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Honorary lamplighter Danny Fenster, an American journalist recently freed from prison in Myanmar, lights the center candle in the giant Menorah sculpture in Campus Martius to kick off Chanukah. With him are Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II and Detroit Mayro Mike Duggan. The Menorah in the D 11th annual lighting event in Campus Martius Park in downtown Detroit officially begins Chanukah in Michigan on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. (John T. Greilick/Detroit News via AP)

Journalist freed by Myanmar helps light menorah in Detroit

11/30/2021 07:00 AM

'The Lost Daughter' wins big at 31st Gotham Awards

Atlanta mayoral runoff: Moore hopes to stave off Dickens

World shares, US futures slip on worries over omicron risks

In shadow of Texas gas drilling sites, health fears escalate

$Rosalia Tejeda, second from left, plays with her children, from left, son Juscianni Blackeller, 13; Adaliana Gray, 5, and Audrey Gray, 2, in their backyard in Arlington, Texas, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. As Tejeda, 38, has learned more about health risks posed by fracking for natural gas, she has become a vocal opponent of a plan to add more natural gas wells at a site near her home. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)$

In shadow of Texas gas drilling sites, health fears escalate

$Rosalia Tejeda, second from left, plays with her children, from left, son Juscianni Blackeller, 13; Adaliana Gray, 5, and Audrey Gray, 2, in their backyard in Arlington, Texas, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. As Tejeda, 38, has learned more about health risks posed by fracking for natural gas, she has become a vocal opponent of a plan to add more natural gas wells at a site near her home. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)$

Actor Jussie Smollett walks with family members as they arrive Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse for jury selection at his trial in Chicago. Smollett is accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack in downtown Chicago nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Prosecutors to begin case against Jussie Smollett in Chicago

FILE- The family of Daunte Wright attend a rally and march organized by families who were victims of police brutality in in St. Paul, Minn.,Monday, May 24, 2021. The trial for the police officer accused of killing Daunte Wright starts Monday, Nov. 29. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa, File)

Jurors at trial in Daunte Wright slaying go under microscope

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies guard a home in the city of Lancaster in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Authorities say four children and their grandmother have been found shot to death in a Southern California home and the children's father was arrested on suspicion of killing them. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Father held after 4 California children, grandmother slain

Chris Cuomo's off-air role: Brother Andrew's strategist

Chris Cuomo's off-air role: Brother Andrew's strategist

Trader Michael Milano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Stock indexes are edging higher on Wall Street Monday as markets regain their footing following a big stumble on Friday on worries about the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Asia shares mixed as investors weigh omicron economic risks

Lawyer: Jussie Smollett 'a real victim' of attack in Chicago

Lawyer: Jussie Smollett 'a real victim' of attack in Chicago

Europe

UK competition watchdog orders Facebook to sell off Giphy

Founder's daughter named chair of fashion giant Inditex

FILE - Marta Ortega daughter of Inditex chief Amancio Ortega, Europe's richest man, and her husband Sergio Alvarez talk during the Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, May 10, 2014 . Spanish textile maker Inditex says that Marta Ortega will become its new chairwoman. Inditex's board of directors has named the 37-year-old Ortega to replace Pablo Isla in April. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

German court convicts ex-IS member in Yazidi girl's death

The Iraqi Taha Al-J. is led into the courtroom at Frankfurt's Higher Regional Court before the verdict is pronounced Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 30, 2021. The Federal Prosecution accuses him of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, human trafficking and murder. As a suspected member of the terrorist militia IS, he is alleged to have held a Yazidi woman and her daughter as slaves and abused them. In the process, he allegedly tied up the five-year-old in Fallujah, Iraq, where the child died of thirst in agony, according to the indictment. (Frank Rumpenhorst/Pool via AP)

EMA chief says EU is ready to deal with new omicron variant

Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Emer Cooke speaks during an Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee at the European parliament in Brussels, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2021. Cooke gave an update on the situation around COVID-19 vaccines, including reviews, authorizations for pediatric use and boosters, as well as recent developments in COVID-19 therapeutics and the general epidemiological situation in the EU. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Inflation in 19 nations using euro hits record high of 4.9%

