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Dan Ronan
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. Funeral plans for former President Jimmy Carter are coming together. Services will span nearly a week in Georgia and Washington, D.C. nPR Stephen Fowler reports reports Carter died Sunday at age 100.
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Stephen Fowler
Carter's body will leave his home in southwest Georgia Saturday morning the 4th and travel to Atlanta for a moment of silence at the state Capitol before lying in repose at the Carter Center. Members of the public will be able to pay respects at the Carter center until Tuesday morning when the casket will be Transported to Washington, D.C. where Carter will lie in state at the U.S. capitol. The 39th President's State Funeral will be Thursday, January 9, at the Washington National Cathedral before a private ceremony at Carter's Maranatha Baptist Church and private internment at the family home in Plains. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
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Dan Ronan
A federal appeals court in New York City has rejected the president elect's appeal of a $5 million judgment that found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and for defaming her after she shared her allegations publicly. Samantha Max of member station WNY reports.
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Samantha Max
A jury ordered Trump to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after a civil trial last year. Trump argued the judge overseeing the case made errors and that he should get a new trial. He said the judge shouldn't have allowed testimony of two other women who accused him of sexual abuse. He also said the jury shouldn't have been allowed to hear a recording of him talking about grabbing women by the genitals. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump didn't prove the judge made any errors that affected his rights. Trump's attorney called the case a hoax. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Max in New York.
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Dan Ronan
New York officials tested the crystal covered ball that will descend down a pole in Times Square to ring in the new year in less than 24 hours. They laid out their plans for the big event on Tuesday. Mayor Eric Adams says security will be very tight.
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Eric Adams
We will make sure each one of those who come here to visit and enjoy the ball drop will be safe. There'll be offices in uniform and out of uniform. We're going to make sure we have the omnipresence of the blue uniform would always bring that level of security. But there are many offices that have plainclothes assignments to give the element of surprise.
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Dan Ronan
As many as a million people are expected. The U.S. treasury Department said that Chinese hackers have accessed department workstations and gained access to unclassified documents, and the hack is being investigated as a major cybersecurity incident. The Treasury Department said it learned of this latest attack on December 8, when a third party vendor was hacked and the security system was compromised. You're listening to NPR News. Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who won widespread praise for his coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks, has died, the network announced Tuesday. Aaron Brown was 76. Before joining CNN in 2001, he was an anchor at ABC News, substituting on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. After leaving cnn, he joined PBS and later was a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. After an exhausting and divisive election, Americans are electing not to talk about politics this holiday season. NPR's Katna Riddle reports.
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Katna Riddle
A recent poll shows that most Americans, at least seven out of 10, plan to avoid difficult political discussions as they see friends and family in the coming weeks. Dr. Vail Wright is with the American Psychological Association. That's the group that conducted this survey.
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Dr. Vail Wright
I think that we do need to have these conversations so that we can have better understanding of where other people are coming from. I just don't think it has to happen at the holidays.
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Katna Riddle
Effective communication, she says, is about timing. Hard conversations need to happen at the right moments. Maybe that's not during the holidays. Katie Arrettle, NPR News.
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Dan Ronan
On the second to last trading day on Wall street for 2024, all three indexes are likely to finish the year with strong double digit increases. The Nasdaq is up nearly 30%, the S&P 24%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up nearly 13%. Markets will be open Tuesday in a shortened session, wrapping up at 2:00pm Eastern Time. Trading resumes on Thursday. You're listening to NPR News.
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