(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: The legacy of Indian boarding schools [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-12-09 NPR President Biden on Monday announced a new national monument to tell the story of the more than 400 boarding schools where tens of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children were sent for assimilation. Biden said the schools were "designed to sever ties between children and their tribal families, their language and culture." Biden formally apologized for the Indian boarding schools in October, calling it one of the "most horrific chapters in American history." He announced the new monument during the White House Tribal Nations Summit. This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. USA Today A Maryland man was detained in Pennsylvania and questioned about the shocking shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan after a multi-day manhunt that gained worldwide attention, authorities said. Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in the western Pennsylvania city of Altoona after he was found with a gun similar to the firearm used in the shooting last Wednesday, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on Monday. [...] Writings found on Mangione, the son of a prominent Baltimore family, showed "some ill will toward corporate America," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters. In a four-star Goodreads review of The Unabomber Manifesto he posted in January, Mangione wrote, "It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out." BBC In the end the Assad regime was so hollow, corrupt and decayed that it collapsed in less than a fortnight. No one I have spoken to has been anything other than astonished by the speed with which the regime turned to dust. In the spring of 2011, the year of the Arab uprisings, it was different, when Syrians tried to grab some of the revolutionary magic that had swept away the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and was threatening the veteran strongmen of Libya and Yemen. By 2011, the regime created by Hafez al-Assad and passed to his son Bashar on his death in 2000 was already corrupt and decadent. But the system that Hafez built still had much of the brutal, ruthless strength that he believed was necessary to control Syria. Assad senior had seized power in a country that was prone to coups and delivered it to his son and heir without a significant challenge. BBC A real-life "Succession" battle for Rupert Murdoch's media empire has ended with a Nevada court commissioner denying the billionaire's bid to change a family trust and give control to his eldest son. The case pitted the 93-year-old against three of his children over who would gain the power to control News Corp and Fox News when he dies. It has been reported that Mr Murdoch wanted to amend a family trust created in 1999 to allow his son Lachlan to take control without "interference" from his siblings Prudence, Elisabeth and James. A Nevada commissioner ruled Mr Murdoch and Lachlan had acted in "bad faith" and called the efforts a "carefully crafted charade", according to the New York Times. Al Jazeera Dozens of Palestinians – including women and children – have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, health authorities say, as a power outage threatens the lives of more than 100 patients at a hospital in the besieged territory’s north. Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday that 50 people were killed the previous day and 84 others were injured as Israeli forces committed three “massacres” in the territory. An Israeli drone attack in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Monday morning killed three people, sources told Al Jazeera. “[The victims] were trying to leave their home in search of food in the vicinity of their neighbourhood when they were targeted by a drone,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Deir el-Balah in Gaza. Deutsche Welle At least 110 people were massacred in a slum in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, after a gang leader appeared to have targeted people he suspected of causing his child's illness through witchcraft, a human rights group said Monday. The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), based in the capital, said a local gang leader, Monel "Mikano" Felix, ordered the killings after a voodoo priest told him that elderly people in Wharf Jeremie, a district of the capital's notorious Cite Soleil slum, had cursed his son. Gang members then reportedly butchered at least 60 people on Friday and another 50 on Saturday with knives and machetes. Most of the victims were reportedly voodoo followers over the age of 60. The New York Times said that a local resident had confirmed the reports by the RNDDH and the Combine for Peace and Development (CPD) charity. Deutsche Welle German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday promised competitive energy costs and fairer international framework condition to labor leaders and steel executives from companies such as Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, Salzgitter and ArcelorMittal. The industry has struggled for years against low-cost competition from Asia and a volatile market. During the meeting in Berlin, the chancellor emphasized his commitment to competitive energy costs and fairer international framework conditions, and to continue to support the German steel industry in its efforts to modernize production, the government announced. Scholz wants to cap the cost of transporting electricity through the transmission grid at three cents per kilowatt hour. In addition, the German government wants to finance part of the costs for the transmission grids so that