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Covid: Israel to impose travel ban for foreigners over new variant - BBC News

BTS Lights Up L.A.’s SoFi Stadium on Night One of Permission to Dance Tour - Variety

Years of Delays, Billions in Overruns: The Dismal History of Big Infrastructure - The New York Times

'RHOA' Star Sheree Whitfield's BF Pissed at Bravo, Wants Footage Scrubbed - TMZ

Barbra Streisand, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more pay tribute to Stephen Sondheim - The Independent

Afghan Economy Nears Collapse as Pressure Builds to Ease U.S. Sanctions

Iran Clamps Down on Protests Against Growing Water Shortages

New 'Omicron' Variant Stokes Concern but Vaccines May Still Work

Omicron Variant Prompts Travel Bans and Batters World Markets

Praise for Stephen Sondheim at ‘Company’ and ‘Assassins'

The Holiday Shopping Season Is Here, but Is It Back?

Why the Bradford Pear Tree Is Plaguing the South

There Is Another Democrat A.O.C. Should Be Mad At

Young New Yorkers Discover Manhattan's Classic Cocktail Bars

That ‘Team Beto’ Fund-Raising Email? It Might Not Be From Beto.

A History of Unusual Thanksgivings

Burial Ground Under the Alamo Stirs a Texas Feud

Pakistan Madrasa Taught Afghanistan's Taliban Leaders

Why the Retail Industry Is Fighting Vaccine Mandates

Self Sufficiency Is Overrated

U.N. warns of 'colossal' collapse of Afghan banking system

How to avoid the world's second biggest economy in your portfolio

It's beginning to look a lot like .... lockdown

10 of the worlds biggest superyachts

Plans unveiled for high-tech '10-minute city' in Seoul

Late Night Celebrates Biden’s 79th Birthday

The Latest Covid Surge

Everyone’s Moving to Texas. Here’s Why.

Righting the Historical Wrong of the Claiborne Highway

Hong Kong’s National Security Law Explained

US added to list of ‘backsliding’ democracies for first time - The Guardian

How mental health conditions can raise COVID risk : Shots - Health News - NPR

Starbucks worker's hepatitis A diagnosis sparks New Jersey vaccination drive - The Washington Post

Limping and Penniless, Iraqis Deported From Belarus Face Bleak Futures - The New York Times

Shots fired at officers responding to possible hostage situation in SE Portland - KATU

Gas Prices, Covid, Thanksgiving Recipes: Your Weekend Briefing

How Do You Make Teen Comedies Today? Buy a High School.

As Gerrymanders Get Worse, Options to Overturn Them Get Weaker

Myanmar's Notorious Army Is Facing a Morale Crisis

Peng Shuai Said to Be in Videos From China's State Media

Austria is going back into a national lockdown

WTA threat to quit China over Peng Shuai's disappearance puts Porsche and SAP in a bind

Oil prices are finally falling. Thank China and Joe Biden

Press Freedom Awards ceremony stands up for journalists in 'increasingly repressive world'

Museum casts fresh doubt over the authenticity of $450M 'Salvator Mundi'

Europe was already facing a winter gas crisis. The risks just got even bigger

Harry Styles launches gender-neutral beauty brand

'Totally brutal': Advocate decries killing of pet for Covid prevention in China

Billionaire couple sells off $676M of art in divorce settlement

UK tourism is crashing. Here's why