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Black Friday

Day after US Thanksgiving — the unofficial start of the Christmas shopping season. The 'black' is when retailers' ledgers traditionally moved from red (loss) to black (profit) for the year. Spread to the UK, Germany, France, and Mexico in the 2010s.

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Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.

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