the grid fees do not increase in 2025. However, Scholz lacks a majority in parliament since he fired former finance minister Christian Lindner, and passing these proposals would require support from the opposition. The Guardian International Exclusive: The Guardian gains access to Sednaya jail, where prisoners are rumoured to be trapped underground – as desperate relatives wait for news The celebrations in Damascus were interrupted by a whisper. On the outskirts of the city, a door had been found. Beyond it lay a vast underground complex, five storeys deep, containing the last prisoners of the Assad regime, who were gasping for air. Cars raced towards Sednaya prison, locally known as “the human slaughterhouse”, the most notorious torture complex of the Syrian government’s vast network of detention centres. The Guardian followed as traffic came to a standstill and rumours were passed between lowered windows: there were 1,500 prisoners trapped underground that needed rescuing; perhaps your loved ones are among them. Cars were ditched by the roadside and people began to walk. BBC h/t water willow Eleven years ago, I left Damascus not knowing if I would ever be back. Back then, the city was in the grip of war. Intense violence, which followed President Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests, engulfed the capital. At any moment you could be shot dead on the streets. I reported for the BBC from inside Syria on the very first protests in 2011. I reported on the "day of rage", then on shootings, killings, disappearances, air strikes and barrel bombs - until I myself became numb and lost hope. I was arrested several times. The regime limited my movements and threatened me, and in 2013 I had to leave. Over the past decade, I've lived through a rollercoaster of hope and despair, watching my country ripped apart from abroad. Death, destruction, detention. Millions fleeing and becoming refugees. Like many Syrians, I felt as though the world had forgotten about our country. There was no light at the end of the tunnel. The Guardian A Kentucky judge who was shot dead in his chambers by a local sheriff had allegedly been “running a brothel” out of his courtroom, according to a lawyer. Reporting from NewsNation suggests the slain Letcher county district court judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was connected to a sex-for-favors scheme where women on house arrest exchanged sexual acts for special treatment, according to statements from a lawyer. Mullins was killed in his chambers on 19 September, in plain view of a surveillance camera that showed him being shot by the county sheriff . The sheriff – Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 43 – was arrested and has pleaded not guilty to murder. Audio recordings exclusively obtained by Nexstar’s NewsNation purportedly tie the slain judge to an illegal sextortion scandal just one week after Stines entered his plea. NPR The Supreme Court has declined to review an elite public school admissions process based on zip codes. The court's action was the second time the justices declined to intervene in an admissions program based on geography since their 2023 ruling invalidating affirmative action in higher education. Monday's case involved the 2021 overhaul of the admission criteria for Boston's three competitive "exam schools." Instead of relying on standardized tests, as the school committee had done in the past, the committee instead reserved seats for students with the highest GPA in each Boston neighborhood. The number of seats depended on the neighborhood's population of school-age children. [...] Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Alito said the Boston policy was tantamount to "racial balancing by another name and is undoubtedly unconstitutional." NPR As the Washington Post newsroom awaits the appointment of a new top editor, its acting news chief intervened to block an article about the departure of its second-highest-ranking editor, a contender for the position, according to several people with knowledge of events. Managing Editor Matea Gold, a veteran of 11-and-a-half years at the Post who has built up deep loyalty among staffers, had been herself considered a top internal candidate to run the newsroom. According to associates, it became clear that Post Publisher and Chief Executive Will Lewis was poised to pass over her. She is instead headed to be second-highest ranking leader of the New York Times Washington bureau, as the Times announced today . Kyiv Independent Ukraine successfully returned five children from Russia and Russian-occupied territories as part of the "Bring Kids Back UA" initiative, Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak announced early on Dec. 10. Among those rescued were three young Ukrainians who had just turned 18. Yermak added that two of them suffered from psychological pressure while living in Russia, and the third, a young man without family support, finally managed to leave the occupied territory. The initiative also helped a family of four, including children aged 11 and 14, who faced persecution for their pro-Ukrainian position. They also assisted a 77-year-old woman who could not evacuate on her own. "Their stories reveal the terror and fear people endure under occupation," Yermak said. Since February 2022, at least 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted from Russian-occupied territories and sent to other Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine or to Russia itself, according to a Ukrainian national database "Children of War." [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/9/2291075/-Overnight-News-Digest-The-legacy-of-Indian-boarding-schools?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/