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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:<\/p>\n
1. TRUMP APPOINTMENTS REVEAL SHARP CONTRASTS<\/p>\n
GOP chief Reince Priebus is named White House chief of staff in a nod to the establishment, while Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, who has ties to the white nationalist movement, is appointed chief strategist.<\/p>\n
2. HOW TRUMP APPEARS TO SOFTEN HIS IMMIGRATION PLANS<\/p>\n
In a “60 Minutes” interview, the president-elect seems to back off his vow to build a solid wall along the Mexico border.<\/p>\n
3. SOME PRISONS FIGHT OPIOID ADDICTION WITH MONTHLY INJECTION<\/p>\n
Vivitrol costs $1,000 a shot, but proponents say it could save money compared with the cost of locking up drug offenders.<\/p>\n
4. NEW ZEALAND QUAKE LEAVES 2 DEAD, DAMAGES ROADS, AND HOMES<\/p>\n
But the magnitude 7.8 temblor largely spares the country the devastation it saw five years ago when a deadly earthquake struck the same region.<\/p>\n
5. WHY SYRIAN REFUGEES REGRET MOVE TO GAZA<\/p>\n
They are now trapped in the war-battered territory, ineligible for most social services granted to Palestinians.<\/p>\n
6. BRIGHTEST MOON IN ALMOST 69 YEARS LIGHTS UP SKY<\/p>\n
“Supermoon” reaches its most luminescent phase in North America before dawn on Monday.<\/p>\n
7. UPSTATE NEW YORK FACTORY MAKES FURNITURE WITH FUNGUS<\/p>\n
It’s part of an ambitious effort by researchers worldwide to sustainably grow fungi, bacteria, and proteins into clothing and building materials.<\/p>\n
8. WHO REAFFIRMS US RELATIONS IN TALK WITH TRUMP<\/p>\n
In a phone call, Chinese President Xi Jinping tells the U.S. president-elect that cooperation was the “only correct choice” for the world’s two biggest economies.<\/p>\n
9. INDONESIA NATIONAL PAGEANT CROWNS MISS TRANSGENDER<\/p>\n
The contest defies a wave of hatred against sexual minorities in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.<\/p>\n
10. GOAL LINE STAND GIVES SEAHAWKS WIN OVER PATRIOTS<\/p>\n
Seattle denies New England an opportunity to tie the game with a goal-line stand in the closing minute for the 31-24 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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