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Overnight News Digest: 'A very American coup attempt': The Guardian [1]
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Date: 2022-12-19
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And when each of them called to cancel their Tesla car preorders or to terminate their car leases over the past few months, saying Musk's toxic behavior was the reason, they were told pretty much the same thing from the Tesla salesperson on the other end of the line: "We're hearing a lot of that."
For Tom, Musk's corrosive and erratic leadership of Twitter since he bought the social media site at the end of October was just too much.
The last straw for Heather was Elon Musk's vitriolic attacks on Anthony Fauci , one of the world's most respected immunologists and the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. For Logan, it was when Musk, days after taking over Twitter, ordered employees to stop paying bills to vendors for services they'd already rendered.
BBC
York Region police first responded to reports of a shooting at an apartment building in Vaughan, about 30km (19 miles) north of Toronto, at 19:20 (12:20 GMT) on Sunday.
The alleged gunman, a resident in the building, was shot and killed by police at the scene.
But the answer to the most pressing question has not been disclosed: what would prompt a 73-year-old to go from apartment to apartment and shoot residents.
A day after a man shot five dead in a Toronto apartment complex, police are releasing some details about the suspect.
BBC
Elon Musk's poll, asking whether he should stand down as the boss of Twitter, appeared hours after he was photographed at the World Cup final in Qatar. That photo tells us two things: firstly, Musk was standing beside Jared Kushner - the son-in-law of Donald Trump, the former US President whom Musk has tried, and failed, to entice back to the social network he now owns. Musk knows that a bombastic Trump tweet would likely provide a controversial, but 'jackpot' moment for Twitter - and bring huge audiences to the platform. Trump knows this too, of course, and has his own agenda - specifically his own social network, Truth Social, to which he has so far remained loyal.
Deutsche Welle
A Hanukkah menorah captured in an iconic photograph symbolizing the defiance of Jews against the Nazis was lit in the German capital on Monday night. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined in the lighting of the nine-branched menorah, which belonged to the Posners, a German Jewish family. He said the ceremony marking the second night of Hanukkah at Berlin's Bellevue palace filled him with "deep gratitude and humility and above all, happiness. In 1931, Rabbi Akiva Posner's wife Rachel Posner, took a picture of the candelabrum sitting on a window ledge of their home in Kiel opposite the Nazi party's regional headquarters. At the time, a large swastika flag hung from the facade of the Nazi building. On the back of the snapshot Rachel wrote an inscription: "The flag says 'death to Judaism', the light says 'Judaism will live for ever'."
Deutsche Welle
Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9, and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. The Southeast Asian country hoped the move would boost its agriculture and tourism industry, and to allow the plant to be used for medical purposes. But lawmakers have failed to come to an agreement on how to regulate and control the new thriving industry. "We are against legalizing weed in an uncontrolled manner that has been happening since the health minister delisted cannabis as a narcotic without regulation that can really be enforced," the leader of the opposition Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat said, during the bill's second reading on Wednesday. Uncertainty is expected to continue, as it looks increasingly unlikely that the law will be passed this year or even before Thailand's general election, which has been tentatively scheduled for May 7.
Al Jazeera
European Union nations’ energy ministers have agreed on a gas price cap, after weeks of talks on the emergency measure that has split opinion across the bloc as it seeks to tame the energy crisis. The Czech presidency of the European Council, which represents member countries, said a deal was reached in Brussels on Monday. The cap is the 27-country EU’s latest attempt to lower high gas prices that have inflated citizens’ energy bills and driven record-high inflation this year after Russia cut off most of its gas deliveries to Europe.
Al Jazeera
The United Nations will host a “no-nonsense” climate summit in 2023 to spur action from governments on the climate crisis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says, as the goal of avoiding global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius begins to slip out of reach. Speaking at a year-end news conference on Monday, Guterres said the world was moving in the “wrong direction” on climate change and that governments had fallen short on their commitments to bring down emissions.
