| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, December 23, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. The Capitol riot panel's final report sets out its case to try Trump, China's stretched health system braces for a peak in COVID infections, and how did Bankman-Fried secure $250 million bail?
The Daily Briefing will pause for the holiday season, but check your inbox for a selection of Reuters reviews of the old year and predictions for the new. Regular coverage will resume on January 3. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  FILE PHOTO: Stefanie Lambert listens during a court hearing in Detroit, Michigan, October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Dieu-Nalio Chery U.S. Within days of Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, lawyer Stefanie Lambert began reinventing herself as a key player in the former president’s campaign to overturn the election results. She pushed conspiracy theories in court, joined efforts to break into voting machines and organized a nonprofit that has raised at least a half million dollars for election challenges. Read our special report.
The congressional panel probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report, outlining its case that Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. Meanwhile the House of Representatives voted to require the Internal Revenue Service to audit presidents' tax filings, after lawmakers concluded the agency did not properly examine Trump's returns while he was in the White House.
A dangerously frigid arctic air mass gripped a vast expanse of the United States as a looming winter storm of historic proportions threatened to upend travel plans for millions of Americans. Over 4,400 flights have been canceled over a two-day period.
The population of the United States accelerated in 2022 from its slowest rate on record, driven by net international immigration, as growth began to recover from a slowdown triggered by the COVID pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit the Children's National Hospital in Washington today to meet with pediatric patients. First ladies traditionally visit the hospital around the Christmas holiday, dating back to first lady Bess Truman during the post-second world war presidency of Harry Truman.
|  Flags representing fallen soldiers are seen in the snow on Independence Square in Kyiv, December 22, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne WORLD U.S. lawmakers were expected to approve a $45 billion aid package for Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned from Washington with the promise of Patriot missiles to help fend off Russia's invasion. Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now.
China is expecting a peak in COVID infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country's health system even as they downplay the disease's severity and continue to report no new deaths. We look at how China's people are paying the price for the lack of a 'zero COVID' exit plan.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, South Korean military said, the latest in an unprecedented number of missile tests this year. The incident shows that North Korea does not intend to stop the provocative actions its neighbors say are destabilizing regional security.
A shooter killed two people and wounded four others in a gun attack near a Kurdish cultural center in Paris, the prosecutor's office said. A 69-year-old man has been arrested and is in detention.
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison after nearly two decades behind bars. Sobhraj, 78, is suspected of killing more than 20 Western backpackers on the 'hippie trail' through Asia.
|  Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried walks from the Manhattan federal court, December 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon BUSINESS Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial over the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, which a U.S. prosecutor called a "fraud of epic proportions." Here's how Bankman-Fried secured bail.
A rough year for U.S. stocks is winding down, but the market’s pain may be far from over, as investors brace for an expected recession in 2023. With only a handful of trading days left in 2022, the benchmark S&P 500 index is down 19.8% year-to-date and headed for its biggest annual decline since 2008.
Japan's core consumer inflation hit a fresh four-decade high as companies continued to pass on rising costs to households, data showed, a sign price hikes were broadening and could keep the central bank under pressure to whittle down massive stimulus.
Tesla shares tanked after the luxury electric car maker started offering $7,500 discounts on Model 3 and Model Y vehicles delivered in the United States this month, fueling concerns the company is facing softening demand as economies slow.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information.
The founder of Chinese tech giant Tencent told employees many “corruption” issues had been discovered within the company and mismanagement was draining its vitality, according to two employees familiar with the matter.
| | | | | | | | | | | Quote of the day "In reality there are two wars going on in Ukraine at once: an open one with Russia, and another with the post-Soviet corrupt past that's happening within" Yaroslav Yurchyshyn First deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy Ukraine's parallel war on corruption to unlock door to West | | | | Video of the day  Migrants in holiday limbo at U.S.-Mexico border Hundreds of migrants bundled in coats and blankets formed a long line at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping the Christmas period will bring an end to uncertainty over their hopes of securing asylum in the United States. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
