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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. WHO’S FORMING UNLIKELY POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP<\/p>\n
An apparent rapport is brewing between Obama and Trump that few, if any, saw coming.<\/p>\n
2. GOP AT ODDS OVER TRUMP’S SOFTENING STANCE ON IMMIGRATION<\/p>\n
The president-elect’s promise to “work something out” for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children is dividing fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n
3. WHAT’S HEARTENING ASSAD’S SUPPORTERS<\/p>\n
Backers of Syria’s government are taking comfort in the growing sense of imminent victory in the key battleground of Aleppo.<\/p>\n
4. RISING HUMAN TOLL FROM INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE<\/p>\n
Beyond the more than 100 deaths, thousands of people are homeless or afraid to return to their homes in the region, where killer quakes occur regularly.<\/p>\n
5. WHERE SOCIETAL COLLAPSE STRIKES DOWN ONCE-VIBRANT FISHING INDUSTRY<\/p>\n
In Venezuela, with the economy in free-fall, armed men in motorboats are attacking fishermen daily, stealing their catch and motors, and sometimes shooting them dead, the AP finds.<\/p>\n
6. SOUTH KOREAN LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE IMPEACHMENT MOTION<\/p>\n
The move by the opposition-controlled parliament sets the stage for a likely impeachment vote Friday on President Park.<\/p>\n
7. BUS DRIVER’S DEFICIENCIES WENT UNHEEDED<\/p>\n
Among other problems in recent years, the man who crashed a Baltimore school bus into a transit bus, killing himself and five others, had been in at least a dozen car accidents.<\/p>\n
8. AN OFFICER AND A REFUGEE<\/p>\n
Police departments in a handful of U.S. cities are specifically recruiting refugees, hoping to build bridges to communities with significant refugee populations.<\/p>\n
9. LOSS OF HABITAT THREATENS TALLEST LAND ANIMAL<\/p>\n
Giraffes are now at risk of extinction, with the global population shrinking nearly 40 percent in just 30 years.<\/p>\n
10. AROLDIS CHAPMAN BACK WITH YANKEES<\/p>\n
The hard-throwing closer is returning to New York with the highest-priced contract ever for a relief pitcher – $86 million over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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