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Overnight News Digest March 7, 2023 [1]
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Date: 2023-03-07
Chicago Sun-Times: What Vallas, Johnson need to do to win the first mayoral runoff debate analysis by Fran Spielman
Brandon Johnson is the more talented communicator with a more human touch. He needs to talk with “depth and fluidity” about crime and finances and look like a “commanding figure who is up for this job” — not “another mayor with a learning curve.” Paul Vallas needs to “connect his technocratic policy orientations to the lives of real people” and portray himself as a “leader who has empathy” as well as “technical solutions.” That’s some of the advice debate experts are offering to the combatants in Chicago’s April 4 mayoral runoff ahead of their first debate Wednesday evening. The showdown, sponsored and televised live by Channel 5 and Telemundo, is the first since the Feb. 28 election narrowed the field of nine and eliminated incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Johnson and Vallas have dramatically different tasks Wednesday. The one thing they have in common is the voters they’re targeting in their race to the middle: the 45% of Chicagoans who voted for someone else, primarily Lightfoot, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and millionaire businessman Willie Wilson — the three who did the best among the losing candidates.
New York Times: ‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents on Fox and the Election by Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson
It had been more than a week since the news networks projected that Joseph R. Biden Jr. would become the next president. And Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were at a loss about what to say on the air. “What are we all going to do tmrw night?” Ms. Ingraham, the host of the 10 p.m. show on Fox News, asked her colleagues in a text message chain on Nov. 16, 2020. Mr. Carlson responded that he planned to devote a significant chunk of his program to a little-known voting technology company that had become a target of Trump supporters who suspected the election had been rigged: Dominion Voting Systems. “Haven’t said a word about it so far,” Mr. Carlson said, acknowledging that the conspiracy theories about Dominion’s purported role in a fictitious plot to siphon away votes from President Donald J. Trump were making him uneasy.
Washington Post: Elon Musk grills former Twitter worker online, accuses him of not working by Rachel Lerman and Faiz Siddiqui
A two-year Twitter employee had a question for company owner Elon Musk: Did he still have a job? Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted at Musk on Monday saying his access to his work computer had been cut off nine days ago and he hadn’t been able to get a response from human resources. “However your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. You’ve not answered my emails,” Thorleifsson tweeted at Musk. “Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” Musk responded with his own question: “What work have you been doing?” Musk, the second-richest person in the world, is also a power user of the company he bought for $44 billion in October. He has more than 130 million followers and is known for tweeting day and night — using the site to make major company announcements and sometimes getting himself in trouble with regulators and advertisers.
Christian Science Monitor: Battle over DC statehood collides with politics of crime by Story Hinckley and Sophie Hills
An effort to update Washington, D.C.’s criminal code, which ballooned into a national tussle involving the president and Congress, has dealt a serious blow to the city’s long-standing fight for autonomy – while underscoring just how politically potent the issue of crime is likely to be in 2024. If the U.S. Senate votes, as expected, this week to prevent Washington’s criminal code reforms from taking effect, it will be the first time in three decades that Congress has directly blocked a measure passed by the city council. Already, a significant number of Democrats have criticized the D.C. bill – including President Joe Biden, who announced last week that he would sign the measure to block it. A last-ditch effort by the council to withdraw its own legislation on Monday, to avoid the humiliation of being big-footed by Congress, appears to have failed. Like other major U.S. cities, Washington has seen a spike in crime over the past three years. So when the city council recently approved an extensive overhaul of its century-old criminal code – including expanding the right to jury trials for misdemeanors and reducing maximum sentences for certain violent offenses like carjacking – the timing struck even some Democrats as poor. Washington’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the legislation, but the council overrode the mayor’s veto. In any other city, that would have been the end of the matter. But not in Washington, where the rules over who governs this 69-square-mile plot of land are complicated.
Guardian: Two Americans kidnapped in Mexico found dead, officials say by Oscar Lopez
Two of four Americans kidnapped in northern Mexico have been found dead, authorities said on Tuesday, while their two compatriots were found alive, bringing to an end the frantic search that had captivated media attention on both sides of the border. The governor for Mexico’s northern Tamaulipas state, Américo Villarreal, confirmed the news at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, adding that one person who had been found watching over the victims was in custody. The four Americans were discovered inside a wooden house on the outskirts of Matamoros, the governor said, adding that they had been moved around the city several times by their captors in order to evade the authorities. The US citizens had traveled to Mexico for “cosmetic surgery”, Villarreal said. The governor also said that a woman who was unhurt and a man who had been injured had been handed over to US authorities in Texas earlier in the day. The two survivors have been identified as Latavia McGee and Eric James Williams.
BBC News: Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream pipelines blast by Malu Cursino
Ukraine has denied any involvement in last September's attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which carried Russian gas to Europe. Kyiv's remarks follow a report from the New York Times, which cites anonymous US intelligence officials who suggest a pro-Ukrainian group was to blame. In a separate report, German media say investigators believe they identified the boat used to plant the explosives. Gas deliveries through the pipeline had been suspended before the blasts. Russia shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in August last year, claiming it needed maintenance. Nord Stream 2 had never been put into service. The exact cause of the 26 September blasts that hit the natural gas pipelines is unknown, but it is widely believed they were attacked. Moscow has blamed the West for the explosions and called on the UN's Security Council to independently investigate them.
Le Monde in English: French Pension reform: Sixth day of protests draws record number of demonstrators across France
An estimated 1.28 million took to the streets across France on Tuesday, March 7, against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 while strikes disrupted transport and schools. The figure suggests the demonstrations were some of the biggest in decades, slightly higher than the 1.27 million estimated during a previous round of protests against the reform on January 31 which had seen record numbers since the beginning of the protest movement. The hardline CGT union put the number of protesters at 3.5 million nationwide, a figure it said compared to 2.5 million on January 31. Unions called for two new days of national protests, one on Saturday, March 11, and the other on March 15, the day when the French Parliament is to convene to discuss the bill in a joint committee.
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