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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba starts the countdown to its annual shopping festival Singles' Day, promising consumers - and investors - a bonanza of fashion shows, virtual reality and pop star Katy Perry. Tara Joseph reports.
Alibaba sales jumped to $14 billion on this year's Singles Day shopping festival, with 68 percent coming from mobile devices. Bobbi Rebell reports
Alibaba says more than $6 billion of goods have been sold so far during its annual Singles' Day online shopping frenzy. As Tara Joseph reports customers are jumping on heavily discounted goods sending sales surging past 2013's record.
The United States calls the death of six-year-old Gaza girl Hind Rajab, who days earlier had pleaded for help, "heartbreaking" and urges a prompt Israeli investigation. "It is just a devastating account, a heartbreaking account, for this child, and of course there have been thousands of other children who have died as a result of this conflict," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters, adding, "We have asked the Israeli authorities to investigate this incident on an urgent basis." SOUNDBITE
The White House attacks a devastating special counsel report for making "gratuitous and inappropriate" comments about US President Joe Biden's age and memory. "When the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and the evidence don't support any charges, you're left to wonder why this report spends time making gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms of the president," White House spokesperson Ian Sams tells reporters during a press conference. SOUNDBITE
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