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It is Saturday, November 18th, 2023.

On This Day In History — on this day in 1978, Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple religious community that he formed in the 1950s, and some 900 of his followers died this day in 1978 in Guyana in a massive act of murder-suicide known as the Jonestown massacre.

Deal of the Day

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Slang Word of the Day: Stan

Definition: An overzealous fan of a particular group or celebrity

Used in a Sentence: I’ll always love Taylor Swift, I’m absolutely a T-Swift stan.

Best Of The News

Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move

• At the Malmo port in southern Sweden, a cargo ship looms over row after row of shiny new cars — Volkswagens, Volvos, Mercedes.

• Notably missing are Teslas. That's because dockworkers are refusing to unload them.

• …read the full story

Nearly 20,000 men have fled Ukraine to avoid being drafted

• BBC World Service’s investigation unit, BBC Eye, has revealed that nearly 20,000 Ukrainian men have used various routes to flee their country to avoid being drafted, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

• After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian men aged 18-60 were banned from leaving the country unless they had an exemption.

• …read the full story