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'Fat Studies' Course Introduced at University of Maryland
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The University of Maryland has introduced a course about "fat
studies," and there is already a waiting list to enroll.

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US Mortgage Rates Drop, Easing Pressure on Potential Homebuyers -
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Buyers are moving ahead, signing more contracts in October Average
mortgage payments are still higher than two months ago















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Republican US states sue BlackRock for destructive green agenda - FT
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Conservatives also target Vanguard and State Street in war on woke
capitalism

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What Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation in Ukraine? - The New Yorker (No
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On November 17th, the Biden Administration announced that it would
allow Ukraine to fire U.S.-supplied long-range missiles at targets
inside Russia. For months, Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian
officials had been pushing for such a change, arguing that Ukraine
could use the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, along with
British Storm Shadows and French Scalp missiles, to hit Russian
airbases, munitions stockpiles, and command centers. But, for much of
the year, the White House had remained unconvinced: Russia had already
moved many potential targets out of range, and the U.S. military has
limited stocks of such missiles. In September, a Biden Administration
official told me, They dont have the shot volume to sustain a
long-range strike campaign inside Russia. Around that period, the
Times reported on a U.S. intelligence assessment that plays down the
effect that the long-range missiles will have on the course of the
conflict.














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Trumps Cabinet And Key Jobs: Keith Kellogg Chosen For Russia-Ukraine
Envoy - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101595&nl=daily]
President-elect Donald Trump named Keith Kellogg as his envoy to
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday, and picked Stanford professor and
noted COVID-19 lockdown critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National
Institutes of Health, the latest nominations as Trump has filled out
most of his key Cabinet positions.

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Bristol Myers is the latest drug company to sue HHS over payment terms
for 340B hospitals - STAT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101595&nl=daily]
Bristol Myers Squibb has filed a lawsuit accusing the Biden
administration of unlawfully preventing the company from using rebates
to pay hospitals that participate in a federal drug discount program,
the fourth large pharmaceutical company to attempt a change in payment
terms in recent weeks.














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Train Your Brain to Work Creatively with Gen AI - Harvard Business
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When most people prompt generative AI, they do so within the paradigm
of how they think about what could or should come next. For example,
when searching Google, users may ask a question, search for the best
Thai restaurant near me, or insert specific criteria based on filtered
output, such as best downhill mountain bike for intermediate riders.
That approach is often carried into prompting. The results build on a
linear path of thinking, research, and decision-making based upon the
world as we know it. However, where AI starts to come alive is when
you create something unique something that wouldnt have been achieved
without a human and machine collaboration. This requires challenging
your own conventions around how you think GenAI should work, and also
the outcomes you think are expected or possible. This article offers
12 exercises to help you expand the way you think about prompting
GenAI. Leaders who foster these mindshifts within their teams will
find themselves cultivating a culture where the impossible becomes a
daily challenge and achievement.

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Interest Rate Debate Continues on December Cut - Inc (No paywall)
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FederalReserveofficials appeared divided at their meeting earlier this
month over how much farther they may need to cut interest rates, but
as a group agreed this was a moment to avoid giving much concrete
guidance about how U.S. monetary policy is likely to evolve in the
weeks ahead.














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Inside Elon Musks quest to beat OpenAI at its own game - WSJ (No
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Musk started xAI last summer in an effort to play catch-up with
OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he co-founded and left in 2018 after a
power struggle. He poached talent from across the industry. He pushed
contractors to build a massive new data center in a matter of months,
a nearly unheard of timeframe for a project of that size. Now he is
promising the facility in Memphis, Tenn. will help xAI deliver the
worlds most powerful AI by every metric" by December.

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Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a
plan. - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101595&nl=daily]
Cognitive scientist, author and entrepreneur Gary Marcus was an early
and vocal critic of large language models, arguing their limitations
were far greater than many people thought. Lately, he has been making
the case that LLMs are far riskier, tooand must be regulated.














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A scientists final quest is to find new schizophrenia drugs - WSJ (No
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Scolnick, 84 years old, has spent most of the past two decades working
to understand and find better ways to treatschizophrenia and bipolar
disorder, mental illnesses suffered by tens of millions of people,
including his son.

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SoftBank Group plans to invest $1.5 billion in OpenAI through tender
offer - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101595&nl=daily]
The Japanese tech investment company is making the investment through
its Vision Fund 2, the person said, adding that current and former
OpenAI employees will have until Dec. 24 to decide whether to sell
their shares.














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Arabica coffee at highest price since 1977 on supply concerns - WSJ
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Despite good coffee flowering on recent rains in the country, there
are worries that the flowers might not attach to the branches, which
could lead to production losses in the next season, ING analysts said
in a note.

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Europe Is Already Reaching for Its Checkbook
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European leaders see Donald Trumps return to the White House as a spur
to the continents independence amid the potential weakening of a
partnership that has shaped the world for most of the last century. We
cant depend on U.S. voters every four years for our security, Benjamin
Haddad, Frances Minister Delegate for European Affairs, tells TIME.
Trump will defend U.S. interestsits normal. Its now time to wake up
and defend ours.














