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Migrants dropped off at Vice President Harris’ home on Christmas Eve – Axios

Migrants dropped off at Vice President Harris’ home on Christmas Eve  Axios Busloads of migrants dropped off at vice president’s DC home on Christmas Eve  The Hill Buses Of Migrants From Texas Dropped Off Near VP Harris’ House On Christmas Eve  NBC News

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Former justice who once approved Deri’s return as minister says wouldn’t do so now

Yoram Danziger says Shas party leader’s recent conviction should prevent him from holding cabinet post, and pans new legislation that would enable his appointment

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Too Much History, Too Little Geography – Sponsored Content

Yossi Klein Halevi discusses Israeli-Palestinian coexistence with Yousef Bashir, Director of Research & Operations for the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace

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Roads closed in south ahead of Druckman funeral; hundreds of police deployed

Spiritual leader of political religious Zionism to be eulogized by Netanyahu, Herzog, Smotrich, chief rabbi and leading religious figures

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Democrats, Feeling New Strength, Plan to Go on Offense on Voting Rights

After retaining most of the governor’s offices they hold and capturing the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, Democrats are putting forward a long list of proposals to expand voting access.

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South Korea scrambles fighter jets and attack helicopters after North Korean drones ‘violate airspace’

South Korea says it has scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters, firing warning shots, after North Korean drones “violated” its airspace.

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‘Avatar’ sequel sails to 2nd week atop the box office

Avatar: The Way of Water sailed to the top of the box office in its second weekend, bringing in what studios estimate Sunday will be a strong $56 million in North America. (Image credit: 20th Century Studios/AP)

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In rural Cambodia, fried tarantulas are a crispy delicacy

Tuoch Laat waits for buyers at Udong Market, offering red ants as a snack. Chris Humphrey/dpa Oudongk market, located around one hour north of central Phnom Penh, is not your usual throng of food vendors. Alongside grilled chicken and banana

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In Russia, repression of queer communities suddenly got much worse

In this Moscow cafe, Sabrina can sit in peace as a non-binary person – but Russia is imposing ever tougher laws repressing people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more. Hannah Wagner/-/dpa Sitting in

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‘The ICU is full’: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly

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