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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives on November 13, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House and will also meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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Analysis Not all of the US president-elect’s choices are contentious. But three so far are lightning rods for potential chaos.

Analysis Senior commanders react to Trump’s new cabinet picks

Republicans win full control of Congress. Shock waves over controversial Cabinet picks

Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general

Melania Trump unlikely to move to the White House full time

Trump’s pick for UN ambassador declines to stand by previous support for Ukraine joining NATO

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Analysis World leaders heading to major summits are wary of Trump. China’s Xi sees an opportunity

Biden to meet for a final time with Xi this week as a new Trump era of China relations begins

Analysis How Musk’s worst business decision led him to Trump

The Trump inflation shock could be worse than the last inflation crisis, Larry Summers warns

TOPSHOT - Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli army evacuation orders on November 12, 2024, amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to a war crime

Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon

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TOPSHOT - French riot policemen secure the Stade-de-France ahead of the training for the French and Israeli teams, on the eve of the UEFA Nations League football match between France and Israel, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on November 13, 2024. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) (Photo by FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Analysis After antisemitic violence rocked Amsterdam, Paris braces for an Israel soccer match

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In 1991 she became the first female member of a magic society, then she disappeared. The search is on to find her

Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac

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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - JULY 30: Song Jae-Lim attends the tvN Drama "The Idle Mermaid" press conference at 63 Square on July 30, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Multi-Bits via Getty Images)

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US First Lady Melania Trump holds a roundtable discussion on cyber safety with technology leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 20, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Agents stand amid debris during rain in Paiporta, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on November 13 in the aftermath of deadly flooding.

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Thousands evacuated as parts of Spain hit with nearly a month’s rainfall in 1 hour

ROME, ITALY - MARCH 22: Italian President Sergio Mattarella attends the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, on March 22, 2024 in Rome, Italy. The Fosse Ardeatine mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners was carried out in this cave area in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

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Italian president tells Musk to quit meddling in Italy’s politics

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A man holds postal stamps showing Ukrainian service member and Russian warship depicting recently damaged guided missile cruiser "Moskva" (Moscow), at the headquarters of Ukrainian post in Kyiv, Ukraine April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

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Ukraine can’t trademark ‘Russian warship, go f**k yourself’, EU court rules

An area of stormy weather eventually expected to become Tropical Storm Sara churns in the Caribbean Wednesday morning.

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A police vehicle drives outside Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 13.

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Aid group accuses Haiti police of taking part in deadly attack on ambulance

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Street scene in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington State, United States on May 19, 2024.

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This medieval battleground is becoming an exclusive luxury resort

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments.

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Space and science

Alien-like signal from 2023 has been decoded. The next step is to figure out what it means

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TIRANA, ALBANIA - SEPTEMBER 16: Entrance to Bunk'Art 2 Museum, located near the Ministry of Interior, dedicated to showcasing Albania's Cold War period, seen on September 16, 2024, in Tirana, Albania. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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This country’s Cold War paranoia left it riddled with bunkers. Now they’re coming back to life

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Lisbon residents call for vote on restricting vacation rentals

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San Jose, California, was the least affordable US metro region this year, according to a new report from Oxford Economics. Other California cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, were also among the least affordable metros.

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DirecTV said it plans to abandon its Dish merger

Style

Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished Centenary Building salford

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Award-winning building to be demolished less than 30 years after being built

‘Refresh and reveal’: Celebrities strip off for latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize

Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy

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QUITO, ECUADOR - MAY 28: Marco Angulo of LDU Quito reacts during a Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Group D match between LDU Quito and Universitario Deportes at Rodrigo Paz Delgado Stadium on May 28, 2024 in Quito, Ecuador. (Photo by Franklin Jacome/Getty Images)

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Ecuador international Marco Angulo dies aged 22 following car crash

Homes of Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were burglarized last month, according to local reports

Steph Curry spoils Klay Thompson’s emotional return to Bay Area as Golden State Warriors beat Dallas Mavericks

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra admits to ‘serious mental error’ that led to defeat against the Detroit Pistons

Victor Wembanyama joins legendary group of NBA players

US Politics

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023.

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Biden to meet for a final time with Xi this week as a new Trump era of China relations begins

Intelligence agencies, already anxious over Trump, find some solace in Ratcliffe pick for CIA

Biden offers smooth transition he never got as Trump returns to DC

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The risky mix of antidepressants and college life

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Tech

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What the world’s largest tech event told us about the innovations of tomorrow

Why Russians with wads of cash flock to Apple stores in this Asian hub

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