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The College Football Playoff's 12-team bracket is nearly finalized. Now that the regular season is done, the conference championship games this weekend are the only things left before the final bracket is revealed on Sunday. They will provide a limited number of additional data points for the 13-member committee that ranks and seeds the playoff bracket to use in determining who gets in and who doesn't. According to Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, who leads the playoff selection committee, there may not be much movement between the last rankings announced on Tuesday and the final bracket on Sunday because of the paucity of such data points. "We don't have a data point to rearrange where we have those teams ranked," Manuel told ESPN on Tuesday as he explained the committee's reasoni...

On Friday, arsonists severely damaged a synagogue in Melbourne, causing what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an antisemitic attack. After the Adass Israel Synagogue caught fire, Albanese told reporters in Perth that there is no place for such an act in Australia. Attacking a synagogue is antisemitic and goes against everyone's freedom to practice their religion in safety and harmony in Australia. Detective Inspector Chris Murray of Victoria Police informed reporters at the site that a witness who arrived to the synagogue for early morning prayers reported seeing two people in masks using brooms to disperse a liquid accelerant within the structure. He said that after causing the fire, he immediately left the area, but when questioned about the attack's motivation, he ...

As opposition fighters pushed further south with their swift attack on government forces, thousands of people fled the Syrian city of Homs, according to a major monitoring group. The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) would control three of the nation's five largest cities if the strategically significant municipality fell, leaving no significant city between opposition troops and Damascus, the capital of Syria. They have already taken control of the central city of Hama, where government soldiers were driven out on Thursday, and the second city of Aleppo in the north in less than two weeks. Hassan Abdul-Ghani, senior commander of the HTS-led forces, wrote on X on Friday, "Thank God, our forces are still moving steadily toward the city of Homs after convoys carrying hundreds of dis...

Washington Leaders from around the world have gathered to meet with him. He has shook Canada and Mexico with threats of high tariffs and warned that if they don't free the captives by the time he takes office, there will be hell to pay for the militants in Gaza. The president-in-waiting, Donald Trump, isn't afraid to act like the president-in-reality, even if that won't happen for another forty-five days. Although Trump is still unable to sign legislation or issue an executive order, he is displacing Joe Biden as the incumbent president nears the end of his term and gradually loses support from the public. Biden has responded to both of the reporter's inquiries during his two international visits since the election. He's been allowed to ramble on about Trump's statements.Regarding Trump'...

Washington Leaders from around the world have gathered to meet with him. He has shook Canada and Mexico with threats of high tariffs and warned that if they don't free the captives by the time he takes office, there will be hell to pay for the militants in Gaza. The president-in-waiting, Donald Trump, isn't afraid to act like the president-in-reality, even if that won't happen for another forty-five days. Although Trump is still unable to sign legislation or issue an executive order, he is displacing Joe Biden as the incumbent president nears the end of his term and gradually loses support from the public. Biden has responded to both of the reporter's inquiries during his two international visits since the election. He's been allowed to ramble on about Trump's statements.Regarding Trump'...

Despite Dan Hevia's prior layoffs, this one feels different. Hevia, 42, a company development and marketing expert from the New York City region, has been unemployed since the summer. He said in a recent LinkedIn post that he had applied for over 1,000 jobs but has nothing to show for it. I would have laughed (yeah for confidence!) if you had told me, when I was laid off in June, that I would be approaching six months without a job offer, Hevia wrote. But now it's here, and wow, this job market regularly humbles you. Hevia stated that he had little optimism for his career's future in an interview with NBC News. He remarked, "I'm still applying with shaky confidence, if not completely broken." A new, much more uncertain atmosphere has replaced the enthusiasm of the Great Resignation, a tim...

South Korea's SEOUL The day before an impeachment vote, the leader of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeols' ruling party reversed his stance on Friday, signaling greater openness to his ouster as president after throwing the important U.S. ally into upheaval with a brief proclamation of martial law. The conservative People Power Party (PPP) leader, Han Dong-hoon, had previously stated that he was against Yoon's impeachment, arguing that it would only lead to further unrest. However, he claimed to have discovered on Friday that Yoon had not only imposed martial law but also ordered the arrest of well-known politicians. The decision was revoked six hours later after parliament rejected it. Since President Yoon was not admitting his wrongdoings, Han stated, "I have concluded that it is nec...

A petition signed by almost 100 senior national security officials criticized President-elect Donald Trump's choice to appoint former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and demanded Senate hearings to be held behind closed doors to examine any federal data pertaining to her. The officials asked the Senate to "carefully evaluate" whether Gabbard is "equipped" for the role, which needs Senate confirmation, in the letter that NBC News was able to receive. "Several of Ms. Gabbard s past actions call into question her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the President, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus," the letter stated. "Following her trip to Syria, for example, Ms. Gabbard aligned herself with Russian and Syrian officials...

According to police, three climbers from the United States and Canada who went missing on New Zealand's highest mountain five days ago are thought to be dead. According to authorities, the two Americans and a Canadian climber never made their scheduled flight out Monday, despite their plans to use the Zurbriggen Ridge to reach the top of Aoraki. Inspector Vicki Walker, the Aoraki Area Commander, said in a statement Friday afternoon local time that bad weather has hindered the search, which started the same day. A jacket and an ice ax thought to be the men's were discovered by searchers in a helicopter. According to her, footprints and other proof of the group's intended route across the slopes beneath Zurbriggen Ridge have also been discovered. Walker stated, "We do not believe the men hav...

According to fresh campaign finance filings, billionaire Elon Musk invested over $20 million in an enigmatic super PAC at the conclusion of the 2024 campaign, as part of his overall expenditure of nearly $250 million to support President-elect Donald Trump. According to the filing the group submitted to the Federal Election Commission Thursday night, Musk provided funding for RBG PAC. The super PAC, which failed to reveal its contributors prior to the election, ran advertisements claiming that Trump opposed a federal ban on abortion. A single donation from the Elon Musk Revocable Trust in Austin, Texas, provided the group with $20.5 million. According to the campaign financial report, which covered the period from October 17 to November 25, RBG PAC spent nearly all of its funds on digital ...