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Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news.

My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Hi. is smarter news. Hi, everybody.

Welcome to Scoop on Monday, December 9th.

I had to check the time is moving so quickly.

And just think back to last week.

The big news starting last week's news cycle was the pardoning of the president's son. And now as we embark on a

whole new news week of information, doesn't that feel like it was 100 years ago? We have so much

news as packed into the last seven days. And I'm excited to take this time to dig a little deeper

on some of these massive stories. So we have the fall

of the government in Syria and questions about the future of the Middle East, perhaps a reorganization

in the Middle East that could change the future for all of us and future generations. I mean,

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