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Here are nine key senators to watch in the nomination battles. The incoming majority leader is nobody’s idea of an ultra-MAGA Republican, but he understands his assignment: advance the Trump agenda. Does he choose to be a heat shield for members who quietly want to buck Trump without doing so publicly? The answers will set the tone for a long-awaited new era facing the Senate GOP. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.McConnell is the ultimate free agent as he relinquishes the job of Senate Republican leader after a record 18 years.

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☆ Pilot known for animal rescue flights dies, along with one dog, in Catskills plane crash
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Dennis Romero | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A pilot known for transporting rescued dogs to shelter and care facilities died alongside a canine in a plane crash in New York state's Catskill Mountains on Sunday, authorities said. First responders found the downed plane, Kim's body, that of a deceased dog, and one animal survivor: a Labrador mix suffering from two broken legs, the sheriff's office said. The injured dog was taken by the Hyer Ground Rescue nonprofit to the a veterinary hospital, the sheriff's office said. The missing dog was found and taken by Hyer Ground and Partners for Animal Welfare to an animal care facility, it said. An autopsy will be conducted on Kim's body, the sheriff's office said.

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"It was apparent that the man had suffered a significant fall in icy terrain," the department said in a statement. The glade is near state-run Cannon Mountain, a historic ski resort scheduled to open for the season on Friday. Search-and-rescue crews bushwhacking through cold, mountainous terrain came upon the hiker's body within Saturday's first hour on Kinsman Ridge, a feature that leads to Cannon Mountain, the department said. Conditions over the weekend were cold enough to welcome 8 inches of new snow, according to Cannon Mountain's daily weather report on Monday. "Winter conditions have arrived in the mountains, and hikers are encouraged to be prepared for their trek," the Fish and Game Department said.

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☆ Hong Kong is becoming a hub for financial crime, US lawmakers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Hong Kong has become a center for money laundering and sanctions evasion under the tightening grip of Beijing, US lawmakers have warned, calling for a re-evaluation of America’s close business relationship with the Asian financial hub. “We must now question whether longstanding US policy towards Hong Kong, particularly towards its financial and banking sector, is appropriate,” they added. Rubio, a fierce critic of Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, has sponsored legislation that sanctioned Chinese and Hong Kong officials for alleged human rights violations in the city. This has massive implications for US businesses with big exposure to Hong Kong,” Fish said. “Sadly, the idea of Hong Kong as autonomous from China is now a farce … US companies need to understand that their Hong Kong operations will likely fall under increased scrutiny.”

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☆ The West is struggling to give Ukraine the weapons it needs — but there may be a solution
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Hannah Abraham | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine's European allies, hampered by low military production capacity, have been struggling to produce the weapons needed for Kyiv to fight against Russia. Ukraine already has a strong weapons manufacturing industry. An Institute for the Study of War report said Ukraine's defense industry employed 300,000 workers within about 500 different companies in 2023. AdvertisementHe added that supporting Ukraine's defense industry lets the West help ensure Ukraine is self-sufficient. Meanwhile, the US has accused China of providing dual-use goods for Russia's military industry to overcome sanctions.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, Eric Ciaramella, Zelenskyy, Sinead Baker Organizations: Russia, Wall Street, Denmark, Carnegie Endowment's, Eurasia Program, Reuters, Storm Shadow, North Locations: Danish, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russian, Moscow, Carnegie Endowment's Russia, Russia, North Korea, China

☆ What could get more expensive if Trump launches a new trade war with Mexico and Canada
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

While leaders of the two nations continue to butt heads, US consumers have paid the price, shelling out more money on goods imported from China. Now Trump is focusing his attention on America’s largest and third-largest trading partners: Mexico and Canada. The 25% tariff Trump floated would have “huge impacts” on gas prices, amounting to an increase between 25 cents to 75 cents per gallon, he said. Said differently, your guac and avocado toast could skyrocket if 25% tariffs are levied on Mexico. Bottom line: It’s going to hurtThe new round of tariffs Trump is prepared to impose comes as the US has grown increasingly reliant on imports from Mexico and Canada.

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☆ Barack Obama’s Big Lesson
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It remains Barack Obama’s most underrated political skill: his appeal to working-class voters, including those who are white. Obama won most voters without a four-year college degree in his two presidential campaigns. Those majorities helped him win Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in both campaigns. He traveled to the University of Notre Dame as president and said he wanted to reduce the number of abortions. He supported civil unions rather than same-sex marriage when most voters felt similarly.

