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Posted December 09, 2016 6:00 am

By The Associated Press

In this February 1962 photo made available by NASA, astronaut John Glenn looks into a Celestial Training Device globe at the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at the age of 95. (NASA via AP) The Associated Press

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. SOUTH KOREAN LAWMAKERS IMPEACH PRESIDENT

The stunning and swift fall for Park Geun-hye, the country's first female leader, follows protests over a corrosive corruption scandal that drew millions into the streets in united fury.

2. WHY BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS PRESSURING TRUMP

Some employers want him to abandon campaign-trail pledges of mass deportation and other hard-line immigration policies because such moves could hurt the economy.

3. JOHN GLENN REMEMBERED AS ALL-AMERICAN HERO

First American to orbit the Earth. War hero fighter pilot. Record-setting test pilot. Longtime senator. Glenn died Thursday at 95.

4. SHELLING BELIES REPORTED HALT IN COMBAT IN ALEPPO

Syrian troops and allied forces shell eastern neighborhoods of the city despite Russia's announcement that the Syrian army was suspending combat operations to allow for the evacuation of civilians.

5. HOW FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE GROUP IS SHIFTING

Iraqi security forces intend to focus on intelligence work to counter the extremists' expected move back to a dispersed, underground terror organization after they are driven out of Mosul.

6. EXECUTION CARRIED OUT, WITH DIFFICULTY, IN ALABAMA

The execution requires two consciousness tests as the inmate heaves and coughs 13 minutes into the lethal injection.

7. KEY SPENDING BILL STALLS IN US SENATE

Hours to a government shutdown, coal-state Senate Democrats block action on the stopgap bill over benefits for retired miners and press Trump, a self-proclaimed coal champion, to intervene with Republicans.

8. EX-NEO-NAZIS AIMING TO REHAB EXTREMISTS

Across Germany, a small but effective network of former neo-Nazis is working to help those who want to leave the far-right scene.

9. WHICH SOCIAL ILL HILLARY CLINTON IS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST

In her first speech since losing the presidential election, she calls the rise of fake news an "epidemic."

10. LAMAR JACKSON CAPTURES MAXWELL AWARD

Winning the award as the nation's top college football player gives the Louisville quarterback a leg up in the race for the Heisman Trophy.

FILE -- In this Oct. 24, 2016 file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces prepare to attack Islamic State positions as fighting to retake the extremist-held city of Mosul enters its second week, in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul. With the Islamic State groupâs âcaliphateâ seemingly nearing its downfall in Iraq, the countryâs intelligence and counterterror agencies are preparing for a different fight against the militants. Iraq will focus on intelligence work, surgical airstrikes and a higher level of cooperation with the West to counter an expected move by the Islamic State group away from holding territory and back to a more classic role as an underground terror organization. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File) The Associated Press

Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson holds the Maxwell Award after being named the College Football Player of the Year Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) The Associated Press

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