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A new report says Hurricane Ian, the Category 4 hurricane that devastated Florida and South Carolina earlier this year, caused the second-largest insured loss since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, CNBC reports. Analysts say the storm was also the year's costliest disaster. 

President Biden on Thursday dined alongside guests of honor French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Macron at his first state dinner since taking office, a glamorous affair featuring celebrity guests, prestige fashion, and "200 lobsters from Maine," Politico reports.

It's Britney ... on Broadway. 

Once Upon a One More Time, a jukebox musical inspired by the music of Britney Spears, is headed to Broadway. The show announced Friday it will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre in May 2023 before opening on June 22. 

With a book by Jon Hartmere, Once Upon a One More Time combines Spears' music with iconic fairy tale characters, including Cinderella, Snow White, and the Little Mermaid, whose "stories get a rewrite when a fairy godmother gives them... Читать дальше...

An investigation has found that four Chinese solar manufacturers are evading U.S. tariffs by pushing their products through Southeast Asian countries, reports The New York Times. The companies were having products assembled in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam and then exported to the U.S., according to the Department of Commerce. 

Leading up to the World Cup, Qatar pledged to make the event the first carbon-neutral World Cup in history. In practice, there have been reasons to doubt the validity of its claims. Last year, FIFA and the event organizers estimated that the World Cup would release 3.6 million tons of carbon dioxide, more than any recent World Cup or Olympics, and this is likely an underestimate, reports The Economist.

Right wing conspiracy theorist and political agitator Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy on Friday, according to court documents obtained by Reuters.

Frank Vallelonga Jr., whose father was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the Oscar-winning film Green Book, has been found dead in the Bronx. He was 60. 

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This week's question: A 68-year-old man who uses a walker allegedly robbed a bank in Fresno, California, and was caught two blocks away. Come up with the title of a crime movie about this slow-moving bandit.

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, will not be buying the conservative social media site Parler, as announced in October, Parler's parents company said Thursday afternoon. "In response to numerous media inquiries, Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler," the company said on Twitter. "This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November."

President Biden has asked the Democratic National Committee to put South Carolina first on the 2024 primary calendar, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan, DNC members learned at a private dinner on Thursday, according multiple news organizations. The Democrats have been discussing shaking up the primary schedule for months, but elevating South Carolina to pole position and putting Georgia in the first five states "came as a shock to party officials and state leaders," The Washington Post reports. Читать дальше...

There is some promising news in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. The makers of a new drug, lecanemab, announced that trial studies demonstrate it reduces the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients by 27 percent. The news "comes after many years of frustration and failure" by researchers looking to slow and reverse the disease, NPR reports.

Over the past several years, plant-based meat substitutes have taken the United States by storm — but the outwardly successful industry has recently experienced a quiet downward trend. Here's everything you need to know: 

Larger police departments in the United States have the capacity to arm remote-controlled robots with lethal weaponry and send those robots in to kill suspects. But should they be able to use that option?

An Arizona judge on Thursday ordered Cochise County's board of supervisors to certify the county's votes in the 2022 midterms by 5 p.m., and two of the three supervisors then met and did so. The third supervisor, Tom Crosby, skipped the court-ordered meeting and did not vote. Crosby and the other Republican on the board, Peggy Judd, had voted against canvassing the election before Monday's state-mandated deadline, while their Democratic colleague, Ann English, voted to certify both times.

Kanye West's eventful Thursday ended with him being suspended from Twitter again, two weeks after the social media company reinstated his account following Elon Musk's ownership. "I tried my best," Musk tweeted late Thursday. "Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended." The final straw for West, who now goes by Ye, was apparently posting a Jewish Star of David with a swastika in the middle. 

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Thursday that a federal judge in Florida erred in granting former President Donald Trump's request for a "special master" to review the thousands of documents the FBI took from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in an August raid. The unsparing ruling was a victory for the Justice Department, a big defeat for Trump, and an embarrassing rebuke of Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who approved Trump's request and appointed the special master. Читать дальше...

As the "racism row" scandal envelops the United Kingdom, those following along from across the pond might be wondering — what the heck is a "lady-in-waiting," anyway?

We have a new greatest film ever made, according to a poll conducted once every ten years — and for the first time, it was directed by a woman.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed legislation to head off a looming railway strike, ending a major labor battle that had dragged on for months, threatening to plunge the freight industry into nationwide chaos.