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World
5 are killed after planes collide and catch fire on a Tokyo airport runway
All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane escaped safely after colliding with a Japan coast guard aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies. Five coast guard crew members died.
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World
Israel pulls thousands of troops from Gaza as combat focuses on 1 city: Khan Younis
It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.
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World
Japan lowers its tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes
Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.
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National
Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on artificial intelligence in the courts
Roberts focused on the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the courts in his annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal cases involving Donald Trump.
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Politics
Former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson dies at 88
The trailblazing Democrat, a nurse from Texas who helped bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the Dallas area died on Sunday.
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Technology
Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'
The class-action lawsuit said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using 'incognito mode.' Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.
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Huge surf pounds West Coast and Hawaii, flooding some low-lying areas
A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet and up to 40 feet at some locations, the National Weather Service said.
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National
The world's population was up 75 million this year, will stand at 8 billion on Jan. 1
The growth rate for the U.S. in the past year was 0.53%, about half the worldwide rate. The U.S. added 1.7 million people and will have a population on New Year's Day of 335.8 million people.
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Latin America
Venezuela plans military exercises in Caribbean as a British warship heads to Guyana
Venezuela and Guyana are currently involved in a border dispute over a sparsely populated region the size of Florida with vast oil deposits off its shores.
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World
More Ukrainian children from Russia-held regions arrive in Belarus despite outrage
Belarus' authoritarian president attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying an international outrage over such deportations.