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FILE – Nurse Gigi Urcia gives a flu vaccination at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans’ Community Resource Center on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a slow-growing economy. More than half the job growth — 170,000 — came in two large industries: education and health care. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) NYPM602 NYPM602

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A member of the AlKuwari family shows the trophy after winning the first prize at the Mzayen World Cup, a pageant held in the Qatari desert some 15 miles away from Doha and soccer’s World Cup, in Ash- Shahaniyah, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) ALT101 ALT101
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A student irons a costume made for a sewing class assessment at Norland College in Bath, England, Nov. 2, 2022. Imitation playrooms at the college are filled with real-looking dolls, costumes for role play, small chairs for nannies to practice working at low heights and old-fashioned strollers. XNYT124
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The Carnival Valor cruise ship sets sail from the Port of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, March 3, 2022. The NOLA port ended strengthened its economic benefit to the region and state in 2021 with wins across all four of its lines of business: cargo, rail, industrial real estate and cruise. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
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Volunteers learn how to operate a Mavic drone in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Sept. 26. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Sasha Maslov
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FILE – Takeoff arrives at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 10, 2019. On Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, police announced that they have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff, who was killed last month outside a bowling alley in Houston. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) NYSS503 NYSS503

Man arrested in fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff

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Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate in Georgia’s Senate runoff, greets guests during a campaign event in Cumming, Ga. on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Walker’s performance in the final days of the runoff campaign has Republicans airing frustrations. But no one is counting him out yet. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times) XNYT137 XNYT137

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FILE – A child sits inside a canoe with empty plastic bottles he collected to sell for recycling in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 8, 2022. More than 2,000 experts plan to wrap up early negotiations Friday, Dec. 2, on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address the crisis. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) CLI608 CLI608

Negotiators take first steps toward plastic pollution treaty VIEW

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A member of the AlKuwari family shows the trophy after winning the first prize at the Mzayen World Cup, a pageant held in the Qatari desert some 15 miles away from Doha and soccer’s World Cup, in Ash- Shahaniyah, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) ALT101 ALT101

Camel pageant is among World Cup’s sidelines attractions WATCH