Persons: Barack Obama’s, Obama Organizations: Indiana, University of Notre Dame Locations: Florida , Iowa, Michigan , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina

☆ Drake Lost His Rap Battle. Now He Claims the Streaming Game Is Rigged.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Amanda Hoover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

UMG's choice to saturate the music market with 'Not Like Us' comes at the expense of its other artists, like Drake." And Drake is one of the biggest artists streaming on Spotify, with about 10 million more monthly listeners than Lamar. Music industry insiders, meanwhile, are skeptical of the allegations themselves. In other words, for the top of the music industry, rigging with bots would be "not like us." By throwing lawyers and corporations into the rap battle, Drake has made it much less street and much more corporate.

Persons: Drake, Kendrick Lamar, UMG, It's, Lamar, Drake's litigiousness, Jan, Arian Foster, Tony Rigg Organizations: Universal Music Group, Spotify, Lamar, NFL, University of Central, Southern, of, of New York, Apple Music Locations: University of Central Lancashire, North Carolina, of New

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a viewing of a test-flight launch of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs Inauguration Day nears, investors are trying to unravel what booms or busts lay ahead under President-elect Donald Trump. Yet the energy sector climbed 22.9% under Biden as of Nov. 19, despite the administration's push for renewables and sustainability. As president, Trump is expected to embrace crypto more than any of his predecessors. When Biden won in 2020, there was a lot of panic about the outlook for energy, oil and gas.

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☆ North Korea expands weapons plant that makes missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank. Located in the country’s second-largest city, Hamhung, the factory has been visited several times by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with North Korean state media previously touting its mass-production of tactical missiles. Attacks on Ukraine with KN-23 missilesRussia has fired about 60 North Korean KN-23 missiles (Hwasong-11A) at Ukraine this year. And strikes using North Korean missiles have killed at least 28 people and injured 213 this year, the Ukrainian prosecutor general told CNN last week. Moscow and Pyongyang have both previously denied that North Korea has exported weapons to Russia, despite significant evidence of such transfers.

Persons: James Martin, Kim Jong Un, Sam Lair, Lair, they’re, ”, CNN’s Helen Regan, Daria Tarasova, Nick Paton Walsh, Victoria Butenko Organizations: CNN, Ukraine, James, James Martin Center, Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, North, Center, Planet Labs, Planet Labs PBC, Nonproliferation, North Korean, Russia, Korean, Ukraine’s, Corruption Locations: North Korea, Russia, Hamhung, North Korean, Ukraine, Moscow, Pyongyang, Western, Korea, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Kursk

☆ Thanksgiving weather and travel: A storm, cold and lake-effect snow could cause issues.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

TuesdayA quick-moving storm is bringing rain to parts of the East Coast while a few snowflakes fall around the Great Lakes. High elevation snow will bury areas from California’s Sierra Nevada to the Colorado Rockies while rain falls at lower elevations. Conditions will ease throughout the day for California and Nevada but sloppy weather will persist farther east, especially in Utah and Colorado. Dreary weather will extend from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast as the storm that formed late Wednesday pushes east. The Thanksgiving day storm will largely be out of the East by sunrise but lake-effect snow will start up for areas downwind of the Great Lakes as Arctic air rushes over the record-warm lakes.

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The Goldman Sachs analysis also described Trump’s tariff announcement as “more reminiscent of the first Trump administration, when such tariffs were announced as a negotiating tactic.” Trump ultimately declined to impose some of his proposed tariffs. The unprecedented policy required migrants to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings in the United States. On the campaign trail, he frequently pledged to use tariffs as a negotiating tool to bend China and North American countries’ policies to his will. His advisers have acknowledged privately that tariffs could be more urgently slapped on Canada and Mexico, as Trump seeks to fulfill his campaign pledge to renegotiate his own free trade agreement. But Lutnick added that Trump wouldn’t seek to slap price-raising tariffs on goods that aren’t made in the United States.

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☆ The Migrant Caravans Trump Derides Rarely Make It Close to the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( James Wagner | More About James Wagner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When President-elect Donald J. Trump vowed to impose new 25 percent tariffs on all goods coming into the country from Canada and Mexico, he said he’d keep them in place until drugs and people were stopped from crossing U.S. borders. In particular, Mr. Trump mentioned a caravan of migrants bound for the United States from southern Mexico. It was the latest example of Mr. Trump using such collections of migrants to bolster his claims about the border — although it’s rare they ever get that far. The groups of thousands of migrants often come together in southern Mexico near its border with Guatemala, which is more than 1,000 miles from the United States. While waiting in the southern city of Tapachula for humanitarian visas to travel through Mexico, a process that can often take months, migrants band together as they prepare to move north.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, he’d Locations: Canada, Mexico, U.S, United States, Guatemala, Tapachula

☆ Israel Approved Terms for a Cease-Fire With Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israel’s security cabinet voted this evening to approve a cease-fire agreement that would halt fighting in the yearlong conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group. Under the deal, Israel would withdraw its forces from Lebanon over the next 60 days and Hezbollah would move its fighters north. Lebanon’s government, which does not control Hezbollah but whose approval is essential, was set to meet tomorrow morning to discuss the cease-fire agreement. Approval from Israeli ministers, in a 10 to 1 vote, came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraced the proposal in a televised speech. Just hours earlier, Israeli forces had pounded the heart of Beirut and Hezbollah-dominated neighborhoods with some of the heaviest airstrikes of the war.

