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December 17: Texas builds a wall. The Boss sells out for big bucks.

Bruce Springsteen

FILE – Bruce Springsteen performs at the 13th annual Stand Up For Heroes benefit concert in support of the Bob Woodruff Foundation in New York on Nov. 4, 2019. Despite Springsteen’s long-time aversion to having his concerts filmed — he says it was a superstition — a new DVD offers a relatively rare look at him and his E Street Band during a peak period in the late 1970s. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

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☀️ Good morning! It’s Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Here’s a look at your news across the nation:

1️. Border wall construction starting in ‘days,’ TX land commissioner says

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2. NewsNation Exclusive photo: 100 migrants crammed in truck near border

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3. Police warn of package thieves, give tips on how to protect deliveries

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, joined from left by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., walks to update reporters after day of delays in the vote to advance President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

4. Search warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s phone

Alec Baldwin
FILE – Actor Alec Baldwin attends the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in New York. A new lawsuit alleges that Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn’t called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust.” The lawsuit filed Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, from script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, is the second to stem from the shooting. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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‘The Boss’ sells out … for $500M or more

This sale is just the latest in a string of recent catalog sales, which show aging artists cashing in on their life’s work and taking a fat paycheck in exchange for their love songs and diatribes, their pop hits and dark musings on the futility of life.

FILE – In this Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs during ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. Springsteen’s most memorable artifacts including his favorite Fender guitar and stage outfits will be on display in a traveling interactive exhibit. The Grammy Museum announced Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, that Bruce Springsteen Live! will open at the Grammy Museum Experience in the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Oct. 1. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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