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New York CNN — Former President Trump’s campaign sent a letter to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, Tuesday petitioning them to unblock his Facebook account, a source familiar with the letter tells CNN. NBC first reported the news. Trump’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were blocked following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/tech/trump-facebook-return

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That is a number that is subject to more speculation than accuracy. China has been less than transparent in releasing data. According to the WHO numbers, it was 5,200++. Since Dec., China has reported that around 60,000 people have died from Covid. It's pretty clear that whatever numbers are reported, they are probably pretty far from the actual numbers. As far as the population decline, I doubt it has much to do with Covid deaths, but Covid no doubt has played a role in the decline. It's difficult to know how many families decided against having children with Covid circulating. It's hard to predict how many people never married or even met to start a family because of the lock downs that kept people separated. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/china/china-covid-deaths-intl/index.html https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

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At least six people, including a mother and her 6-month-old baby, are dead after an “early morning massacre” Monday that authorities in Goshen, California, said may be related to cartel activity. Deputies who responded to reports of gunfire after 3:30 a.m. Monday found six victims, including two who were in the street and one who was in the doorway of the home where the gunfire erupted, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters at the scene. The mother, who was 17, and the child were both shot in the head, he said. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/us/goshen-california-massacre-six-dead/index.html

Hong Kong CNN — China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time in more than 60 years, a new milestone in the country’s deepening demographic crisis with significant implications for its slowing economy. The population fell in 2022 to 1.411 billion, down some 850,000 people from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced during a Tuesday briefing on annual data. Analysts said the decline was the first since 1961 during the great famine triggered by former leader Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/economy/china-population-decline-sixty-years-intl-hnk/index.html

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been detained by police at a protest outside a western German village. She had been protesting with activists seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine. Police told the BBC Ms Thunberg was not arrested and would be released after they checked her ID. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64309628

A trial into a tweet by Elon Musk alleging that he would take Tesla private in a $72bn (£58.7bn) buyout is set to begin on Tuesday. Mr Musk is being sued by Tesla shareholders, who say that he manipulated the share price of the company. In 2018, he tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take the carmaker private. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64293744

A man has been arrested on live TV in the US state of Indiana after his four-year-old son, appearing to wear a nappy, was seen waving a gun. Shane Osborne, 45, was charged with neglect after neighbours reported a child in a hallway carrying what they believed to be a handgun, police said. The arrest was filmed on the TV show On Patrol: Live. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64301137

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This guy has a rather impressive criminal record, including this: The Albuquerque Journal reported in July that, if Mr. Peña were to win his State House race, he could be blocked from taking office because of a criminal record that included burglary and larceny convictions. The Journal reported that Mr. Peña had served nearly seven years in prison after a 2008 conviction for stealing from big box stores. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/albuquerque-democrat-officials-shootings-arrest.html

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A dozen people with links to a French far-right group go on trial Tuesday, accused of plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron and commit a string of other attacks. Prosecutors say the 13 members of the group, Les Barjols, conspired to engineer a putsch, which involved a plan for an attack on Macron during a public appearance in 2018. Citing evidence collected online, from telephone conversations and meetings, they say the suspects also planned to kill migrants, and attack mosques. https://www.rawstory.com/far-right-group-militants-go-on-trial-for-macron-assassination-plot/

The Albuquerque Police Department has arrested Solomon Pena, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the House District 14 seat in the South Valley, in connection with the shootings at local Democratic politicians’ homes, the police chief announced Monday afternoon. “Pena, an unsuccessful legislative candidate in the 2022 election, is accused of conspiring with, and paying four other men to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators,” Chief Harold Medina said. https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solomon-pena-arrested-in-shootings-targeting-new-mexico-democratic-politicians-homes.html

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