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Because it's the viral video everyone's talking about:  Twin toddlers in Utah were playing around on a dresser when it fell over and pinned one of them. The other little guy works it out and eventually helps his brother get out from under.  The parents, Ricky and Kayli Shoff, say the boy was not harmed, and they released the video to warn parents to secure furniture to the wall to prevent casework from toppling over on kids.

Baby panda alert!  Baby panda alert!

Republicans of the new US Congress quickly dropped a plan to gut the independent watchdog Office of Congressional Ethics after president-elect Donald Trump criticized the scheme in a tweet.  Trump urged Republicans to "Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance" - which means tax cuts for the rich and gutting the Affordable Care Act which will toss more than 20 million Americans off of their healthcare plans.  The scheme also would have flown in the face of Trump's promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington of corruption.

Former presidents will attend the Trump inauguration:  Bill and Hillary Clinton announced they would attend, and George W. Bush and wife Laura said they will "witness the peaceful transfer of power".  Trump will be sworn in as 45th President of the United States on 20 January, and will begin screwing it up immediately.

Dozens of leading scientists have wrote an open letter to US president-elect Donald Trump to uphold the Iran nuclear deal.  Nobel laureates and a physicist who helped design the first hydrogen bomb are among the 37 signatories called the deal a "critical US strategic asset" and a "strong bulwark against an Iranian nuclear weapons program".  Under the deal, Iran gave up its uranium enriching equipment and 95 percent of its low-enriched uranium.

Britain's ambassador to the European Union abruptly announced he is quitting, weeks before the UK was to begin negotiations to leave the EU.  Sir Ivan Rogers was supposed to have played a major role in the talks.  But last month, he reportedly told ministers that a new, post-Brexit trade deal with the EU would take up to a decade to negotiate, which didn't sit well with the hard-core Brexiteers who maintain the illusion that exiting the EU would be a simple matter.  People with a more realistic worldview believe the loss of Sir Ivan will decrease Prime Minister Theresa May's ability to get a good exit deal.

Despite up to ten arrests - including two foreigners picked up at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport - Turkish police are still hunting the gunman who killed 39 people and wounded 49 more at an upscale nightclub during New Year's celebrations.  Turkish TV showed video of a grim-faced man using a selfy stick walking through Taksim Square, claiming it was the face of of the killer.  Kyrgyzstan denied reports that man came from that country.

The Gambia's election chief has gone into hiding, and might have fled the country.  Alieu Momar Njai was the one who announced that long-time strongman President Yahya Jammeh lost last month's election.  But Jammeh has since claimed the election was tainted - which is disputed by election monitors - and is refusing to leave office.  Earlier this week, Jammeh's security forces took three independent radio stations off the air.

Dry weather and high temperatures led to a wildfire that burned more than a hundred homes in Valaparaiso, Chile.  No one was killed, but the government says 19 people had been slightly injured, most with smoke inhalation.

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