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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday January 2nd, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today Israel says it will pull some troops from Gaza. Plus Biden starts the

new year off with some concerning polling numbers among his Democratic

base and we look ahead to the New Hampshire primary.

Israel's military says it's planning to pull thousands of troops out of Gaza,

marking the first significant drawdown of its forces in the war.

The military decision comes amid Israel Supreme Court decision yesterday to strike down a key

component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial overhaul.

In the move, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July

that prevents judges from striking down government decisions that they deem unreasonable.

Opponents had argued that Netanyahu's efforts to remove the standard of reasonability

opens the door to corruption, and tensions previously sparked months of mass protests.

Yesterday's court decision could reignite

some of those tensions.

President Joe Biden enters this election year with struggles to consolidate key parts of the Democratic

base that helped elect him in 2020.

In a new USA Today, Suffolk University poll, Biden is trailing Republican front runner

Donald Trump 39 to 37 percent while

17 percent support an unnamed third party candidate.

Biden claims the support of 63 percent of black voters down from the 87% he carried in 2020, according to the Roper Center.

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