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President Biden on Friday signed a short-term budget deal hammered out by Congress, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown while giving legislators another week to negotiate a full spending package. 

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A major California county is considering secession because of growing frustration with the progressive direction the state is heading in, reports The Associated Press. San Bernardino County, the state's fifth largest with a population of 2.2 million, approved an advisory ballot proposal allowing local officials to look into the option of seceding from the state. 

Jane Fonda just received the best early Christmas — and birthday — gift she could have hoped for.

Twitter on Thursday controversially suspended the accounts of a number of high-profile journalists, many of whom cover both the platform and its new owner, Elon Musk. 

New York became the latest state to pass a law banning the sale of cats, dogs, and rabbits in pet stores, an effort to curb the use of commercial breeders denounced by critics as "puppy mills," The Associated Press reports. 

The man who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage at a comedy show this year has been sentenced to nine months in jail. 

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This week's question: Texas police attempted to apprehend an out-of-control driver that crashed a truck into two cars in a Walmart parking lot only to discover a dog behind the wheel. Come up with a special canine traffic violation that the dog could be charged with.

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Black Americans — some of them anyway — might soon receive reparations for the country's legacy of slavery and racism. In California, a task force is debating "recommendations for how the state can atone for and address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians," The Associated Press reports. But it's not just California: Officials in Boston and Kansas City are also discussing what reparations might look like in their cities. Many other towns, cities, and colleges are doing the same. Читать дальше...

So far this year, 15 children have died tragically of strep A infections in the United Kingdom. The outbreak has led to a run on home strep tests and strained supplies of antibiotics as parents fear for their children's safety. How unusual is the outbreak, what are leading infectious disease experts saying about it, and what can people do to protect themselves and their families? Here's everything you need to know:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has "huge news" about a "small fish." And in case you aren't sufficiently excited about the fate of the endangered candy darter, the agency offered this all-caps headline on Thursday: "HATCHERY RAISED FISH THAT LOOKS LIKE A CANDY CANE RELEASED INTO WILD FOR FIRST TIME. ????"

Capital punishment fell further out of favor in the U.S. in 2022, with public support continuing its decade-long slide and the states that still use the death penalty carrying out historically few executions, the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) said Thursday in its annual survey. 

Twitter suspended the accounts of reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and several other news organizations Thursday evening, without explanation. Most of the suspended journalists cover Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, and Musk suggested on Twitter that the suspensions were tied to his new policy of not posting the real-time location of his private jet, or any user's "live location information."

Thousands of government documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were made public on Thursday, after President Biden issued a memorandum approving their release.

Claudine Gay will be the next president of Harvard University, and the institution's first Black leader.

Congress on Thursday passed legislation calling for the removal of the bust of Justice Roger Brooke Taney from the Capitol. The fifth chief justice wrote the infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) concluding that enslaved people were not considered U.S. citizens and therefore not afforded constitutional and legal protections. It is regarded as one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history.

The House on Thursday advanced what is known as the Puerto Rico Status Act, under which Puerto Rican voters would decide whether their territory should become a U.S. state, an independent country, or an independent country aligned with the U.S., The New York Times reports.