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Today's Top News Compilation - Wed, Jan 1st, 2020

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Finding the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Julia, aged 3, looks on from a crowd of fearful and exhausted men. This is her story.
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Young Thug released from jail after guilty plea on gang charges

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Grammy winner's criminal trial on racketeering and gang charges was the longest in state history.
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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A popular thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem" is debunked by Australian researchers.
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Botswana ruling party rejected after 58 years in power

  • News source: BBC News - World
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President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s party loses parliamentary majority in a shock defeat, early poll results show.
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Boeing raises pay offer in bid to end seven-week strike

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The union representing more than 30,000 striking workers endorsed the offer and will hold a ballot on Monday.
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From the archives: House Speaker Newt Gingrich discusses the "Contract with America"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined Face the Nation in 1995 to discuss his plans for the "Contract with America," a series of legislative measures meant to shrink the size of the federal government.
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Boeing raises pay offer in bid to end seven-week strike

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The union representing more than 30,000 striking workers endorsed the offer and will hold a ballot on Monday.
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US envoys in push for Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Diplomats return to the region, as Lebanon's PM expresses cautious optimism over a truce.
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Harris campaign leans into her HBCU roots

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Howard University is where Vice President Kamala Harris spent some of the most formative years of her life, and it will now serve as the location where she spends what could arguably be the most important night of her life: election night.

Her campaign announced this week that Harris will spend election night at her Washington, D.C., alma mater.

"I am proud to be the first HBCU vice president of the United States. I intend to be the first HBCU president of the United States," Harris said in an interview with Charlamagne tha God just two weeks...
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AP sources: White House altered record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks despite stenographer concerns

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Report: White House altered record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks despite concerns
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JD Vance Talks to Joe Rogan About Trans Issues, Abortion and Testosterone

  • News source: Chris Cameron, Simon J. Levien and Neil Vigdor
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Senator JD Vance spoke for more than three hours on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” his latest appearance on a podcast with a large following among young men.
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Arizona counties invest millions to reassure voters of election security

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Flagstaff, Arizona — Laura Huenneke, secretary of the Coconino County Democratic Party in Arizona, remembers what used to pass for an election day problem.

"A rattlesnake came into the facility one day and they had to shut down counting and evacuate people," Huenneke told CBS News. "No election official today would tell you that they're worried about rattlesnakes as their major disruption to voting or to counting."

These days, in the battleground state of Arizona, where election denialism has been rampant, rattlesnakes are the good old days for...
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Trump Offends Women as His Campaign Reaches Out to Young Men

  • News source: Jess Bidgood
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How Trump’s allies are honing their message to young men in the campaign’s final days.
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After pilot error, F-35 fighter jet flew for 11 minutes on its own before crashing

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The pilot of an F-35 fighter jet that briefly went missing in September 2023 before crashing made an "inappropriate" decision in ejecting from the aircraft, a Marine Corps investigation concluded.

The report released Thursday blamed the crash of the roughly $100 million aircraft on pilot error because "the pilot incorrectly diagnosed an out-of-controlled flight emergency and ejected from a flyable aircraft, albeit under extremely challenging cognitive and flight conditions."

On September 17, 2023, the pilot ejected from the F-35 during a heavy...
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How Israelis see the U.S. election

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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With Israel at war in Gaza and in Lebanon, and led by the most right-wing government in its modern history, the Middle East is closely watching the results of the U.S. election, which could determine U.S. foreign policy in the region. Holly Williams spoke to Israelis about their perspective of the November election.
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