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BofA consumer investments surpass $500 billion as it eyes $1 trillion
Investments from Bank of America's retail consumers have swelled to more than $500 billion in assets this year, and the company aspires to cross $1 trillion in five years. "If you look at our results, we have doubled every five years, so I'd like to think that we could do that again and achieve this within a five-year time period," Aron Levine, BofA's president of preferred banking, told Reuters. The second largest U.S. lender launched its consumer investment business in 2010.
Reuters
Russia won't cancel Navalny's 'terrorist' status even though he's dead, widow says
Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead, his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on Friday. She published a Dec. 16 letter from the watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, that said Navalny was the subject of a criminal investigation into money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Navalny died suddenly last February in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving sentences totalling more than 30 years on a variety of charges he rejected as attempts to silence his criticism of President Vladimir Putin.
Associated Press
Kremlin welcomes the possibility of a meeting between Trump and Putin
The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Moscow official said Friday. Russia attaches no conditions to the possibility of face-to-face talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call. Trump said Thursday that “Putin wants to meet” and that a meeting is being set up.
AFP
Turkey raps France, says US only counterpart in northeast Syria
Turkey's top diplomat ruled out any role for French troops in Syria Friday, saying Washington was its only interlocutor as US officials sought to head off Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters. Asked about the possible deployment of US and French troops in northern Syria to ease tensions with the Kurds, Fidan dismissed any role for France.
AFP
Thousands of armed militia in Iran march against 'threats'
Thousands of fighters linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps paraded with heavy weapons and vehicles through the streets of Tehran on Friday showing their readiness to face "threats"."We also want to show that the Basij are ready to confront all threats from enemies of the Islamic revolution," Hassanzadeh said. ap/it/kir
AFP
Decade after IS abduction, Yazidi survivor returns to Iraq
Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year, IS jihadists murdered thousands of Yazidi men, and took into neighbouring Syria thousands of women and girls to sell them in markets as wives for militants from around the world.
AFP
Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility
Scotland's leader John Swinney hailed Friday the opening next week of Britain's first official consumption room for illegal drugs, after a years-long battle with the UK government over the issue.Ministers in Westminster, who have responsibility for UK-wide illegal drugs laws, opposed the long-mooted plans during the Conservatives' 14 years in office from 2010.
AFP
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to visit native Pakistan for girls' summit
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.Yousafzai was evacuated to the United Kingdom and went on to become a global advocate for girls' education and, at the age of 17, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. ecl/pbt
CBS News
TV bailiff accused of murder sobs, "I live with it every day"
Renard Spivey was found not guilty of his wife's murder, but he says he still can't sleep at night.
Reuters
Thousands protest outside Romanian top court over cancelled presidential election
Thousands of Romanians rallied outside the country's top court on Friday to protest against the December cancellation of the presidential election in which a little-known pro-Russian candidate won the first round. Although small, protests have been continuing since Dec. 6, when the Constitutional Court voided the election two days before the second round. Its move came after state documents showed frontrunner Calin Georgescu had benefitted from an unfair social media campaign likely orchestrated by Russia.
Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq retreat as crucial jobs report looms
Caution reigns ahead of December's jobs report, which will shape bets on the chances of Fed rate cuts.
CBS News
Maps show where fires are burning right now in L.A. area
Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, like the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires, are burning across Los Angeles.
Associated Press
Judge will weigh holding Giuliani in contempt of court after jury's $148 million defamation award
A federal judge is set to hear arguments Friday on whether to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for continuing to spread lies about two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgment against him. Plaintiffs’ attorneys have asked U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., to impose civil contempt sanctions against Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served as Donald Trump's attorney.
AFP
Body of Israeli hostage identified, two days after father's: army
The body of an Israeli hostage held captive by militants in Gaza since the October 7 attack has been identified after recovery of his remains, the military said on Friday.Palestinian militants seized the Arab Bedouin father and son from Kibbutz Holit near the Gaza border during the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which started the war.
Reuters
Bulgarian ex-PM Petkov faces prosecutors over 2022 arrest of political rival
Bulgarian former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said after testifying to prosecutors on Friday that he had committed no crime in the 2022 arrest of political rival Boyko Borissov in which Petkov is accused of overstepping his authority. Borissov, who is also a former prime minister and still leads the centre-right GERB party, spent 20 hours in custody along with two members of his party in March 2022 as part of a police investigation into alleged blackmail. Prosecutors say Petkov "exceeded his authority" by ordering the arrests without the proper court approvals.
CNN
Potent winter storm strengthening as it treks across the South, threatening extreme impacts
A powerful winter storm that unleashed heavy snowfall and coated roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma has pushed into the South, leading governors to declare states of emergency and prompting widespread school closures.
Associated Press
Busy holiday travel season fuels big fourth quarter for Delta
Delta Air Lines topped profit and revenue expectations in the fourth quarter on strong demand during the crucial holiday period. Delta said Friday that travel demand picked up throughout the quarter. “As we move into 2025, we expect strong demand for travel to continue, with consumers increasingly seeking the premium products and experiences that Delta provides,” CEO Ed Bastian said in a prepared statement on Friday.
CNN
A Russia-backed sliver of Moldova is fast running out of energy. Here’s what to know
In the capital of Transnistria, a Kremlin-backed microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year’s lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of Moldova will run out of energy in three weeks, the head of its Russia-backed government has said.
The Conversation
2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve
The oceans have been much warmer than average for the past two years, and the planet just set another global heat record. What’s going on?
Associated Press
Americans have dimmer view of Biden than they did of Trump or Obama as term ends, AP-NORC poll finds
As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump's first term or Barack Obama's second, a new poll finds. Around one-quarter of U.S. adults said Biden was a “good” or “great” president, with less than 1 in 10 saying he was “great,” according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About one-third described Trump as “good” or “great" on the eve of the Republican's departure from the White House in 2021, according to AP-NORC polling, including about 2 in 10 who said he was “great" — even after he helped sparked a deadly insurrection that saw a mob of his supporters overrun the U.S. Capitol.

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Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility

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Thousands protest outside Romanian top court over cancelled presidential election

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Judge will weigh holding Giuliani in contempt of court after jury's $148 million defamation award

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Americans have dimmer view of Biden than they did of Trump or Obama as term ends, AP-NORC poll finds