Persons: Biden, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Locations: Lebanese, Lebanon, Israel, Beirut

☆ US says Israel approved a cease-fire deal aimed at ending nearly 14 months of devastating fighting with Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementIsrael has agreed on a cease-fire deal aimed at ending nearly 14 months of fighting with Hezbollah. Israel and Lebanon have agreed on a cease-fire to end nearly 14 months of devastating fighting between the Israeli military and Hezbollah, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday. AdvertisementBiden said the cease-fire, designed to permanently end fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border, will take effect at 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Israel and Hezbollah have fought against each other for nearly 14 months. At the end of the month, Israeli forces launched a ground invasion into Lebanon — its first in nearly 20 years.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Israel, Netanyahu, Fadel ITANI Organizations: Israel, Hezbollah, White, Lebanese, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Lebanon, Gaza . Israel, Israel, Iran, Gaza, Beirut

☆ Omead Afshar, a longtime Elon Musk loyalist, takes the wheel at Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Grace Kay | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

As Musk increasingly turns his attention to politics, Afshar is set to help shepherd Tesla through this volatility. AdvertisementOver the seven years he has spent working for Musk, Afshar has emerged as one of the billionaire's most loyal lieutenants, driven and singularly focused on his goals. Years before Tesla, Afshar studied biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and worked as a ski instructor. At Tesla and other Musk companies, he said, "the mission is good, and what we're trying to do is right." AdvertisementThe four current and former colleagues said Afshar became lower profile at Tesla in 2022 but continued to work closely with Musk.

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☆ Trump names Jamieson Greer as his pick for US trade representative
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | Katie Lobosco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —President-elect Donald Trump announced Jamieson Greer as his pick to serve as the next US trade representative. Greer is no stranger to the role, having served as chief of staff to the trade representative during Trump’s first term, Robert Lighthizer. Trump has routinely referenced the passage of the USMCA trade agreement – which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA – as a political victory and a highlight of his presidency. The threat of tariffs could also be used as a negotiation tactic, as Trump has pledged to renegotiate the USMCA. In that role, he has covered cases on topics including trade policy and negotiations and trade agreement enforcement.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jamieson Greer, Greer, Trump’s, Robert Lighthizer, Trump, “ Jamieson, ” Trump, “, General’s Organizations: CNN, North American Free Trade, U.S . Trade, reining, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Services, USMCA, American Workers, Senate, Trump, New York Times, King, US Air Force, General’s Corps Locations: China, Mexico, Canada, Iraq

☆ Israel Launches Heavy Strikes on Lebanon Ahead of Hezbollah Cease-Fire Deal Talks: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | Euan Ward | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Israeli military also told entire towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate, including Naqoura, where a United Nations peacekeeping force is based. The cease-fire proposal, mediated by American and French diplomats, would start a 60-day process during which both sides would stop fighting and withdraw from southern Lebanon. Israel has sought guarantees from the United States that it would have U.S. support to send troops back into southern Lebanon if Hezbollah violated the arrangement. Hezbollah’s leader, Naim Qassem, suggested last week that the group would accept a truce if Israel stopped striking Lebanon and Lebanon retained its sovereignty. The cease-fire would officially be an agreement among Israel, Lebanon and the mediating countries, including the United States.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Mr, Naim Qassem, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Jack Nicas, Myra Noveck, Euan Ward Organizations: Lebanese, United Nations, Lebanese Army Locations: Lebanon, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Israel, United States, States, Jerusalem

☆ Israeli Ministers Plan to Vote on Truce With Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | More About Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was expected to meet on Tuesday afternoon with senior cabinet ministers to decide whether to approve a cease-fire with Hezbollah, potentially setting the stage for an end to Israel’s 13-month war with the Lebanese militia. The proposal, mediated by American and French diplomats, would start a 60-day process during which both sides would stop fighting and withdraw from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces would return south of the Israel-Lebanon border, while Hezbollah would retreat north of the Litani River, allowing the Lebanese Army — which is not a party to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict — to fill the vacuum. But many questions about the proposal remain unanswered, including how the Lebanese Army would exert authority over the powerful militia. Israel has sought guarantees from the United States that it would have U.S. support to send troops back into southern Lebanon if Hezbollah violated the arrangement.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: Lebanese Army Locations: Tel Aviv, Lebanon, Israel, United States

