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Windsor Johnston
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Funeral preparations are coming together for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100. Grant Blank of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports Carter's hometown is already preparing.
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Grant Blankenship
Carter spent most of his life in the southwest Georgia farming community of Plains. Normally, the Christmas decorations outside the main strip of shops downtown would have another week before they came down. Now most have been replaced with red, white and blue ribbons, and the flags are at half staff. Agnes McAllister has cleaned rooms at the Plains Inn on the corner of the strip for about five years.
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Agnes McAllister
And I have to get everything ready upstairs because all the Carters will be staying upstairs. It makes me feel good that I'm able to do that for them.
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Grant Blankenship
Carter's funeral schedule will both begin and end in Plains. Between, he will lie in repose at the Carter center in Atlanta and lighten state at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. for NPR News, I'm Grant Blankenship in Plains, Georgia.
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Windsor Johnston
A New York federal appeals court has upheld a $5 million judgment in the case against President elect Donald for sexually abusing and defaming the writer e. Jean Carroll. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben has the latest.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
E. Jean Carroll had accused Trump of assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in 1996. She had also accused him of defaming her in a 2022 statement claiming she had made up the story. He also said, quote, this woman is not my type. In their appeal, Trump and his attorneys argued that the court should not have admitted certain evidence, including testimony from two other women accusing Trump of sexual misconduct, as well as the infamous Access Hologr in which Trump boasted about being able to grope women at will. But the appeals court said the lower court had not been wrong to admit those. In a statement, Trump spokesman Steven Chung calls the case a witch hunt and says that Trump will continue to appeal. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
The Treasury Department says a state sponsored actor in China hacks some workstations at the agency. NPR's Rafael Nam reports the department says it's considering the breach a major cybersecurity incident.
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Rafael Nam
On December 8, treasury was told by a third party software provider called Beyond Trust that a hacker from China had gained access to a security key used by the vendor. The hacker then used that key to remotely gain access to a number of treasury workstations and access unclassified documents. According to a letter seen by npr, treasury said he was working with the FBI and security officials to look into the breach. In a statement, the agency says the hacker no longer has access to treasury systems or its information and that it takes all threats to its systems and its data very seriously. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Early next year, a probe called Lunar Pathfinder is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral headed for the moon. Joe Palka reports. It will go into orbit and measure the amount of water there.
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Bethany Elman
It's important to remember that water comes in many forms.
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Joe Palka
When we talk about water on the moon, we're not talking about lakes or oceans or any body of water that you could jump into and take a swim in, or even a puddle you could splash around in.
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Bethany Elman
Bethany Elman is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. She's Lunar Trailblazers principal investigator. She says the water could be in the form of ice or possibly water vapor, or it could be individual water molecules bound to rocks. Lunar Trailblazer will also make detailed maps of where the water is. Knowing the location and composition of the water is important if future astronauts hope to use it for extended missions to the moon. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
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Windsor Johnston
Actress Linda Lavin, perhaps known for her role in the 1970s sitcom Alice, has died. Lavin also spent a large part of her career performing on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for best actress in the Neil Simon play Broadway bound in 1987. She also earned nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and was inducted into the American Theater hall of fame in 2010. A representative for Levin said she died of complications from lung cancer on Sunday at the age of 87. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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