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As prices rise, women seek affordable insurance for their families : Shots
Cynthia Freeman and her husband Brad Lawrence in their apartment in Brooklyn, NY. Because they work freelance jobs as storytellers and podcasters, they rely on their Affordable Care Act insurance to treat Brad’s newly-diagnosed kidney disease. José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR hide caption toggle caption José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR As the clock ticked down on 2025, B.…
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Planning a 360-degree assault on organised crime: Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched two databases – the Organised Crime Network Database and the Weapons Database for lost, looted & recovered arms – hosted by the National Investigation Agency. The databases are meant to be used by law enforcement agencies across the country. The minister said a new plan to launch “a 360-degree assault…
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12 Best Streaming Movies of 2025, Ranked
Almost all of the big streamers released as least one excellent original movie this year. Some of them played in theaters before hitting TV screens at home, others went straight to said TV screens. It was an especially strong year for Netflix, but Hulu, Prime Video, and Apple TV were no slouches either. And here we’ve picked the 12 best…
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Group forcibly removes Christmas decorations in Indore
Group forcibly removes Christmas decorations in Indore. Indore: Right-wing activists created a ruckus and forcibly removed a Christmas tree and other Xmas decorations from a food street in Indore, police said on Friday. A video of the incident that took place on Thursday night has gone viral on social media. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotiya confirmed the video…
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Tajikistan-Taliban border clashes: What’s behind them, why it affects China | Explainer News
Tensions are flaring along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border in Central Asia with the Tajik government reporting multiple armed incursions this month, straining its fragile relationship with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders. More than a dozen people have been killed in attacks by men whom Tajik authorities call “terrorists” and the resulting clashes with Tajik forces, officials in Dushanbe and Beijing said. Victims include…
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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing | Fungi
Inside a large greenhouse at the University of Kansas, Professor Liz Koziol and Dr Terra Lubin tend rows of sudan grass in individual plastic pots. The roots of each straggly plant harbor a specific strain of invisible soil fungus. The shelves of a nearby cold room are stacked high with thousands of plastic bags and vials containing fungal spores harvested…
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BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH, LINK, HYPE
Key points: Bitcoin attempted to rise above $90,000, but sustained recovery may require institutional demand to pick up. While most major altcoins are struggling near their recent lows, Bitcoin Cash looks strong on the charts. Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $89,500, but the bulls could not sustain the higher levels. A sustainable recovery would require institutional demand to pick up. Since…
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Israel becomes first country to recognize breakaway Somaliland as independent state
Israel on Friday became the first country to recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state, more than three decades after the African region broke away from Somalia, with the Muslim nation saying it aspired to join the Abraham Accords. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar signed the declaration for Israel, while Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Mohamed…
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Is the Shaker film with Amanda Seyfried a true story?
The perfect tagline for The Testament of Ann Lee might be “If you’re going to see only one musical about the early Shakers, make it this one.” However, this highly idiosyncratic film is not really a musical in the conventional sense, with the dramatic action punctuated by characters expressing their emotions in song, often accompanied by choreographed dance numbers. TTOAL…
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A murder, a manhunt and the grandmother who wouldn’t stop the search for her daughter’s killer
She’d waited years for the news. But when the message arrived Aug. 26, 2022, Josephine Wentzel suddenly had to confront an agonizing possibility. She’d spent six years tracking the man authorities believed was responsible for killing her daughter, a search that spanned thousands of miles, international borders and dozens of possible sightings that, in the end, had produced little. Wentzel…
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