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Released Palestinian prisoners arrive in the West Bank town of Ramallah Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023. Thirty-three Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived early Tuesday in east Jerusalem and Ramallah. Eleven Israeli women and children, freed by Hamas, entered Israel Monday night in the fourth swap under the original four-day truce, which began Friday and had been due to run out. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for two more days, and to free more hostages and prisoners

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday. That raises the prospect of an even longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war, and further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

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Suspect in shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont pleads not guilty

FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court, Sept. 22, 2022, in Waterbury, Conn. Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million

A woman gathers possessions to take before a homeless encampment was cleaned up in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Cities across the U.S. are struggling with and cracking down on tent encampments as the number of homeless people grows, largely due to a lack of affordable housing. Homeless people and their advocates say sweeps are cruel and costly, and there aren't enough homes or beds for everyone. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer

Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Ariz. Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona. Some neighbors complain that their backyard wells have dried up since the Emirati agribusiness began farming alfalfa nearby. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. When New York's Adult Survivors Act expired on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, more than 3,700 legal claims had been filed, with many of the last few coming against big-name celebrities, such as Weinstein, and a handful of politicians. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Celebrities, politicians among those named in sex abuse suits filed under NY’s Adult Survivors Act

On fourth day of truce, 11 hostages are released by Hamas

Footage released by the military wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades, on Monday showed the fourth group of hostages being handed to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday.

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FILE - Protesters hold up blank pieces of paper and chant slogans as they march to protest strict anti-virus measures in Beijing, Nov. 27, 2022. Thousands of people demonstrated across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country's strict censorship controls. One year later, China has all but forgotten the protests. The state reacted quickly, breaking up the marches with arrests and threats and ending COVID-19 controls. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance

A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!” to protest China’s harsh “zero COVID” controls and growing authoritarianism.

This image released by Beall Productions shows Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, left, and Lina Soualem in a scene from the documentary "Bye Bye Tiberias." (Frida Marzouk/Beall Productions via AP)

Hiam Abbass’ Palestinian family documentary ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ applauded at Marrakech Film Festival

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, file photo, a consumer looks at Cyber Monday sales on her computer at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday –- a term coined back in 2005 by the National Retail Federation –- continues to be the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Cyber Monday marks the year’s biggest online shopping day, and one more chance to save on gifts

Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton runs with the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Denver Broncos are relevant heading into December for the first time since 2016

In this undated photo released by Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, a newly born Sumatran rhino calf walks in its enclosure at Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia. The critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born on Sumatra Island Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that currently numbers fewer than 50 animals. (Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry via AP)

A Sumatran rhino calf born in Indonesia adds to an endangered species of fewer than 50 animals

Holiday decorations adorn the Grand Foyer of the White House for the 2023 theme "Magic, Wonder, and Joy," Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Deck the White House halls: Jill Biden wants holiday visitors to feel like kids again

Jill Biden has chosen a White House holiday décor that she hopes will inspire guests to feel like kids again. “Magic, wonder and joy” is her theme.

This cover image releasedby Phaidon shows “The Christmas Book,” by Phaidon editors, with essays by David Trigg, Sam Bilton and Dolph Gotelli. (Phaidon via AP)

Pop art to ballet, reach for a coffee-table read when choosing holiday gifts

This image released by Uncommon Goods shows a cheese board designed to look like the most expensive, slick turntable, featuring a slate platter and hidden slicer in the one arm. (Uncommon Goods via AP)

A 2023 gift guide that will strike a chord: 10 ideas for the music lover in your life

This image provided by Cinephile shows a movie card game. Described as "the ultimate game for movie geeks, film nerds and cinephiles" this set includes five games of varying difficulties. The filmography level asks players to name more films than your opponent for whosever name comes up on the card (like, say, Samuel L. Jackson, which could keep things going for a while), another game mimics "heads up" while the expert level game challenges your ability to connect two actors in less than six degrees. (Cinephile via AP)

