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Flipboard launches Surf, a new app for browsing the open social web  TechCrunch

1. The Assad regime has fallen. Why are foreign powers still targeting Syria?  CNN
2. A bitter rivalry is emerging in the Middle East between two old adversaries over the future of Syria  theconversation.com
3. Syria will establish strategic relations with Turkey, says HTS leader  Middle East Eye
4. ‘Ankara is getting what it wants’: how Erdoğan’s balancing act in Syria paid off  The Guardian

1. Speaker Johnson speaks to Musk after he suggests torpedoing spending bill  The Hill
2. What’s Inside the Spending Bill to Avoid a Government Shutdown?  The New York Times
3. Winners and losers from the 3-month CR  Axios
4. Column | A lot of people are angry with Speaker Mike Johnson — again  The Washington Post
5. House conservatives revolt over GOP-backed spending bill to avoid shutdown  CBS News

Former Royal Ballet Star Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia  The Moscow TimesView Full Coverage on Google News

1. Europeans grapple over security force for post-war Ukraine  Reuters
2. Tusk: Poland is ‘frontline state’ that can’t ‘give everything’ to Ukrainian defense  POLITICO Europe
3. Europe considers deploying up to 100,000 troops to Ukraine – Reuters  Ukrinform
4. Coordination of Efforts with Partners, Progress in Historical Issues and Support on the Path to the EU and NATO – Outcomes of the Meeting Between the President of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Poland  Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України
5. European ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine? A horrible idea.  Responsible Statecraft

1. Syria will establish strategic relations with Turkey, says HTS leader  Middle East Eye
2. The Assad regime has fallen. Why are foreign powers still targeting Syria?  CNN
3. A bitter rivalry is emerging in the Middle East between two old adversaries over the future of Syria  The Conversation
4. Which countries win, which lose from the upheaval in Syria?  DW (English)

1. The vast spy agency behind Russian general’s death  Financial Times
2. Killing of Top Russian General Is a Message From Ukraine: You Aren’t Safe—Even at Home  The Wall Street Journal
3. Suspected assassin of Russian general Igor Kirillov arrested, Moscow says  The Independent
4. Russia says it has detained a suspect in the Moscow bombing that killed a senior general  The Associated Press

1. War crimes prosecutor says Syrian mass graves expose Assad’s ‘machinery of death’  The Times of Israel
2. ‘Horrible wounds consistent with torture’: Clarissa Ward gets a glimpse of Assad’s last victims from inside a morgue  CNN
3. After Assad’s fall, the task of unearthing the dead from Syria’s mass graves is just beginning  The Associated Press
4. One of Assad’s mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies  The Economist

1. Mayor Brandon Johnson calls off vote on 2025 city budget  Chicago Sun-Times
2. As Mayor Johnson struggles to balance Chicago’s budget, he’s reserving millions for cops who’ll never be hired  WBEZ Chicago
3. Chicago City Council delays budget vote to Monday  WGN TV Chicago
4. Mayor Brandon Johnson Plans to Call Off Budget Vote: Sources  WTTW News
5. Chicago City Council set to vote on 2025 budget, and here’s what could be in it  NBC Chicago

1. Here are the highest winds reported from across Western New York: Dec. 12  WGRZ.com
2. State of emergency, driving bans declared as snow pounds parts of WNY  WIVB.com – News 4
3. The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Lake-effect snow piles up in Great Lakes as ice to blanket Midwest  Fox Weather
4. Winter Storm Dumps Snow On Parts Of New York  The Weather Channel
5. Erie County plow overturns at Lakeview Road, Route 20  Yahoo! Voices