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Rescue workers search in a sinkhole for Elizabeth Pollard, who disappeared while looking for her cat, in Marguerite, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.

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Search goes into the night for Pennsylvania woman who may have fallen into a sinkhole

A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned coal mine and rescuers worked late into Tuesday night to try and find her.

December 04, 2024
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The J. Edgar Hoover building — Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters — is photographed on Oct. 8, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump team signs an agreement with the DOJ for security clearances

The new agreement will help Trump officials on agency landing teams access classified information needed to prepare to take over on Jan. 20.

December 03, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
Kash Patel speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas.

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  • Politics

J. Edgar Hoover's biographer weighs in on Trump's pick to lead the FBI

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, may test internal guardrails, historian and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Beverly Gage tells Morning Edition.

December 03, 2024
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel

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Georgia Today: Cold weather hits Georgia; Runoff elections; Former CDC director on second Trump term

On the Tuesday, Dec. 3 edition of Georgia Today: Cities open warming centers as an arctic front brings freezing winds to Georgia; runoff elections in eleven Georgia counties settle races that were undecided last month; and a former CDC director talks about risks the agency faces in a second Trump administration.

December 03, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Elon Musk attends a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13. A federal judge this week ruled that Musk's $50 billion pay package from Tesla cannot be reinstated.

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  • Business

Elon Musk's more than $50 billion pay deal at Tesla was rejected again. Here is why

A judge in Delaware has for the second time struck down a compensation package for Elon Musk after a Tesla shareholder filed suit.

December 03, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
The Fulton County Superior Courthouse is seen, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for December 3, 2024

Georgia's longest-ever criminal trial has come to an end with the last two defendants being found not guilty of gang-related charges.

An Arctic front is bringing Georgia its coldest blast of air since last January -- and tomorrow morning is expected to be even colder.

The Georgia Ports Authority's CEO is expressing uncertainty over promised tariffs from Donald Trump's incoming administration.

December 03, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Sharifa Movahidzadeh is one of the three protesters profiled in <em>Bread & Roses</em>, the documentary film about Taliban policies that restrict the rights of women. The film is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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  • Global Health

'Bread & Roses' is a guerrilla film about Afghan women protesters

Getting footage from the ground was essential for filmmaker Sahra Mani, the director of Bread & Roses. Her documentary, which profiles three women who engage in protests, is now streaming on Apple TV+.

December 03, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova in Moscow, May 31.

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  • Europe

Putin's planes took Ukrainian kids into 'coerced' Russian adoption, a Yale report says

Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials financed and facilitated the transport of at least 314 Ukrainian children into "coerced" foster care and adoptions, a new Yale University report says.

December 03, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis
A man holds the South Korea flag outside the National Assembly in Seoul on December 4, 2024, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law.

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  • World

South Korea's president says he will lift his martial law declaration

After South Korean lawmakers voted to reverse President Yoon Suk Yeol's surprise declaration of "emergency martial law," Yoon announced that he would lift the order through a Cabinet meeting.

December 03, 2024
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  • Vincent Ni and
  • Se Eun Gong
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza addresses the Republican Sunshine Summit on June 29, 2018, in Kissimmee, Fla.

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  • Elections

Creator of '2000 Mules' apologizes to man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film

Filmmaker and conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza has issued a statement saying "inaccurate information" was provided to him about ballot box surveillance videos featured in the film.

December 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election overnight event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on Nov. 6.

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  • Elections

Trump falls just below 50% in popular vote, but gets more than in past elections

This year's popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.

December 03, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro

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  • News

Former CDC director Tom Frieden says Kennedy poses a 'risk' to the Atlanta-based health agency

If confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have greater control over the Atlanta-based CDC. But just how much?

December 03, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
A teacher leads a class at a school for girls administered but the main U.N. agency for Palestinian aid, UNRWA, in Qalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Nov. 14. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5205331/israel-palestinians-unrwa-ban-west-bank"target="_blank"   >Click here for the fully story. </a>

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  • Middle East

As Israel bans UNRWA, Palestinians stand to lose schools and clinics, not only in Gaza

Israel is severing ties with the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians. With the focus largely on Gaza, the move also threatens key services in the occupied West Bank.

December 03, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
The Fulton County Superior Courthouse is seen, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

Last 2 defendants not guilty of murder in gang trial that led to rapper Young Thug's guilty plea

The long-running gang and racketeering trial in Atlanta that led rapper Young Thug to plead guilty in October has ended with a jury finding the last two defendants not guilty of murder and gang-related charges.

December 03, 2024
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  • Associated Press
"Brain rot" is the term of the year for 2024, referring to concerns that endlessly scrolling through social media videos and other content can cause harm. Here, TikTok's logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen showing a TikTok home screen. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

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  • Books

Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024

The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

December 03, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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