What We Need To Know: December 9, 2025

What We Need To Know: December 9, 2025

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It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know today
is Tuesday, December ninth, twenty twenty five. Number one, A
heated US Senate races take in shape in Texas, As
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett jumps in just as former Congressman Colinel
Read bowed out to pursue a House seat, leaving Crockett
to face State rep. James Tallerico in the Democratic primary. Crockett,

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elected to the US House in twenty twenty two, built
a national profile with her fiery critiques of Republicans. Announcing
her run, she said she's seeking a bigger voice to
push back against what she described as the hell that
is raining down on our people. Number two. Thousands of
bottles of the hypertension drug Zyac were recalled after tests

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found possible contamination with the cholesterol drug a zeta vibe.
Glenn Mark Pharmaceuticals pulled several lots made in India after
detecting trace amounts of the unintended medication. The recall covers
multiple bottles side under the code n d C six
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dates in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty Six number,
three OUR cpa to The, Stars Katrina mcraft says that
smart investing isn't just about picking the right, stocks it's
about managing taxes before the year. Ends with short term
gains taxed up to forty point eight percent and long
term games capped at twenty three point eight, percent strategic

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planning can dramatically reduce what you owe Before december. Nineteenth
consider harvesting losses to offset gains using the three thousand
dollars loss, deduction avoiding wash sale, mistakes and shifting appreciated
stock to family in lower tax, brackets donating winners not,
losers and selling losing stocks before Giving number four from

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Our Good News. File newly released photographs taken by civil
rights Photographer Matt herron Showed Rows Up parks participating in
the nineteen sixty Five selma To Montgomery, march offering a
rear look at her continued activism beyond her famous nineteen
fifty five bus. Protest the, images unveiled by The Rosa

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Parks museum nearly seventy years after The Montgomery Bus boy got,
began underscore That Madam parks remained deeply involved in the.
Movement long after her defining act of civil, Disobedience number
Five Black america two fifty puts the spotlight On december,
eighth nineteen sixty. Seven that's the Date ROBERT. H, Lawrence,

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junior the First African american selected as an, astronaut was
killed during a test flight for The Air force's manned
orbiting laboratory. PROGRAM a brilliant pilot scientist with a PhD
and more than twenty five hundred flight, hours Doctor lawrence
was training another pilot when THEIR f one zero Four

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starfighter crashed At Edwards Air Force. Base his death cuts
short a groundbreaking career that it only just. Begun here's
your daily inspiration From yogi's. Jewels when you release the
weight you were not meant to, carry you step in
two the power of. Peace all, Right unsible, Wilks be,

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informed be. Empowered