What We Need To Know: December 1, 2025

What We Need To Know: December 1, 2025

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It's Bewilkes with what we need to know today. It's Monday,
December one, twenty twenty five. Number One two West Virginia
National Guard members were ambushed and shot a close range
Wednesday afternoon in Washington, d C. Just blocks from the
White House during a high visibility patrol. Twenty year old

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Sarah Bestrom later died Thursday from her injuries, while twenty
four year old Andrew Wolf remains in critical condition. The
Afghan national suspect is now in custody. Following the targeted attack,
the President announced plans to deploy an additional five hundred
troops to the nation's capital. Number Two a new debate

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over what qualifies as a professional degree. That debate after
the Trump administration redefined the term as part of its
overhaul of student loan repayment rules. The changes include new
borrowing caps and the narrower definition of professional degrees, limiting
them to just and fields such as medicine, dentistry, and law.

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Critics warned this revised definition could restrict loan access for
some graduate healthcare students, like nurses, though undergraduate borrowing will
not be affected. Number three US gas prices have fallen
below the three dollars a gallon mark for the first
time in more than four years, with a national average
dropping two two dollars and ninety five cents, the lowest

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cents May of twenty twenty one that according to gas Buddy,
the decline is being driven by lower oil prices, strong
refinery production, and softer seasonal demand across all fifty states.
Analysts say the rare nationwide drop offers welcome relief for
drivers heading into this holiday season. Number four its Ministry

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Monday and Williemy mcgiver says that the Christmas season is
now here, with the first of December bringing renewed joy,
peace and celebration centered on the birth of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ. That story begins in the town
of Bethlehem, best known as the birthplace of Jesus. Now
in Hebrew, Bethlehem pronounced Bethrahem means house of bread, with

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bait meaning house and Raham meaning bread. Jesus references himself
as being the bread of life in John six point
thirty five. Also, he says in John six', FIVE i
am the mana that came down out Of. Heaven so
throughout The, bible bread house or Bread bethlehem have a
lot of symbolicize To. Jesus number, Five Black america two

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fifty and the spotlight Is On december, one nineteen fifty,
five When Rosa parks was arrested In, Montgomery, alabama for
refusing to give up her bus seat to a white,
man defining the city's segregation. Laws her arrests sparked The
Montgomery bus boycott days. Later led by a young pastor
by the name Of Martin Luther King junior and organized

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with the help of The National socialiation for The advancement
Of Colored, people this boycott became a pivotal moment in
the civil rights, movement proving the power of, collective non
violent protest against racial. Injustice here's your daily inspiration From Yogi's.
Jewels be. Happy remember you don't find the happy in

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life you, created all, Right I'm Sybil. Wilkes be, informed be,
empowered