Friday, December 8

🚨NATION

📌 Biden administration to forgive $4.8 billion in student loan debt for 80,300 borrowers (CNBC)

📌 House votes to censure Democratic Rep. Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building (AP)

📌 A Texas judge ruled that a pregnant woman who sued the state looking for permission to have an abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy (CNN)

📌 Trump visits Manhattan court to blast civil case, praises appellate ruling in his favor (FOX NEWS)

📌 Hunter Biden indicted on tax charges (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israel and US at odds over vision for post-war Gaza (AP)

📌 UN Chief invokes rare clause to try to push for Gaza cease-fire (NBC)

📌 Russia tricks US actors, including Elijah Wood, into appearing in propaganda videos (BBC)

📌 Chinese “weather” balloon spotted over Taiwan ahead of their election (GUARDIAN)

📌 U.S. sanctions, charges Russians over years-long hacking campaign (AXIOS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 McDonald's is opening a new chain called CosMc's. Here are the locations and menu (CBS NEWS)

📌 Meta rolls out encrypted messaging by default for Facebook and Messenger (CNN)

📌 Washington Post journalists walk off jobs in one-day strike (THE HILL)

📌 U.S. poised to approve first gene-editing treatment in breakthrough for sickle cell patients (CNBC) 

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Prince Harry tells court he wants his children to feel at home in UK (BBC)

📌 Derek Hough's wife undergoes emergency brain surgery after cranial hematoma diagnosis (FOX NEWS)

📌 And the color of 2024 is… peach fuzz (CNN)

📌 Norman Lear’s family sang his sitcom theme songs as he passed (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)