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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
MORE ON THE US HOUSE SPEAKER VOTING LATER BUT A NEW DEVELOPENT LATE TODAY WAS THE NOMINATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR SPEAKER BY CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ OF FLORIDA.
MR. TRUMP POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA THIS EVENING A PICTURE THAT SHOWS HIM IN THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR...
Violence in Mexico following the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Fighting in the city of Culiacan with an airliner at the city's airport hit by gunfire.
That airport and airports in two other cities closed...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
AN INTENSE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SESSION TODAY.
IT WAS CALLED OVER THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE MOUNT VISIT OF ISRAEL'S NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ITAMAR BEN GVIR.
NO RESOLUTION FROM THE SESSION BUT PLENTY OF SUGGESTIONS THAT THE STATUS QUO OF THE HOLY SITE WAS VIOLATED.
BUT ISRAELI UN AMBASSADOR GILAD ERDAN DESCRIBED THE MEETING AS 'ABSURD' AND 'HYPOCRITICAL'.
HE NOTED THAT MR. BEN GVIR CONDUCTED A 13-MINUTE PEACEFUL VISIT AND THAT JEWS HAD A RIGHT TO VISIT THE SITE...TIMES OF ISRAEL
A second day of renewed protests in Peru opposing last month's ouster of Leftist President Pedro Castillo.
THE MARKETS THE DOW AND NASDAQ DOWN.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE FELL 339.69 POINTS OR 1.02 PERCENT IN VALUE.
THE NASDAQ OFF 153.52 OR 1.47 PERCENT IN VALUE.
THE PRICE OF OIL RISING 1.50 PERCENT TO 73 DOLLARS AND 93 CENTS A BARREL BY 550 PM EASTERN US TIME...MARKETWATCH
In South Carolina the state Supreme Court ruling 3-2 against the state's abortion law.
That law imposed restrictions on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
The court majority contends that a "right to privacy" in the Constitution is violated by the law...THE HILL
(Updated) At the US Capitol the House meeting for a third straight day to vote on a new Speaker.
A report of a deal to allow Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker was false and condemned as malicious by Freedom Caucus member Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
20 Republicans voting for candidates other than McCarthy and one voting "present" on the seventh, eighth and ninth votes for a House Speaker.
The voting continuing into the evening and the pattern remaining the same through the 11th ballot.
The House has adjourned for the night...THE HILL
JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCING THE EXPANSION OF A RAPID DEPORTATION POLICY FOR VENEZUELANS TO INCLUDE CUBANS, NICARAGUANS AND HAITIANS...NEW YORK POST
Inflation bad enough in New Zealand when it comes to egg prices but another factor driving prices up some 40 percent since August.
The government instituting a ban on battery caged hens the caging of hens tightly which is a source of controversy.
The country said to be experiencing an egg shortage with 75 percent of chicken farmers forced to change methods.
New Zealand bakers considering the importing egg whites fro overseas...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
IRAN CLOSING THE FRENCH INSTITUTE IN TEHRAN OVER THOSE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CARTOONS FEATURING IRAN'S CLERICAL LEADERS.
THOSE CARTOONS PUBLISHED BY THE FRENCH SATIRICAL MAGAZINE CHARLIE HEBDO...RADIO FREE EUROPE
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today.
Mr. Erdogan discussing Ukraine saying Turkey is ready to mediate and calling for a cease-fire and a "vision for a fair solution".
Erdogan discussing the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and the grain corridor from Ukraine in the Black Sea.
The Turkish leader also calling for the clearing out of Kurdish groups considered terrorists in northern Syria...TRT WORLD TURKIYE (TURKEY)
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
PUTIN ANNOUNCES ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS CEASE-FIRE
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX LEADER CALLS FOR CHRISTMAS CEASE-FIRE
UKRAINE REJECTS CEASE-FIRE FOR ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering a 36-hour ceasefire to start at 4 am Friday Morning Eastern US Time (12 Noon Local Time) until 4 pm Saturday Eastern US Time (12 Midnight Local Time).
Ukraine rejecting the notion of a cease-fire for the Orthodox Christian Christmas...BBC NEWS...
Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill calling for a cease-fire for the Orthodox Christian Christmas...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
After mysterious injuries that plagued US Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba some five years ago, the US Embassy now providing visa services again...BBC NEWS
At the Vatican today the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI.
The funeral mass of the Pope Emeritus opened by the current pontiff Pope Francis...BBC NEWS
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