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Overnight News Digest April 30, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-04-30

NPR

Authorities are offering $80K for information about the suspected Texas shooter

Authorities in southeast Texas are offering a $80,000 reward for any tips that lead to the capture of 38-year-old Francisco Oropesa, who police say shot five people to death in a home early Saturday morning and then fled the scene. During a press briefing on Sunday afternoon, law enforcement officials said they had no leads on Oropesa's whereabouts but that more than 250 officerswere working to track him down. "We're asking everyone for your help so we can bring this suspect — or this monster, I will call him — to justice," said FBI Houston special agent in charge James Smith. Smith said investigators didn't have any tips about Oropesa's location and didn't know whether he was still in the area. "Right now we're running into dead ends," he said.

NPR

Pranksters posing as Ukraine's president tricked the Fed chair into a phone call

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which Powell appeared to discuss the economic impact of interest rate hikes. Videos of the phone call have been posted on social media. In one clip, Powell says a "recession is almost as likely as very slow growth" this year. Powell has said before that the Fed's rapid series of rate hikes in the past year would slow the economy and even potentially cause a recession. A spokesperson for the Federal Reserve said "the video appears to have been edited, and I cannot confirm it is accurate." "Chair Powell participated in a conversation in January with someone who misrepresented himself as the Ukrainian president," the spokesperson said.

The Guardian

Japan approves abortion pill for the first time

The abortion pill is to become available in Japan for the first time after the health ministry approved a drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancies. Abortion is legal in Japan up to 22 weeks, but consent is usually required from a spouse or partner, and until now a surgical procedure had been the only option. The ministry said in a notification to healthcare officials on Friday it had approved a drug made by Linepharma. The British pharmaceutical company filed its product, a two-step treatment of mifepristone and misoprostol, for approval in Japan in December 2021. Similar medication is available in many countries including France, which first approved the abortion pill in 1988, and the US, where it has been available since 2000. The approval of the pill to end pregnancies up to nine weeks follows a ministry panel endorsement, which was postponed for a month as thousands of public submissions were made.

The Guardian

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘not planning’ to run for Senate seat in 2024

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will not run for a seat in the US Senate next year, according to her office, clearing the way for incumbent New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, to run for re-election unopposed by the progressive congresswoman. “She is not planning to run for Senate in 2024. She is not planning to primary Gillibrand,” Lauren Hitt, Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesperson, told Politico. Gillibrand, who launched her re-election campaign in January for a third Senate term, was widely believed to be facing a number of potential challengers in the state primary, including Ocasio-Cortez. The announcement follows indications from other New York progressives, including Mondaire Jones and representatives Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres, that they are not considering a challenge. New York Democrats were hit hard in the midterm elections last year and the loss of four seats to Republican candidates is widely blamed for the party losing control of Congress. Avoiding an acrimonious challenge from the progressive wing of the party, and concentrating on recovering the 2022 losses, is considered to be Democrats’ political priority.

Al Jazeera

Erdogan says Turkey has killed suspected ISIL leader

Turkish intelligence forces have killed the suspected leader of the ISIL (ISIS) group, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. Erdogan said Turkish intelligence had been monitoring the alleged leader of the hardline group for a long time before launching their operation. “This individual was neutralised as part of an operation by the Turkish national intelligence organisation in Syria yesterday,” Erdogan said in an interview with TRT Turk broadcaster on Sunday. “We will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination,” the president added. Syrian local and security sources said the raid took place near the northern Syrian town of Jinderes, which is controlled by Turkey-backed rebel groups and was among the worst-affected areas in the February 6 earthquake that hit both Turkey and Syria. There was no announcement from ISIL (ISIS). The Syrian National Army, an opposition faction with a security presence in the area, did not immediately issue any comment.

Deutsche Welle

The World Wide Web turns 30

1989 was a year of revolutions. While in Germany the wall was coming down, another history-making development was taking place inside the mind of a man called Tim Berners-Lee. The British physicist at the renowned CERN research institute in Geneva, Switzerland, was bothered by the infamous communications chaos between various institutes and projects at CERN. The 34-year-old wrote out a summary of his idea for a solution. "Vague, but exciting," was the response of his boss at the time. Too vague, apparently — and so at first, nothing happened. But Berners-Lee kept working on his idea. And slowly, the individual components of what would become the World Wide Web took shape: URLs for web addresses had to be created, HTML to describe the pages as well as the first web browser. The result was revealed to the global public exactly 30 years ago: On April 30, 1993, the researchers at CERN launched the World Wide Web and it was the beginning of the stellar rise of the internet. And now, the next stage of the internet is starting to emerge — artificial intelligence (AI). Just a few months ago, AI chatbot ChatGPT launched a flurry of discussion and debate. As the internet turns 30, AI could be the thing to shape its future. "As an AI-based language model, I can't say with certainty whether ChatGPT is the future of the internet, because the future of the internet depends on many factors and is constantly changing," the software said of itself when asked by DW.

Reuters

Air defence systems repelling Russian missile attacks in Kyiv region, officials say

May 1 (Reuters) - Air defence systems were repelling missile attacks in the early hours on Monday in the Kyiv region, local authorities said, after air raid alerts were issued throughout all of Ukraine by emergency services. "Air defences are at work!" Kyiv's regional administration wrote on the Telegram messaging app, after reports of explosions heard in the region. "Keep calm! Stay in shelters until the air alarm goes off!" Ukrainian media also reported blasts in the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions. Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports ot blasts.

L A Times

Projected losses from a major California earthquake soar. What’s behind seismic inflation? SAN FRANCISCO —

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