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What to Know About Amazon's 'Buy With Prime' for Holiday Shopping 12/11/2023 07:00pm • With the holidays right around the corner, online shopping is in full swing. With time to order gifts dwindling, the need for a quick checkout process is high. Luckily, adding to your cart and sending your order on its way is easier than ever nowadays, thanks in part to tools like PayPal checkout th SmileDirectClub shuts down months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 12/11/2023 06:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — SmileDirectClub is shutting down — just months after the struggling teeth-straightening company filed for bankruptcy protection. In a Friday announcement, SmileDirectClub said it had made an “incredibly difficult decision to wind down its global operations, effective immediate Teachers have been outed for moonlighting in adult content. Do they have legal recourse? 12/11/2023 09:44am • At a small rural Missouri high school, two English teachers shared a secret: Both were posting adult content on OnlyFans, the subscription-based website known for sexually explicit content. The site and others like it provide an opportunity for those willing to dabble in pornography to earn extra mo Occidental buying CrownRock in cash-and-stock deal valued at about $12 billion 12/11/2023 09:15am • Occidental is buying oil and gas company CrownRock in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $12 billion. "We found CrownRock to be a strategic fit, giving us the opportunity to build scale in the Midland Basin," Occidental President and CEO Vicki Hollub said in a statement, referring to the vast oil Thousands of demonstrators from Europe expected in Brussels to protest austerity measures in the EU 12/11/2023 06:31am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Brussels on Tuesday to protest what they perceive as new austerity measures as the 27 European Union countries discuss ways to overhaul rules on government spending. Finance ministers from the bloc have been negotiating for months In inaugural speech, Argentina's Javier Milei prepares nation for painful shock adjustment 12/10/2023 05:38pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It wasn't the most uplifting of inaugural addresses. Rather, Argentina's newly empowered President Javier Milei presented figures to lay bare the scope of the nation's economic “emergency,” and sought to prepare the public for a shock adjustment with drastic publ Oklahoma City voters consider 1% sales tax to build a $1 billion arena for NBA's Thunder 12/10/2023 05:04pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — When a group of Oklahoma City investors moved the NBA’s SuperSonics from Seattle in 2008 and renamed the franchise the Thunder, civic pride swelled at the arrival of the state’s first major league sports franchise. Since then, the Oklahoma City Thunder have played their ho Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico's Tijuana 12/10/2023 10:02am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at l Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones 12/10/2023 06:08am • Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax. It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, wh No Santos player will wear Pelé's No. 10 until the club returns to Serie A, new club president says 12/09/2023 06:21pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — No player of Brazil's Santos team will wear the number 10 jersey made globally famous by the late Pelé as long as the club plays in the country's second division, the new club president said Saturday. Marcelo Teixeira, elected on Saturday as Santos' president, said he made the de Sri Lanka experiences a temporary power outage after a main transmission line fails 12/09/2023 01:00pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours Saturday after a system failure in one of the main transmission lines, the country’s power and energy ministry said. The power outage began Saturday evening and continued for several hours. “Step by s Germany's Scholz confident of resolving budget crisis, says no dismantling of the welfare state 12/09/2023 06:12am • BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday he is confident that his troubled government will find a good solution to a budget crisis triggered by a court ruling last month, and promised his center-left party there will be no dismantling of the country's welfare state. Leaders of Sch Chinese leaders wrap up annual economic planning meeting with scant details on revving up growth 12/08/2023 01:55pm • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders agreed at an annual planning meeting to step up spending to help rev up the world's second-largest economy, state media reported Friday, without giving details of any policy changes. The official Xinhua News Agency said leader Xi Jinping chaired the meeting aimed at Asian Development Bank approves a $200M loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka 12/08/2023 09:14am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Asian Development Bank said Friday that it has approved $200-million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country’s finance sector following an unprecedented economic crisis that engulfed the Indian Ocean island nation last year. The ba Honeywell is buying Carrier Global's security division for $4.95 billion 12/08/2023 08:43am • Honeywell is buying Carrier Global Corp.'s security division for $4.95 billion as it looks to strengthen its building automation capabilities. Carrier Global's Global Access Solutions business provides advanced access and security solutions, electronic locking systems, and contactless mobile key sol