Biden prepares to mark the Capitol riot anniversary, Mexico captures the son of ‘El Chapo’, and COVID-hit China readies reopening
by Linda Noakes
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U.S. News
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy stands with his eyes closed at the back of the House Chamber on the third day of the 118th Congress at the Capitol, January 5, 2023
The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden said in his first major speech on border security.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled that a state law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional because it violated a right to privacy, handing a major win to abortion rights supporters in the South.
A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and disrupting road travel with flash floods, rock slides and toppled trees.
World News
A man walks with a dog near his damaged apartment building in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 5, 2023
More countries around the world are demanding that visitors from China take COVID tests, days before it drops border controls and ushers in an eagerly awaited return to travel for a population that has been largely stuck at home for three years.
Israel’s sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal with ultra-nationalists while trying to do more than just pay lip service to the Palestinian cause.
Venezuela’s splintered opposition, which appointed new leadership this week, faces enormous short-term challenges as it chooses a presidential candidate and tries to maintain talks with a less diplomatically isolated government.
Business & Markets
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares speaks by the Ram 1500 Revolution electric concept pickup truck during a keynote address at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, January 5, 2023
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn.
The U.S. economy likely maintained a solid pace of job and wage growth in December, but rising borrowing costs as the Federal Reserve fights inflation could slow labor market momentum significantly by mid-year.
Euro zone economic sentiment improved in December for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, European Commission data showed, with more optimism across all sectors of the economy and a sharp drop in inflation expectations.
British house prices slid in December, capping the largest quarterly drop since the financial crisis more than 10 years ago, data from mortgage lender Halifax showed. Other gauges of the housing market have also shown a sharp slowdown, reflecting rising interest rates and a worsening economy.
And Finally
A rising lava lake is seen within Halema’uma’u crater during the eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, January 5, 2023
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