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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Orlando Pride top Washington Spirit 1-0 to win their first National Women's Soccer League championship (More) | MLS Cup Playoffs conference final matchups set; see bracket and schedule (More)

> Rapper Kendrick Lamar releases surprise album "GNX" (More) | Singer-songwriter Khalid comes out as gay after being outed on social media (More)

> Chuck Woolery, longtime TV game show host best known for "Love Connection," dies at age 83 (More) | Rico Carty, former MLB All-Star and NL batting champion, dies at age 85 (More)


Science & Technology
> Astronomers capture aftermath of a galaxy collision, including one galaxy traveling at an estimated 2 million miles per hour (More) | What is Stephan's Quintet? (More)

> Archaeologists discover network of 4,000-year-old canals in Belize; structures believed to have been used for fishing by the civilization predating the Maya (More)

> Brain study suggests overthinking social situations is governed by interactions with the amygdala, part of the "lizard brain," responsible for fear and assessing risk (More) | Lizard brain 101 (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq +0.2%), with Dow closing at all-time high (More)

> Cantor Fitzgerald—whose CEO is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for commerce secretary—is reportedly in talks with lead stablecoin company Tether for project lending clients $2B against bitcoin (More) | What is a stablecoin? (More)

> Social media platform Bluesky surpasses 21 million users, up from 13 million last month; COO says the 20-person team running the company, which spun off from then-Twitter in 2021, is racing to get more servers (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Storms forecast this week amid record Thanksgiving travel, with East Coast predicted to be most impacted by storms on Thanksgiving and Black Friday (More)

> Hezbollah fires 250 rockets and other projectiles into northern, central Israel; barrage comes after Israel strikes Beirut, killing 29 people (More) | See war updates (More) | UAE arrests three suspects in killing of Moldovan-Israeli rabbi (More) | Russia reportedly recruits Houthi-linked Yemeni citizens to fight in Ukraine (More)

> Romanians vote in first round of presidential elections, with right-wing Calin Georgescu and left-wing Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu leading list of 13 candidates; vote now heads to a Dec. 8 runoff (More)

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