(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest April 11, 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: 2023-04-11 Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention by Lynn Sweet WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the Sun-Times has learned, with the city beating bids from Atlanta and New York. The convention will take place Aug. 19-22 next year. It is expected to draw 5,000 to 7,000 delegates and alternates and attract up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago. Evening events will be at the United Center — the main site of the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago and the largest arena in North America — with daytime business to be conducted at the McCormick Place Convention Center, the location of the 2012 NATO Summit. Delegates will be housed in about 30 hotels in Chicago. Washington Post: Body cam video shows tense firefight in Louisville bank shooting by Justine McDaniel, Ben Brasch, and Anumita Kaur The gunman who killed five people and injured eight in a shooting in downtown Louisville “set up an ambush” for responding officers with an AR-15 purchased legally six days earlier, authorities said Tuesday, as they released body-camera footage of the dramatic firefight that left one officer in critical condition. The footage, captured by the body camera of one of the first two officers to respond, shows one officer — 10 days into his new job — falling to the ground within seconds of approaching the entrance of Old National Bank. His training officer, grazed by a bullet, scrambles for cover. Police said the gunman, Connor Sturgeon, was fatally shot by the training officer, but not before he had killed five of his co-workers and injured eight others in what police called a targeted attack. Authorities said Officers Nickolas Wilt and Cory Galloway were the first to arrive at the scene. New York Daily News: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sues Jim Jordan and House GOP for ‘brazen and unconstitutional attack’ on his Trump case by Molly Crane-Newman Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg threw down the legal gauntlet against House Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on his office over its criminal indictment of ex-president Donald Trump. Bragg made the charge in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit against Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, which launched its inquiry into Bragg’s Trump investigation on March 20. Jordan and his fellow Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have demanded Bragg grant them access to confidential court records and sought Bragg’s testimony about the Trump probe. Bragg says that under the Constitution, the Judiciary Committee has no right to investigate his office’s probe of Trump’s hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. “Chairman Jordan and the Committee are participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction. Mr. Trump in particular has threatened New York officials with violent and racist vitriol,” Bragg’s suit says. New York Times: U.S. Officials Speak to Ukrainians After Document Leaks by Michael Crowley WASHINGTON — Senior Biden administration officials sought on Tuesday to calm anger in foreign capitals over the leak of classified military and intelligence documents, but had little new information about the source of the breach or its motive. In their first public comments since the documents appeared online several weeks ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said they had spoken to their Ukrainian counterparts. Mr. Blinken also said he had spoken to unnamed American allies to “reassure them about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence.” Mr. Austin said he was first briefed on Thursday about the existence of the documents, which assessed the state of the war in Ukraine and the strength and capabilities of Ukrainian and Russian forces, and also included C.I.A. intelligence reports on events in foreign capitals from Cairo to Ankara to Seoul. Mr. Blinken and Mr. Austin spoke at a joint news conference at the State Department after meeting with visiting counterparts from the Philippines. “Well, they were somewhere in the web,” Mr. Austin said of the leaked documents. “And where exactly and who had access at that point, we don’t know. We simply don’t know at this point.” Guardian: Joe Biden lands in Belfast ahead of four-day visit to island of Ireland by Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll Joe Biden has landed in Northern Ireland ahead of a four-day visit to the island of Ireland to underpin his support for peace in the country and to celebrate his Irish roots. The US president was met at Belfast international airport by Rishi Sunak on Tuesday night for the start of a visit expected to mix delicate political choreography with economic announcements and events linked to Biden’s Irish and Catholic heritage. , which was signed 25 years ago this week, and support Sunak’s post-Brexit deal for the region. Asked what his priorities for the trip were, he said: “Make sure the Irish accords and Windsor agreements stay in place. Keep the peace and that’s the main thing. It looks like we’re going to keep our fingers crossed.” Speaking to reporters before taking off in Air Force One, Biden said he wanted to safeguard the Good Friday agreement , which was signed 25 years ago this week, and support Sunak’s post-Brexit deal for the region. Asked what his priorities for the trip were, he said: “Make sure the Irish accords and Windsor agreements stay in place. Keep the peace and that’s the main thing. It looks like we’re going to keep our fingers crossed.” The Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, and the King’s personal representative for County Antrim, Lord-Lieutenant David McCorkell, were also among the welcoming party. BBC News: The billion-dollar scammers who will steal your life savings by Max Hudson, Simona Weinglass, Mark Turner, and Joel Gunter First, you hear a phone ringing. An elderly man answers. The caller introduces himself as "William Grant", from the trading firm Solo Capitals. He says he has a "great promotion" to offer. The elderly man sounds vulnerable and confused. "I'm not interested, I'm not interested," he says. But William Grant is persistent. "I only have one question," he tells the old man. "Are you interested in making money?" Jan Erik, a 75-year-old pensioner in Sweden, is about to get scammed - again. The call was made from the offices of Solo Capitals, a purported cryptocurrency trading firm based in Georgia. The recording is hard to listen to - not only does the elderly man, Jan Erik, sound muddled, he tells the caller he has already lost one million Swedish Krona (about £80,000) in trading scams. But the caller already knows this. And he knows it makes the pensioner a good target for a follow-up "recovery scam". He tells Mr Erik that if he hands over his card details and pays a €250 deposit, Solo Capitals will use special software to track his lost investments and get his money back. DW: German police call for knife-free zones in cities by Helen Whittle Germany's federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), says she wants to take stronger action to combat knife crime. "We should think about banning knives on public transport, on buses and trains," Faeser told the Funke Media Group. "After all, anyone traveling by plane is not allowed to take a knife with them." Apart from increasing security measures on public transport, Faeser said another solution could be weapon-free zones in certain urban areas. The minister's initiative came a few days after the president of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Holger Münch, also called for weapon-free zones in and around train stations and in city centers. Many cities are establishing no-weapons zones in critical areas where the police can carry out "active checks," the BKA president said. According to Münch, knives are used in 5.6% cases of assault and in 11% of robberies. He also said that he was open to tightening the law on weapons possession. Interesting story given the headlines here in the United States. Variety: Desperate for Profits and Souring on Streaming, Hollywood Falls Back in Love With Movie Theaters by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin Jeff Logan is feeling relieved. For the first time since COVID shuttered movie theaters, business is booming, with audiences flocking to see “John Wick: Chapter 4,” “Scream VI” and, just last weekend, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” And Logan, who owns Logan Luxury Theatres in rural South Dakota, is back in the black after enduring two years where profits vanished while studios failed to furnish enough big movies to play. “It’s nice,” he says. “We don’t have to reassure our bankers every time we meet for coffee.” Logan’s theaters aren’t the only ones experiencing a dramatic change of fortunes. Overall, the domestic box office stands at $2.3 billion, up 36.8% from the same period last year and an astounding 589.5% improvement over 2021, according to Comscore. The exhibition industry is finally looking like its pre-pandemic self again. That’s partly attributable to studios releasing new installments of successful franchises, but it is also linked to a shift in attitude among the major media companies when assessing the value of a theatrical release. Have the best possible evening, everyone! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/11/2163422/-Overnight-News-Digest-April-11-2023 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/