Microsoft buyouts, Machado returns, Kane wins Ballon d'Or

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMicrosoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about sixty thousand employees, roughly twenty-seven percent of its workforce, as it spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEmployees have to decide in early December and leave on December thirty-first, CNBC reports. So the new year starts with a few hundred people looking for a new job.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Venezuela, opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned, posting on X, I am here, with you, after being blocked three times in September.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe New York Times says she must press for new elections without offending Washington.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSoccer now, and Harry Kane has won his first Ballon d'Or at the London Palladium, ending England's twenty-five-year wait.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe beat Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal, after seventy-three goals in sixty-five games for Bayern Munich and England.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAlexia Putellas took the women's award for the third time.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-three goals. Only Messi has done better. England won't cope with this.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMichael Owen was the last Englishman to win it, in two thousand one. He can finally put the phone down.