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Hong Kong court sentences 45 pro-democracy activists for up to 10 years

NPR

By Laura Westbrook

Published November 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM EST

A Hong Kong court has handed 45 pro-democracy activists sentences of up to 10 years in jail for conspiracy to commit subversion.

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Laura Westbrook

Trump to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Selena Simmons-Duffin

President-elect Trump continues to pick his new administration. He will nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz — known for The Dr. Oz Show on daytime TV — to head the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.
Gisele Pelicot, victim in mass rape trial in France, gives last day of testimony

Eleanor Beardsley

The victim at the center of a mass rape trial in France gave her closing statement in a French court. She denounced French society as macho and patriarchal, called it a society that trivializes rape.
Guidebook author Arthur Frommer has died at 95

Elizabeth Blair

Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized travel with his 1957 guidebook Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, has died at 95, his daughter confirmed Monday.

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