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The Washington Post exposes widespread outrage over images of humiliated Palestinians in Israeli custody. In other news, China-U.S. tensions rise over Taiwan at the APEC summit while Sandra Oudkirk, U.S. representative in Taiwan, operates in a sensitive political space. This week’s Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak, reminding people of the shocking Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833. New civil charges are levied against NSC-131 for anti-LGBTQ intimidation in New Hampshire and two former Massachusetts State Police supervisors are convicted of corruption.