News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, has joined the ranks of election officials subpoenaed in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Trump. https://t.co/KfeQNmVvGj
— Axios (@axios) December 12, 2022
Biden administration officials met virtually with Elizabeth Whelan, whose brother Paul Whelan remains detained in Russia, she told CNN https://t.co/U4gDd00uHQ
— CNN (@CNN) December 12, 2022
Putin will skip his annual marathon December news conference this year for the first time in a decade, a Kremlin spokesman told reporters, according to Russian state media. https://t.co/7fyaLqE8Xs
— Axios (@axios) December 12, 2022
Incoming House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, enthusiastically supports continuing to aid Ukraine in its hard-fought war against Russia. https://t.co/JqiuJtb2zY
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 12, 2022
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said at a Republican event that if she had organized the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol "we would have won" and "it would've been armed," according to video from her appearance. https://t.co/AyKYoZ3J13
— ABC News (@ABC) December 12, 2022
Supreme Court agrees to hear a second bid to revive President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, which will be heard in February alongside a case the justices have already agreed to hear. https://t.co/CtRZeDYd7G
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2022
Environmental officials worked over the weekend to mitigate the fallout from last week's Keystone Pipeline rupture that leaked about 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a Kansas creek. https://t.co/34dbOdbHMJ
— ABC News (@ABC) December 12, 2022
Iran has executed a second prisoner, Majidreza Rahnavard, who was convicted over crimes committed during protests challenging the country’s theocracy. Activists warn that at least a dozen people already have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings. https://t.co/0rgK8hUov2
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 12, 2022
New research confirms a link between a Covid infection and POTS, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system often characterized by a rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, fainting and lightheadedness. https://t.co/NWh7SuNEZS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2022
The city of Richmond, Virginia, is removing its last standing Confederate monument https://t.co/yYrUtjGQHh
— CNN (@CNN) December 12, 2022
Scientists, governments, and companies from around the world have been increasingly investing in a potential source of energy that could provide unlimited, clean power to everyone on Earth: nuclear fusion. https://t.co/CClNZ6ggiK
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 12, 2022
This year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards featured a salmon punching a bear in the face, a penguin that seems to have no head, and much more. https://t.co/MrjmrzNQrB
— NPR (@NPR) December 12, 2022
