Monday, January 1, 2024

Kim's New Year's Message: Threat to 'Totally Annihilate' US (Newser Morning 8)

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January 1, 2024
 
 
"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
 
1
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his military to "thoroughly annihilate" the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented US-led confrontation. Keep reading
 
2
Millions of Ukrainians have been killed, injured, or displaced since the war Russia started almost two years ago. Keep reading
 
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Fireworks explode over the Las Vegas Strip during a New Year's Eve celebration Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)
 
3
A Spanish soccer fan who was detained in Iran as he tried to make his way to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup has been released. Keep reading
 
4
December ended with another shark-related death, this time in Hawaii. Keep reading
 
5
A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third was arrested Saturday in the United Kingdom, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Keep reading
 
6
US immigration officials were, as of New Year's Eve, on pace to process more than 300,000 migrants at the country's southern border—the highest count ever recorded since monthly tallies started being kept in fiscal year 2000. Keep reading
 
7
Chatter along Kauai's "coconut wireless" rumor mill, an allusion to Facebook, has had its share of intrigue over the mysterious private compound being built there by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Keep reading
 
8
President Xi Jinping told China on Sunday that the nation's reunification with Taiwan is bound to happen. Keep reading
 
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In 1953, Hank Williams Sr., among the most important singers and songwriters in country music history, was discovered dead at age 29 in the back seat of his ca
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