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⭘ A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary's School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria's Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria said.

⬤ Gunmen kidnapped dozens of students from a Catholic school in northwest Nigeria as Washington ramps up pressure on Abuja to protect Christian communities.

⭘ Chris Paul won't return to the hardwood next season as the future Hall of Famer is ending his career. He rejoined the Clippers this past offseason in a final push for an NBA title.

⭘ Travis Kelce is focused on the Kansas City Chiefs reaching the playoffs right now, but he said this week that he will let the team know if he decides to continue playing next season.

⭘ Candace Cameron Bure opens up about staying true to herself in Hollywood, rejecting scripts with sexual content despite ongoing industry pressures.

⭘ When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts sayKrista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk – a marketplace that allows companies to hire workers to perform tasks like entering data or matching an AI prompt with its output – Pawloski spends her time moderating and assessing the quality of AI-generated text, images and videos, as well as some factchecking.

⭘ Texas' supply and demand balance can become tight during winter and potentially fall into deficit as data center demand grows.

⭘ An NBC News analysis of one month of Musk's social media posts shows what's been on his mind, including a broad cross-section of fringe political topics.

⬤ As the president forced a onetime loyalist from Congress, her defiant departure signaled a coming debate over Republican identity in a post-Trump era.

⭘ Gerald R. Ford was the first president to golf at Joint Base Andrews in 1974, but the facility was most recently a favorite of Barack Obama.

⭘ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday said she would resign in early January, after saying President Donald Trump unfairly criticized her.

⭘ A new study from King's College London reveals root canals may lower blood sugar and reduce diabetes risk, plus improve cholesterol and decrease inflammation markers.

⭘ Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound often cause nausea and other side effects. Brain scientists are looking for ways to solve this problem.

⭘ Celebs including Charlie XCX swear by them. But what are polynucleotides and do they work?

⭘ Berkshire Hathaway's purchase of Alphabet shares may signal a new acceptance of greater risk for greater reward.

⭘ The yield on the S&P 500 is at 1.15%. The only time it sank lower was during the tech bubble, Trivariate Research said.

⭘ A new IRS requirement covering crypto transactions starting with the 2025 tax year has big consequences for how investors report digital assets transactions.

⭘ As the UN Climate Change Conference was happening in Brazil, the Trump administration released proposals to open up offshore drilling and roll back protections for wetlands and endangered animals.

⭘ Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final dealThe world edged a small step closer to the end of the fossil fuel era on Saturday, but not by nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown.

⭘ Exclusive: Summit leadership releases new text despite 29 nations threatening to block progress without commitment A new draft text on the outcome of the Cop30 climate talks has been published that contains no mention of a phase-out of fossil fuels, despite countries supporting such action having threatened to block any agreement without it.

⬤ The Federal Aviation Administration's notice comes as President Trump has ramped up pressure on Venezuela and increased U.S. military presence in the region.

⭘ On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to returnNoam Erlich looks out over what was his beer garden. Beyond the disordered chairs and tables and the sign instructing neighbours and friends to "pay whatever you like", the ridge falls away to fields, then a fence, then hills littered with the skeletal ruins of shattered Lebanese villages.

⭘ Leaders from Europe, Canada and Japan say the plan needs "additional work" but includes elements "essential for a just and lasting peace".

⭘ Tatiana Schlossberg, who has been married to doctor George Moran since 2017, has two young children.

⭘ Her privileges in America's two-tiered legal system reportedly range from from unlimited toilet paper to puppy playtimeI don't know what, if anything, keeps Ghislaine Maxwell up at night. But it's certainly not the prospect of running out of toilet paper in the minimum-security prison where she's residing. Maxwell is serving a 20-year-sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation. Rather than doing hard time, however, it seems Maxwell is having a relatively easy go of it. While most inmates get an allocation of two rolls of toilet paper per week, for example, CNN reports that Maxwell gets an unlimited supply.

⭘ The prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a "most valuable experience" to have maintained "regular contact" with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November by US lawmakers.

⭘ When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their doorBefore it catapulted a small school community in London's commuter belt into the centre of a global news story, the year-four class WhatsApp group at Cowley Hill school in Borehamwood was unremarkable – a place of snide comments, reminders about non-uniform day and flustered messages about being late for the school run.

⭘ The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.