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Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general pick, previously served as attorney general of Florida.
  • Trump nominated Pam Bondi for attorney general on Thursday.
  • Trump said he wants to refocus the Department of Justice on crime and safety.
  • Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration for the role earlier on Thursday.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he would nominate Pam


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The US has around 900 troops in Syria that are part of an anti-jihadist coalition and that also protects oil fields in the country's northeast.
The US has around 900 troops in Syria that are part of an anti-jihadist coalition and protects oil fields in the country's northeast.
  • US troops remain in Syria to counter ISIS and patrol oil fields in the region.
  • Trump's return raises uncertainties about the status of these troops in this highly volatile region.
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Sinead Mulhern started having trouble breathing one day while walking near an Andean town.
  • Sinead Mulhern has been living in Ecuador for six years.
  • Earlier this year, she spent a week in the hospital due to a collapsed lung, a severe complication of pneumonia.
  • The support she received from the hospital staff and her friends confirmed that moving there was the right decision.

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Snap says the basis of a scathing lawsuit suggesting it systematically recommends teens’ accounts to child predators is backwards — the company is now accusing the New Mexico attorney general of intentionally seeking out such accounts before recommendations were made. The company says the AG’s case is based on “gross



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New iPhones for the AI era. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

Whether you want a battery that lasts for days or the very best deal, we’ve got some recommendations for an iPhone you’ll love.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to finalize new spectrum rules that will push cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications technology forward.

C-V2X will use existing cellular networks to send messages from vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, vehicle to cyclists, or vehicle to pedestrians to warn



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Stephen Hawking told Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver a chilling but memorable hypothetical story a decade ago about the potential dangers of AI. The gist is a group of scientists build a superintelligent computer and ask it, “Is there a God?” The computer answers, “There is now” and a bolt of lightning zaps the plug preventing it from being shut down. Let’s hope that’s not what happened with



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Mark Lazarus will be in charge of CNBC after the spinoff as CEO of SpinCo.
  • Incoming boss Mark Lazarus addressed the CNBC newsroom Thursday.
  • The day before, CNBC anchors had made bleak jokes on-air about Comcast's spinoff plans.
  • Three CNBC staffers told BI the mood inside the company seemed upbeat during Lazarus' visit.

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Chet Sandhu is a former smuggler. He estimates that he trafficked over $50 million worth of illegal steroids. In the mid-1990s, Sandhu operated a steroid-trafficking network that sourced its supply from Karachi, Pakistan, and transported it via routes including the Netherlands, France, and Spain to the United Kingdom by bribing airport security. He was arrested during a smuggling run and sentenced