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By year's end, Subaru and its retailers will have donated more than $350 million to charity.

Subaru, more than a car company.

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A U.S. official says the Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that's quote part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion. It's not clear which vessel the U.S. says it's chasing, Venezuela is denouncing U.S. interception of oil tankers, saying it will take it up with the U.N. Security Council.

Vice President J.D. Vance closed out Turning Point USA's yearly conference in Phoenix today,

marking the biggest event the Young Voter Organization has hosted, since its founder, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in September.

And peers Elena Moore reports.

Vice President Vance used his speech as a call to action, alluding to recent intra-party riffs.

We have far more important work to do than canceling each other. We have got to build.

It comes after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called out several right-wing media

personalities for entertaining conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called out several right-wing media personalities

for entertaining conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death and singled out Tucker Carlson

for his recent interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Carlson later disputed those claims

and said he's not anti-Semitic, but the pushback comes as leaders deal with a larger fight

over spreading misinformation and amplifying people with anti-Semitic views.

Elena Moore, NPR News, Phoenix.

A memorial service was held today in Sydney, Australia, a week after gunmen fired on a Jewish festival killing 15 people.

The BBC's Phil Mercer has more.

Thousands of people attended a memorial at Bondi Beach to remember the country's worst mass

shooting in three decades. A day of reflection came at the end of Hanukkah, the Jewish

Festival of Lights. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was booed by sections of the crowd.

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