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7. Families of eight of the American hostages in Gaza asked for an invitation to the White House Hanukkah celebration, but the White House ignored them. These families are desperate and are even asking the White House to make a side-deal with Hamas or cut Israel out of negotiations altogether, which may be why the White House didn’t want them at the celebration. 6. A police shooting of Jawan Dallas in Mobile, where neither of the officers involved was charged after a grand jury investigated the matter, is the subject of a $36 million lawsuit involving “racial justice” attorney Ben Crump. There