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Business · NewtownAlex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent company of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.See the Story
Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1 bln Sandy Hook verdict
59% Center coverage: 215 sources
Business · WashingtonJob growth was much better than expected in November despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive efforts to slow the labor market and tackle inflation.
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US economy added a robust 263,000 jobs in November
54% Center coverage: 115 sources
Europe · BrusselsEuropean Union countries agreed on Friday to cap the maritime trade of Russian oil at $60 per barrel, building upon an initiative by the Group of Seven (G7) to further weaken the Kremlin's ability to wage war on Ukraine.
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European Union officials set Russian oil price cap at $60 a barrel
37% Center coverage: 110 sources
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Europe · PragueA musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust.See the Story
Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs
52% Center coverage: 23 sources
Border Security · SeoulA former South Korean national security advisor was arrested on Saturday over his suspected manipulation of a 2020 case where a fisheries official was killed at sea by North Korean troops.See the Story
Ex-South Korean official arrested over case of man slain by North Korea
38% Center coverage: 21 sources
Turkey · TurkeyU.S. troops Saturday resumed joint patrols with Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria. The patrols were stopped amid Turkish threats of a new ground incursion into the war-torn country. A patrol consisting of four American armored vehicles and one for the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces was seen leaving the northeastern town of Rmeilan in Hassakeh province.See the Story
Joint patrols resume in north Syria amid tension with Turkiye
Coverage: 4 sources
US & Canada · WashingtonThe DNC reopened its presidential nominating process earlier this year, after it came under increasing pressure inside and outside the party to diversify the slate of early states. In Biden's recommendations, he also called on the committee to review the early nominating process every four years, a signal from the White House that it does not want states to have a lock on the coveted positions.See the Story
Biden triggers Democratic battle with primary vote
60% Left coverage: 5 sources
Asia · SeoulThousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea’s capital on Saturday to denounce government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.See the Story
Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers
50% Center coverage: 14 sources
US & Canada · WashingtonA Washington Post analysis piece promoted climate guilt over having children, telling the story of one mother who "couldn’t shake the feeling that, by giving birth, she might be doing something bad for the earth." See the Story
Mother frets her own daughter is 'bad for the earth' in Washington Post analysis piece
Coverage: 2 sources
Indonesia · IndonesiaThe U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.7. It was centered about 11 miles southeast of Banjar, a city between West Java and Central Java provinces. High-rises in Jakarta, the capital, swayed for more than 10 seconds and some ordered evacuations, sending streams of people into the streets.See the Story
Strong quake shakes main Indonesia island; no tsunami alert
50% Left coverage: 8 sources
SanctionsThe new 300-megawatt plant will take eight years to build and cost around $2 billion. The plant will be located in Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, near its western border with Iraq. The announcement comes as Iran has been rocked by nationwide anti-government protests.See the Story
Iranian state media: Construction begins on nuclear plant
75% Left coverage: 4 sources
