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Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria said on Saturday they have begun to encircle Damascus as government forces denied they had withdrawn from areas near the capital.”Our forces have begun the final phase of encircling the capital, Damascus,” said rebel commander Hassan Abdel Ghani, with the Islamist-led alliance that launched the offensive.The defence ministry flatly denied the army had fled positions near the city.”There is no truth to news claiming our armed forces, present in all areas of the Damascus countryside, have withdrawn,” it said.Earlier, a war monitor and Abdel Ghani said rebels were within 20 kilometres of Damascus…

Nearly two decades after a pair of ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” were stolen from a Minnesota museum, the iconic shoes are set to be auctioned off to the highest bidder Saturday.Heritage Auctions estimates the slippers will fetch $3 million or more. Online bidding opened last month, and by Friday had reached $1.55 million, or $1.91 million including the buyer’s premium, a commission that the buyer pays, said Robert Wilonsky, a vice president with the Dallas-based auction house. Over 800 people were tracking the slippers, and the company’s web page for the auction had…

CHICAGO (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton had 23 points and eight assists, and the Indiana Pacers stopped a four-game slide with a 132-123 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night. Pascal Siakam scored 21 points for Indiana, and Bennedict Mathurin finished with 19. The Pacers shot 56.5% from the field and had six players score in double figures. Indiana led by 13 at halftime, but Chicago closed to 112-109 on Josh Giddey’s layup with 6:53 remaining. Haliburton responded with a 3-pointer, sparking an 8-0 run for the Pacers. Haliburton made five 3s as Indiana went 18 for 29 from long…

In yet another software supply chain attack, it has come to light that two versions of a popular Python artificial intelligence (AI) library named ultralytics were compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency miner. The versions, 8.3.41 and 8.3.42, have since been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. A subsequently released version has introduced a security fix that “ensures Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)

INDIANAPOLIS — A winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million is set to expire on Dec. 26, the Hoosier Lottery announced on Saturday. According to a press release, this ticket was purchased in June at the Kendallville Finish Line at 620 Professional Way in Kendallville, Ind. It matched all five white balls for the June 29 drawing, with winning numbers of 26-51-54-61-69. The Powerball was 25, Hoosier Lottery said. Per Hoosier Lottery, this winning ticket must be claimed by 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 26, at the latest. The winner can head to the Hoosier Lottery Prize Payment office at 1302 N.…

Special Counsel Jack Smith is required to submit to the Justice Department a report summarizing the results of his dual investigations into President-elect Trump — an action that will put a formal end to his two-year probe and one that will punt all next steps, including whether to make public the results of the report, to outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland.Smith — a longtime prosecutor who worked in The Hague and at the Justice Department, including as chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section — was tapped by Garland in 2022 to investigate both the alleged effort by Trump and…

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Take this column as a sign of things that are here.The S.C. Department of Archives and History on Dec. 5 unveiled a new exhibit in Columbia about those historical markers – signs – you see dotted across South Carolina’s landscape.    The exhibit celebrates the state’s collection of 2,000 markers spread high and low – from Table Rock to the Temple of Sport in the Lowcountry.Eric Emerson, the agency’s director, said he’s constantly amazed at how much people enjoy the historic markers.“In this age where everything is digital and apps and online and people want to access history digitally, that…

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