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Gains, growing pains mark California’s 1st year of legal marijuana In a nation increasingly embracing legal cannabis, California stands out as the country’s biggest pot shop. Top-shelf marijuana, concentrates, balms and munchies are being produced and sold. Some companies are doing well, especially those with deep pockets that can handle the market’s twists and turns. But many are not. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2Qd70rA

Gambia's journalists, free from dictator, work to win trust Journalists in Gambia have launched a self-regulatory body they hope will offer legitimacy, and far more freedom, to media emerging from a dictatorship that ruled the tiny West African nation for more than two decades. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2AmL20b

AP Investigation: Food aid stolen as Yemen starves Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen's largest cities, went to work feeling he had a "mountain" on his shoulders. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2F0ZheM

Election official says Bangladesh's ruling alliance won vote An election official says Bangladesh's ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won Sunday's election with 288 seats giving it enough to form the government. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2GM2S21

Merkel vows Germany will keep pushing for 'global solutions' Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will keep pushing for global solutions to challenges in 2019 and also has to take greater responsibility in the world. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2s3sKfy

Sen. Lindsey Graham meets with Trump to discuss Syria and the partial government shutdown, says he left encouraged Sen. Graham and the president discussed the importance of a deal with Democrats to end the shutdown and the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria; Ellison Barber reports. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2RqpIAv

Kim Jong Un calls for more summits with South Korea in 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more summits with South Korea in 2019 in a letter sent to South Korea President Moon Jae-in on Sunday, Moon's office said. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2QZYJfQ

AP photographer Desmond Boylan dies in Havana at 54 Desmond Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the daily joys and tribulations of life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly while on assignment on Saturday afternoon in Havana. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2s0HUCv

Bosnia: Protesters demand resignations over student's death Several thousand people rallied Sunday in support of a Bosnian father who helped launch a movement for justice and rule of law while pursuing the truth about his 21-year-old son's death. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2RjAAQL

Russia resettles 30 Russian children from war on IS in Iraq Russia resettled 30 children of jailed and deceased Islamic State members from Iraq, on Sunday, in a minor breakthrough to the deadlock over what to do with the foreign families to IS militants. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2s2Gd7I

What led Trump to decide to pull US troops from Syria? The president must now come up with a new strategy for Iran National Security Analyst Walid Phares weighs in on the impact of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2EXO8f4

Scarlett Johansson speaks out against fake AI-generated sex videos Actress Scarlett Johansson is speaking out against fake AI-generated sex videos online. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2QgskMU

Computer virus cripples Tribune Publishing, Los Angeles Times A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2TlmVWI

After Facebook apologizes for ban, Franklin Graham says tech giant should have standard based on 'God's word' Facebook apologized to evangelical leader Franklin Graham for a 24-hour ban last week over a 2016 post about North Carolina's H.B. 2, known as the "bathroom bill," saying that one of its content moderators made a mistake. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2TlHVwx

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Oklahoma's most expensive home is right across from an art museum A sprawling mansion next to the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, OK, is currently the most expensive piece of property in the state. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2AlT0q2

Prince's purple estate and Elvis' honeymoon home: The most talked-about celebrity real-estate listings of 2018 For A-Listers and average Joes alike, the accomplishment of buying or selling a home often marks a major personal and financial milestone. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2TfnEZr

National forecast for Saturday, December 29 Rick Reichmuth has your FoxCast. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2GUawrw

National forecast for Friday, December 28 Adam Klotz has your FoxCast. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2AmVCEh

Nebraska medical facility says it's monitoring American possibly exposed to Ebola An American who may have potentially been exposed to Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Nebraska to be monitored, the medical facility revealed Saturday. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2CG0IwU

International traveler with measles arrived at New Jersey airport, state health officials say; warn of possible exposure An individual who flew to a New Jersey airport on Christmas Eve has a confirmed case of the measles, health officials said Friday, while warning that others could’ve potentially been exposed. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2GODkRZ

Vermont fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm to inseminate woman 41 years ago: lawsuit A child conceived in 1977 through artificial insemination was fathered by the fertility doctor who performed the procedure, a new lawsuit claims. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2QX9lvJ

Officials warn about increased flu activity across the country CDC: Colorado, New Mexico and Georgia are seeing especially high levels of influenza-like illnesses; insight from family physician Dr. Jennifer Caudle. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2QVmm93

Easy exercises to kick start the New Year and stick with your resolution to get healthy in 2019 Brian Zehetner, director of health and wellness at Planet Fitness, shares simples exercises you can do at the gym. via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2EXQKIG

Vlogger with 'miserable' digestive condition fitted with permanent feeding tube: 'It basically gave me my life back' Hannah Ritchie now needs a feeding back due to her chronic digestive condition. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2EScrdi

That's one big baby! Texas mom gives birth to 14-pound, 13-ounce son Maybe everything really is bigger in Texas. At 14 pounds, 13 ounces, the parents of Ali James Medlock were told their son is the heaviest baby ever born at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital near Dallas. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2AkI8Zy

New York resident develops bacterial infection after drinking raw milk from Pennsylvania farm: officials A New York resident has developed a bacterial infection after drinking raw milk that likely came from a farm in Pennsylvania, the New York Department of Health announced this week. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2GLynJB

Wild baby boom: Minnesota hospital staff welcomes 32 babies in 2018 There was a serious baby boom in a Minnesota hospital. Thirty-one members of the staff at the St. Cloud Hospital’s Family Birthing Unit in St. Cloud, Minnesota, welcomed a total of 32 babies in 2018 (one had twins). via FOX NEWS http://bit.ly/2Q8t5r4

Kroger recalls shrimp products over possible foodborne illness risk Supermarket chain Kroger is recalling some of its cooked shrimp products after finding the products may be under-cooked. via FOX NEWS https://fxn.ws/2VeNEGg

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