| Good morning. It's Wednesday, Dec. 20, and I'm a big fan of Taters the cat, the star of NASA's first video streamed from deep space. Now let's catch up. |
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 | Donald Trump was disqualified from Colorado's 2024 primary ballot. | |
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 | The U.N. is searching for a Gaza resolution that the U.S. won't veto. | |
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 | A record-setting East Coast storm left at least five people dead. | - What happened? The storm brought floods and damaging winds from Florida to Maine. It swept into Canada yesterday, but its impact continued to be felt in the Northeast.
- The latest: More than 400,000 customers still had no power late yesterday — most of them in Maine — and flood warnings were in effect for many river areas.
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 | The FDA found "extremely high" levels of lead in an applesauce ingredient. | - What to know: An inspection of a plant in Ecuador found cinnamon samples containing lead levels over 2,000 times as high as proposed limits in food, the FDA said this week.
- Why it matters: It's part of an investigation into at least 125 cases of lead poisoning in children in the U.S. linked to contaminated cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches.
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 | Minnesota unveiled its new flag design yesterday. |  The submission that was the basis for the new flag design. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/AP) | - What it shows: The navy part on the left forms an abstract shape of the state and the eight-pointed star is a feature in Indigenous art. If approved, the design will debut in May.
- Why it's needed: The current flag has been deemed offensive. It shows a White settler, a rifle leaning on a tree stump and an Indigenous man riding away on horseback.
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 | Apple is stopping sales of its new watches. | - Why? The Watch Ultra 2 and the Watch Series 9 are subject to a patent dispute. A medical firm says Apple copied its technology for a feature that monitors blood oxygen levels.
- What it means: Apple will stop selling these watches on Apple.com after 3 p.m. Eastern tomorrow and in its stores after Sunday.
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 | Apes appear to remember old friends and family for decades. | - How we know: Researchers tracked apes' eye movements as they were shown photos of one ape they used to live with and one they didn't know. Most lingered on their friends.
- It's pretty amazing: The results, from a study published this week, amount to some of the longest-lasting memories ever recorded in the animal kingdom.
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