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Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City' 12/21/2023 09:19am • In Steve McQueen���s ���Occupied City,��� a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go address by address, and so does McQueen���s camera. Yet the images that play throughout ���Occupied Cit Wells Fargo workers at New Mexico branch vote to unionize, a first in modern era for a major bank 12/21/2023 09:02am • Employees at a Wells Fargo bank in New Mexico have voted to unionize, the first time that workers at a major U.S. bank have attempted to organize in the modern era. The vote comes after a series of extraordinary gains for unions in the U.S., with organized labor sealing huge contracts in industries Professional DC-area bakers share their holiday baking tips ��� and some of their most iconic recipes 12/20/2023 10:25pm • By now, lots of people have their holiday baking done ��� and if you're lucky, you've even received a few of their cookies and other treats. For others, the last thing they want to do is go into the kitchen and pick up a cookie sheet. But there's really nothing to be afraid of. Even some of th From AI and inflation to Elon Musk and Taylor Swift, the business stories that dominated 2023 12/20/2023 05:57pm • The tide turned against inflation. Artificial intelligence went mainstream ��� for good or ill. Labor unions capitalized on their growing might to win more generous pay and benefits. Elon Musk renamed and rebranded the social media platform Twitter, removed guardrails against phony or obscene posts Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early next year 12/20/2023 02:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The social media platform Parler, which caters to right-wing voices and was temporarily booted offline following the Jan. 6 insurrection, is relaunching ahead of next year���s presidential elections. The new owners of the company announced this week the platform is preparing for a Parents of children sickened by lead linked to tainted fruit pouches fear for kids' future 12/20/2023 12:17pm • When Cora Dibert went for a routine blood test in October, the toddler brought along her favorite new snack: a squeeze pouch of WanaBana cinnamon-flavored apple puree. ���She sucked them dry,��� recalls her 26-year-old mother, Morgan Shurtleff, of Elgin, Oklahoma. Within a week, the family got an al AP's top music documentaries of 2023: Taylor Swift, Beyonc��, WHAM! and more ��� and where to watch 12/20/2023 09:38am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Looking for something to watch this holiday season? While Barbenheimer is enticing, 2023 was a great year for documentaries ��� particularly music documentaries, with titles that span the biggest names in the biz to considered studies of small, independent music communities. So How the markets and the economy surprised investors and economists in 2023, by the numbers 12/20/2023 03:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In a year full of big numbers, with strong gains for stocks and even more fantastic flights for crypto, it was one shrinking number that superseded all. Inflation, the scourge of the global economy, moderated this year. It���s still relatively high, particularly after the many year 10 of the Best Vanguard ETFs to Buy 12/19/2023 07:00pm • Vanguard, a pioneer in fund management since 1976 with the launch of the first commercially available index mutual fund, has in recent years expanded its expertise into a robust lineup of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. This diversification marks a significant evolution in the firm's offerings, alig Analysis: Eagles have bigger problems than a 3-game losing streak 12/19/2023 05:16pm • On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. For more On Football analysis, head here. ___ The Philadelphia Eagles have bigger problems than a three-game losing streak. Jalen Hurts questioned the commitment of his teammates following a stunning 20-17 loss at Seattle on Monda Apple to halt sales of its newest watches in US over patent dispute 12/19/2023 02:59pm • If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don't dawdle for much longer because the devices won't be available to buy in the U.S. later this week if the White House doesn't intervene in an international patent dispute. Apple plans to suspend sales of the Series 9 and Ultra Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement 12/19/2023 01:30pm • Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store ��� the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes. Although Google struck the deal with stat Apple App Store - Top Apps 12/19/2023 12:37pm • App Store Top Free iPhone Apps (US): 1. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire, Temu 2. GTA: San Andreas ��� NETFLIX, Netflix, Inc. 3. Threads, an Instagram app, Instagram, Inc. 4. CapCut - Video Editor, Bytedance Pte. Ltd 5. Shop: All your favorite brands, Shopify Inc. 6. Cha US-Apple-Books-Top-10 12/19/2023 12:29pm • Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 3. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin���s Publishing Group) 4. The Edge by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 5. Something lik Hong Kong court begins Day 2 of activist publisher Jimmy Lai's trial 12/19/2023 04:38am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� The national security trial of Hong Kong's famous activist publisher Jimmy Lai entered its second day Tuesday, with judges expected to rule by the end of the week on his lawyers' bid to throw out a sedition charge that has been increasingly used to target dissidents. Lai, 76, was