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💎 Botswana’s diamond boom hits a painful reality check. For decades, President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessors built Botswana’s development model on diamonds that once delivered around 80% of export earnings. As lab-grown stones rise and global luxury demand softens, revenue from mines like Jwaneng and Orapa is wobbling. Economists warn that diamond income, roughly one-third of government receipts, can no longer underwrite every budget wish. Towns that grew around pits now face hiring freezes, shorter shifts, and stalled housing plans. Officials talk about diversifying into tourism, copper, and green energy, but those projects move slowly. Young jobseekers, already facing double-digit unemployment, see the glitter fading fastest. The country’s long-praised success story is quietly rewriting its final chapters.

🏥 Somalia’s hospital wards crumble as the world looks away. In Mogadishu, doctors like Deputy Health Minister Mohamed Hassan Bulaale describe emergency rooms where ceilings leak, power cuts are routine, and basic drugs run short. Years of war with the extremist group al-Shabaab have blown apart clinics and scared away many specialists. Officials say roughly two-thirds of hospitals outside the capital have partly or fully closed. Families now travel hundreds of kilometers for surgery or childbirth that should be routine. International donors channel more money to security forces than to pediatric wings or maternity wards. Health workers, often unpaid for months, still treat blast victims and malnourished children. Somalia’s health system has become a quiet casualty of a conflict that rarely trends anymore.

🚨 Stockton shooting leaves 3 children and 1 adult dead. Police in Stockton, California, say four people, including three children, were killed in a home shooting that stunned a working-class neighborhood. Investigators found the victims after a late-night emergency call from the area. Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden told reporters that detectives are still piecing together timelines and relationships among those killed in the San Joaquin County tragedy. No suspect has been arrested, and authorities have not released a clear motive. Neighbors described hearing multiple shots and then a long silence before sirens. City leaders urged witnesses to come forward rather than speculate on social media. The case adds to California’s rising share of killings that unfold inside homes instead of on street corners.

❄️ Chicago storm cancels flights and turns Thanksgiving travel into roulette. A winter storm dumping heavy snow across the Midwest led airlines to cancel hundreds of flights at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports. Meteorologists warned that bands of lake effect snow would keep visibility low and runways slick. Carriers shifted planes and crews while passengers lined up at rebooking counters or camped near outlets. Road crews in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan spread salt as crashes multiplied on icy stretches. Amtrak reported delays and limited service on some regional routes. Airport officials advised travelers to treat schedules as suggestions rather than promises. For many families, the hardest part of the holidays is now just getting through the jet bridge.

🤖 AI shopping copilots cozy up to your holiday cart. Retailers say artificial intelligence tools are quietly shaping how people browse, compare, and buy gifts this season. Shoppers chat with programs like ChatGPT or built-in store assistants to narrow choices from thousands of options to a handful. Companies such as Amazon ($AMZN) and Walmart ($WMT) are leaning on algorithms to tweak prices, search results, and promotions in real time. Consultants report that early surveys show a growing slice of consumers trying AI to draft wish lists or hunt deals. Privacy advocates worry about how much behavioral data these systems quietly absorb. Smaller merchants fear they will struggle to match personalized recommendations driven by massive cloud budgets. If the price is right, the machine learning experiment could turn this year’s impulse clicks into training data that shapes every future December.

🏛 Texas Republican Troy Nehls plans to leave Congress in 2026. Representative Troy Nehls, a former sheriff who represents Texas’ 22nd Congressional District outside Houston, says he will not seek another term. The Republican lawmaker, a strong ally of President Donald Trump, framed the decision as a return to private life after two terms in Washington. His seat, which leans conservative, is already drawing interest from local county officials and state legislators. Nehls has focused heavily on border security and law enforcement issues in his committee work. Supporters praise his focus on policing; critics fault his alignment with efforts to contest the 2020 election. Party strategists on both sides of the aisle still widely expect the district to stay in Republican hands. The coming primary will test which version of conservatism local voters want next.

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