#Scandinavia is boosting its defense spending even as Sweden’s NATO entry is stalled

#Scandinavia is boosting its defense spending even as Sweden’s NATO entry is stalled

After a needless two-month delay, the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee finally approved Sweden’s application for NATO membership earlier this week. But Fuad Oktay, the committee’s chairman, made it clear that full parliamentary ratification was still some time away. Since the parliament, like the committee, is controlled by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK…

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#The Year Ahead: Our Guide To 2024

#The Year Ahead: Our Guide To 2024

If 2023 was the year of wake-up calls—to the dystopian reality of AI, to the destructive force of climate change, to the challenges plaguing immigration and the cost of living—then 2024 will be the year we finally do something about it all. Post-secondary institutions will prep students for careers in quantum computing, the EV economy…

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#Trump releases Christmas TV ad in early voting states

#Trump releases Christmas TV ad in early voting states

Former President Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, released a new television ad Sunday afternoon that is set to air in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the one-minute ad spot, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump’s surprise Christmas visit in 2018 to Iraq. The ad emphasized…

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#About 100 Airbus Atlantic employees fall ill after Christmas party: reports

#About 100 Airbus Atlantic employees fall ill after Christmas party: reports

About 100 Airbus Atlantic employees fell ill after a company-organized Christmas party in France earlier this month, according to a spokesperson for the European aeronautics company. “Around 100 Airbus Atlantic employees were taken ill after contracting a food-borne illness after eating the company-organized Christmas lunch,” an Airbus Atlantic spokesperson told multiple outlets. The spokesperson did…

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#5 ballot measures to watch in 2024

#5 ballot measures to watch in 2024

Voters across the country will weigh in on several key issues, including abortion, state primaries and school board elections, through a slew of ballot measures next year.  Abortion rights supporters are looking to enshrine abortion protections into state constitutions in Arizona, Florida and Missouri, among others. Voters in Idaho, Colorado and Montana could decide on ballot measures that would…

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#AP strikes Christmas Eve deal with union on contract

#AP strikes Christmas Eve deal with union on contract

The Associated Press (AP) News Guild announced Sunday it has struck a deal with management on a three-year contract after 19 months of negotiations that culminated in a final end-of-year push. “This announcement follows rounds of intense discussions with the company over the last two weeks, culminating in even more intense discussions over the last…

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