(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: Tucker Carlson is shown the door at Fox [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: 2023-04-24 x Extremely profitable cable news hosts don’t get fired, period, unless they’ve suddenly become unprofitable, or are about to become unprofitable. Carlson is by far the most profitable cable news host in history. Something has clearly happened that we don’t know about. — Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 24, 2023 C/NET (4/23/2023) Imagine a gigantic brick of highly compressed dirt -- as big as a pickup truck but, at 24 tons, about five times heavier. An elevator powered by solar panels or wind turbines hoists it over 300 feet up the side of a huge building, and a trolley stows it inside. But it's not alone. An automated system lifts and stores hundreds more bricks, like giant Pez candies, as the sun shines and the wind blows. Now imagine the building's control system lowering those hundreds of bricks one by one, spinning electrical power generators in the process. They drop down every evening just as demand for power peaks but solar panel output fades away. BBC A small British military reconnaissance team is in Sudan to assess evacuation options, BBC News understands. The government is looking at "every single possible option" to get UK citizens out, minister Andrew Mitchell told MPs on Tuesday. Hundreds have died after clashes between rival military factions broke out on 15 April, primarily in Khartoum. On Sunday, the UK airlifted diplomats and their families out of Sudan in a special military operation. But the government is facing growing criticism over its lack of help for the British nationals still stranded there. Up to 4,000 UK citizens could be there and 2,000 of them have already requested help, but any evacuation carries "grave" risks, the government has warned. BBC A huge electricity cable project in the North Sea could provide green power to 1.8 million UK homes in plans announced by the UK and Dutch governments. It would connect to offshore wind farms and transfer electricity between the two countries. European nations are under pressure to fulfil climate promises to end reliance on fossil fuels and to improve energy security. The deal was announced on Monday at an energy summit in Ostend, Belgium. The power line, called LionLink, is being developed by the National Grid and Dutch electricity network TenneT and could be running by the early 2030s. The government claims LionLink will carry 1.8GW of electricity, giving it the largest capacity of any cross-border electricity line in the world. An existing cross-border connection between Germany and Denmark carries 0.4GW. The Guardian, International India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN population estimates, the most significant shift in global demographics since records began. According to the UN’s projections, which are calculated through a variety of factors including census data and birth and death rates, India now has a population of 1,425,775,850, surpassing China for the first time. It is also the first time since 1950, when the UN first began keeping global population records, that China has been knocked off the top spot. The Guardian, UK The Confederation of British Industry has admitted it failed to “filter out culturally toxic people” from its ranks, leading to “terrible consequences” including allegations of sexual harassment. The CBI president, Brian McBride, said in a letter to its members that the organisation had “made mistakes” and “badly let down” its staff, after a series of revelations in the Guardian about alleged misconduct by employees, including two women who said they were raped. The future of the organisation is now hanging in the balance, McBride said, saying he simply did not know if members would be able to “consider trusting us again”. The Guardian, US The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge. Instead of permanently yanking the products from the market after the 2020 order, the EPA only required industry to add further application instructions to the herbicides’ labels before reapproving the products. A late 2021 EPA investigation found the same problems persist even with new directions added to the label, but the agency still allows Monsanto , BASF and other producers to continue using dicamba Reuters LUXEMBOURG, April 24 (Reuters) - China respects the status of former Soviet member states as sovereign nations, its foreign ministry said on Monday, distancing itself from comments by its envoy to Paris that triggered an uproar among European capitals. Several European Union foreign ministers had said comments by ambassador Lu Shaye - in which he questioned the sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet states - were unacceptable and had asked Beijing to clarify its stance. Asked if Lu's comments represented China's official position, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that Beijing respected the status of the former Soviet member states as sovereign nations following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mao told a regular news briefing that it was her remarks on sovereignty that represented China's official government stance. USA Today The Green Bay Packers agreed to trade the longest-tenured player in their history – Rodgers was drafted in 2005 – to the New York Jets on Monday, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst confirmed in a news conference. Gutekunst acknowledged that there was still paperwork to be completed before the trade could be finalized. As part of the deal, the Packers will now move up two spots in the first round of Thursday's NFL draft, taking the Jets' No. 13 overall pick while sending back the No. 15 selection, according to ESPN and NFL Network. The Packers will also receive a second-round pick and a sixth-round selection this year as well as a conditional 2024 second-round pick that becomes a first if Rodgers plays 65% of the offensive snaps this season, per the reports. In addition to Rodgers, the Jets will also receive a fifth-round selection this year. USA Today It's not your imagination, and it's not fearmongering: Books, and our free and ready access to them, are under attack in the U.S. The American Library Association (ALA) has the data to prove it. The ALA today released their list of the 13 most challenged books of 2022, the titles that have been the biggest targets of banning efforts in schools and public libraries. The last few years have seen a dramatic uptick in book-banning attempts, an escalation of censorship tactics, and the coordinated harassment of teachers and librarians as political groups and parent associations target works of literature containing what they deem to be objectionable material for young readers. For more information on book banning attempts and how to fight against them, visit ala.org. Here's more on the 13 most-challenged titles of 2022. NPR News anchor Don Lemon is out at CNN, the cable network announced Monday. "Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years," the news outlet said in a tweet. "We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors." In a statement posted to his Twitter account, Lemon confirmed his ouster, saying his agent told him Monday morning that he had been terminated by CNN. "I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly," Lemon said. Georgia Public Radio Criminal charges in the ongoing probe of former President Donald Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia will come during a court term that begins July 11, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote Monday. Willis made the announcement in a letter to law enforcement including Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat Monday, asking for "heightened security and preparedness" ahead of what could potentially be yet another case where Trump faces indictments for his actions. Al Jazeera Two explosions have rocked a counterterrorism facility in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said. Sharifullah Khan, a police official in Kabal, told Al Jazeera that at least 12 people died in the blasts on Monday at the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Swat Valley while more than 50 were reported injured. He added that he doesn’t believe the blasts were caused by “terrorism”. The “explosions occurred after explosive material in the CTD building’s basement caught fire”, he said. The building complex also houses the Kabal district police station and headquarters of a reserve police force, but the main damage was done at the counterterrorism department building. Al Jazeera When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village, nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba crept closer and closer, with its bustling streets and commercial activity. It was not just her village feeling the encroachment of non-Indigenous outsiders. Two major federal highways paved the way for tens of thousands of settlers, illegal gold miners and loggers into the region’s vast Indigenous territories, which cover a forested area roughly the size of Belgium. The influx posed a grave threat to Korap’s Munduruku people, 14,000 strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin in Brazil’s Para and Mato Grosso states. Soon illegal mining, hydroelectric dams, a major railway and river ports for soybean exports choked their lands — lands they were still struggling to have recognised. Deutsche Welle Spanish authorities exhumed the body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera from a mountainside mausoleum near Madrid on Monday, and moved the remains of the fascist leader to a city cemetery. A group of his supporters gathered outside the gates, giving the fascist salutes and held up banners, including the ones reading "Jose Antonio is present" as the hearse drove past. Another group was gathered at Madrid's San Isidro cemetery, where some of them broke through a police line to perform fascist salutes and sing the anthem of Primo de Rivera's fascist Falange movement. This marks the forth exhumation and the fifth burial for the founder of the Falange party. The move reflects the efforts by Spain's current government, led by left-leaning Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, to come to terms with the country's fascist movements and Francisco Franco's dictatorship. x Just a reminder: pic.twitter.com/uGCvlLQhtR — Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) April 24, 2023 The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, jeremybloom, Magnifico, annetteboardman, rise above the swamp, Besame and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) eeff, Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. 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