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CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump is planning to release a book next year showcasing his private correspondence with past and present celebrities and international icons, CNN has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said the project will mirror Trump’s first post-White House book, a collection of 300-plus photographs from Trump’s time in office that were accompanied by captions he wrote himself. His newest book will contain reproductions of letters written to, or by, Trump over the last few decades, providing readers with a more intimate view into his private life and past social circles. Trump’s correspondence with singer-songwriter Elton…

Brock Purdy delivered another valiant performance for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday as his three touchdowns led the team to a 35-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.The last pick of the NFL Draft, dubbed “Mr. Irrelevant,” appeared to impress teammate Nick Bosa as the star defensive end heaped praise on the former Iowa State standout. “We’ve got a quarterback,” Bosa said, via 49ers Webzone. “I had a lot of confidence in him, but obviously it’s the NFL and you’ve got to go perform. And he did that pretty darn good.”Offensive lineman Mike McGlinchey praised Purdy’s professionalism.NFL LEGEND JERRY…

There’s a silver lining to the astronomical cost of housing these days — if young people don’t pay rent, they can afford all sorts of nice things! At least, that’s the take from Barclays’ Morgan Stanley’s* luxury analyst Edouard Aubin: more young people are living with their parents and spending less money on shelter and food. In the US, the highest proportion of young people are living with their parents, since… uh… when’s that?

Ebanie Bridges has turned a flamethrower on bitter rival Shannon O’Connell after an explosive fallout to their world title fight. The Aussie boxing world champion has celebrated retaining her IBF bantamweight belt by rubbing her opponent’s nose in it after it emerged O’Connell had made a distasteful final gesture before leaving the ring. Bridges stunned the fight world on Sunday in Leeds when she demolished O’Connell with an eighth-round stoppage. The all-Aussie showdown turned into a grudge match after Bridges and O’Connell traded barbs in the leadup to the fight billed as the biggest women’s fight in Australian boxing history. Bridges had been…

A schoolboy died a hero as he tried to rescue three other youngsters who plunged into an icy lake, his distraught family revealed. Relatives said ten-year-old Jack Johnson bravely went to the aid of the other children after hearing their screams. Tragically two of the youngsters – aged 11 and eight – died and the third, aged just six, remains critically ill in hospital. They are understood to all be members of the same family. The eldest was named locally as Thomas. Jack’s aunt Charlotte McIlmurray revealed how he ignored his own safety to bravely try to rescue the other…

CNN  —  After a years-long fight, House Democrats finally have access to six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. It is now up to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal to decide what to do with them. Under tax privacy laws, Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has limited options for what he can do next, but the chairman is also facing mounting political pressure to finish what he started and share information gleaned from the returns with the public before Republicans take control of the House in January. At this point, aides and members acknowledge the most…

Ken DeLand, an American college student missing in France for more than two weeks, previously interned for a New York state senator’s office, as the politician remembers how the now unaccounted-for 22-year-old had “brought a positive energy with him every day.”  DeLand, enrolled at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, was last heard from Nov. 27. The college student, studying abroad at the University of Grenoble Alpes, was last spotted about 85 miles away on surveillance video at a store in Montelimar, France. There, banking statements indicate he made an $8.40 purchase around 9 a.m. on Dec. 3 and hasn’t…

CNN  —  Biden administration officials met virtually on Monday with Elizabeth Whelan, whose brother Paul Whelan remains detained in Russia, to discuss “next steps of the strategy” to bring him home ahead of a planned “high-level” conversation between the United States and Russia. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that “with respect to the question of whether we’ve had engagement with the Russian Federation on the Whelan case, we will have an engagement with them this week.” “I won’t say more about it because we’re trying to keep that in sensitive channels, but that’s the timetable. And we have…

The University of Pennsylvania temporarily blocked a doctoral dissertation from Twitter’s former head of safety, Yoel Roth, after new Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted about it.Musk, who has been purging Twitter employees and exposing the company’s history of anti-conservative bias through the “Twitter Files,” was previously laudatory of Roth, tweeting just in October that Roth “has high integrity.”That appears to have changed after Roth announced his resignation from Twitter and published a New York Times op-ed on Nov. 18, declaring that “a Twitter whose policies are defined by edict” via Musk “has little need for a trust and safety function…

Changes to Puerto Rico’s coastline post-Hurricane Maria stand to make communities more prone to flooding, according to a new study.An estimated 99 kilometers (62 miles) of Puerto Rico’s shoreline has moved inland as of July 2018, according to a recent report by the Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria, a strong Category 4 hurricane, made landfall on Sept. 20, 2017, devastating the U.S. territory. Researchers also identified 58.19 kilometers (36.2 miles) of dry beaches that have migrated inland.The map they built shows multiple events of coastal erosion and accretion along the island’s beach planes, resulting in…