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Thursday morning news: December 29, 2022

The government of incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be sworn in today, Southwest Airlines predicts it’ll be back to normal before the new work week, officials in Buffalo are bracing for a rise in the death toll from the winter storm, former clients of the failed cryptocurrency firm F-T-X are filing a class-action lawsuit, the United States says it will require COVID-19 tests of anyone arriving from China, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has laid out plans for boosting his military power

The number of immigrants illegally crossing into the United States this year shattered all records


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The Supreme Court has extended a policy that will hold back a wave of migrants from crossing the U.S. border, Buffalo is still trying to dig itself out after a winter storm dumped six feet of snow in places, Congressional Republicans are pushing for a more aggressive posture toward TikTok, Taiwan is extending mandatory military service from four months to a full year, Vladimir Putin announced he’ll refuse sales of oil to nations enforcing a price cap on Russian petroleum, the UN human rights chief has condemned the increasing restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan

Remembering some of the military and government leaders who died this year

The Buffalo-area blizzard is one for the record books, South Korea scrambled fighter jets after North Korean drones violated its airspace, Ukraine wants the United Nations to moderate a peace summit within two months, China’s military sent warplanes and ships toward Taiwan in a show of force, lawmakers on Capitol Hill of the aisle are increasingly sounding alarms about TikTok, the Chinese government is dropping another pandemic restriction

The battle for religious liberty had mixed outcomes in court

A monster winter storm claimed dozens of lives and caused travel disruptions over the Christmas weekend, many Republicans are blasting the massive spending bill that Congress passed before Christmas, Homeland Security numbers suggest the border crisis is already getting worse