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Hawaii’s governor declared a state of emergency as a major storm left hundreds of people without power and threatened “catastrophic flooding” across the islands. In a statement posted to Twitter on Monday, Gov. David Ige said he signed the emergency declaration as heavy rains from a “Kona low,” a type of seasonal cyclone in the Hawaiian Islands, were expected to “continue to cause flooding and damage” across the state. The decision, he said, would allow Hawaii to use funds to provide “quick and efficient relief of suffering, damage, and losses caused by flooding and other effects of heavy rains.”

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December 7, 2021
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Fully vaccinated Minneapolis man Peter McGinn, 30, speaks out after he had contracted one of the country’s first cases of the Omicron variant. The fully vaccinated Minnesota man who became one of the country’s first Omicron cases said he was ‘taken aback’ but feeling well after learning he was infected with the feared variant after coming back from a packed NYC Anime convention in November. Peter McGinn, 30, had met up with 35 people from a friends group – 15 of whom have since tested positive – to attend the convention at the Javits Center, which drew about 53,000 people from November 20-22. It is unknown how many in that fully vaccinated group have the Omicron variant. The group had also all gone out to a bar following the event.

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December 7, 2021
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Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz was heralded as a turnaround artist when he took the helm of the Florida Democratic Party. The big question nearly a year later is whether he’s done enough to help Democrats win in 2022. Diaz, tasked with rebuilding the state party ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, has not made much visible progress and is confronting a potential onslaught from Republicans. The Florida GOP recently overtook Democrats in voter registration numbers for the first time in decades. Gov. Ron DeSantis is demolishing his three Democratic challengers in fundraising for next year’s governors race. And Democrats have yet to recruit a full slate of candidates to challenge the three Republicans who sit on the state Cabinet.

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December 7, 2021
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President Joe Biden was expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video meeting Tuesday that there would be consequences for invading its neighbor Ukraine, as Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border. During the meeting, the first conversation between the leaders since July, Biden planned to threaten “substantial economic countermeasures” if Russia prepared to proceed with a military invasion, a senior Biden administration official said Monday. “What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be–will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do,” Biden told ABC News White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks on Friday.

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December 7, 2021
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With the critical 2022 midterm election looming, elections experts say the already opaque world of campaign fundraising is becoming even more murky, as a number of political groups have started registering under cryptic and hard-to-trace names. “When super PACs name themselves using simply an assortment of letters and numbers, it’s harder for people to understand the super PAC’s ideological leanings without additional digging,” said Michael Beckel, research director with bipartisan political reform group Issue One. “Few people will take the time to research the name of a super PAC after seeing its ads — if they can ever remember the right mix of letters and numbers the super PAC is using as its name,” Beckel said.

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December 7, 2021
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WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”. WhatsApp introduced disappearing messages last year, with the option of deleting chats by default after seven days, but from Monday that is being offered in two new timeframes: 24 hours or 90 days. Users will also have the option to turn on disappearing messages by default for all new chats. Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of WhatsApp’s parent, Meta, said on his Facebook page: “Not all messages need to stick around forever.”

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December 7, 2021
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Three more of the 17 American and Canadian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti in October have been freed, their church group Christian Aid Ministries confirmed. Two other members were released last month. No information on the newly-released missionaries identities have been given, although they’re said to be in good health and good spirits. Christian Aid has also refused to comment on the circumstances surrounding their release – including whether a ransom was paid. The missionaries and family members, a group of 16 Americans and one Canadian, were abducted while returning from an orphanage in an area east of the capital Port-au-Prince controlled by one of Haiti’s most powerful crime gangs. Two of them were released in November, leaving 12 currently still in captivity.

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December 7, 2021
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A trans swimmer and senior at the University of Pennsylvania, who previously spent three years competing as a man, smashed two US records while competing at a weekend contest, sparking fresh claims of unfairness. On Sunday, Lia Thomas, 22, put in an astounding performance at the Zippy Invitational Event in Akron, Ohio, that saw her finish the 1,650 yard freestyle 38 seconds ahead of her teammate Anna Sofia Kalandaze. Thomas’s winning time was 15:59:71, with her UPenn teammate Anna Kalandaze coming second with a time of 16:37:44. Thomas’s win was a record for the Zippy Meet, and the pool where the event took place. But she also managed to smash two US women’s swimming records during earlier races at the same event.

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December 7, 2021
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A Florida jury rejected claims that Craig Wright and David Kleiman formed a partnership to launch bitcoin, ending a high-profile case that revolved around the identity of the digital currency’s anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto and the disposition of a multibillion-dollar fortune. The civil suit, filed by the family of Mr. Kleiman, now deceased, alleged that he and Mr. Wright formed a business partnership, called W&K Information Defense Research. As part of that partnership, they together created and launched bitcoin in 2008 and 2009, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the suit alleged. After Mr. Kleiman’s death in 2013, according to the suit, Mr. Wright covered up Mr. Kleiman’s involvement. The suit sought restitution that could have totaled tens of billions and forced Mr. Wright to sell some of the fortune in bitcoin assumed to be held by Nakamoto. Had it occurred, that would have settled the question of whether or not Mr. Wright—who has for years claimed he created bitcoin—was indeed involved.

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December 7, 2021
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Elon Musk took aim at a signature Biden administration legislative proposal and said China is adjusting to its growing position as a dominant world power in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. The Tesla Inc. chief executive criticized federal efforts meant to spur electric-vehicle adoption, including a bill that would boost incentives for buying battery-powered cars. The House has passed a roughly $2 trillion social-spending and climate bill championed by President Biden that would give consumers a tax credit of as much as $12,500 if they buy an electric vehicle assembled by union workers using American-built batteries. Vehicles made in nonunion factories, such as Tesla’s, would qualify for a smaller credit.

