Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks reach five-year, $228M supermax extension
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Giannis Antetokounmpo, the NBA’s reigning two-time Most Valuable Player, has signed a multi-year extension with the Milwaukee Bucks, the team announced.

Antetokounmpo’s agent, Alex Saratsis, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that it will be for the full five-year, $228 million supermax, including an opt-out after the fourth year.

“This is my home, this is my city,” Antetokounmpo posted on Twitter and Instagram on Tuesday. “I’m blessed to be able to be a part of the Milwaukee Bucks for the next 5 years.

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PS5, Xbox Series X|S demand crashes Best Buy online
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Updated 4:44 PM; Today 2:56 PM

The PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S consoles today became available for purchase via Best Buy’s online store. And the stock has already dwindled..

The brand announced on their blog that this product release also kicked-off a three-day sale that includes various deals on tech including TVs, laptops, and headphones.

“You don’t even have to change out of your pajamas because these consoles will be sold online only,” Best Buy assured consumers.

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Google suffers global outage with Gmail, YouTube and majority of services affected
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Error was due to lack of storage space in authentication tools causing system to crash

Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. Beginning at about 11.50am GMT, the outages appeared to have affected the vast majority of Google’s services, apart from search, which operated largely unaffected.

Despite the universal nature of the outages, the company’s automated systems reported no problems for any services for the first 30 minutes,

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After Electoral College cements win, Biden unleashes scathing attack on Trump’s refusal to concede
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The president-elect is expected to speak later Monday after surpassing 270 electoral votes for the win.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday gave his most scathing indictment yet of the attempts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn November’s election, hours after the Electoral College officially sealed Biden’s victory.

Biden called the president’s election, which Trump and his supporters have attempted to overturn with scores of failed legal challenges,

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Chase Young, defense helps vault Washington Football Team into first place in NFC East
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The Washington Football Team dropped its former name, had a coach who faced cancer and benched its quarterback after four weeks this season. Washington wasn’t anyone’s pick to contend in the NFC East; it was more likely to compete for a top-five draft pick.

That’s why it’s surprising to see where the team is now: in control of the NFC East.

Washington (6-7) used defensive touchdowns to take over sole possession of the division with a 23-15 win over the San Francisco 49ers.

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Mahomes, Chiefs clinch AFC West with 33-27 win over Dolphins
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — — Patrick Mahomes took a 30-yard sack before he got the Kansas City Chiefs going in the right direction.

The Chiefs overcame a 10-point deficit and four turnovers Sunday to clinch their fifth consecutive AFC West title by beating Miami 33-27.

Mahomes took the longest sack in the NFL in five years and was picked off three times, his first multi-interception game in more than two years.

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After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers
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More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer’s mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.

Dubbed the “340 cipher,” the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers — David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake,

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Supreme Court Shuts Door On Trump Election Prospects
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday night rejected an eleventh hour challenge to Joe Biden’s election as president.

The court’s action came in a one-page order, which said the complaint was denied “for lack of standing.”

Texas, supported by President Trump, tried to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan, claiming fraud, without evidence. But in order for a state to bring a case in court, especially the Supreme Court, a state must show it has been injured.

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Taylor Swift dropping surprise album
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It’s the holiday season and Taylor Swift has a gift.

The singer announced Thursday that she was dropping her ninth studio album.
She shared the news via her verified social media.”I’m elated to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister record, will be out tonight at midnight eastern,” she tweeted. “It’s called evermore.”
“Folklore” dropped this summer to both critical and commercial success.
According to Swift, “To put it plainly,

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Hanukkah 2020: When it is and what to know (no, it’s not the ‘Jewish Christmas’)
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Ah, yes, Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights. The “Jewish Christmas.” The holiday that Adam Sandler wrote a song about.

To Jewish people, however, Hanukkah isn’t actually all that religious of a holiday –though because of its proximity to Christmas, it’s often assumed the most important Jewish holiday. It’s not. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover, for example, are more religiously observed, though Hanukkah certainly holds cultural significance.

As a child, Hanukkah meant I could get presents just like my predominantly-Christian classmates and not feel left out.

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