Peter Dinklage and Wife Erica Schmidt Hold Hands at N.Y.C. Screening of Their Film Cyrano

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Panera hires former Theranos crisis communications expert amid Charged Lemonade lawsuits
Panera Bread has hired a crisis manager while it navigates ongoing lawsuits over its highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade and plans an initial public offering.
TODAY
The Snake Diet boasts drastic weight-loss results. Here’s why it’s dangerous.
The Snake Diet is an extreme intermittent fasting diet where you drink Snake Juice. Drastic before and after weight-loss results make it tempting, but experts say it's not the best diet.
AFP
US sanctions Venezuela security chiefs for crackdown
The United States slapped sanctions on 21 top Venezuelan security and cabinet officials Wednesday, accusing them of a campaign of repression after President Nicolas Maduro's bitterly contested July reelection.In September, the United States announced sanctions against 16 Venezuelan officials over alleged election fraud.
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El Salvador president proposes ending country's metals mining ban
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself in favor of mining gold in the Central America country Wednesday and called his nation’s 7-year-old ban on metals mining “absurd,” immediately putting in jeopardy the historic prohibition. The unmined gold would be “wealth that could transform El Salvador,” he wrote on the social platform X. Bukele's party controls El Salvador's Congress by a wide margin and his political opposition has been devastated, so a formal proposal to end the ban is unlikely to meet much resistance. In 2017, El Salvador banned all metals mining above ground and below.
Associated Press
As delays plague Puerto Rico election certification process, judge issues ruling
The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has yet to produce a certified vote tally for a single district almost a month after holding historic general elections. Then on Wednesday, a judge issued a ruling that sparked an outcry and threatened to further delay the certification process as the Jan. 2 swearing in looms. The judge, in response to a lawsuit, ordered Puerto Rico’s State Elections Commission to count early votes following ID verification even if the postal address used to request those votes is different from the one in the general voter registration.
TODAY
What is a vegan diet? A comprehensive beginner's guide
A vegan diet means not eating animal products and instead opting for nutrient-dense, plant-based foods.
USA TODAY
Claim of Pam Bondi pledging Nancy Pelosi probe is stolen satire | Fact check
There's no record of the post on Bondi's X profile. The post was shared by a satirical X account whose "parody" label is omitted in the image.
USA TODAY
Hobby Lobby CEO, Heritage Foundation finance director not the same person | Fact check
The David Green who founded Hobby Lobby is not the same David Green who controls the purse strings at the Heritage Foundation.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs denied bail again ahead of sex trafficking trial
Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyers again asked the rapper be released on bond ahead of his trial, but the request was denied.
CNN
US secures release of 3 Americans in prisoner swap with China
Three Americans who had been detained in China for years have been released from custody.
CNN
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is denied bail for a third time
Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain in jail after a judge rejected his latest attempt for release while the rapper and music producer awaits trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
CNN
US to sanction Maduro-aligned officials, to put pressure on Venezuela’s president to accept election results
The United States announced new individual sanctions Wednesday on more than 20 officials aligned with Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, to put pressure on Maduro to accept the results of Venezuela’s July presidential election, senior administration officials said in a briefing with reporters.
Reuters
Exclusive-Biden readies $725 million arms aid package for Ukraine, sources say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is preparing a $725 million weapons package for Ukraine, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday, as the outgoing president seeks to bolster the government in Kyiv before leaving office in January. According to an official familiar with the plan, the Biden administration plans to provide a variety of anti-tank weapons from U.S. stocks to blunt Russia's advancing troops, including land mines, drones, Stinger missiles and ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). The package is also expected to include cluster munitions, which are typically found in Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets fired by HIMARS launchers, according to the notification, seen by Reuters.
TODAY
A divorced parents' guide to surviving Thanksgiving without your kids
Pro tip: Whatever you do, don't watch "The Parent Trap."
AFP
Trump seeks to have civil fraud ruling quashed
Donald Trump has sought to have a civil judgment against him for fraud and a $464 million penalty set aside "for the greater good of the country" as he prepares to return to power.Trump subsequently sought to challenge the civil ruling as well as the scale and terms of the penalty, which has continued to accrue interest while he appeals.
CNN
Trump transition team says several Cabinet picks targeted with bomb threats and swatting
The Trump-Vance transition team said Wednesday that several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and administration appointees “were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them” Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Politico
Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students
Gov. Mike DeWine signed the law out of public view over the objections of Democrats, teachers’ unions and civil rights groups.
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Drone company's stock soars after appointing Donald Trump Jr. to advisory board
Shares in a little-known drone company soared Wednesday after announcing that Donald Trump Jr.
Reuters
T-Mobile says cyber attackers had no access to customer data
T-Mobile Chief Security Officer Jeff Simon said in a blog on the company's website Wednesday that the company detected attacks from an unnamed "wireline provider's network that was connected to ours." T-Mobile's defenses protected customer information, prevented disruption of services and stopped the attack from advancing, he said. Simon added that it was not clear who the hackers were, but the company reported its findings to the U.S. government for assessment.
Reuters
China scientists rush to climate-proof potatoes
In a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest a cluster of seven unusually small potatoes, one as tiny as a quail's egg, from a potted plant. Grown under conditions that simulate predictions of higher temperatures at the end of the century, the potatoes provide an ominous sign of future food security. At just 136 grams (4.8 oz), the tubers weigh less than half that of a typical potato in China, where the most popular varieties are often twice the size of a baseball.

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