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Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried after U.S. law enforcement filed charges against the former crypto billionaire. Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder said that the United States had filed unspecified criminal charges against Bankman-Fried and was “likely to request his extradition.” In a statement, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said “The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-the-bahamas-after-us-files-criminal-charges.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.Message

Elon Musk joined Dave Chappelle on stage Sunday in San Francisco, home of Twitter’s headquarters where the world’s richest person recently laid off many of its employees. It went about as well as you’d expect. The crowd at the Chase Center loudly booed Musk, who had spent much of the weekend wading into the culture wars, making transphobic statements and seemingly echoing QAnon tropes. Video of the incident at Sunday’s Chappelle show captured by people in attendance shows the controversial Twitter owner taking the stage and yelling Chappelle’s famous Rick James impression: “I’m rich, b***h.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/business/elon-musk-booed-dave-chappelle/index.html

NIF's target chamber is where the magic happens -- temperatures of 100 million degrees and pressures extreme enough to compress the target to densities up to 100 times the density of lead are created there. For the first time in history, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN. The US Department of Energy is expected to officially announce the breakthrough Tuesday. The result of the experiment would be a massive step in a decadeslong quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/us/common-questions-nuclear-fusion-climate/index.html

Amid growing controversy, an Arizona sheriff has vowed to stop the construction of an "illegal" wall of shipping containers at the US-Mexico border if it reaches his county. The makeshift barrier is being built by Governor Doug Ducey in his waning days in office. Construction began earlier this year, with Mr Ducey saying it was an attempt to "secure" the border. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63946771

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A street view close to Wieambilla, in rural Queensland Two police officers and a member of the public have been shot dead at a remote property in Queensland, Australia. The officers were responding to reports of a missing person in Wieambilla - 270km (168 miles) west of Brisbane. The offenders are still at large, the police said at a news conference. Residents are being told to remain indoors "until further notice". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63943292

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The Canadian province of Quebec has passed a law making an oath of allegiance to the monarch optional for members of the legislature. The bill was introduced after the ascension of King Charles III, when three politicians refused to swear allegiance. In October, Canada's federal parliamentarians overwhelmingly voted no to severing ties with the Crown. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63924746

Four people have been charged in connection with an anti-corruption investigation into the European Parliament that has sent shockwaves through Brussels. European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili and three others were charged and imprisoned on Sunday in Belgium, amid a police probe into alleged corruption linked with Qatar. Six people have been arrested since Friday in Brussels after investigators made multiple raids based on suspicions of "substantial" money payments by the Gulf state to influence MEPs. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/12/09/four-linked-to-eu-parliament-arrested-amid-suspicions-of-corruption-involving-a-persian-gu

A search for people after an explosion at a block of flats in Jersey that left three dead has found no signs of life. Emergency service bosses said the search and rescue operation was now one of recovery. "We have been searching and we will not stop searching for people's loved ones," Chief Fire Officer Paul Brown told a press conference. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-63933571

The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — came to an momentous end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a successful ocean splashdown Sunday. The spacecraft finished the final stretch of its journey, closing in on the thick inner layer of Earth’s atmosphere after traversing 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) between the moon and Earth. It splashed down at 12:40 p.m. ET Sunday in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja California. Rob Navias, the NASA commentator who led Sunday’s broadcast, called the reentry process “textbook.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/world/nasa-splashdown-artemis-i-orion-sunday-scn/index.html

A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in December 1988 is now in US custody, authorities in the United States and Scotland said Sunday. The US charged Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi for his alleged involvement in the bombing two years ago, a spokesman for the UK Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service told CNN. The attack killed 270 people as the bomb detonated over the Scottish town as it flew from London to New York. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/uk/lockerbie-bombing-suspect-custody-intl/index.html

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Update: On Friday, the amount of crude oil spilled in the Washington County incident was said to be more than all other Keystone Pipeline spills combined. An estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled from the Keystone Pipeline into Mill Creek near the city of Washington, Kansas Wednesday night. “There is no threat or imminent danger to city utilities, and the City water supply remains safe and not in jeopardy,” Washington, Kansas officials wrote on the city’s website Thursday. Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article269788062.html#storylink=cpy

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Less than two weeks after Donald Trump hosted antisemitic rapper Kanye West and his white nationalist and Holocaust-denying pal Nick Fuentes at a Mar-a-Lago dinner, the former president said on Friday that Jewish leaders “should be ashamed of themselves” for their “lack of loyalty” to him. “How quickly Jewish leaders forgot that I was the best, by far, president for Israel,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after posting an op-ed from a far-right conspiracy theorist who said that Trump did more for Israel and the “Jewish people than anyone in history.” “This lack of loyalty to their greatest friends and allies is why large numbers in Congress, and so many others, have stopped giving support to Israel,” he added in his first public comment to the Jewish community since a deluge of criticism in the wake of the highly controversial dinner. https://www.yahoo.com/news/wake-shocking-dinner-trump-says-030327782.html

Young people in France will have free access to condoms from January, in a bid to minimise the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The French president announced the new health measure on Thursday at an event for young people's health. Emmanuel Macron said young people would be able to collect them from pharmacies, and described the move as a "small revolution in prevention". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63915467

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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has announced that she will leave the Democratic Party and officially register as an independent. “I’ve registered as an Arizona independent. I know some people might be a little bit surprised by this, but actually, I think it makes a lot of sense,” Sinema said in an interview Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper in her Senate office. “I’ve never fit neatly into any party box. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3768328-sinema-leaving-democratic-party-will-register-as-independent/

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