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“It’s Not What It Used To Be”: Older Americans Are Recalling The Major Things That Have Changed Over Their Lifetime, And As A Millennial, Life Sounded Much Simpler Back Then

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Elon Musk Is Creating His Own Texas Town. Hundreds Already Live There.

Over the past few years, Elon Musk has expanded his footprint in Texas, moving his companies from California and building offices, warehouses and manufacturing plants across a growing number of Texas counties. Now Mr. Musk is trying to do something that few, if any, titans of industry have done in a century: create his own company town. Mr. Musk has long talked about his desire to make a new town — which he hopes to call Starbase — in coastal…
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Former federal prosecutor in death row case speaks on Biden commuting murderer’s sentence: ‘My heart aches’

Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden commute the sentence of a “remorseless murderer.”
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What we know about the suspect charged with murder and arson for allegedly setting woman on fire in New York subway

Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with the death of a woman who died after being set on fire in a New York City subway train a day earlier.
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What we know about the suspect charged with murder and arson for allegedly setting woman on fire in New York subway

Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with the death of a woman who died after being set on fire in a New York City subway train a day earlier.
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Meet the power players at Elon Musk’s xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot

Meet the key figures at Elon Musk’s xAI, the $50 billion startup behind the chatbot Grok that’s taking on ChatGPT.
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Major storm pounds California’s central coast, blamed for man’s death and partially collapsing pier

A major storm pounded California’s central coast on Monday, bringing flooding and high surf that was blamed for fatally trapping a man beneath debris on a beach and later partially collapsing a pier, tossing three people into the Pacific Ocean.
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Donald Trump’s tough talk—Buy Greenland! Take back Panama Canal!—sparks defiance from many Republican rebels

President-elect Donald Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, even if nothing much comes of it.
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US reports airstrikes on targets in Syria

The US military carried out airstrikes on the positions of militants in Syria. As a result of the operation, two members of the jihadist terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) were eliminated, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM). The US military reported that on December 23, a precision airstrike was carried out in Syria’s Dayr az Zawr Prov…