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Private credit markets and stablecoins need close monitoring, G20 watchdog tells leaders

LONDON (Reuters) -The boom in private credit markets and stablecoins warrants close monitoring, the Group of 20's financial risk watchdog told leaders ahead of their summit in South Africa. In a letter to the G20 leaders published on Thursday, its Financial Stability Board Chair, Andrew ...
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Analysis-Scramble to sell Japan sounds fiscal warning bells

By Tom Westbrook and Junko Fujita SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) -Investors bailing out of the yen and Japan's government bonds have driven borrowing costs there to record highs, bending markets out of shape and piling pressure on the country's policymakers as they try to pilot the economy ...
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Jeffries calls Oversight Chair Comer a ‘stone cold liar’ after Epstein accusation

(WASHINGTON) -- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries batted away questions Wednesday about whether he'd sought campaign donations from Jeffrey Epstein, calling House Oversight Chairman James Comer a "stone cold liar" after Comer alleged Tuesday that Jeffries had solicited money from the convicted sex offender ...
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China pledges $3.5 million for South Africa’s HIV response

By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -China has pledged $3.49 million to support HIV prevention services in South Africa over the next two years under a new partnership facilitated by UNAIDS, Beijing's ambassador said on Thursday. South Africa, which has the world's largest population of people ...
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Funerals at Washington’s National Cathedral tell the story of a nation

WASHINGTON (AP) - When former Vice President Dick Cheney 's funeral is held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation's capital, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of towering figures memorialized there, in a church that tells the story of ...
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The Ten Commandments are up in Texas schools. They’re also being taken down

DALLAS (AP) - When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn't ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job ...
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Abbott bolsters diagnostics portfolio with up to $23 billion buyout of Exact Sciences

(Reuters) -Abbott said on Thursday it would buy cancer test maker Exact Sciences in a deal valued at up to $23 billion, including debt, marking one of its largest acquisitions in nearly a decade and its first major push into cancer screening. The deal will ...
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Preparing to study abroad requires knowing what might go wrong during and after the trip

After spending two college semesters in northern Thailand, Sarah Jongsma found herself back home in the rural Nevada town where she grew up, surrounded by everything familiar yet feeling strangely out of place. "It caught me off guard," she said. "I didn't know what was ...
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Warner Music and AI startup Udio settle copyright battle and ink license deal

LONDON (AP) - Warner Music Group resolved its copyright battle with Udio and signed a deal to work with the AI music startup on a new song creation service that will allow users to remix tunes by established artists. It's the second agreement between ...
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As US debates gender roles, some women in male-led faiths dig in on social and political issues

The U.S. feminist movement's perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald Trump's second term - including the dismantling of various nondiscrimination programs and the ouster of several high-ranking women in the military. Yet strikingly, outspoken women from the Catholic Church ...
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Descendants obtain works of enslaved potter in landmark restitution deal

BOSTON (AP) - Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner's fingertips found a slight rise in the clay - a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who shaped the vessel nearly 175 years ...
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Why does this NYC subway station smell ‘Christmassy’? It’s an ad

NEW YORK (AP) - A trip through New York City's crowded subway system usually offers a pungent mix of industrial and bodily aromas. But inside a stretch of the Grand Central station this holiday season, the air smells of vanilla and fresh pine. The scent is ...
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