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Elon Musk acknowledges something that was obvious about the new
Twitter: It's no longer a good place for links
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For anyone who posts links on X, it's been intuitively clear that
since Elon Musk took over, posts with links don't get the same reach
as they used to. On old Twitter, a tweet with a link to a news article
would often go viral or get a lot of engagement.

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How To Spend Money To Improve Your Life (Lessons From The Ultra Rich)
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Money doesn't solve all your problems. But it solves your money
problems. A single liquidity event or consistent payments from a
business or investments can elevate your life as long as you make the
right calls on how to spend the cash. You have options. It's a good
problem to have.













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Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model
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An artificial intelligence model can be made to spout gibberish if a
single one of the many billions of numbers that compose it is altered.

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Biden's last-minute missile moves for Ukraine are coming far too late,
weakening their effect on the Russians
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US President Joe Biden is letting Ukraine strike inside Russia with
its long-range missiles as he rushes aid to Ukraine before
President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but the move is coming so
late that warfare experts don't expect it to make a huge difference.

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Science Says 3 Strategies Will Help You Achieve Your Big Goals and
Live Your Best Life
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As we set out to achieve our biggest goals, many of us think of
strategies that require sheer discipline like staying up late, working
longer hours, or creating rigorous schedules. Positive psychology
research, however, suggests that solitary hard work might not be the
most effective approach.

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Spain to force 'big brother' security checks on tourists
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Draconian new rules that demand Spanish hotels gather data on
tourists' family relationships, bank cards and addresses, and pass it
to security forces, will come into force on Monday. Hotels in Spain
currently ask guests for their ID card or passport details.

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This Unhackable Crypto Wallet Is Thriving With Bitcoin
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Crypto is back, bigger and bolder than ever. Bitcoin is on the cusp of
$100,000, meme coins are mushrooming at breakneck speed, and a new
wave of traders is flooding the market. But the surge in interest has
also renewed an age-old problem: the constant threat of hacks.

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Will Trump's pick for Labor Secretary be able to act on her pro-union
ideas?
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Naming a union-friendly nominee might not necessarily translate to
pro-worker policies. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Labor
Secretary, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), is a pro-union Republican,
but that doesn't necessarily mean Trump's administration will be
pro-worker.

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No, Microsoft isn't using your Office docs to train its AI
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Microsoft says it isn't using customer data from its Microsoft 365
apps to train its AI models. The clarification addresses reports
circulating online in the last few weeks claiming Microsoft required
Word and Excel users to opt out of training the company's AI systems.

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Ex-Prosecutor Spots The Jack Smith Move That May Keep Donald Trump
'Cases Alive'
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Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade broke down why Jack Smith would
preemptively "pull the plug" on the Jan. 6 election interference and
classified documents cases against returning President Donald Trump,
as the special counsel did earlier this week.

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What Google Off-Loading Chrome Would Mean for Users
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A landmark antitrust ruling could change the Internet's power balance,
but the industry is shifting regardless.

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Canada officials blast Trump's tariff threat and one calls Mexico
comparison 'the most insulting thing I've ever heard'
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Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico
and China as soon as he takes office in January as part of efforts to
crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. He said he would impose a
25% tax on all products entering the U.S.

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A woman's quirky out-of-office emails have ignited a debate about how
much personality to bring to work
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The backlash to a woman's creative out-of-office emails has caught the
attention of TikTok and ignited a debate over how much personality to
bring to work. Thara Moise, better known as Chef Moise, is a TikTok
creator and private chef who also works a regular 9-5 as a catering
and sales manager.

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North Korean casualties in Storm Shadow strike on Kursk, says Kyiv
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Should You Still Learn to Code in an A.I. World?
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He was 36, a father of two, and felt time was running out to find a
career that would offer higher pay and more stability. "I've always
been doing jobs that require physical labor," he remembers thinking.
"What if I start using my brain for once?" An Army veteran, Mr.

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To Become A General Manager Tomorrow, Build These 3 Skills Today
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Ask any C-suite executive, and they'll say that one of their most
important jobs as a leader is developing people. And, more
specifically, developing future general managers: the people who will
lead the business tomorrow. Unfortunately, reality often falls far
short of aspirations.

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Elon Musk is straining Nvidia's supply of AI chips
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xAI’s supercomputer will be used to train the next generation of
xAI’s large language model (LLM), Grok, which is meant to rival
OpenAI’s GPT-4. In May, the AI startup raised $6 billion from
heavyweight investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia
Capital. The Series B funding round pushed xAI to a $24 billion
valuation. Earlier this month, it was reported that xAI is set to
raise another $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation.

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Choosing Empathy Is Critical to Democracy - Scientific American (No
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In the weeks before and after the U.S. presidential election, many of
us are asking about the role of empathy in American politics. Does it
matter whether candidates express care for their constituents, and
what does a persons vote says about their ability or willingness to
empathize with others?

