Associated Press<\/p>\n
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:<\/p>\n
1. WHERE TRUMP’S ‘THANK YOU’ TOUR IS HEADED NEXT<\/p>\n
The president-elect’s appearance in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will be followed by rallies in Iowa and Michigan later this week.<\/p>\n
2. US LAWMAKERS FACE WEEKEND DEADLINE<\/p>\n
Congress marches toward a final vote on legislation boosting medical research and speeding drug approvals while readying a separate stopgap spending bill.<\/p>\n
3. SAD, FINAL WORDS FOR OAKLAND VICTIMS<\/p>\n
Some people were able to text loved one’s goodbye and “I love you” before they died in a warehouse fire that claimed three dozen lives.<\/p>\n
4. AP: THE FREEING OF 226 CHRISTIANS FROM ISLAMIC STATE GROUP IN SYRIA<\/p>\n
It took more than a year, three videotaped killings and millions in ransom money from across the Assyrian diaspora and ended up in extremists’ pockets before the final captive was freed.<\/p>\n
5. PUTIN SEEKS TO PROJECT POWER WITH MODERN MILITARY<\/p>\n
With an aircraft carrier off Syria’s shores and hundreds of new jets, missiles and tanks entering service each year, Russia can project military power on a scale unseen since Soviet times.<\/p>\n
6. FRENCH PREMIER STEPS DOWN<\/p>\n
Manuel Valls resigns to focus on running for president next year and is replaced by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.<\/p>\n
7. 9 DAYS OF MOURNING FOR CASTRO ENDS<\/p>\n
Cuba is slowly returning to normality, with music playing in the streets again, tourists sipping mojitos at sidewalk cafes and flags flapping at full staff.<\/p>\n
8. WORLD LEADERS FACE RISKS IN RECONCILING WITH PAST ENEMIES<\/p>\n
From Hiroshima to Srebrenica, visits by world leaders to important sites of former enemies have been sometimes rewarding, sometimes tricky.<\/p>\n
9. WHAT WERE TOP TWITTER TRENDS FOR ’16<\/p>\n
Rio2016, Election2016, PokemonGo were the most tweeted about topics on the social media site.<\/p>\n
10. ‘I THOUGHT THEY KICKED OUR ASS’<\/p>\n
Jets coach Todd Bowles was blunt about his team’s performance after New York got thumped by Indianapolis 41-10 on national TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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