Louise Schiavone

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, a Salvadoran national living in Maryland, remains free after a federal judge ordered his release earlier in the month.

He'd been mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March and after returning in June was arrested, charged with human smuggling, then held in Tennessee before being freed once more.

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District Judge Paula Zinnis, noting the government had no final removal order to deport him, is ruling that Abrego Garcia should continue to remain free, at least for now, while she reviews the government's latest arguments.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the Wagovi pill, a drug designed to assist in weight loss.

Novo Nordisk says the bill is the first approved oral GLP-1 therapy.

The Dow closed up 227.

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For audiences everywhere, the Nutcracker is synonymous with the pageantry of winter.

And as NPR's Anastasia Tsoukas reports, it's the production that helps many American ballet companies stay in business.

The nation's largest bourbon distiller is pausing production at one of its facilities as of January 1st.

Jim Beam's flagship distillery in Claremont, Kentucky, is halting operations to let the market catch up with an oversupply of bourbon.

Jim Beam is owned by Japan-based Suntory Holdings.

The company's larger distilling operation elsewhere in Kentucky will continue percolating the Beam bourbon stills.

The wine and spirits business has been struggling with declining alcohol consumption.

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President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than that of the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S.

The president made the announcement at his resort in Mar-a-Lago.

The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly two dozen