Jimmy Carter state funeral set for Jan. 9
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
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Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the Capitol rotunda.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Treasury Department's computer security and stole documents.
USA TODAY Consumer Travel Reporter Zach Wichter looks at some airline topics he's keeping an eye on in 2025.
President-elect Donald Trump loses an appeal of a sexual abuse and defamation judgment in the E. Jean Carroll case.
USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé explains which documents you should keep and which ones you can toss.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free right now. |
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| 0:13.1 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. |
| 0:15.5 | And today is Tuesday, December 31st, 2024. |
| 0:18.9 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.7 | Today we have details on next month's funeral proceedings for the late former president Jimmy Carter. Plus, the Treasury Department says |
| 0:29.9 | Chinese hackers stole documents in a major incident this month, and we talked through some |
| 0:34.6 | of the big airline topics in the new year. |
| 0:46.4 | The official state funeral for former president Jimmy Carter will be held January 9th at the Washington National Cathedral, the White House confirmed yesterday. |
| 0:54.3 | The Carter Center released a statement saying the family has accepted an invitation from Congress for Carter to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda. |
| 1:02.4 | Funeral services will begin on January 4th and end January 9th, moving from Carter's home state of Georgia to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:09.5 | President Joe Biden has declared the 9th a national day of mourning, ordered U.S. flags to fly at half staff for 30 days, |
| 1:11.8 | and issued an executive order closing all executive departments and agencies of the federal government that day. Carter died Sunday |
| 1:17.4 | at the age of 100. |
| 1:22.9 | Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department's computer security this |
| 1:27.9 | month and stole documents. The Treasury call did a major incident, according to a letter to lawmakers |
| 1:33.0 | provided to Reuters yesterday. The hackers compromised a third-party cybersecurity service provider |
| 1:38.5 | called Beyond Trust and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said. The Treasury Department said it was alerted to the breach on December 8th |
| 1:47.1 | and that it was working with the U.S. cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency |
| 1:51.1 | and the FBI to assess the hacks impact. |
| 1:58.7 | It's been a rough week for aviation worldwide to end the year, headlined by a crash that killed 179 people in South Korea. |
| 2:06.6 | Still, experts say commercial air travel remains very safe, and the U.S. aviation system is among the safest in the world. |
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