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Overnight News Digest March 28, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-03-28

Chicago Sun-Times: Vallas says he’s running for mayor because ‘our house is on fire’ by Fran Spielman

Paul Vallas on Tuesday portrayed himself as the “public administrative version of a first-responder” and said he’s running for mayor of Chicago because “our house is on fire.” “Our downtown is half-vacant, a ghost town in the middle of the workweek. Our schools have lost a year of learning or more. Test scores have plummeted. Every public agency is facing a financial cliff,” Vallas told the City Club of Chicago. “And crime is simply not under control. Chicago is failing in its basic promise to the people of Chicago. A promise of safe streets, quality schools, affordability and equal opportunity.” Vallas, 69, served as revenue director and budget director under former Mayor Richard M. Daley before being dispatched to the Chicago Public Schools as CEO, then moving on to run school systems in Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Ct. and New Orleans after that school system was decimated by Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, Vallas felt the need to explain what he called “this latest call to duty.” “Paul Vallas, the wonk, is a public administrative version of a first responder. And right now, our house is on fire and its occupants are in danger — both figuratively and literally,” Vallas told his audience of movers and shakers.

New York Times: Pence Must Testify to Jan. 6 Grand Jury, Judge Rules by Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman

A federal judge has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to appear in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, largely sweeping aside two separate legal efforts by Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump to limit his testimony, according to two people familiar with the matter. The twin rulings on Monday, by Judge James E. Boasberg in Federal District Court in Washington, were the latest setbacks to bids by Mr. Trump’s legal team to limit the scope of questions that prosecutors can ask witnesses close to him in separate investigations into his efforts to maintain his grip on power after his election defeat and into his handling of classified documents after he left office. In the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Trump repeatedly pressed Mr. Pence to use his ceremonial role overseeing the congressional count of Electoral College votes to block or delay certification of his defeat. Prosecutors have been seeking to compel Mr. Pence to testify about Mr. Trump’s demands on him, which were thoroughly documented by aides to Mr. Pence in testimony last year to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot and what led up to it.

Washington Post: Police: Nashville shooter was under a doctor’s care for ‘emotional disorder’ by Silvia Foster-Frau, Joanna Slater, Mark Berman, and Holly Bailey

The attacker who killed six people at a small Christian school in Nashville had been receiving treatment for “an emotional disorder” and hid several weapons from their parents before opening fire, police said Tuesday. The parents thought 28-year-old Audrey Hale “should not own weapons” and wrongly believed Hale had sold the only one they owned, according to John Drake, the Nashville police chief. But the shooter had legally purchased seven guns at five local gun stores, Drake said, and on Monday morning used three of them to attack their former school, killing three small children and three adults. While the attacker left behind what Drake called a “manifesto,” he said investigators are still trying to determine what could have motivated the massacre at the Covenant School, an academy within a Presbyterian church that averages about 200 grade-school students.

NBC News: Fox tries to stop Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at the Dominion trial by Dareh Gregorian

Lawyers for Fox News were met with skepticism Tuesday when they argued that Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch should be excused from testifying in court as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the company. At a hearing in Delaware Superior Court, Judge Eric Davis said he’d received a letter from Fox saying it would be an “inconvenience” for Murdoch, 92, to provide testimony in the courtroom. Murdoch, the judge said, is “hardly infirm.” The judge said that after receiving the letter he was told that Murdoch had just gotten engaged and was discussing plans to travel more in the coming years — an apparent reference to an interview the recently divorced media mogul gave to his New York Post last week, where he announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, 66. The article said the couple planned to spend their time between California, the United Kingdom, Montana and New York. “That doesn’t sound like someone who can’t go from New York to Wilmington,” the judge said.

Guardian: Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery by Aamna Mohdin

The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice. The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than £10m (US$12.3m, A$18.4m), with millions dedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian’s 19th-century founders. Manchester businessmen who funded its creation. It follows independent academic research commissioned in 2020 to investigate whether there was any historical connection between chattel slavery and John Edward Taylor, the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper in 1821, and the otherbusinessmen who funded its creation. The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement report, published on Tuesday, revealed that Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry. Taylor had multiple links through partnerships in the cotton manufacturing firm Oakden & Taylor, and the cotton merchant company Shuttleworth, Taylor & Co, which imported vast amounts of raw cotton produced by enslaved people in the Americas.

BBC News: Ukraine war: Germany sends much-awaited Leopard tanks by Adam Durbin

The first shipment of Leopard 2 tanks from Germany has been sent to Ukraine, the German defence ministry says. Eighteen cutting-edge main battle tanks were delivered after Ukrainian crews were trained to use them. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he was sure the tanks could "make a decisive contribution" on the frontlines of the war. Challenger 2 tanks from the UK have also arrived, according to reports from Ukraine. Ukraine has been calling for more modern vehicles and weapon systems for months to help fight Russia's invasion. The Ukrainian government is yet to comment on the arrival of the Leopard 2s, but they have confirmed the arrival of the first UK-made Challenger 2 tanks. Around 2,000 Leopard 2s, widely regarded as being among the best main battle tanks produced by Nato countries, are in use by European countries.

AlJazeera: Israeli right-wing protesters attack Palestinians in Jerusalem

Three people have been arrested as part of an ongoing probe after far-right groups were filmed attacking Palestinian citizens of Israel who were passing by pro-government protests in Jerusalem, according to Israeli police quoted by local media. Reports say that one man was “savagely” beaten during the attacks on Monday evening – at the end of a day of nationwide protests against government plans to alter Israel’s judiciary. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets starting Sunday night and continued on Monday amid a general strike. Pro-government demonstrators also rallied in various parts of the country before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the postponement of the move. The largest protests by both camps took place in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, prompting fears of possible violence between the two sides.

I had a feeling attacks of this type would happen sooner or later even as Palestinians have had little or no role in the Israeli protests against judicial reforms.

Le Monde in English: New violent clashes mark 10th day of French pension protests

Fresh clashes erupted in France Tuesday, March 28, between protesters and police as tens of thousands took to the streets to show their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform that has sparked the biggest domestic crisis of his second mandate. The day of action is the tenth since protests began in mid-January against the law, which includes raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Some 740,000 people nationwide attended protests that were again marked by clashes between security forces and protesters, the French interior ministry said. The figure was down somewhat on the last big protest day on Thursday when 1.09 million protested nationwide, according to the government. The ministry said 93,000 protested in Paris while the CGT union said 450,000 took to the streets in the capital, also down on last week. The unions have called for an 11th day of protest on April 6.

Hollywood Reporter: Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Likely Ending With Season 12 by Jackie Strause

Curb Your Enthusiasm is likely to end with the already announced 12th season, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The forthcoming season, which does not yet have a premiere date, wrapped filming this week and the final episode felt like a homecoming, per a source. Jon Hayman, writer and producer on Curb, shared in a since-deleted tweet a photo of himself with David and executive producer Jeff Schaffer filming what he called the final episode. He wrote, “Maybe you love the show. Maybe you hate the show. Maybe you don’t give a shit. In any event, shooting the last scene of the last episode of the final season.” Curb co-star Richard Lewis also tweeted about filming his last-ever scene of the series. “There I was a few hours ago in my trailer on location to shoot my last scene of #Curb12,” he wrote. “Hard to believe we started in 2000. The cast and crew all knew we were working for a genius. When that rarity happens, no one ever takes a moment for granted. We love you LD.”

Have the best possible evening, everyone!

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