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There are few major cities on the planet where the grim realities of the Paris climate talks are more visceral than Beijing.

There's a popular saying out there: "So the last shall be first, and the first last."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley appealed to House Democrats on Tuesday to keep him in their consideration as he runs for president.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A second city on Tuesday withdrew its invitation for Rhode Island's "Dancing Cop" to direct holiday traffic because of his activism against the Black Lives Matter movement. The retired officer responded by blasting the head of the Providence NAACP and threatening to sue his detractors for defamation.

DETROIT (AP) — November used to be a slow month for U.S. car sales. Not anymore.

Morgan Stanley is reportedly planning to fire up to 25% of its bond trading staff by the end of the year — and Wall Street analysts think it's a great idea.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators would need a search warrant to get people's old emails under a bill considered Tuesday by a House panel looking to update a nearly 30-year-old federal law to reflect today's communications.

Up until the middle of 2014, Samsung looked like it could easily command the biggest share of the smartphone market and, as such, take home a massive chunk of the revenues.

As promised, Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday revealed details of its new partnership with Microsoft to become a "preferred partner" selling Microsoft's cloud, Azure. 

Schlumberger plans to lay off more workers next year.

In a regulatory filing on Tuesday afternoon, the oilfield services giant said it expects to take a pre-tax restructuring charge of about $350 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 related to the job cuts.

The filing did not specify how many jobs could be on the line.

The cuts would come "in light of expected reduced activity for 2016 and to streamline its support structure", Schlumberger said. 

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PARIS (AP) — Imam Ibrahim Saidy brought his symposiums and his monthly fasting to the Paris climate talks, hoping to call attention to the problems and injustice of global warming.

The tablet market is set to shrink 8% in 2015, but the new breed of hybrid tablets with detachable keyboards could help breath new life into the business, according to a new report by research firm IDC.

As the only remaining undefeated team in football, the Carolina Panthers have taken over the top spot in our weekly power rankings. 

Grant Shapps, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party, resigned from his position as International Development Minister at the weekend after taking the blame for letting the Mark Clarke problem fester within the party too long. Shapps' resignation came quickly because he believes he can regain his career inside the Conservatives at some point in the future.

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.

The best part about your 20s is that you can recover quickly from the inevitable mistakes you'll make as you figure out how to get by in the real world.

Sketch, a popular Mac app that lots of designers actually liked better than Adobe Photoshop, has left the Mac App Store, per a blog entry — just the latest in a string of high-profile departures that should have Apple worried.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A pet tortoise stolen during a home invasion got to ride shotgun when Albuquerque police returned the reptile to its owner.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a spinal injury in the back of a transport van (all times local):

There's more to the internet than watching Netflix or browsing Amazon.com, and you'll have to download some special software to access it. Here's a quick look at what you will find while browsing the dark web, where you can find and purchase pretty much anything you can imagine. For more on the dark web check out the Codebreaker podcast on iTunes.

Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about Monday morning.

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is blocking outbound links to Telegram, the secure messaging service that has grown in popularity since the Edward Snowden leaks. 

Via Dave Lutz at JonesTrading, here's a quick guide to what traders are talking about on Tuesday morning:

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's al-Qaida branch on Tuesday released a group of Lebanese troops held captive for over a year as part of a Qatar-brokered swap that involved Lebanon setting free at least 11 prisoners wanted by the militants, including a former wife of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rewriting your DNA is getting closer to reality: A revolutionary technology is opening new frontiers for genetic engineering — a promise of cures for intractable diseases along with anxiety about designer babies.