dill of a lifetime? In a nation that’s enduring its own sour patch, the pickle dominated 2024

By TED ANTHONY
Jan 06, 2025 11:20 am - At the intersection of health and edginess, traditionalism and hipsterism, the pickle in 2024 found itself at the center of the American culinary scene.
Official: Canada’s Trudeau is set to resign as Liberal Party leader, spelling end to time in power

By ROB GILLIES
Jan 06, 2025 9:27 am - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to announce his resignation Monday, an official said, in the face of rising discontent over his leadership, and after the abrupt departure of his finance minister signaled growing turmoil within his government.

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