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- The state of infrastructure talks in Congress, explained (VOX)

- U.S. Wants New Trade Talks With China, but Will Keep Tariffs (WSJ)

- Britain’s Gas Crisis, Explained (NYT)

- The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead (The Economist)

- Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America (CNN)

- Climate change is getting real for investors (FT)

- Power Outages Hit China, Threatening the Economy and Christmas (NYT)

- The Supreme Court is drunk on its own power (VOX)

- Taiwan Battery-Swapping Pioneer Gogoro to Go Public in SPAC Merger (WSJ)

- China Evergrande's rising default risks shift focus to possible Beijing rescue (Reuters)

- France recalls envoys from US and Australia in protest at submarine deal (FT)

- After Merkel (The Economist)

- India's got the next big thing in tech, and it could be worth $1 trillion

- Supply chain crisis will leave permanent scar, UPS warns

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- The enormous costs and elusive benefits of the war on terror

- Match CEO and Bumble create relief funds for employees affected by Texas abortion law (CNBC)

- Alpha Condé, the president of Guinea, is ousted in a coup (The Economist)

- Alibaba pledges $15.5 billion to help China achieve 'common prosperity' (CNN)

- Japan’s PM Yoshihide Suga to resign after failing to control Covid outbreak (FT)

- The future of meetings (The Economist)

- Google and Apple's next regulatory headaches are looming across the Pacific (CNN)

- More Companies Weigh Penalizing Employees Without Covid-19 Vaccinations (WSJ)

- Why Amazon is confronting India's richest man Mukesh Ambani (NYT)

- China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week (CNBC)

- George Soros: Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening (FT)

- FTC files fresh antitrust complaint seeking to break up Facebook (CNN)

- OnlyFans says it will ban sexually explicit content (CNN)

- Taiwanese shrug off China threat and place their trust in ‘Daddy America’ (FT)

- How American retailers have adapted to the Amazon effect (The Economist)

- Remote Work May Now Last for Two Years, Worrying Some Bosses (WSJ)

- U.S. says it is up to Afghans to defend country as Taliban take more territory

- Taliban forces pour into Kabul after president flees Afghanistan

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- America may pay dearly for defeat in Afghanistan