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Scientists have said that in New York some tree fossils found in an abandoned quarry are around 386 million years old, making them the oldest tree fossils ever found. The trees used to belong to a giant forest that was wiped out by a flood. This discovery has taught scientists some new things about the evolution of trees.

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A jury in Georgia has granted $8.6 million to the family of a stuntman who died while filming a 'Walking Dead' episode in 2017. AMC, the channel behind the show, claimed it was an unforeseen accident and that the death was not due to negligence. The prosecutors argued that the show skimped on safety precautions for financial reasons.

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A woman from Utah has been charged with obtaining a biological weapon of mass destruction. Neither the FBI nor the local police were willing to disclose the details of the case so the exact nature of the weapon is unknown. The police have said that they did not think the woman intended to use the weapon.

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Arsenal has said that they will officially announce who their new manager is this Friday. It is expected that Manchester City manager Mike Arteta will take up the position as he said goodbye to his staff on Thursday morning. Arteta is being made a seven-figure compensation fee in order to complete the move.

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In a statement released by China's commerce ministry, it has been revealed that the Chinese and US governments will enter into a Phase 1 trade deal. The US has agreed to lower tariffs on Chinese imports in exchange for China's promise to purchase more agricultural and energy goods from the United States.

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In a historic vote held in the United States House of Representatives, the resolution to impeach president Donald Trump for abuse of power was passed with a final tally of 230 yeas and 197 nays, making Trump the third US president to be impeached. The vote was split along party lines, with all except one Republican representative voting nay on the resolution.

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Facebook recently made public its acquisition of Playgiga, a Spanish company that offers cloud gaming services for the regions of Italy, Argentina, Chile and Spain. The acquisition was made for 70 million EUR, and is another step in Facebook's efforts to compete with rival cloud gaming services offered by Google, with Stadia, and Sony, with its Playstation Now service.

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Arsenal midfielder and star soccer player Mesut Ozil has been removed from Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer's 2020 release in China, after Ozil commented on China's alleged mistreatment of its Uighur Muslim minority. China's state television also removed Arsenal's Premier League game against Manchester City from its schedules due to Ozil's comments.

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Russell Ciochon, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa, recently concluded a study which found that 100,000 years ago, long after the homo erectus species had gone extinct in the rest of the world, a colony of homo erectus that may have been the last of the species existed on the island of Java in Indonesia before homo sapiens arrived almost 40,000 years ago.

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The Indian government has already begun construction of detention centers for those Muslims who cannot prove that their families have been in India since 1971. The new citizenship bill will allow Non-Muslims to become nationals and thus avoid the detention centers. Most poor people in India do not keep written records of their family history or citizenship.

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New York city courts sentenced Daniel Hernandez, who rose to fame under his rapping pseudonym Tekashi 6ix9ine, to 2 years in prison on charges of racketeering, firearms and drug trafficking. Hernandez has already served a year of his sentence, and received a reduced sentence due to his cooperation with the justice system.

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The German government has created 600 more jobs, 300 in the police and 300 in the intelligence services, to stop the rise of far-right neo-nazi movements within the country. The country has faced a number of scandals involving high ranking officials who had sympathies with the Nazi movement. The government is taking a pro-active approach to fighting the rise of intolerance.

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Apple TV has announced that its first original scripted comedy series 'Mythic Quest' will air on February 7th and that the entire season will be available at once. The show will follow a video game studio and stars Rob McElhenney as the head of the said studio. It is currently unknown whether a second season of the show has been commissioned.

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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's two year long investigation into Uber's company culture found that the company allowed a culture of sexual harassment to prevail and targeted victims of alleged harassment who would come forward. Uber has agreed to pay 4.4 million USD in fines to settle the dispute.

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Netflix has teamed up with Mattel Television to bring back the beloved 90's cartoon, 'He-man and the Masters of the Universe' in a new CG animated show. The series will be a reboot of the original but will largely follow the same overall story. They are going to launch an accompanying toyline by 2020.

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Pokemon Go has released a new legendary Pokemon for users to capture. Virizon, also known as the third sword of justice, will be available until January 7th. Multiple players will have to team up in order to capture it in 'Raid battles'. Niantic has announced a number of events for the app this month.

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A team of Swedish astronomers working under the name "Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" analysed data from the US Naval Observatory from the 1950s, and found that it contained about a hundred stars that were not in current astronomical data. Explanations for the missing stars range from unknown physical phenomena to possible alien civilizations.

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The Indian Supreme Court has postponed all petitions regarding the constitutionality of the new citizenship bill.to January 22nd. Lawyers have argued that the bill discriminates based on religion, which goes against the country's secular constitution. Protests regarding the bill have broken out all over the country, some even turning violent.

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Respawn has recently posted some job openings for a Senior Character Artist, Level Designer, and Senior Software Engineer to work on their new 'Star Wars' team. Many are speculating this is because they have already begun work on a sequel project to their recently released smash hit Jedi: Fallen Order.

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Fallon Sherrock, a 25-year-old professional darts player, has made history by becoming the first woman to win the PDC Darts Championship. She played the final against 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts and won 3-2. The PDC championship is one of the largest dart competitions in the world and took place in London.

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Boeing plans to test-launch its new CST-100 Starliner spaceship into orbit on Friday. The ship will be used to taxi astronauts to and from space once it is fully approved by NASA. The test launch will be unmanned but the company hopes to begin manned missions as soon as possible if all goes well.

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Morfydd Clark, an actress best known for her starring role in 'His Dark Materials', has been cast as Galadriel in Amazon's new Lord of the Rings show. This is one of the first major casting announcements for the show. It will be a kind of prequel series, exploring the time period before the events of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' took place.

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Puerto Rico has recently announced that the government will allow cockfighting within the territory despite it being declared illegal by the US government. Cockfighting is a large industry on the island, creating over $18 million a year. Animal rights groups claim these numbers are exaggerated and that the practice is cruel.

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Airbnb has announced its new safety guidelines and has banned all party houses on the app. The decision came after a fatal shooting at one of these houses during Halloween earlier this year. They are also implementing stricter rules regarding guest complaints, even setting up a hotline for neighbors to register said complaints.

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A US district judge has ruled that the government may collect the revenue from Edward Snowden's book sales in America. The judge said that Snowden violated a contract with the NSA and CIA and thus he has forfeited any revenue from this book. Snowden is currently living in Russia to avoid arrest.

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