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'Simpsons' Is Losing an Iconic Voice (Newser Morning 8)

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November 21, 2024
 
 
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
—Eleanor Roosevelt
 
1
US regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. Keep reading
 
2
More-than-casual fans of The Simpsons would know that Milhouse's full name is Milhouse Van Houten. Keep reading
 
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At a Glance
At a glance
A truck carrying a 95-foot red fir arrives in St. Peter's Square from the village of Ledro, in the Dolomites, to be decorated and lit up as a Christmas tree at the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
 
3
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister, and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes in the Gaza war and the October 2023 attacks that triggered Israel's offensive. Keep reading
 
4
The Department of Government Efficiency may not be an official government agency, but its two leaders are wasting no time laying out their intentions. Keep reading
 
5
Maurizio Cattelan's infamous duct-taped banana, a work first displayed on a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach and sold for $120,000, has now sold for more than 40 times that amount. Keep reading
 
6
Louisiana's plan to make all of the state's public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. Keep reading
 
7
A Philadelphia jury awarded $11 million on Wednesday to a man whose holstered Sig Sauer pistol went off by itself while he was going down the stairs, causing a serious leg injury—the second major verdict this year against the embattled gun manufacturer over its P320 model, the AP reports. Keep reading
 
8
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has offered President-elect Trump a 1,402-acre ranch that she believes would be ideal for his mass deportation plan. Keep reading
 
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This Day in History
On Nov. 21, 1980, an estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot JR." (The shooter turned out to be JR Ewing's sister-in-law, Kristin Shepard.)
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