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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Dec. 9, 2014

U.S. Senate investigators concluded the United States had brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make Americans safer after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

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1965

“A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the first animated TV special featuring characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CBS.

2013

Scientists revealed that NASA’s Curiosity rover had uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars.