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Bollywood and the Politics of Meat

Hair Dyes and Straighteners May Raise Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women

Tekashi69 Is Praised by Prosecutors, Who Urge a Lenient Sentence

What Is Voters’ Highest Priority? There’s a Way to Find Out

Woman Who Alleged Affair With Trump Sues Fox News for Defamation

Young Sheldon, Meet SpongeBob: CBS and Viacom Are Back Together

CBC Canada

Airbnb reins in parties with new rules (The Associated Press)

Supreme Court rejects appeal from former Nazi interpreter, now faces deportation (Kathleen Harris)

Nova Scotia to become first province to ban sale of flavoured e-cigarettes and juices (CBC News)

Inuit sharing ancient knowledge of ice, sea and land with new app (The Canadian Press)

Construction company faces 260 charges after failed Fort McMurray rebuilds (Wallis Snowdon)

Real-life Clark Griswold Christmas display with 30K lights destroyed by truck (CBC News)

arstechnica.com

Huawei sues FCC to stop ban on Huawei gear in US-funded networks

The modders that spent 15 years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2

A white dwarf is stealing the atmosphere from a Neptune-like exoplanet

SpaceX to attempt cargo launch, upper-stage experiment for second time

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 is 25% faster, comes with mandatory 5G

Unvaccinated Samoans must identify themselves with red flags, officials say

CBC Ottawa

Ontario's Catholic teachers in legal strike position Dec. 21 (The Canadian Press)

A Tribe Called Red makes CBC Music decade-end song list (HOLLY GORDON)

When wearing a turtleneck was too controversial for the House of Commons (CBC Archives)

Armed with victim wishlist, Gatineau flood committee gets to work (Amanda Pfeffer)

Bridgehead coffeehouse chain sold for $9.5M (CBC News)

Speech from the throne now a uniquely Ottawa traffic issue (Doug Hempstead)

CBC Top Stories

Election of Speaker of the House of Commons is underway (Peter Zimonjic,Kathleen Harris)

Travis Vader's final bid for appeal in Alberta couple's deaths dismissed by Supreme Court (CBC News)

Pelosi to deliver public statement at 9 a.m. ET on Trump impeachment (The Associated Press)

'It's overwhelming': Survivors create public list of Catholic clerics accused of sexual (Laura Clementson,Gillian Findlay)

Mounties should have steered clear of any probe into Trudeau's Bahamas vacation: MP (Elizabeth Thompson)

Beyond impeachment: How the hearings might impact the 2020 election (Steven D ' Souza)

Slashdot.org

World's Most-Isolated City Lures NASA Talent in Hunt for Resources Tech (slashdot)

Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million (slashdot)

Huawei Launches New Legal Challenge Against US Ban (slashdot)

FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time (slashdot)

US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' (slashdot)

Even 50-Year-Old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming (slashdot)

Engadget.com

DOJ charges two Russians with using malware to steal millions

Are the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT ideal GPUs for your gaming PC?

Regulators are the only ones who can save us from distracted drivers

Save up to $200 on a Surface Pro 7 or Surface Laptop 3 at Amazon

The laws protecting our data are too weak

GM and LG team up to build EV batteries in the US