Diplomats from Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. have been trying to negotiate a second extension to the Israel-Hamas cease-fire before it expires tonight. Since Friday, the pause in fighting has allowed Hamas to release more than 80 hostages taken Oct. 7 in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners. IF IT EXPIRES: The Biden administration said if and when Israel resumes its offensive, it should avoid "significant further displacement" of Palestinians, but Israel's defense minister said that it will expand fighting "throughout the entire [Gaza] Strip." |
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Forty-one construction workers in northern India were rescued after 17 days stuck in a collapsed tunnel. Each worker was pulled on a wheeled stretcher through a three-foot-wide tube that workers and a machine dug through rocks and debris which fell during a landslide in the mountainous region. |
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami greets a rescued worker. (Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP) |
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A U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying six people has crashed into the sea off southern Japan. One person who was recovered has been pronounced dead but the status of the other five was not immediately known. The hybrid aircraft has a troubled history with at least 19 deaths in several fatal Marine Corps crashes since 2012. |
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The president's son offered to testify publicly to the House Oversight Committee instead of in a closed-door deposition from which, his lawyer said, GOP members would distort by selectively leaking information. Committee Chairman James Comer refused the offer, saying Biden would have to testify as demanded in the subpoena sent early this month as part of its impeachment inquiry. |
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The former first lady, who died Nov. 19 at age 96, was memorialized at a service attended by all her living successors and by Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, who attended despite being in home hospice care since February. After a private funeral service today, she will be buried in a plot outside the couple's longtime home in Plains, Ga. |
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6. HACKERS HIT ER PATIENTS |
A ransomware attack last week has forced a major healthcare chain to send some emergency room patients to other hospitals. Ardent Health Services — which operates more than 30 hospitals in Texas, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Idaho — took down its network, including electronic medical records that healthcare staff rely on to treat patients. Great work, hackers. We're sure your parents are real proud. |
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7. ARETHA FRANKLIN ESTATE |
A judge ruled that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will from 2014 overrides a separate handwritten will from 2010, ending a battle between her sons over the inheritance of four homes owned by the late Queen of Soul, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2018. The 2014 will was found under couch cushions at one of the homes in 2019. |
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| Marissa Silva, editor in chief at Toy Insider, showed us some surprisingly affordable and cool toys made with wood and recycled materials, including a baby's activity cube, machine-washable dolls, a bamboo playhouse, Lego wildflowers made from sugarcane and even a green energy circuit board. Please buy the green circuit board you see below for at least one kid in your life. We need more engineers to save us from climate change. |
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The holidays are fast approaching, and we've got a great gift idea for you. Maker Wine's Advent Calendar comes with 12 cans of wine and makes the perfect gift for a friend, family member, or coworker. Maker was generous enough to send us a calendar to try. This beautiful and sturdy calendar comes with a variety of wines, from sweet to dry, flat to sparkling, and white to red. You don't have to take our word for it, though – order soon to get it in time! Order Your Advent Calendar Now |
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If vegetarians and vegans didn't get enough protein, this newsletter would never get published — our fingers would be too weak to peck out this sentence. If you're veg-curious but unsure how you'd get enough macros, this segment introduces you to a wide range of protein-packed foods you probably already eat. (And no, it's not just tofu and Beyond Burgers.) But where does vegan (and record-breaking strongman) Patrik Baboumian get his protein? |
Plant-powered. (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for The Game Changers) |
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A human mom delivers twins in just 3% of births. For the endangered savanna elephant, twins are even rarer: Just 1% of live births have two calves. That made the news of twin sisters even sweeter for Kenya's Samburu National Reserve, which is full of food after recent rains, making it easier for mom Alto to provide them with enough milk. Watch the youngsters, just days old, trot after their mommy. |
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We just saw the first snowflakes of the season. See you next spring! |
(AP Photo/Lehtikuva/Kaisa Siren) |
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