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It is Friday, November 24th, 2023.

On This Day In History — on this day in 1971, a man later known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane shortly after departing from Portland, Oregon, and later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money; despite an extensive manhunt, he was never identified or caught.

Deal of the Day

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Slang Word of the Day: Glow up

Definition: This means a makeover or transformation from bad to good.

Used in a Sentence: “The glow-up I had from middle school to high school was insane. ”

Best Of The News

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

• The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was temporarily halted when a group of about 30 pro-Palestinian protesters ran into the street and apparently glued themselves to the pavement of the parade route in New York City.

• The protesters were demonstrating along Sixth Avenue when a handful of them jumped the barricades and ran into the street along 49th Street.

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OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’

• OpenAI was reportedly working on an advanced system before Sam Altman’s sacking that was so powerful it caused safety concerns among staff at the company.

• The artificial intelligence model triggered such alarm with some OpenAI researchers that they wrote to the board of directors before Altman’s dismissal warning it could threaten humanity, Reuters reported.

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