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King Charles to Speak About His Cancer in Televised Message

A video of the king discussing his “recovery journey” will air on Channel 4 on Friday as part of a national cancer awareness campaign in the U.K.

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Buckingham Palace announced last year that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer. It has not said what type of cancer he is being treated for.
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Historic Shift Underway in China’s Economy as Investment Slump Deepens

Investment in manufacturing, infrastructure and property is expected to fall this year, a remarkable turn for an economy whose growth reshaped the world.

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An auto factory in Ningbo, China. The Chinese government has discouraged manufacturers of electric vehicles from engaging in ruthless competition.
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Paramount Says Money Is No Object. Warner Bros. Isn’t Convinced.

Larry Ellison is backstopping Paramount’s bid for Warner Brothers, but Warner Brothers is concerned that the billionaire has not provided a personal guarantee to pay.

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Larry Ellison, who co-founded the software group Oracle, is worth around $273 billion.
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Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness.

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Addiction experts, who studied hundreds of clinical trials, guidelines and surveys conducted over 15 years, found a gulf between how the public perceives cannabis and what gold-standard science shows.
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Our Book Critics on Their Year in Reading

Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, “bonked me on the head this year.”
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Thailand Says Trump Call About Cambodia Conflict Is Set for Friday

President Trump’s planned intervention comes as the hostilities entered their fifth day and appeared to escalate, and while Thailand moves toward early elections.

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Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul is likely to stake out a hard-line position on the conflict, analysts said. On Friday he spoke at Government House in Bangkok about dissolving Parliament.
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D.L. Coburn, Playwright With a Solo Hit, ‘The Gin Game,’ Dies at 87

His two-character work won a Pulitzer Prize and had a long Broadway run, but he never replicated its success and struggled to get his later work staged.

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Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy — husband and wife in real life — starred in the original Broadway production of “The Gin Game,” directed by Mike Nichols.
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Life and Death in India’s Air Apocalypse

For hundreds of millions of Indians, toxic winter air poisons bodies, constricts lives and wears down spirits.

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Hazy skies laden with harmful particulates settle in every winter over vast areas of India such as this congested road in New Delhi.
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Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Social Media Ban

The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights.

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School children waiting for a bus in Sydney, last month. The ban took effect on Wednesday.
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China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips

For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

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President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in October. Mr. Trump’s latest moves extended the conciliatory posture he struck at this summit.
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Senate Deadlocks Over Obamacare Subsidies in Dueling Votes

Republicans blocked Democrats’ effort to extend the expiring subsidies while Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. proposal to replace them with direct payments for basic health coverage.

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Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, at the Capitol this week.
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Key Takeaways After Indiana Lawmakers Defy Trump’s Redistricting Push

President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.

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Republican members of the Indiana Senate voted on Thursday to reject an effort led by President Trump to pass a congressional map that would have given the party two extra House seats.
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Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely.

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The headquarters of the Public Broadcasting Service in Arlington, Va.
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Stuck in Quicksand, a Hiker in Utah Has His SOS Answered

Austin Dirks used a Garmin satellite device to reach emergency responders, who rescued him in a remote canyon in Arches National Park.

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Visitors at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, in 2024.
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