Happening Now  President-elect Trump has picked Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, signaling his intention to oust Christopher Wray and install a fierce loyalist to upend the nation's premier law enforcement agency. Trump has been bitterly critical of the agency, which he has claimed has "lost the confidence of America," per the Washington Post. Keep reading
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After their babies were born in 2019, two Southern California families occasionally wondered about what little resemblance the newborns had to their parents. Then, when the infants were just a few months old, they learned why: The fertility clinic where both had undergone IVF somehow mixed up their embryos, and each woman had unknowingly carried and delivered the other couple's biological daughter. Keep reading The most recent assessment of American students' reading skills suggests too many kids are struggling. And as a story in the Atlantic explains, a 72-year-old educator named Lucy Calkins has become the "scapegoat" for the problem. Keep reading
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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More Big News  After an emotional debate in the House of Commons, British lawmakers voted to legalize assisted dying on Friday. Keep reading Also Making Headlines Today's Jaw-Dropper A beloved Canadian stage actor was performing in a play of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on Sunday when he apparently died during the show. Keep reading
Don't Overlook Louisiana-born Peggy Caserta hoped to become a flight attendant, but airsickness left her stuck at a desk job with Delta in San Francisco. Keep reading On the Lighter Side After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Keep reading Science Buzz The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a new plan to protect the state's iconic Joshua trees, which are imperiled by wildfires, human development, and climate change. Keep reading Wild Card It's Black Friday or, as the UNI Global Union calls it, "Make Amazon Pay Day." Keep reading TODAY'S NEWSER.AI PICK Protesters in Serbia observed 15 minutes of silence on Friday, honoring the victims of a roof collapse in Novi Sad four weeks ago. Keep reading Comment of the Day "Let me be clear. Anyone who donates money to China is stupid. That includes our government." TrollRoad Quote of the Day "The deathbed for far too many is a place of misery, torture, and degradation, a reign of blood and vomit and tears. I see no compassion and beauty in that—only profound human suffering." Today's 6 Most-Read Stories
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