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West Virginia on the wrong side of a blowout loss to Pitt on Friday

If Friday served as a test for how West Virginia's season might go, they would have come nowhere close to passing the test or the class that is the 2024-2025 season. The Mountaineers headed up north to face rival Pitt in the 191st Backyard Brawl. The Mountaineers would end up on the wrong end of a 86-62 loss to Pitt, giving them their first loss of the season.
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Chart of the Week: Strong forecasts, weak conviction

We’re less than two weeks removed from Donald Trump’s second presidential election win, and investors, economists, and citizens alike are still trying to figure out what it all means.
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Score Predictions: Arkansas vs Texas

The Arkansas Razorbacks (5-4, 3-3 SEC) will renew their rivalry with the No. 3 Texas Longhorns (8-1, 4-1 SEC) on Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville.Both teams look much different from what they did when they met in 2021, which resulted in a 40-21 victory for the Razorbacks in Fayetteville.
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Everything Dusty May said after Michigan's 76-64 win over TCU

Michigan turned the ball over 21 times on Friday night, but the Wolverines were able to win and cover the spread against a shorthanded TCU squad. Yeah, there were several against Wake Forest that we just didn't go with enough or want to.
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Pence calls on Senate to reject RFK Jr. nomination over abortion views

Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging GOP senators to reject President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because of his views on abortion. In a statement from his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom on Friday, Pence said Kennedy’s nomination “is an abrupt…
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Jim Carrey's Sister Rita Carrey Dead

Jim Carrey's older sister Rita Carrey died on Nov. 14, her husband Alex confirmed, noting that she was surrounded by family and friends and "passed away peacefully and quietly."
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Austria says Russia to cut off gas from Saturday

LONDON/VIENNA (Reuters) -Russia told Austria on Friday it will suspend gas deliveries via Ukraine on Saturday, in a development that signals a fast-approaching end of Moscow's last gas flows to Europe. Russia's oldest gas-export route to Europe, a pipeline dating back to Soviet days via Ukraine, is set to shut at the end of this year.
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Democratic jockeying for the 2028 presidential election is already underway

As the dust settles from Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat at the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats are already jockeying to emerge as the party’s next leader — looking to shape the opposition response to Trump’s second term and position themselves in the party’s 2028 presidential primary.
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Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks

U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters. "Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his secretary of state pick and others," said Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him wi
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Trump picks campaign aide Karoline Leavitt for White House press secretary

President-elect Donald Trump reached into his inner circle on Friday and chose his transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, as his White House press secretary, putting a 27-year-old firebrand in position to aggressively defend him. Leavitt has endeared herself to Trump by her ardent defense of him in news interviews and her take-no-prisoners style, Trump advisers said. The job of the White House press secretary typically is to help inform the American people about presidential activities wit
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Hamas says 'ready for ceasefire' as Israel presses Gaza campaign

A senior Hamas official on Friday said the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza, urging US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory."Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected" by Israel, Doha-based Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim told AFP. "We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggre
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