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TikTok signs deal to form new US unit with investors, including Oracle, Silver LakeDec 18, 2025 8:20 pm - TikTok has signed agreements with three major investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture, ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
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WNBA players union authorizes negotiators to call a strike if needed during CBA talksDec 18, 2025 7:33 pm - NEW YORK — WNBA players have authorized their union’s executive council to call a strike if necessary, the union announced Thursday as it continues to negotiate a collect...
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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead, officials sayDec 18, 2025 5:38 pm - Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In recorded message, Rob Reiner urges resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah eventDec 18, 2025 5:25 pm - In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to “be resilient” during difficult times.
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Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses will be revised, Noem saysDec 18, 2025 4:42 pm - The U.S. Coast Guard will remove language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Thursday, an abrupt turnaround after the more lenient interpretation took effect this week despite objections from Congress.
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Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drugDec 18, 2025 1:34 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
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Harrison Ford to receive SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award for his career and humanitarian workDec 18, 2025 12:47 pm - Harrison Ford will receive a lifetime achievement award in March from the actors union SAG-AFTRA.
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Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy CenterDec 18, 2025 12:45 pm - President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that was quickly denounced as a “disgrace” by the Democratic leader of the House, who is on the board.
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US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren't feeling itDec 18, 2025 10:02 am - U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month according to data that was delayed, and likely distorted, by the government shutdown.
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Wagner Moura is on the run in 1977 Brazil in ‘The Secret Agent’Dec 18, 2025 7:19 am - You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it was “a time of mischief.”