The Monday Flyover Replay : Rebels Take Syria, Mets Sign Soto, and World’s Oldest Newlyweds

Presented by Russell Sherrard,

Narrated by Artificial Intelligence, Our Hosts are Christopher and Jenny,

THE FLYOVER REPLAY,

Monday, December 9, 2024,

Good Morning! On this day in 1965, the “Charlie Brown Christmas Special” premiered on CBS, with the New York Times predicting it would be a big flop. That turned out to be very wrong. (See Video)

For college football fans, this weekend offered plenty of excitement, with multiple conference championship games leading to the final lineup for the first-ever 12-team playoff tournament.

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TAKEOFF,

Rebels Oust Syria’s Assad,

The Syrian government collapsed Sunday morning, ending a long civil war, when rebels took control of the capital city, Damascus.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia where his Kremlin allies offered asylum. His overthrow marks the end of 50 years of Assad family rule in the country.

The rebel victory came with surprising speed after years of stalemate. The 10-day offensive moved from Aleppo to Hama to Homs to Damascus, where its success culminated in mobs looting the presidential palace.

Trump to Issue Jan. 6 Pardons on “First Day”,

President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’ll pardon Jan. 6 defendants on his “first day” in office.

Trump addressed the pardons on an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, saying “I’m going to be acting very quickly” for defendants who have been “living in hell” since their incarceration.

Trump also said that U.S. House committee members who investigated the Jan. 6 event should “go to jail.”

Trump said he plans to investigate individual cases, and that there may be exceptions to pardons “if somebody was radical, crazy.”

Map: The Gas Price in Every State,

As Americans gear up for holiday auto travels, they may find the price at the pump more friendly in some areas of the country than in others.

According to new data from the American Automobile Association (AAA), Oklahoma offers the cheapest gas at $2.57 per gallon, and Hawaii has the most expensive average at $4.57 per gallon.

Data indicates that 33 states fall beneath the national average of $3.071 per gallon, with analysts predicting that average could drop below $3 this winter for the first time since May 2021.

POLITICS,

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.

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

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.

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Now, back to the News.

SPORTS,

The final college football rankings were announced Sunday, setting the first-ever 12-team playoff brackets, including the five highest-ranked conference champions. The playoff tournament begins the third week of December.

New York Yankees slugger Juan Soto signed a 15-year $765 million contract with the New York Mets last night, the richest in the history of professional sports.

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

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.

The Holiday Section

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.

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.

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.

FINANCE,

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.

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

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

SCIENCE AND TECH,

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.

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

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

THE ROTATOR,
BEYOND OUR BORDERS,

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.

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.

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.

ET CETERA,

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.

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.

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.

Daily Quote,

“I’m really looking to make our country successful. I’m not looking to go back into the past. Retribution will be through success.”

— President-elect Donald Trump on not using the Justice Department to attack political enemies.

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