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This Year’s Thanksgiving Feast Will Wallop the Wallet

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday. Caroline Hoffman is already stashing canned pumpkin in the kitchen of her Chicago apartment when she finds some for under a dollar. She recently spent almost $2 more for the vanilla she’ll need to bake pumpkin......

Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Wants to Build a Space Station

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is teaming up with other firms to build a space station in Earth orbit. The group announced its plans on Monday, revealing the latest concept for a privately built orbital outpost that could replace or complement the......

Amazon workers in Staten Island file to hold a union election.

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

A fledgling union of employees at four Amazon warehouses in Staten Island officially requested an election to form a union on Monday, the National Labor Relations Board said. For months, the organizers behind the union push have been collecting signatures on cards that must be submitted to the labor agency......

Facebook profits jump 17 percent.

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Facebook said on Monday that revenue rose 35 percent to $29 billion in the three months ending in September compared with the same period last year, while profits rose 17 percent to $9.2 billion, a sign of the social network’s financial strength as it faces a public relations crisis over......

Your Tuesday Briefing

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New York Times – For more and to sign up click here We’re covering Sudan’s coup and a conviction in Hong Kong under the national security law. Coup in Sudan Sudan’s military seized power on Monday, detaining the prime minister and other civilian political leaders. The unfolding coup appeared to......

Tesla shares surpass $1 trillion in value.

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

When Tesla was founded in 2003, and for many years after, the chances that sales of electric cars would take off seemed slim. Other automakers viewed electric cars primarily as gas savers, but Tesla envisioned using electric power to make fast, exciting and futuristic luxury vehicles. The company also designed......

Biden’s visit to New Jersey highlights an ongoing debate over SALT.

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President Biden flew to New Jersey on Monday morning to champion his efforts to pass legislation investing in early childhood education and passenger rail service. But the backdrop will highlight a still-simmering dispute among Democrats that is hampering Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda: whether to lift the limit on a tax......

Who is Abdalla Hamdok, the Sudanese prime minister detained in a military coup?

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here Until a military coup in Sudan, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok had the daunting task of trying to liberalize his country and lead it to democracy after three decades of dictatorship, while revitalizing its battered economy and normalizing relations......

How Atlanta, in a Season of Obstacles, Made the World Series

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 202100

Alan Blinder ATLANTA — An October tradition that arrives without fail with every World Series is discussion of resilience and perseverance and how the teams that made it had overcome all manner of season-threatening menaces along the way. Fair enough. But even the “no one believed in us” teams of......

For Shakshuka or What Have You

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

With their ever-increasing line of products bearing the New York Shuk label, Ron and Leetal Arazi are putting the Middle East, with an emphasis on Jewish and Moroccan flavors, on the table. Their latest is a thick, all-purpose tomato-based condiment called matbucha, a homemade staple of North African origin that......

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistle-blower, testifies in Parliament.

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

British policymakers heard testimony on Monday from the former Facebook manager who became a whistle-blower and shared scores of internal documents with policymakers, regulators and journalists to help build a case for stiffer oversight of the social media giant. Frances Haugen, the former employee, spoke before a Parliament committee as......

German Woman Convicted of a Crime Against Humanity in Death of Yazidi Child

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New York Times – For more and to sign up click here BERLIN — A criminal court in Munich sentenced a German convert to Islam to 10 years in prison on Monday, finding the woman guilty of supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and a crime against humanity for leaving......

Border Patrol Repeatedly Gave Agents Light Punishments, Report Finds

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The Trump administration had blocked the House committee’s inquiry, which began in 2019 after the Facebook group was revealed. Customs and Border Protection began providing documents to lawmakers in February, after President Biden took office, the report said. The committee faulted Customs and Border Protection for not having a strong......

Google Pixel 6 Review: Playing Catch-Up With the iPhone

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

For half a decade, Google, the maker of Android, the world’s most widely used phone software, has had a dream to make a best-selling phone that rivals the gold standard, the iPhone. Google’s Pixel phones have consistently received positive reviews but sell tepidly because of a major weakness: They have......

Thanksgiving, Already?

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Good morning. We’re just a month out from Thanksgiving, 30 days from a holiday that last year was deeply strange for a lot of us and that this year promises — what, a return to everything as it was in 2019? Probably not. We’re excited about what’s coming, but nervous,......

The singer Ed Sheeran announces he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021

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New York Times – For more and to sign up click here The singer Ed Sheeran announced Sunday on social media that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would be canceling public appearances and working at home, in quarantine. It wasn’t immediately clear what appearances would be canceled......

Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

In the wild, a worm blob looks like any other mud ball lolling around the bottom of a pond. But if you poke an unassuming worm blob, it will respond in a way a mud ball never would, wriggling out into a noodly shape that a Pastafarian might mistake for......

Hertz places an order for 100,000 Tesla vehicles.

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Hertz, the car rental agency, said on Monday that it had placed an order for 100,000 Teslas, a sign of growing momentum in the shift to electric vehicles. The order, which is expected to be delivered by the end of next year, would give Hertz one of the world’s largest......

Food That’s Worth Waiting For

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by New York TimesOctober 25, 2021October 25, 202100

Good morning. I made a quesadilla the other day: ham and Swiss cheese with some mango salsa I had in the fridge, with sour cream and Jamaican hot sauce. I took my time making it, too, cooking the tortillas slowly in butter so they crisped and pillowed, flipping them back......

Tensions between Sudan’s military and politicians grew in the last few months.

New York TimesOctober 25, 2021

by New York TimesOctober 25, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here The weeks leading up to Monday’s coup in Sudan were fraught with tensions between the military and civilian leadership, which were battling to gain control of the nation’s future as a key deadline approached. The jubilant mood that......

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