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Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs? - The
Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101595&nl=daily]
THE ORIGINAL intention was for American presidents to be mere legal
executorsnot emperors able to impose their will unilaterally. Over
time, though, Congress has ceded more and more authority to the
executive branch, and the courts, the third coequal branch of
government, have happily blessed the arrangement. Nowhere is this
clearer than in trade policy.

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Trumps tariff message: Im in charge of the economic agenda - WSJ (No
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When President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate the
hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary Friday,
much of Wall Street and corporate America breathed a sigh of relief.

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How AI can help stop illegal crossings along the border
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being deployed along the United States
border with Mexico, in the hope that the technology will help spot
human traffickers, drug smugglers and migrants in distress in the gaps
between Border Patrol stations.

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America is incredibly polarized. Its bad for our health.
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Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty
to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We
need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really
matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times.
Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want
you to believe.

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U.S. Border Agents Seize 3,000 Fake Gibson Guitars
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“This is really emotional and personal for us,” Beth Heidt, chief
marketing officer at Gibson, said at a news conference in Los Angeles
on Tuesday. She said that generations of American families “have
dedicated their entire lives to hand-crafting Gibson instruments.”

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Trump Picks Keith Kellogg to Be Envoy to Ukraine and Russia
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The United States “would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its
defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not
attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,” Mr. Kellogg
wrote with Fred Fleitz for the America First Policy Institute.
“Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to
participate in peace talks with Russia,” they added.

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China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: 'Supply Chain Warfare'
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From the campaign trail to his cabinet appointments, Mr. Trump has
made it clear that he believes a confrontation with China over trade
and technology is inevitable. In the first Trump administration, the
Chinese government took mostly symbolic and equivalent measures after
U.S. tariffs and trade restrictions. This time, China is poised to
escalate its responses, experts say, and could aim aggressive and
targeted countermeasures at American companies.

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Dinosaur Domination Is Marked in a Timeline of Vomit and Feces Fossils
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Bromalites may often become the butt of jokes, said Stephen Brusatte,
a paleontologist who was not involved in the study and who noted that
“academic paleontologists can be prone to toilet humor, too.” But
they preserve crucial clues about the ecology of the earliest
dinosaurs.

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Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital
Appointments Being Canceled
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Sliding gingerly into the pipe like a worm exploring its lair, the
endoscopic camera found its target. In October, engineers at a nuclear
reactor in Petten, in the Netherlands, pushed this instrument into a
duct that carries water for the reactor's cooling system.

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3 Americans Are Said to Be Freed From China in Prisoner Swap
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Hostage diplomacy has risen in recent years, as tensions between the
United States and both China and Russia have grown. Those two
superpowers increasingly see detaining U.S. citizens as a way to get
back spies, arms dealers and others. The American government has
warned U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to those countries or to be
alert there.

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Thousands of Lebanese Head South as a Fragile Peace Begins
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President Biden said he hoped the cease-fire could pave the way to an
end to the war in Gaza, but experts doubt it. Palestinians there said
that they had lost hope that the war would ever end.

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American Rebel Holdings receives non-compliance notice from Nasdaq
(AREB:NASDAQ)
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American Rebel Holdings (AREB) received a non-compliance notice from
Nasdaq for delayed filing, must submit plan by Jan 21 for exception
until May 19.

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The latest Switch Online Expansion Pack update includes three classic
Sega Genesis games
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This is the first Sega Genesis update for the Nintendo Switch in over
a year. The previous Genesis pack was released in June of 2023 and
came with four games including Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, The Revenge of
Shinobi, Landstalker and Crusader of Centy.

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China releases three US citizens held for years in prisoner swap
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Harrison Li, the son of Kai Li, said at the hearing in September that
the fact that there would be a new US president in January created a
sense of urgency for Americans detained in China, because of the time
it would take to reopen negotiating channels in the new
administration. “The next few months before President Biden leaves
office are thus a critical window for getting my dad home,” Li said.

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Australia politics live: Jacqui Lambie protest motion fails as Labor
prepares to deploy guillotine on Senate debate
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But Thorpe was suspended by the Senate yesterday, and won’t be able
to attend. The Greens opposed the motion, with Larissa Waters saying
they did not condone the use of physical violence, and did not support
Thorpe’s actions, but it would be unfair to deny her the chance to
speak about her bill.

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Western Australiaa??s endangered cockatoo among worlda??s
longest-living birds
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Carnaby's cockatoos have visibly shrunk in number during Mawson's
lifetime. As a child he would see thousands of birds in a flock, he
said. "Now, if you see more than a hundred birds in a flock, you're
doing really well."

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Thousands return to southern Lebanon amid uneasy ceasefire
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Announcing the Lebanon ceasefire on Tuesday night, the US president,
Joe Biden, said his administration would now push to renew ceasefire
talks in Gaza, but the delinking of the two fronts is likely to
strengthen Israel’s hand in the Palestinian territory.

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Democrats win California House seat from Republican incumbent a?? US
politics live
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Separately, Pod Save America released an episode yesterday with
several Harris campaign officials which has received pushback for
failing to hold the campaign to account for its decisions and saw the
aides defensive rather than reflective of any mistakes.

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