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A South Korean tank fires during exercises at the Northwest Islands area of South Korea on Friday.

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North and South Korea conduct provocative military drills along their sea boundary

The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean agreement.

January 05, 2024
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gives a toast to invited guests after delivering a speech at a reception for Commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of China-U.S. Diplomatic Relations in Beijing on Friday.

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  • World

China promises pandas for the U.S. on the 45th anniversary of the two nations' ties

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and promised that giant pandas would return to the U.S. — specifically California — by year end.

January 05, 2024
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David Soul is photographed at an event in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo "Starsky and Hutch" in a popular 1970s television series, has died at age 80.

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  • Obituaries

David Soul, of TV's 'Starsky and Hutch,' dies at 80

Soul was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us."

January 05, 2024
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Jessica Chastain plays a single mother who connects with a man with early-onset dementia (Peter Sarsgaard) in <em>Memory</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Two strangers grapple with hazy 'Memory' in this unsettling film

Peter Sarsgaard is a man with early-onset dementia and Jessica Chastain is a single mother with a traumatic past in a film about two people who come into each other's lives at just the right time.

January 05, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires. Companies and researchers are using AI to both detect wildfires early, and to help prevent megafires.

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  • News

Up First briefing: Trump promises Jan. 6 pardons; Epstein document fuels conspiracies

Trump vows he'll pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he returns to the White House. Unsealed court documents about Jeffrey Epstein fuel new conspiracies.

January 05, 2024
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
A protest group called "Hot Mess" holds up signs of Jeffrey Epstein on July 8, 2019 in New York City.

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  • National

What to know about the Jeffrey Epstein 'John Doe' files that were just unsealed

The documents bring new clarity to a tragic and shocking case that alleged acts of illegal sexual predation within an elite world of power and influence.

January 05, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
The U.S. job market held up well in 2023, despite rising interest rates. Employers added 2.7 million jobs last year and unemployment remained under 4% throughout the year.

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  • Economy

U.S. unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War

U.S. employers added 216,000 jobs in December, as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7%. The labor market proved resilient in 2023, despite rising interest rates.

January 05, 2024
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  • Music News

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says he's had to deal with phantoms offstage

In an interview, Lloyd Webber said a poltergeist caused some mischief around his London home. He never saw the ghost but did see weird activity — such as scripts placed in neat piles in odd places.

January 05, 2024
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A Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkin with no carved-out face next to the open wrapper with a jack-o'-lantern design.

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  • Business

Hershey sued for $5M over missing 'cute' face on Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins

The lawsuit claims the packaging shows "explicit carved out artistic designs" that the chocolate inside doesn't have.

January 05, 2024
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  • Megan Lim
This March 28, 2017, image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • Law

Court documents reveal names of powerful men allegedly linked to Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker who took his own life in 2019, has been linked to some of the world's most powerful men. Names included in the court documents aren't evidence of wrongdoing.

January 05, 2024
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Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East performs at NPR Music in Washington, D.C.

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  • Music Videos

Tiny Desk Concert: Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East

Sunny Jain's music promotes the idea of not just crossing boundaries but obliterating them all together.

January 05, 2024
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  • Felix Contreras
South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius leaves the Pretoria High Court on June 15, 2016, after the third day of his resentencing hearing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius was released from Pretoria prison on Friday after serving nearly 11 years.

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  • Africa

Oscar Pistorius is released from prison on parole in South Africa

The Paralympic champion convicted of murdering his girlfriend has left prison on parole.

January 05, 2024
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  • Kate Bartlett
Happy new year! None of the above are correct answers.

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  • National

New year, new quiz. Can you believe stuff has already happened in 2024?!

Who's out to save democracy? Who's good at not drooling? And what do sexy Hershey Kisses have to do with any of it? Try for your first 11/11 of 2024, and possibly find out.

January 05, 2024
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  • Holly J. Morris
An image of the sign for T.G.I Friday's as photographed on March 16, 2020 in Levittown, New York.

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  • Business

TGI Fridays closes dozens of its stores

The company is offering over 1,000 transfer opportunities for 80% of the impacted employees, it said. It additionally sold eight locations across the Northeast to its former CEO.

January 05, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Claudine Gay speaks during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University in May. Gay resigned as Harvard's president Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations.

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  • Education

Claudine Gay's resignation highlights the trouble with regulating academic writing

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism allegations. Experts say improved technology could bring to light more alleged transgressions in past works by other academic leaders.

January 04, 2024
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