The Guardian
Vladimir Putin has discussed closer military cooperation with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, during a rare visit to the country, as fears grow in Kyiv that Moscow is pushing its closest ally to join a new ground offensive against Ukraine. The meeting, which was Putin’s first visit to Belarus since 2019, came hours after Moscow launched a fresh barrage of “kamikaze drones” that damaged “key infrastructure” in and around Kyiv, according to the mayor, Vitali Klitschko. Speaking at a joint press conference in Minsk late Monday, the two leaders said that they agreed to continue a series of joint military drills that have caused alarm in Ukraine
The Guardian
A news report on Monday questioned whether the career résumé of the incoming Republican congressman George Santos – who was elected last month to serve a typically Democrat suburban district north-east of New York City – may be largely fictional. According to an analysis by the New York Times, the biographical sketch offered by the 34-year-old, first-generation Brazilian-American, who ran as a member of a “new generation of Republican leadership” as the “full embodiment of the American dream”, may not have worked at Citigroup or Goldman Sachs, graduated from a New York college, or run a pet rescue charity, as he has claimed.
The Guardian
Thousands of patients who have had strokes, heart attacks or broken bones will have to get themselves to A&E on Wednesday when ambulance staff strike over pay, NHS bosses have warned. The disruption is expected to last for up to three days, with crews not reaching some patients who called 999 on Wednesday until Thursday or Friday. Hospital bosses have told the Guardian they fear Wednesday’s strike by ambulance personnel across England and Wales will entail a “huge risk of harm” to patients, including older people left lying on a floor for days with a broken hip getting hypothermia and dying.
The Guardian
Australia recorded 106 deaths in custody between July 2021 and June 2022, with the number of Indigenous people who died in custody rising to 516 in the 31 years since the royal commission. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology’s annual report on deaths in custody, released on Monday, the death rate of prisoners increased from 0.15 per 100 prisoners in 2020-21 to 0.21 in 2021-22. Sixteen of the people who died were Indigenous people in prison custody. The largest number was in New South Wales with five, four in Queensland, three in Western Australia, two in South Australia and one each in the Northern Territory and Victoria. Eight deaths were recorded in police custody.
NPR
EL PASO, Texas – The pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 will continue, at least for now, after the U.S. Supreme court has granted an 11th-hour request by a group of Republican attorneys general from 19 states seeking to extend those restrictions. In an order signed by Justice John Roberts, the court asked for a response from the Biden administration by 5 p.m. eastern time Tuesday. It's a victory for those Republican attorneys general who argued that lifting the restrictions would likely cause a surge of illegal immigration at the southern border. The restrictions — first put in place by the Trump administration in March of 2020 — had been set to lift Wednesday at midnight.
NPR
A leading New York Republican says accusations that GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., faked much of his biography are "serious." "I believe that George Santos deserves an opportunity to address the claims detailed in the article," said Joseph Cairo Jr., the influential chairman of Nassau County's Republican committee. He referred to a story in the New York Times that appears to show key details of Santos' official campaign bio were fabricated. "Every person deserves an opportunity to 'clear' his/her name in the face of accusations," Cairo added, saying he looks forward to hearing Santos' response. In his official biography, Santos claims to have graduated from Baruch College with "a bachelor's degree in economics and finance."
NPR
NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green ofFloodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Terry Dunn couldn't fathom why Alabama's residents — among the poorest in the U.S. — pay some of the nation's most expensive electricity bills. So in 2010, Dunn ran for a seat on the state commission that sets energy prices. He promised to hold a formal rate hearing at which Alabama Power executives would have to open their financial books and answer questions, under oath and in public. That hadn't happened for nearly three decades. After winning, Dunn says, a top lobbyist for the utility took him aside and promised he could hold his roughly $100,000-a-year position on the commission for years — as long as he remained a team player. (Alabama Power declined to make the executive available to address the accusation; the utility and its corporate parent, Southern Company, declined all comment for this story.)
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