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. WHO TRUMP TAPPED FOR TOP DIPLOMAT<\/p>\n
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is picked to lead the State Department, dismissing concerns about the businessman’s close ties with Russia.<\/p>\n
2. UN CITES REPORTS OF 82 CIVILIANS KILLED IN EASTERN ALEPPO<\/p>\n
The U.N. human rights office says the reports recount Syria’s pro-government forces entering homes and killing civilians, including women and children, “on the spot.”<\/p>\n
3. UNDER ISLAMIC STATE GROUP, MOSUL’S PEOPLE FACED DARKNESS, DREAD, BRUTALITY<\/p>\n
Paychecks stopped, food supplies dwindled, and a life of poverty for those who refused to join the extremist group, AP finds. Lashings, stonings and beheadings were commonplace.<\/p>\n
4. WHAT GORBACHEV SAYS ABOUT SOVIET COLLAPSE<\/p>\n
The former Russian president tells AP the U.S. and its allies wasted a chance to build a safer world by gloating rather than offering aid when the Soviet Union fell 25 years ago.<\/p>\n
5. RECOVERY STILL DISTANT 7 YEARS AFTER HAITI QUAKE<\/p>\n
At least 50,000 people remain in some of the settlement camps that emerged after a 7.0 magnitude temblor devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation.<\/p>\n
6. COSBY JUDGE TO WEIGH POTENTIAL TESTIMONY OF 13 OTHER WOMEN<\/p>\n
Lawyers will battle in court to try to limit the number of other accusers who can testify at the comedian’s sexual assault trial.<\/p>\n
7. ORCA-FREE THEME PARK COMING TO MIDEAST<\/p>\n
The first SeaWorld park outside the United States is coming to Abu Dhabi by 2022 and it will be featured without orcas.<\/p>\n
8. HOW A LAWMAKER WANTS TO OVERHAUL SOCIAL SECURITY<\/p>\n
Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, is proposing to gradually increase the retirement age and slow the growth of benefits for higher-income workers.<\/p>\n
9. TRUMP’S ‘SHOOT SOMEONE’ TOPS QUOTES OF YEAR<\/p>\n
The president-elect’s boast on the campaign trail that he could shoot somebody and not lose any voters tops Yale’s most notable quotes list.<\/p>\n
10. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CREATES ANTI-HAZING, ANTI-BULLYING POLICY<\/p>\n
That baseball hazing ritual of dressing up rookies as Wonder Woman, Hooters Girls and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders is now banned, AP learns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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