Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - Dec 30

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30/12/2024 08:51

Dec 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories
and does not vouch for their accuracy.

    - Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut
farmer whose one term in the Oval Office was plagued by problems
at home and abroad but who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
after he left office, died Sunday in Plains, Georgia.

    - The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179
people on Sunday, when a twin-engine Boeing  BA.N  737-800
airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway,
erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan
International Airport.

    - A buoyant stock market, declining interest rates and US
President-elect Donald Trump’s lighter-regulation agenda will
prompt a dealmaking rebound in 2025, dealmakers have said.

    - U.S. Democratic leaders want to recruit New York state
Assembly member and former corrections officer D. Billy Jones to
help it win a special election in the Congressional district, as
the party looks to tap his working-class background to help it
sail through the mostly rural district.

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