☆ The Art of the Tariff: Trump's latest threat is right out of his negotiating playbook
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementDuring his first term, Trump threatened tariffs while renegotiating trade with Mexico and Canada. Scott Bessent, Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, has called tariffs a "negotiating tool." In June of 2019, Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico if the country didn't alter its immigration system, which it eventually did. While financial analysts are taking Trump's threats seriously, some banking leaders seem to think that Trump's most recent tariff threat is a continuation of his prior negotiation tactic. Advertisement"This is President Trump's negotiating style: step one, punch in the face, step two, let's negotiate," Kieran Calder, the head of equity research for Asia at Union Bancaire Privée, said, according to Bloomberg.

Persons: Trump, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump, Robert Lawrence, Lawrence, Mark Blyth, Blyth, He's, he's, Trump's, Kieran Calder, Union Bancaire Privée, — Trump, Luis Costa Organizations: Biden, Peterson Institute for International Economics, European Union, American Free Trade, Brown University, White, Brookings Institute, NAFTA, Union Bancaire, Bloomberg, UBS, Citi Bank, Trump Locations: Mexico, Canada, Asia, China

☆ Why an 18-year-old UN resolution is critical to ending the Lebanon-Israel war
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —With a Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire on the horizon, an 18-year-old United Nations resolution has resurfaced as a blueprint for ending the war. The 60-day cessation of hostilities aims to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, with the hope that it could form the basis of a lasting truce. Resolution 1701 was adopted to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, and had kept relative calm in the area for nearly two decades. Here’s what we know about the resolution and why it is critical to a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. In 2000, the UN established the so-called Blue Line, a “line of withdrawal” for Israeli forces from Lebanon.

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☆ Scientists unravel how squirting cucumbers spew their seeds
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you blink, you might miss it — the eruption lasts about 0.03 second (30 milliseconds). Squirting cucumbers, also known by the scientific name Ecballium elaterium, are found across the Mediterranean and Europe, and in parts of northern Africa, Australia, Asia and North America. The seeds of a squirting cucumber can reach distances of about 33 feet away from the mother plant. But there’s also much to be learned by studying outliers that receive less attention, such as the squirting cucumber, Hay said.

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☆ Israel-Hezbollah permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah is scheduled to begin Wednesday, following a yearlong conflict between the Jewish state and Iranian-backed groups. "Over the next 60 days, the Lebanese army and state security forces will deploy and take control of their own territory," said Biden. Earlier in the day Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address that he supported the ceasefire deal, which he sent to his Cabinet for approval. "The ceasefire allows us to focus on the Iranian threat," said Netanyahu. "We will complete the elimination of Hamas, the return of all the hostages and the return of the residents of the north."

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas Locations: Israel, Iranian, France, Lebanese, Gaza, Jewish

☆ Trump Selects Jamieson Greer as Trade Representative
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Ana Swanson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday picked Jamieson Greer, a lawyer and former Trump official, to serve as his top trade negotiator. Mr. Greer is a partner in international trade at the law firm King & Spalding. During Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Greer served as chief of staff to Robert E. Lighthizer, the trade representative at the time. Before that, Mr. Greer served in the Air Force, where he was a lawyer who prosecuted and defended U.S. airmen in criminal investigations. “Jamieson will focus the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on reining in the Country’s massive Trade Deficit, defending American Manufacturing, Agriculture, and Services, and opening up Export Markets everywhere,” Mr. Trump said.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Jamieson Greer, Trump’s, Greer, Robert E, “ Jamieson, Mr Organizations: Trump, King, Spalding, North American Free, Air Force, U.S . Trade, reining, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Services Locations: China, Canada, Mexico, Iraq

☆ Israel has agreed to a truce in Lebanon with Hezbollah. Here’s what that means
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Tamara Qiblawi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Israel and Lebanon have accepted a US-backed proposal to end the 13-month border conflict that spiraled into an all-out war in September with Hezbollah. What the deal entailsThe deal stipulates a 60-day cessation of hostilities, which negotiators have described as the foundation of a lasting truce. On September 27, Israel killed Hezbollah’s long-time leader Nasrallah in a massive attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut, upending the truce talks. Since October 2023, Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel have killed 47 Israeli civilians and 31 security forces in Israel. Palestinians in Gaza are unlikely to find respite if a Lebanon deal is signed, according to a regional analyst.

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