News Roundup for December 22, 2016

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1. Obama has made it harder for Trump to create a Muslim registry by dismantling the NSEERS, a program used for tracking people from Muslim countries. Obama continues his campaign to preemptively ruin any of Trump's most heinous plans. More here.

2. KellyAnne Conway has accepted a job in the White House. We guess all that talk of her wanting to be a mother first was just hot air in case Trump didn't want her. Watch your puss in there KellyAnn. More here.

3. A 15-year-old in Nepal has died of smoke inhalation as she tried to keep warm in a 'menstruation hut'. The barbaric tradition of banishing 'unclean' women has seen ten girls die in the past nine years. More here.

4. Court rules that environmental activist Rohan Beyts can sue Trump's golf course near Aberdeen for unlawfully filming her while allegedly urinating behind a sand dune. We have so many questions... More here.

5. Cindy Stowell, who was battling Stage IV colon cancer, became a six-time Jeopardy champion before her death. She won $103k, which will be donated to cancer research. Don't say we never tell you anything nice. More here.

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