~Bitcoin News of the Day

• Brazilian lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress to establish a Sovereign Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, known as RESBit, marking a potential shift in the country's approach to digital asset management. The reserve would integrate Bitcoin into Brazil’s $355 billion sovereign reserves, currently dominated by assets tied to major fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• Policymakers have vowed to meet the government's gross domestic product growth target of around 5% this year even as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pledges to slap more tariffs on China-made goods. Industrial profits in October fell 10% year on year, better than a 27.1% slump in September though earnings slid 4.3% in the first 10 months versus a 3.5% decline in January-September, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed on Wednesday..

~Politics_and_Law

• Conservative groups have lined up in federal courts to make nearly identical parental rights arguments in other cases. In one appeal that has been pending at the Supreme Court for months, a group of Wisconsin parents say their school district is violating parental rights by hiding transgender support plans – allowing students to change their pronouns and bathroom use without informing parents. Anti-abortion groups, meanwhile, have for years argued that parents must have a say in a minor’s decision to end a pregnancy.

~Stacker_Sports News

• *Thanksgiving and the Dallas Cowboys. Sorry if this traditional combination spoils your appetite. But with the mix also including the New York Giants, a team flailing even more precipitously than the Cowboys, the prime holiday slot is poised to serve up quite the dud this time around. *

~Tech & ~Science

• On average, people assigned scientists a trust rating of 3.62 on a five-point scale. But for climate scientists, that rating fell to 3.5. The gap was much bigger in some countries—such as Bolivia, where scientists generally were rated 3.22 and climate scientists 2.78—and smaller in others, such as Australia, where scientists were rated 3.91 and climate scientists 3.77. Scientists shouldn’t be too disheartened, Cologna says. Trust in climate scientists may be lower, she says, “but it’s not low.”

~History with Mystery

• Coca-Cola is widely considered to be the first company to offer coupons, distributing them for a free glass of the soda in 1887. The coupons were the brainchild of owner Asa Candler as a way to boost the profile of what was then a relatively unknown beverage.

~Entertainment World

• It wasn’t so long ago — just last year, in fact — that social media was awash with would-be Kardashians: super-straight shiny hair, bee-stung lips covering blinding white teeth, doe eyes streaked with mascara and a wasp waist dividing an ample butt and prominent breasts. But — in tandem with the rise of Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications — that image is fading fast. Even the Kardashians themselves are deflating, with butts apparently reduced and fillers seemingly dissolved. But as always in plastic surgery, it’s all about the details, and those vary from industry to industry. THR asked surgeons on both coasts to reveal what their clients are asking for these days.

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