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Source: CNN
The murder conviction of a New Jersey mother who was charged in her son's killing 23 years after he vanished has been vacated by a panel of judges, according to court documents.
Michelle Lodzinski's murder conviction was vacated by the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday by a vote of 4-3 due to a lack of proper evidence, documents state.
"We now hold that after reviewing 'the entirety of the evidence and after giving the State the benefit of all its favorable testimony and all the favorable inferences drawn from that testimony,' no reasonable jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that Lodzinski purposefully or knowingly caused Timothy's death," Justice Barry Albin wrote.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/us/michelle-lodzinski-murder-conviction-vacated/index.html
67 degrees in Alaska? Climate change continues to topple temperature records
Source: Yahoo News
On Sunday, the temperature in Kodiak, Alaska, hit 67 degrees Fahrenheit, setting a December record-high for a state that has become used to them as climate change continues to rewrite history.
The temperature readings in Kodiak did not merely edge out some previous record by a degree or two; the 65 degrees reported at the airport was 20 degrees higher than the previous high temperature record of 45 degrees set on Dec. 26, 1984, the National Weather Service reported.
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Alaska is warming faster than any other U.S. state and twice as quickly as the global average since the middle of the 20th century.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/67-degrees-in-alaska-climate-change-continues-to-topple-temperature-records-193405514.html
US and Russia to hold talks amid Ukraine tensions, says White House
Source: The Guardian
US and Russian officials will take part in security talks on 10 January as the countries confront rising tensions over Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Biden administration has said.
Moscow, which has unnerved the west with a troop build-up near Ukraine, has put forward a wish list of security proposals it wants to negotiate, including a promise that Nato would give up any military activity in eastern Europe and Ukraine.
The spokesperson for the White House's National Security Council, who declined to be named, said on Monday: "When we sit down to talk, Russia can put its concerns on the table, and we will put our concerns on the table with Russia's activities as well."There will be areas where we can make progress, and areas where we will disagree.
Russian officials had previously confirmed that they intended to participate in January security talks with the US and that they were considering joining the 12 January Nato talks.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/us-and-russia-to-hold-talks-amid-ukraine-tensions-says-white-house
The Fed's Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We're Headed
Source: Politico
Inflation is rising faster than the Fed believed it would even a few months ago, with higher prices for gas, goods and automobiles being fueled by the Fed's unprecedented money printing programs.
This comes after years of the Fed steadily pumping up the price of assets like stocks and bonds through its zero-percent interest rates and quantitative easing during and after Hoenig's time on the FOMC. To respond to rising inflation, the Fed has signaled that it will start hiking interest rates next year.
In a 2004 report, the Fed economist Edward Nelson wrote that the most likely cause of inflation during the '70s was something he called "Monetary policy neglect." Basically, the Fed kept its foot on the money pedal through most of the decade because it didn't understand that more money was creating more inflation.
The Fed creates the money as it always has, by using its own team of financial traders who work at the Fed's regional bank in New York.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177
Russia extends prison term for researcher of Stalin purges
Source: Associated Press
MOSCOW -- A Russian court on Monday extended the prison term handed to an activist who investigated Stalin-era repression to 15 years on what he says are trumped-up charges.
Yuri Dmitriyev, 65, rose to prominence after uncovering mass graves of victims of Stalinist repressions. He was arrested on charges of sexually abusing his adopted daughter, which rights activists have dismissed as fabricated and politically motivated.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-extends-prison-term-researcher-stalin-purges-81953206
Three dead, one critical after Garland, Texas, convenience store shooting
Source: NBC News
Three people are dead, a fourth person is in critical condition and the suspected shooter is at large after gunfire erupted Sunday night at a Texas convenience store, authorities said.
Officers responded to the scene in Garland, northeast of Dallas, just after 7:30 p.m., according to the police department in the suburban city.
They found four males inside the store who had been shot. Three were pronounced dead at the scene, while the fourth victim was taken to a hospital, Garland police said in a statement.
Surveillance video retrieved from the store showed all four of those shot inside the shop. The video then showed a "light-skinned male exit a white Dodge 4-door pickup truck, open the front doors of the convenience store, and begin firing a gun, striking the victims," according to the statement.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-dead-one-critical-garland-texas-convenience-store-shooting-rcna10034
Israel plans to double settlement in Golan Heights
Source: Associated Press
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than five decades ago.
Bennett said the new investment in the region was prompted by the Trump administration’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the swath of land and by the Biden administration’s indication that it will not soon challenge that decision.
“This is our moment. This is the moment of the Golan Heights,” Bennett said at a special Cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights. “After long and static years in terms of the scope of settlement, our goal today is to double settlement in the Golan Heights.”
Entrenching Israeli control over the territory would complicate any future attempt to forge peace with Syria, which claims the Golan Heights.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-travel-middle-east-israel-syria-39652efff41b83afffcd51ff352db523
Man killed in front of his 3 kids, girlfriend in potential Christmas Eve road rage shooting
Source: ABC News
A man was driving with his girlfriend and three kids, heading to a Christmas Eve gathering, when he was shot dead in a possible road rage incident, police in Maryland said.
Danny Kelly Jr., of Clinton, Maryland, was driving his family to a holiday dinner when the 30-year-old was shot at about 4:40 p.m. Friday in Temple Hills, Prince George’s County police said.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-killed-front-kids-girlfriend-potential-christmas-eve/story?id=81944032
Sierra Nevada Gets a Whiteout Christmas With More to Come
Source: CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Parts of California are getting a White Christmas after all, with snowfall pounding mountains across the state.
Other areas of California, however, saw a wet and rainy Christmas as storms continue to drench the state, causing flash flooding and evacuations in some areas over the holiday period.
A 70-mile stretch of interstate over the top of the Sierra Nevada was closed Saturday when a storm that dropped nearly 2 feet of snow on some ski resorts around Lake Tahoe overnight got a second wind.
Interstate 80 connecting Reno to Sacramento over the Sierra was closed in both directions due to poor visibility from the Nevada-California state line to Colfax, California
Read more: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/26/sierra-blizzard-shuts-interstate-80-from-colfax-to-nevada/
Donald Trump's Base Took His Tweetstorm Seriously, Even If Nobody Else Did
Source: Newsweek
"Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th," Donald Trump started his particularly angry tweetstorm on December 26, the day after Christmas, from his West Palm Beach, Florida, home. The president let loose on every branch of government, from the FBI to the Supreme Court.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has been totally incompetent and weak on the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election. We have absolute PROOF, but they don't want to see it - No standing, they say. If we have corrupt elections, we have no country!"
"The Justice Department and the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud, the biggest SCAM in our nation's history, despite overwhelming evidence," Trump said. "They should be ashamed. History will remember."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-base-took-his-tweetstorm-seriously-even-if-nobody-else-did-1661304?utm_source=pocket_mylist
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