Think they’ve seen it all? Holiday gift ideas for the movie lover who wants more

This product image shows the card game It’s a Date! with scratch-off date ideas for couples. Interactive card games are good options for holiday gifts. (It’s a Date! via AP)

From saving elephants to pleasing football fans, here are some holiday gift ideas for all

This image provided by Noble Oak shows a 750ml bottle of Noble Oak bourbon. For every bottle sold, the company plants a tree in partnership with One Tree Planted, a Vermont-based reforestation nonprofit. (Noble Oak via AP)

A dozen fresh-picked holiday gift ideas for gardeners

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File - People work at the Yelp office in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic upended the work habits of people around the world, with millions working from home, at least for part of their week. Workers have returned in waves back to the office on some days, but navigating that transition is a significant hurdle for employers and workers alike. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

New incentives could boost satisfaction with in-person work, but few employers are making changes

TikToker Allie Pribula poses for a photograph in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media. Pribula, a 25-year-old TikToker who used to be an elementary school teacher in the Philadelphia suburbs, says she started making GRWM videos as a way to process her feelings about her old job. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

‘Get Ready With Me’: Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere — and not slowing down

FILE - An Axolotl swims in a tank at the Chapultepec Zoo, in Mexico City, Sept. 27, 2008. Ecologists from Mexico's National Autonomous University relaunched a fundraising campaign Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, to bolster conservation efforts for the axolotls: an iconic, endangered, fish-like type of salamander. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species

This images provided by Maxar Technologies shows the A23a iceberg moving through the sea sea near the Antarctica, on Wednesday Nov. 15, 2023. One of the world’s largest icebergs, known as A23a, appears to be moving beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after it was grounded for 3 decades

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2009 file photo, feral pigs roam near a Mertzon, Texas ranch. Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana and other northern states are making preparations to stop a threatened invasion from Canada. Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, mostly in southern states like Texas. But the exploding population of feral swine on the prairies of western Canada is threatening spill south. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is threatening to invade the US

Jen Rose, a ceramic artist, poses with small garden installations that capture water to feed pollinators at her company, Bee Cups, in Dallas, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Small businesses say loans are harder to get than ever, as banks tighten lending standards and interest rates increase. Rose had a hard time finding a loan to expand her successful business. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Turned down for a loan, business owners look to family and even crowdsourcing to get money to grow

A woman shares Jehovah's Witnesses' literature with a passerby in downtown Pittsburgh on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly distribute literature in public places and do door-to-door evangelism, but for the first time in more than a century, their congregations will not be regularly tracking their hours in ministry. (AP Photo/Peter Smith)

Timekeepers no more, rank-and-file Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking proselytizing hours

In this photo provided by Ed Smith, Geoffrey Holt rests his leg on top of his riding mower in Hinsdale, N.H., on April 4, 2020. Holt left the town of Hinsdale nearly $4 million when he died last June. (Ed Smith via AP)

New Hampshire man had no car and no furniture, but died with a big secret, leaving his town millions

FILE - Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo, File)

The vital question may linger forever: Did Oscar Pistorius know he was shooting at his girlfriend?

In the decade since Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the vital question has still never been answered: Did the world-famous Olympic runner know he was shooting at and killing his girlfriend that Valentine’s Day in 2013?

Driver Carlos Quezada loads rice on a pallet for distribution at Feeding Westchester in Elmsford, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns that it is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems. Some states including New York are requiring supermarkets and other businesses to redirect food to food pantries. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills

A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems.

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Bluffton, S.C. Haley is among a cluster of Republican candidates competing for second place in a GOP Republican primary thus far largely dominated by former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Nikki Haley argues Donald Trump is always followed by ‘chaos’ before a large South Carolina crowd

Nikki Haley says former President Donald Trump causes too much chaos to be successful in a second White House term.

