Thursday, December 12

🚨NATION

📌 Trump joins Elon Musk in opposing House GOP’s government funding bill (CNBC) Johnson’s spending nightmare points to grueling GOP problems next year (POLITICO)

📌 Congress passes Paris Hilton-backed bill to protect kids (CNN)

📌 House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release Matt Gaetz ethics report (AP)

📌 Search for answers continues three days after teen opened fire on Wisconsin private school (CNN)

📌 Former NFL running back and US Senate candidate Herschel Walker selected by Trump to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas (USA TODAY)

📌 U.S. reports first severe human case of bird flu, in a patient hospitalized in Louisiana (NBC)

 🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Russia says it has detained a suspect in the Moscow bombing that killed a senior general (AP)

📌 Turkey looks set to play an outsize role in shaping the new Syria after Assad (NPR)

📌 Spies foiled assassination plots during historic Iraq visit, Pope Francis says (NBC)

📌 France's ex-President Sarkozy loses corruption case appeal (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Bird flu spread prompts California to declare state of emergency (USA TODAY)

📌 Dow tanks by 1,100 points, posts first 10-day losing streak since 1974 (CNBC)

📌 Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by quarter point in December (FOX)

📌 Astronauts who flew to space aboard Starliner face additional delay (CNN)

 🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Famous Flat Earther travels all the way to Antarctica to put his theory to the test - only to realize our planet is very much round (DAILY MAIL)

📌 Tony Buzbee sues Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for allegedly soliciting his clients to file ‘frivolous’ lawsuits against his firm (CNN)

📌 ‘Bad Monkey’ gets $20 million tax credit to move from Florida to California (VARIETY)

📌 Disney pulls transgender storyline from ‘Win Or Lose’ Pixar series (DEADLINE)