Investors may not go as far as saying they would reduce their holdings in the company, but many said they were taken aback after Musk agreed with a post that said Jewish people hold a ‘dialectical hatred’ of white people.
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More than 2,400 Ukrainian children taken to Belarus, Yale study finds
At least 2,442 children, including those with disabilities, were taken to Belarus from 17 cities of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine between Feb. 24, 2022, and Oct. 30, 2023.
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The flu is soaring in 7 states and rising in others, health officials say
Traditionally, the winter flu season ramps up in December or January. But it took off in October last year and is making a November entrance this year.
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IBM and EU pull ads from X after Elon Musk’s antisemitic tweets
IBM said this week it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis. Ads from Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal’s Bravo network and Comcast also were placed next to antisemitic material.
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British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
‘Possession,’ published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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Biden signs temporary spending bill averting government shutdown
The spending package keeps government funding at current levels for roughly 2 more months.
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Aid agencies can’t send food, supplies to Gaza because of communications blackout
More than 11,400 Palestinians have been killed in the war, two-thirds of them women and minors, according to Palestinian health authorities.
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New Hampshire defies national Democrats’ new calendar, sets presidential primary for Jan. 23
The state will keep alive its streak of going first, but President Biden won’t be on the ballot and isn’t planning to campaign there.
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Biden tells Asia-Pacific leaders U.S. ‘not going anywhere’ as he looks to build economic ties
Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping understand that the complicated ties between the U.S. and China have major global impacts.
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Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests
Iconic red cedars – known as the ‘Tree of Life’ – and other tree species in the Pacific Northwest have been dying because of climate-induced drought, researchers say.