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How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers

WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans.

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Trump’s ‘deeply weird’ Greenland obsession exposed by columnist

With President-elect Donald Trump once again making noise about seizing Greenland from Denmark, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown decided to examine the origins of Trump’s years-long fixation on buying the large ice-covered territory. After reviewing past reports on Trump national security

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Trump’s election sparks fight over judicial retirements, new judgeships – The Washington Post

Trump’s election sparks fight over judicial retirements, new judgeships  The Washington Post Top Biden ally ‘disappointed’ by president’s veto on bill to increase number of US judges  Fox News Biden vetoes bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge slots  POLITICO

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News Wrap: American Airlines temporarily grounds flights amid busy holiday travel season

In our news wrap Tuesday, American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to a technical issue, a strike by Starbucks employees expanded to some 5,000 baristas, a man accused of setting a woman on fire in the New York City

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News Wrap: American Airlines temporarily grounds flights amid busy holiday travel season

In our news wrap Tuesday, American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to a technical issue, a strike by Starbucks employees expanded to some 5,000 baristas, a man accused of setting a woman on fire in the New York City

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News Wrap: American Airlines temporarily grounds flights amid busy holiday travel season

In our news wrap Tuesday, American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to a technical issue, a strike by Starbucks employees expanded to some 5,000 baristas, a man accused of setting a woman on fire in the New York City

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Discovery of mass graves in Syria sheds new light on brutality of the fallen Assad regime

With the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the scale of his regime’s mass killings and executions are coming to light more and more each day. The United Nations said this week the new Syrian government was receptive

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Biden signs bill officially anointing bald eagle as national bird of U.S.

Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday to correct what had long gone unnoticed and designate the bald eagle as the national bird.

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Trump says he will pursue more executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole.

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Concerns swirl over impact of offshore wind farms on fishing industry

With the growth of offshore wind farms there are many questions surrounding their impact. In the second of two stories about what researchers are finding, science correspondent Miles O’Brien takes us to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where local officials are trying

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