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December 7, 2021
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Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese government-backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCI) said on Monday that a federal court in Virginia had granted an order allowing the company to take control of the websites and redirect the traffic to Microsoft servers. These malicious websites were being used by a state-sponsored hacking group known as Nickel, or APT15, to gather intelligence from government agencies, think tanks and human rights organizations, according to the company.

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December 7, 2021
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The Justice Department has closed a federal investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in rural Mississippi, a case that horrified the country and galvanized the civil rights movement, officials said Monday. Till, a Black 14-year-old visiting from Chicago, was murdered after he was accused of whistling at and making sexual advances toward a White woman, Carolyn Bryant, during an interaction at Bryant’s grocery store in Money, Miss. Federal authorities reopened the case three years ago, after a new book quoted Bryant denying that Till had made any advances. In theory, that could have meant she lied in decades-old court proceedings. But Justice Department officials said Monday that when the FBI questioned Bryant about those alleged statements to the book’s author, she said she did not make them, and the author’s interview tape and transcripts do not show her making such statements.

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December 7, 2021
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The United States on Monday began requiring all inbound international travelers to show proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within a day of their flight to enter the country. The requirement is mandatory for anyone at least 2 years old, even American citizens and legal residents, regardless of vaccination status. Previously, anyone flying into the United States needed to test ahead of their trip, but their vaccination status determined their testing timeline. Vaccinated travelers had three days to get tested, while unvaccinated travelers had just one. Other countries have also implemented new testing strategies to combat omicron. Starting Tuesday, the United Kingdom will require international travelers to show proof of a negative test within 48 hours of their inbound flights (in addition to testing again within two days of arrival and self-quarantining until results are processed).

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December 7, 2021
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Michael H. Steinhardt, the billionaire hedge fund pioneer and one of New York’s most prolific antiquities collectors, has surrendered 180 stolen objects valued at $70 million and been barred for life from acquiring any other relics, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a statement Monday. The prosecutor’s office struck an agreement with Mr. Steinhardt after a four-year multinational investigation that determined that the seized pieces had been looted and smuggled from 11 countries, trafficked by 12 illicit networks and appeared on the international art market without lawful paperwork, the office said.

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December 7, 2021
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CNN host Don Lemon neglected to discuss his alleged meddling in the aftermath of Jussie Smollett’es hate crime debacle while reporting on the disgraced Empire star’s highly publicized trial Monday. The network faces a fresh scandal after Smollett claimed in court that Lemon had texted him details of a police investigation into an attack Smollett now stands accused of faking. During his ‘Don Lemon Tonight’ segment on Monday, the anchor portrayed an air of impartiality when touching on Smollett’s cross-examination in court, but failed to acknowledge Smollett’s accusations against him.

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December 7, 2021
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Rep. Devin Nunes, a close ally of former President Donald Trump and the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, will resign from Congress later this month, he said Monday in an email to constituents. Nunes (R-Calif.) a 10-term Republican first elected in 2002, ascended to chair the committee in 2015. But he recused himself temporarily from an inquiry into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election while the ethics committee examined his handling of the committee’s investigation. While the independent commission charged with redrawing California’s congressional map is still completing its work, an early draft tilted Nunes’ Central Valley district toward Democrats, potentially complicating his path to reelection.

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December 6, 2021
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Julio Borges, who serves as foreign minister for Venezuela’s U.S.-backed interim government, said on Sunday he would leave his post, further weakening the opposition just weeks after it was routed in regional elections. The United States and dozens of other countries recognize the interim government, led by Juan Guaidó and formed at the beginning of 2019, and consider the 2018 re-election of socialist President Nicolás Maduro to be fraudulent. The interim government is not serving its purpose, Borges, whose differences with Guaidó are well-known, said in an online news conference. “The (interim) government makes sense as an instrument to get out of the dictatorship. But at this moment, in our way of seeing it, the interim government has been damaged,” Borges said.

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December 6, 2021
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Regulators are investigating a deal between Donald Trump’s new social-media venture and a special-purpose acquisition company that would take the former president’s company public, according to a Monday securities filing. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing a potential merger between Trump Media & Technology Group and the SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. Digital World disclosed Monday. The SPAC is known by its stock ticker, DWAC. The SPAC said in October that it is taking Mr. Trump’s social-media company public in a deal that valued it at roughly $875 million, including debt.

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December 6, 2021
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The second accuser in the New York sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell alleged on Monday the Briton asked her to find young women for sexual encounters with the financier Jeffrey Epstein, because his demands were insatiable. The accuser, who testified in federal court in Manhattan under the pseudonym Kate, said she was 17 when she met Maxwell in Paris around 1994. She gave Maxwell her phone number, she said. The Briton struck her as “very sophisticated and very elegant”, she said, adding: “She was very impressive … everything that I wanted to be.”

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December 6, 2021
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Fred Hiatt, a onetime foreign correspondent who in 2000 became The Washington Post’s editorial page editor and greatly expanded the global reach of the newspaper’s opinion writers in the era of 9/11, the election of Barack Obama and the destabilizing presidency of Donald Trump, died Dec. 6 at a hospital in New York City. He had sudden cardiac arrest on Nov. 24 while visiting his daughter in Brooklyn, said his wife, Margaret “Pooh” Shapiro, and did not regain consciousness. He had been treated for heart ailments in the past.

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December 6, 2021
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The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas for the second time in a month over new voting laws, this time alleging that Republican state lawmakers discriminated against Latinos and other minorities when they approved new congressional and state legislature districts that increased the power of White voters. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement marked the department’s first major legal action on redistricting at a time when Democrats have warned that GOP-controlled state legislatures are seeking to improperly redraw voting precincts to aid Republican candidates ahead of the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential election.

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