FILE - People fill up the shopping streets in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Official figures show that consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate. The European Union's statistics agency said Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021 that the eurozone's annual inflation rate hit 4.9% in November, largely as a result of a huge spike in energy costs. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Sweden's first female prime minister presents her government

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, center, is followed by her new cabinet members as they arrive for a press conference, in Stockholm, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Andersson, the first woman to ever hold that post in Sweden, has presented her one-party, minority government with only few changes compared to the previous one. (Soeren Andersson/TT via AP)

Top German court upholds disputed national COVID measures

People with candles walk along the old town of Erfurt, Germany, Monday, Nov. 29, 20212. In the state capital, hundreds of people have gathered for an unannounced Corona protest. The incidence of corona in Thuringia continued to rise at the start of the week. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

Far-right pundit to launch campaign for French presidency

Hard-right political talk-show star Eric Zemmour leaves the Major Cathedral in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. The first French presidential ballot will take place next year on April 10 and the two top candidates go into a runoff on April 24. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Fire in Barcelona kills family of 4, including 2 children

Policemen and firefighters work at the scene where a fire broke out in a building, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. A fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has killed four members of the same family, including two adults and two children aged one and three, in the early hours of Tuesday. (Kike Rincon/Europa Press via AP)

Middle East

In this frame grab from video, pardoned Islamist lawmaker Faisal al-Muslim waves to supporters at a celebration marking his return to Kuwait, in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Several prominent Kuwaiti opposition figures have returned home from a decade of self-exile after getting amnesty from the ruling emir, a long-awaited move celebrated Tuesday that's aimed at ending the political paralysis that has burned a hole in public finances. (AP Photo)

Kuwait's exiled opposition returns home after royal pardon

Expo 2020's workers face hardships despite Dubai's promises

FILE - A worker talks on the phone by an installation honoring the foreign laborers who built Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 3, 2021. Intent on making a flawless impression as the first host of the world's fair in the Middle East, Dubai has spent over $7 billion on pristine fairgrounds and jubilant festivities. But propping up the elaborate fair is the United Arab Emirates' contentious labor system that long has drawn accusations of mistreatment. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Libya: UN following attempts to thwart electoral process

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011, file photo, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's top electoral body said Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is disqualified from running in presidential elections that are supposed to take place next month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Black Eyed Peas frontman defies Israel boycott calls

American musician will.i.am, front man for Black Eyed Peas listens during an interview in Jerusalem, where he spoke at an innovation conference held by Improvate, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. will.i.am said Monday that politics don't dictate his actions, with pressure from pro-Palestinian activists unable to deter him from performing in Israel. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Leading Egyptian rights activist fined for social media post

FILE - Hossam Bahgat sits for a photograph, in his office at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 7, 2011. A court on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, has found Bahgat, a leading Egyptian human rights activist, guilty of insulting a judicial election commission in a tweet he posted last year following a national vote. His group says the misdemeanor court in the capital of Cairo fined the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal rights, 10,000 Egyptian Pounds (around $640). (Sarah Rafea via AP, File)

Israeli Supreme Court: Cable car survivor to return to Italy

FILE - Aya Biran, a paternal aunt of 6-year-old Eitan Biran, who survived a cable car crash in Italy that killed his immediate family, leaves court in Tel Aviv, Sept. 23, 2021. Israel's Supreme Court on Monday, Nov. 29, 20-221, upheld lower court rulings in the bitter custody battle surrounding Eitan, saying he should be returned to his relatives in Italy within two weeks. Attorneys for Aya Biran called the ruling

Actress Lindsay Lohan announces engagement in Instagram post

FILE - Actress Lindsay Lohan appears at the opening night of the Lohan Nightclub in Athens, Greece, Oct. 16, 2016. Lohan has told her followers on Instagram that she's engaged to boyfriend Bader Shammas. The 35-year-old 'Mean Girls' star has been based in the skyscraper-studded city of Dubai for several years. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, File)

Lebanon's president discusses Gulf crisis with Qatar's emir

In this photo released by Lebanese government, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, right, meets with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Nov 29, 2021. Aoun arrived in Qatar Monday for the opening ceremony of an Arab soccer tournament amid - and for talks on an precedented diplomatic crisis between Beirut and oil-rich Gulf nations. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)

EXPLAINER: Can world powers curb Iran in new nuclear talks?

FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament during a vote of confidence session for the education minister, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Iran and world powers resume talks in Vienna this week of Nov. 28, aimed at restoring the nuclear deal that crumbled after the U.S. pulled out three years ago. There are major doubts over whether the deal can be reinstated after years of mounting distrust.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Asia

Taliban fighters inspect a house after an 8-hour gunbattle erupted between Taliban and Islamic State group fighters, when Taliban forces raided a suspected hideout of IS militants on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly

Rights group: Taliban kill, abduct dozens of ex-officers

Passengers walk at the lobby for the international arrivals at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Japan confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the new omicron coronavirus variant, a visitor who recently arrived from Namibia, an official said.(Yukie Nishizawa/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan confirms first case of new coronavirus variant

FILE - A man wearing a face mask walks at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, April 3, 2020. Cambodia has barred entry to travelers from 10 African countries, citing the threat from the new omicron coronavirus variant. The move, announced in a Health Ministry statement issued late Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, came just two weeks after Cambodia reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia bars entry to travelers from 10 African countries

In this photo provided by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan's Crown Prince Akishino, center, strolls with his son Prince Hisahito and his daughter Princess Kako at the garden of their Akasaka imperial property residence in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2021. Akishino celebrates his 56th birthday Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (Imperial Household Agency of Japan via AP)

Japan crown prince says royals should refute extreme attacks

FILE - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands on Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Myanmar court postpones verdict for ousted leader Suu Kyi

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker cleans a piano at a production factory of Parsons Music Corporation in Yichang in central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 23, 2021. China's manufacturing activity rebounded in November as orders improved and power shortages eased, a survey showed Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)

China manufacturing improves as power shortages ease

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Science

Omicron brings COVID-19 vaccine inequity 'home to roost'

FILE - A woman receives an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Abuja, Nigeria, on Nov 19, 2021. The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world's desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan, File)

Duck-billed dinosaur may be one of many at Missouri site

In this undated photo provided by Peter J. Makovicky, a dinosaur's body has been wrapped with plaster bandages to protect it during removal and transport, in southern Missouri, as team members Akiko Shinya, left, and MInyoung Son tunnel through the clay under the jacket to loosen it so it can be flipped and the underside wrapped with plaster bandages. (Peter J. Makovicky via AP)

Researchers try producing potato resistant to climate change

FILE - Potatoes await harvesting at Green Thumb Farms, Sept. 27, 2017, in Fryeburg, Maine. University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

In omicron hot spot, somber mood as S Africa faces variant

FILE - Students from the Tshwane University of Technology make their way back to their residence in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. The world is racing to contain a new COVID-19 variant, which appears to be driving a surge in South Africa and is casting a pall there. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth

Bishop Richard Howell poses Aug. 19, 2021 beside some of the 630 solar panels on the roof of Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis The church is one of many

New Russian module docks with International Space Station

In this photo provided by the Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Soyuz rocket blasts off from the launch pad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. A Russian rocket blasted off successfully on Wednesday to deliver a new docking module to the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 6:06 p.m. (1306 GMT) from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the Progress cargo ship with the Prichal (Pier) docking module attached to it. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)

Technology

UK competition watchdog orders Facebook to sell off Giphy

Amazon workers in Alabama get a do-over in union election

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. A labor official is confirming a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, based on objections to the first vote in a rare move. The decision was first announced on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Elizabeth Holmes accuses ex-lover, business partner of abuse

Elizabeth Holmes, center, leaves federal court in San Jose, Calif., Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Elizabeth Holmes, the one-time medical entrepreneur now charged with building a fraudulent company based on promises of a revolutionary technology, returned to the witness stand Monday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Cyber Monday caps holiday shopping weekend as virus lingers

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2010 file photo, a consumer looks at Cyber Monday sales on her computer at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. Consumers are expected to spend between $10.2 billion and $11.3 billion on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 making it once again the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Adobe Digital Economy Index. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

New Twitter CEO steps from behind the scenes to high profile

Twitter CEO steps down, leaves company at a crossroads

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Shares of Twitter are surging at the market open on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 following a report that Dorsey will be stepping down from his post. (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP, File)