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Overnight News Digest January 19, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-01-19

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man (RIP), wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos since 2007, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

BBC

Israel says 90 Palestinian prisoners freed after Hamas releases three hostages in Gaza

AP News

Heavy snow and frigid Arctic blast put 70 million across the US under winter storm warnings

BOSTON (AP) — Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold temperatures that will grip much of the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine. Winter storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service have already gone into effect for parts of the Mid-Atlantic through Monday morning, with the forecast projecting up to a half foot (15 centimeters) of snow. Warnings will begin in New England on Sunday afternoon, with parts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut seeing as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of snow. Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park Maryland, projected that as many as 70 million residents will be under some kind of winter storm warning in the coming days including in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Large cities such as Philadelphia, New York and Boston could see several inches of snow this evening with the highest totals accumulating outside of major cities.

Reuters

Trump rethinking next week's planned immigration raids, report says

Raids had been expected to start in Chicago area on Monday morning

New York, Miami also said to be slated for enforcement action

Leaks of information cited as reason to reconsider WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago next week after details were leaked, Trump's “border czar” Tom Homan told the Washington Post in an interview on Saturday. The new administration “hasn’t made a decision yet,” said Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the report. “We’re looking at this leak and will make decision based on this leak,” he added. Officials and rights advocates had said Trump's administration would launch sweeps in multiple U.S. cities almost as soon as he takes office on Monday, with Chicago considered a likely first location.

Note where the “leak” came from.

Tom Homan was a guest at a holiday party hosted by the Law and Order PAC and the Northwest Side GOP Club. […] "We're going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn't want to help, he can step aside," Homan told the crowd. "But if he impedes us—if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien—I will prosecute him."

Reuters

China vice president meets with Elon Musk ahead of Trump inauguration

BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) - China's Vice President Han Zheng met on Sunday with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other members of the U.S. business community in Washington D.C., the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. Han told Musk he "welcomed Tesla (TSLA.O) , opens new tab and other U.S. companies to seize the opportunities and share in the benefits of China's development, and contribute to the growth of China-U.S. economic and trade relations," the report said. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration after winning last year's presidential election. Xi has sent Han in his place.

Reuters

Mugshot, khaki uniform and solitary cell for South Korea's detained President Yoon

SEOUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has spent his first night incarcerated as a pre-trial inmate at the Seoul Detention Centre after a court issued a formal detention warrant on Sunday to hold him for up to 20 days. He became the first incumbent president to be arrested in South Korea last week and was detained for an initial 48 hours of questioning, over a probe into whether he committed insurrection with his bid to declare martial law on Dec. 3. After he was processed, Yoon was moved to the general detention section where he was allocated a solitary cell measuring about 12 square metres (129 square feet), Shin said. That is larger than the usual 3.4 square metre single cell.

Reuters

Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows

Forecasts democratic principles 'will be largely undermined'

German foreign minister defends ambassador, vows to work closely with new administration BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters. "Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power," it says. The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump 's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states."

Deutsche Welle

Left Party gains confidence as German election nears

A new "spirit of optimism" came up repeatedly in speeches at the Left Party's convention in Berlin on Saturday. Just a few months ago, there was no such outlook. Last year was a political nightmare for the party: In January, their former parliamentary group leader Sahra Wagenknecht founded her own eponymous party, then they saw their European Union representation cut in half to just 2.7%. The 2024 state elections were also a disaster, with the party losing its traditional foothold in the east. Their only state premier failed to hang on in Thuringia, while they barely made it into Saxony's state parliament and were kicked out of Brandenburg entirely. So it was little wonder that few believed that the Left Party, known as Die Linke in German, would have much success in the upcoming parliamentary elections on February 23. But the tide seems to be turning: In polls the Left Party is approaching the 5% hurdle needed to enter the Bundestag.

Deutsche Welle

Is a global nuclear energy expansion realistic?

Nuclear power releases no carbon emissions during operation and has been touted as a solution to power the world's rapidly growing energy needs. Though it doesn't pollute in the same way as fossil fuels, nuclear energy comes with its own set of environmental problems: among them, indirect emissions from uranium mines, contaminated water, radioactive waste and the risk of a Chernobyl-style disaster. Despite the risks, nuclear is expected to make up nearly 10% of global electricity production in 2025, according to new data from the International Energy Agency — a 30-year high. Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, said that growth was bring led by China, boosted in part by the huge energy demand of technologies like artificial intelligence and data centers. The governing coalition of the center-left Social Democrats and Greens, meanwhile, have both ruled out a return to nuclear, which is also connected to indirect emissions from the long and complex construction process of reactors.

Al Jazeera

Two Iran Supreme Court judges killed in Tehran shooting attack

Two senior Iranian justices have been killed in a shooting attack in the Supreme Court in the capital Tehran, according to the judiciary and state media. The “assassination” was carried out by an armed person, who killed himself after opening fire early on Saturday, according to a statement by the media centre of the judiciary The victims were identified as Muslim scholars Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, both holding the rank of hujjat al-Islam and each presiding over a different branch of the court. Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told Iranian state television that “a person armed with a handgun entered the room” of the two judges and shot them. He said the assailant committed suicide.

Raw Story

'About to get worse': Why egg prices are set to skyrocket

During his 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly made the promise that "prices will come down," BBC reports, but according to two experts, that won't be happening any time soon — at least when it comes to the price of eggs. While eggs are already "40% more expensive now than they were a year ago," KTLA notes, according to the Department of Labor, the raging avian flu epidemic means "it's about to get even worse." The epidemic — which "has already led to the death of more than 100 million egg-laying hens" — according to the report, is expected to spike egg prices "as much as 20% more in 2025." Per KTLA, "Anytime the virus is detected, every bird on the farm has to be killed to limit the spread of the disease.

Washington Post (I know)

In Florida, a rebellion against fluoride is winning

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