➤ President-elect Donald Trump is calling on Russia to negotiate an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine in response to the fall of the Syrian government, a Kremlin ally. (More)

➤ The Federal Drug Administration will decide “within weeks” on whether to ban certain food dyes that have widespread use in candies, sodas, and cakes. (See Details)

➤ The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a $3 billion budget to allow U.S. telecommunication companies to remove Chinese-made equipment from their wireless networks. (More)

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➤ The final college football rankings were announced Sunday, setting the first-ever 12-team playoff brackets. They include the five highest-ranked conference champions and seven more at-large teams for a tournament that begins the third week of December. (See Brackets)

➤ The Los Angeles Rams upset the Buffalo Bills 44-42 and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Carolina Panthers 22-26 in Sunday NFL games. (See NFL Scores)

➤ Ja Morant made one of the best plays of the NBA season with this violent reverse dunk over a Boston Celtics defender, leading the Memphis Grizzlies to a 127-121 win. (Watch video)

➤ Yesterday’s results: NFL | NCAAF | NBA | NHL | NCAAM | NCAAW | PGA 

A California deacon who uses 900,000 lights to create an enormously elaborate home Christmas display attracts throngs of visitors and says there have been 82 marriage proposals made under the allure of his lights. (See Photos)

A Florida family who thought they were being vandalized used a security camera to discover that a bear kept sneaking into their yard to steal their inflatable Grinch. (See Video)

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, begins this year on Dec. 25, Christmas Day, for only the fifth time since 1900. The last time the first night of Hanukkah fell on Christmas was 2005. (See Details)

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➤ President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he has no plans to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his position before his term ends in May 2026. (More)

➤ Meanwhile, analysts say the Fed is likely to cut interest rates this month for the second time in 2024. (See Details)

➤ Former Olympic skier and NFL player Jeremy Bloom has been named CEO of the X Games organization. (More)

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➤ The FBI warned that texts between Android and iPhone users could pose a cyber security risk after the “Salt Typhoon” hack by China of major U.S. telecommunication companies. (More)

➤ Engineers at North Carolina State and the University of Virginia have developed the world’s fastest-swimming soft-bodied robot, inspired by manta rays. (See Photo)

➤ Two European satellites launched the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses. Each fake eclipse should last six hours once operations begin next year. (See Photos)

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➤ Taiwan said Sunday that China had nearly doubled the number of warships operating near the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what officials expect will be a new round of Chinese war games. (More)

➤ South Korean prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as the subject of a criminal investigation for his declaration of martial law last week, deepening the country’s political crisis. (More)

➤ India’s foreign minister said this weekend that the so-called BRICS countries—Brazil, India, China and South Africa—have no interest in weakening the U.S. dollar, in response to tariff threats from President-elect Donald Trump. (More)

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➤ The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz sold for a record-breaking $28 million at auction this weekend. The slippers were stolen in 2005 and not recovered until 2018. (See Photo)

➤ A Philadelphia couple who married at ages 102 and 100 have made history as the world’s oldest newlyweds, officially breaking the Guinness World Record. (See Photos)

➤ The Make-A-Wish Foundation is partnering with United Airlines this year to provide free fantasy flights for children to the “North Pole”—actually a gate or hangar transformed into a winter wonderland with reindeer, elves and Santa. (See Photos)

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1. Same: 48.1%
2. No: 33.9%
3. Yes: 18.0%

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