The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week.
1. A gunman assassinated Russia’s ambassador at an Ankara art gallery on Monday in what leaders of Russia and Turkey called a ‘provocative terror attack’. Leaders of both countries vowed to not let the assassination cast a shadow over the friendship that has been forming between them.
2. Icy roads are causing major accidents across the U.S. The cold, mixed with freezing rain, created horrible road conditions over the weekend, causing multiple-car pileups and fatalities. At least 15 people have died as a result of the storm.
3. A tractor trailer barreled into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. Officials are investigating the crash as an act of terrorism.
4. Polar bears are facing possible extinction. The bears that are in Alaska are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the ice cover is retreating at a pace that even the climate scientists who predicted the decline find shocking.
5. The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Gus Bradley, ending the least successful tenure of any N.F.L. head coach with at least 60 games. The team owner Shad Khan announced the decision Sunday after the Jaguars blew a 9-point lead in the fourth quarter of a 21-20 loss at Houston.
6. John Glenn, who was hailed as a national hero and a symbol of the space age as the first American to orbit Earth, then became a national political figure for 24 years in the Senate, died on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95.
7. The North Carolina legislature plans to hold a session to consider fully repealing the contentious law curbing legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The move comes after the Charlotte City Council rescinded a local anti-discrimination ordinance that had prompted passage of the statewide law in March.
8. Dr. Esther M. Wilkins, who wrote a textbook for dental hygienists that is used worldwide, died at the age of 100. She laid out a modern curriculum for dental hygienists in 1959, in the first edition of “Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist.”
9. In her final one-on-one interview in the White House, Mrs. Obama spoke with Ms. Winfrey about her eight years as first lady, her legacy and her plans for the future.
10. Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian beauty whose many marriages, gossipy adventures and occasional legal scuffles kept her in tabloid headlines for decades, died at the age of 99.
