| Good morning. It's Thursday, Dec. 28, and and if you're already thinking about how to take better care of yourself in the new year, click here to sign up for the 5-Day New Year's Tuneup. It starts Monday in the Well+Being newsletter. Now let's get to the news. | | |  | Donald Trump is set to appear on Michigan's 2024 primary ballot. | | | |  | Israel's war in Gaza is threatening to spill into Lebanon and beyond. | - What to know: Escalating strikes and counterstrikes along the border between Israel and Lebanon are raising fears of a wider war with Iran-backed groups like Lebanon's Hezbollah.
- In Gaza: Trucks delivering supplies to Gazan hospitals are being stopped by hungry people searching for food, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
| | |  | The New York Times is suing tech companies for using its articles to train AI. | - Which ones? Microsoft and OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The suit, filed yesterday, alleges the companies used "millions" of copyrighted Times articles to build their lucrative tech.
- Zooming out: The lawsuit is part of a growing wave of opposition to the tech industry's use of creative work without paying for it or getting permission.
| | | | | | |  | A massive winter storm has caused post-Christmas travel chaos. | - What to know: Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming faced the worst of the storm this week. More than 7,500 U.S. flights were delayed Tuesday.
- The latest: The storm was moving into the Mid-Atlantic yesterday. Flood advisories and warnings were in place across New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
- Looking ahead: Wintry weather could hit the East Coast in mid-January. (See other 2024 predictions here.)
| | |  | Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo, has died. |  Tom Smothers, left, in 1968, with brother Dick, right, and musician Glen Campbell. (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) | - His legacy: He and his brother, Dick, had a hit CBS variety show in the late 1960s. It was canceled in 1969 after censors cut sketches that took aim at politics and the Vietnam War.
- What we know: Smothers died Tuesday at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. He had been receiving treatment for cancer. He was 86.
| | |  | Amazon's Prime Video is getting ads next month. | | | |  | Miners unearthed a mammoth tusk in a pile of debris in North Dakota. |  (North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources) | - What you're looking at: An intact mammoth tusk that, until May, had been buried since the Ice Age. An eagle-eyed bulldozer operator spotted it among some excavated dirt.
- And that's not all: More than 20 additional bones were found nearby, making it one of the largest discoveries of mammoth remains in the state, officials said this month.
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