(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest January 24 2023 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-24 Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago police, organizers to strengthen planned security for Lunar New Year parades by Ilana Arougheti After two mass shootings in California in recent days, Chicago police and organizers of local Lunar New Year celebrations are taking extra precautions. The Chicago Police Department will increase planned security for Lunar New Year parades in Uptown on Saturday and in Chinatown on Sunday. “Our volunteers, as with the police, will be on heightened alert and very aware of our surroundings,” said Gene Lee, founder of Chicago Chinatown Special Events, which organizes the annual Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown. This weekend will mark the parade’s 111th year. Lee and other organizers have met with CPD officers, and plainclothes officers will be at the parade, Lee said. Chicago Chinatown Special Events also hired private security officers, who will work independently. Organizers will use the parade’s public address system to remind guests to watch for suspicious activity, Lee said. Washington Post: After California massacres, Asian Americans shoulder the grief by Danielle Paquette Silvia Foster-Frau and Meena Venkataramanan The community had forgone Lunar New Year parties since the pandemic struck, so this month, Tho Nguyen vowed to throw the biggest bash yet. There would be dance-offs, martial arts performances and a culinary treasure trove of sticky rice rolls. There would also be security guards and plainclothes informants watching for anything amiss. America’s gun violence, coupled with a rise in anti-Asian hate, had motivated Nguyen, vice president of a Vietnamese American association in Raleigh, N.C., to beef up defense measures for the stadium event on Jan. 15. Still, he said, navigating the threat hadn’t prepared him for the pain of another Asian heritage celebration ending in bloodshed. “My wife and I, we were in disbelief,” Nguyen said. “It’s heartbreaking. It lingers. This is going to be a mark on every Lunar New Year going forward.” For Asian Americans across the United States, the holiday season was supposed to be about getting together, nurturing bonds, dancing and splurging on festive treats. The merriment ended Saturday night when a gunman entered a beloved ballroom at the heart of the country’s first suburban Chinatown and shot 20 people, killing 11. The nation was still absorbing the horror of the Monterey Park, Calif., massacre when, about 380 miles upstate, another assailant ambushed two mushroom farms in the Half Moon Bay area on Monday, gunning down seven workers, some of Asian descent. New York Times: Atlanta D.A. Wants Grand Jury Findings Kept Private in Trump Inquiry by Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim Fani T. Willis, the local prosecutor overseeing the investigation into efforts by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia, asked a judge in Atlanta on Tuesday not to make public the findings of a special grand jury that heard months of testimony in the case, saying that she was “mindful of protecting future defendants’ rights.” In a two-hour hearing before Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court, Ms. Willis argued that disclosing the jury’s recently completed investigative report could complicate potential efforts to seek indictments. “We want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly,” Ms. Willis said, “and we think for future defendants to be treated fairly it is not appropriate at this time to have this report released.” Judge McBurney said he would rule on the matter at a later date. The Trump team did not send a lawyer to the hearing, but a lawyer representing a coalition of news organizations asked Judge McBurney to make the report public. NBC News: Debt ceiling fight threatens to deepen divide between GOP and corporate America by Shannon Pettypiece WASHINGTON — Corporate America’s warnings of a financial catastrophe if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling are falling on deaf ears among key congressional Republicans who find themselves increasingly at odds with the party's longtime allies. Republicans, who for decades closely aligned with the business community, have largely downplayed the alarm bells sounded by business groups, corporate CEOs and Wall Street investors over the economic consequences of missing an early June deadline for action on Capitol Hill. Instead, many GOP lawmakers vow to seek spending cuts in exchange for passing legislation that would let the U.S. government keep paying its bills. The divide over the debt ceiling is the latest example of deep fissures that have formed in recent years between Republicans and corporate America, leaving some of the country's biggest companies with a shrinking number of political allies in Washington at a particularly perilous time for the economy. BBC News: US and Germany ready to send tanks to Ukraine - reports by Bernd Debusmann Jr. and George Wright Both the US and Germany plan to send tanks to Ukraine after months of debate, according to media reports. US President Joe Biden's administration is expected to announce plans to send M1 Abrams tanks. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has also reportedly decided to send at least 14 Leopard 2 tanks. Ukrainian officials have said such shipments could have a significant impact on the battlefield to seize back territory from the Russians. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said such a tank deployment would have "unambiguously negative consequences". Guardian: Police violently raid Lima university and shut Machu Picchu amid Peru unrest by Dan Collyns Scores of police raided a Lima university on Saturday, smashing down the gates with an armoured vehicle, firing teargas and detaining more than 200 people who had come to the Peruvian capital to take part in anti-government protests. Images showed dozens of people lying face down on the ground at San Marcos University after the surprise police operation. Students said they were pushed, kicked and hit with truncheons as they were forced out of their dormitories. Americas – is the latest in a series of affronts driving growing calls for the president, Dina Boluarte, to step down after six weeks of unrest that has claimed 60 lives, while leaving at least 580 injured and more than 500 arrested. The police raid on San Marcos University – the oldest in the– is the latest in a series of affronts driving growing calls for the president, Dina Boluarte, to step down after six weeks of unrest that has claimed 60 lives, while leaving at least 580 injured and more than 500 arrested. Aljazeera: Calls for action as Brazil Yanomami Indigenous people face crisis Brazilian officials have said that the Yanomami Indigenous people are living in dire conditions, as illegal gold miners threaten them with violence and block the delivery of goods such as food and medicine to their embattled region. On Tuesday, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said that the government should evict the miners — some of whom are well armed — from an area of the Yanomami reservation near the border with Venezuela. “It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba said of the Yanomami’s living conditions in a radio interview. “It’s an extreme calamity. Many Yanomami are suffering from malnutrition and there is a total absence of the Brazilian state.” The statement comes three days after Brazil declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest, who suffer from malnutrition and diseases like malaria due to the actions of the miners. Under former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, critics have said the government largely stood by as Indigenous rights were violated and forests were torched, allowing business interests to illegally extend their reach into the Amazon. Hollywood Reporter: 2023 Oscar Best Picture Nominees Are History’s Top-Grossing Class by Pamela McClintock For years, many have bemoaned the lack of commercial box office hits vying for the Oscar for best picture, saying it alienates the average consumer who might otherwise tune into the Academy Awards telecast, which has seen its ratings plummet. Tuesday’s 2023 Oscar nominations are a key test of whether awards voters are truly ready to crown a blockbuster rather than the sort of specialty title that has come to dominate Hollywood’s favorite annual battle. As a class, the 2023 best picture contenders have collectively grossed more at the domestic box office than any previous group in history at the time of nominations, not adjusted for inflation. Needless to say, Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7 million) and Avatar: The Way of Water ($598.4 million) lead the way. Elvis is also no slouch ($151 million). At the other end, there are no box office grosses for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front since it is a streaming title, while Triangle of Sadness earned just $4.2 million in its nationwide run at the domestic box office. All told, however, the 10 best picture nominees have grossed a collective $1.574 billion in domestic ticket sales, ahead of the $1.519 billion grossed by the class of 2010 (yes, that group included none other than 2009’s Avatar), according to Comscore. It remains to be seen whether this year’s class can keep the record and match the $1.716 billion ultimately earned by the 2010 best-picture nominees (a new record would have been guaranteed had Black Panther: Wakanda Forever been nominated for best picture). Everyone have a great evening! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/24/2149132/-Overnight-News-Digest-January-24-2023 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/