Heggy's Nut Shop signs long-term lease at Hall of Fame Village

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Tariff threats cast a shadow over US reliance on Canada for the majority of its oil imports
The U.S. increasingly relies on Canadian crude oil to meet domestic demand and that relationship faces potential strain amid the threat of tariffs from President-elect Donald Trump. More than 50% of crude oil imported to the U.S. comes from Canada, up from 33% in 2013. The increase follows a jump in production from Canada’s western provinces and growing pipeline capacity to its southern neighbor.
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Inside the 'targeted operations' ICE agents carry out against undocumented immigrants
The time and staffing needed to arrest a single immigrant reveals how difficult it may be to scale up to mass deportations.
AFP
Denmark expects Chinese ship probed over cut cables to depart
Denmark's foreign minister said Thursday that he expected a Chinese ship, anchored off the Danish coast and linked to two severed undersea cables, would be able to leave once an inspection which included four countries was completed."It is our expectation that once the inspection is completed by this group of people from the four countries, the ship will be able to sail to its destination," Rasmussen said.
Reuters
Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor in contempt of court over $1.2 trillion UK lawsuit
An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed he invented bitcoin was on Thursday found in contempt of court for bringing a 911 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's payments company Block in Britain. Craig Wright had long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the foundational text of bitcoin, published under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto". But a judge at London's High Court found in May that Wright had lied "extensively and repeatedly" and forged documents to support his false claim, after a trial in a case brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) to stop Wright suing bitcoin developers.
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Dozens of men found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot mass rape trial that shocked France
A court found the husband of Gisèle Pelicot guilty of aggravated rapes and all other charges against him in the mass rape trial that has shocked France.
Associated Press
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. Most efforts to reduce emissions have focused on so-called “super emitters” like the one in the satellite image, which are relatively easy to find with improving satellite imaging and other aerial sensing. Now researchers say much smaller sources are collectively responsible for about 72% of methane emissions from oil and gas fields throughout the contiguous U.S. These have often gone undetected.
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Apple complains Meta requests risk privacy in spat over EU efforts to widen access to iPhone tech
Apple complained that requests from Meta Platforms for access to its operating software threaten user privacy, in a spat fueled by the European Union's intensifying efforts to get the iPhone maker to open up to products from tech rivals. The 27-nation EU's executive Commission is drawing up “interoperability" guidelines for Apple under its new digital competition rulebook. The interoperability measures would ensure that devices like smartwatches or features like wireless file transfers work as smoothly with iPhones as do Apple Watches or AirDrop.
CBS News
Putin laments top general's killing, says he'll meet Trump "any time"
Russia's Vladimir Putin, in his annual marathon news conference, laments "serious blunders" by his security forces and says he'll meet Trump "any time" about Ukraine.
NBC News
Trump opposes funding bill and 47 guilty of rape in French trial: Morning Rundown
Donald Trump opposes a bipartisan government funding bill with less than two days until a shutdown deadline.
Reuters
Putin says he pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which accompanied the fall of the Soviet Union, and had built the country into a sovereign power able to stand up for itself. Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha outside Moscow in 1953 aged 74. Asked by the BBC if he had looked after Russia, something that Boris Yeltsin had asked him to do before handing over the presidency at the end of 1999, Putin said he had.
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A power grab by Republicans in North Carolina becomes a referendum on democracy in the states
Democrats in North Carolina were celebrating big wins in the swing state after the November election, including victories in races for governor and other top statewide offices. Republican lawmakers are stripping away some core powers of the newly elected officials through a series of wide-ranging changes, anticipating that the result of a yet-to-be-called state legislative race will cost them their veto-proof majority next year. “Let us speak plainly: This bill is nothing more than a desperate power grab,” said Courtney Patterson, vice president of the NAACP's North Carolina chapter.
USA TODAY
What is National News Literacy Week? Event seeks to combat conspiracy theories online
National News Literacy Week is a public awareness campaign aimed at advancing student's ability to critically examine the credibility of news.
Associated Press
20 migrants die in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of 20 people who appeared to have drowned after a shipwreck off the country's Mediterranean coastline, near a popular point of departure for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat. The country's National Guard said in a statement on Wednesday that coast guard members dispatched to the sinking ship rescued five people and retrieved the bodies of 20 others 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast north of Sfax. The National Guard said that it continued to search for missing people and did not indicate how many may have been on board when the ship set off.
AFP
Amazon workers in US strike days before Christmas
Thousands of workers at Amazon facilities across the United States went on strike Thursday, the Teamsters Union said, halting work at the height of the busy holiday gift-giving season.Less than a week before the Christmas holiday, the strike threatens a significant disruption of deliveries of Amazon orders as Americans rush to send last-minute gifts.
AFP
Dominique Pelicot: the 'monster' whose facade crumbled
His loved ones knew him as a devoted family man.- 'Side A, Side B' - During the trial, experts sought to illuminate the inner workings of the retiree who, up until the discovery of the abuse in 2020, had been viewed as a devoted family man.
CNN
Deadly shooting at Abundant Life Christian School is a hard and unforgettable precursor to long-awaited Christmas break
The annual “Ugly Christmas Sweater Day” at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin was to be a festive precursor to the long-anticipated winter break, a respite of nearly two weeks to gather with family and friends, unwrap presents and reflect on the year that passed.
Yahoo Finance
Why Robinhood is a better stock than Coinbase despite a 180% surge this year: Analyst
In the Coinbase vs. Robinhood debate, Dan Dolev said it's Robinhood all the way. Here's why.
AFP
Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness
In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service as martyrs.Down the hill in Tartus, a large port city on the Mediterranean that still holds a Russian naval garrison that once backed Assad, the tables have turned.
Reuters
Wisconsin shooter contacted California man planning separate attack, reports say
(Reuters) -The teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student at her Wisconsin school this week was in contact via text message with a California man who was planning his own mass shooting, according to media reports that cited court papers. News of the connection between 15-year-old Natalie "Samantha" Rupnow and the Carlsbad, California, man surfaced while authorities worked to determine why she staged Monday's attack at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. In Wisconsin, the Dane County Medical Examiner's office identified the two people killed at the school as student Rubi Vergara, 14, and teacher Erin West, 42.
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US applications for unemployment benefits come back down after last week's big rise
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell markedly last week following a big increase the week before. Jobless claim applications declined by 22,000 to 220,000 for the week of Dec. 14, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Continuing claims, the total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits, fell by 5,000 to 1.87 million for the week of Dec. 7.

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