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures with South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster during halftime in an NCAA college football game between the University of South Carolina and Clemson Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Donald Trump draws cheers, some boos in Haley’s backyard at Clemson-South Carolina football game

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards his aircraft prior to departure, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Brussels for a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Blinken will return to Israel as the US hopes to see further extensions of the Gaza cease-fire

Entertainment

FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

What’s Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023? Hint: Be true to yourself

SPORTS

Chicago Bears cornerback Kyler Gordon (6) celebrates with teammates defensive end Montez Sweat (98) and linebacker Dylan Cole (55) after intercepting a pass during the second half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Bears outlast Vikings 12-10 on 4th field goal by Santos after 4 interceptions of Dobbs

US News

FILE - Retired schoolteacher Tom Wingo, of Samaritans Without Borders, walks on the Roosevelt Easement picking up trash along the border fence as a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols the area, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. On Monday, Nov. 27, Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one of two bridges to vehicles in Eagle Pass, Texas, a town of about 30,000 people that, for a while last year, was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. It is also reducing vehicle entries in Lukeville, a remote desert crossing that has become a major migration route in recent months. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

US closes border crossing to vehicles and limits traffic at another in response to illegal entries

WORLD NEWS

Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, in London, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

Diplomatic spat over the Parthenon Marbles scuttles meeting of British and Greek leaders

BUSINESS

FILE - Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk looks on, during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Musk, who's been under fire over accusations of antisemitism flourishing on his social media platform X, paid a visit Monday, Nov. 27, 2023 to Israel, where he toured a kibbutz that was attacked last month by Hamas militants and was set to meet with top leaders. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

Elon Musk visits Israel to meet top leaders as accusations of antisemitism on X grow

SCIENCE

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LIFESTYLE

Salutatorian Alasia Baker, 17, center, and Khyli Barbee, 15, following Baker, leave a graduation ceremony for Springfield Preparatory School at Victory in Christ church in Holden, La., Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. Non-approved schools make up a small percentage of the state total. But the students in Louisiana’s off-the-grid school system are a rapidly growing example of the national fallout from COVID-19 — families disengaging from traditional education. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Diplomas for sale: $465, no classes required. Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools

Chinese AI firm SenseTime denies research firm Grizzly’s claim it inflated its revenue

SenseTime, a major Chinese artificial intelligence company known for its facial recognition technology, has rejected claims by a research company that it has inflated its revenue.

Anderson scores 21 to lead San Jose State over North Dakota State 78-65

Trey Anderson scored 21 points to lead San Jose State to a 78-65 victory over North Dakota State. Anderson made 7 of 10 shots with four 3-pointers for the Spartans (5-2), adding seven rebounds.

Verplancken propels Weber State over Navajo Tech 107-45

Steven Verplancken scored 19 points to lead five players in double figures and Weber State cruised to a 107-45 victory over Navajo Tech.

Luke Kunin scores go-ahead power play goal as Sharks beat Capitals 2-1

Luke Kunin scored a go-ahead power-play goal in the third period, Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 33 shots, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Washington Capitals 2-1.

Madsen, Worster lead Utah to 78-71 victory over Saint Mary’s

Gabe Madsen and Rollie Worster scored 17 points apiece to lead Utah to a 78-71 victory over Saint Mary’s.

Former Clippers Jackson and Jordan carry Nuggets past Los Angeles 113-104 without Jokic

Reggie Jackson scored 35 points, DeAndre Jordan had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and the Denver Nuggets rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 113-104 without Nikola Jokic.

Weegar scores late in OT to lift Flames to 2-1 win over Golden Knights

MacKenzie Weegar scored with 5 seconds left on the clock in overtime, lifting the Calgary Flames to a 2-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights. A.J.

LeDee powers San Diego State over D-II’s Point Loma Nazarene 71-51

Led by Jaedon LeDee’s 15 points, the San Diego State Aztecs defeated Division II’s Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions 71-51.

Washington State beats Eastern Washington 82-72 behind Myles Rice’s career-high 6 3s and 28 points

Freshman Myles Rice had career highs of six 3-pointers and 28 points and Washington State pulled away inside the final nine minutes to beat Eastern Washington 82-72.

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