Coming Tomorrow: Who Killed Betty 48 Years Ago?

 

It’s been 48 years since the Black Panther bookkeeper disappeared from a Berkeley bar…

LINKS:

• The Election Is Over. The Fight Over Voting Rules and Gerrymanders Isn’t. (NYT)

• A Supreme Court Case That Threatens the Mechanisms of Democracy (New Yorker)

• Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody (CNN)

• The Avenger — After three decades, has the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing solved the case? (New Yorker)

• Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office (Guardian)

• Christie blasts Trump over Georgia Senate loss (Politico)

• Congressional Republicans divided on attacking Trump investigations (WP)

• Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C. (NYT)

• Congress struggles to reach funding deal as conservatives push to torpedo it (NBC)

• The secrets shared by Afghan women (BBC)

• U.S. veterans take desperate road trip to remind America about its Afghan allies(WP)

• Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Clashes Kill 7, Injure 31 (VoA)

• Pakistan Says Six Civilians Killed in ‘Unprovoked’ Afghan Border Fire (Bloomberg)

• Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs (AP)

• ISIS officials killed in raid in Syria (The Hill)

• U.S. Builds New Firewall to Stop Spread of Militant Islamists (WSJ)

• A month since Russian retreat, life in Kherson is far from normal (Al Jazeera)

• Russia Is Feeling the Pain of Europe’s Oil Embargo (Bloomberg)

• Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal (WP)

• Serbs in Kosovo clash with police as ethnic tensions flare (Reuters)

• Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises (NYT)

• Homelessness Worsens in Older Populations as Housing Costs Take Toll (WSJ)

• The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact (NPR)

• How much does a cloud weigh? (LiveScience)

• Why the laws of physics don't actually exist (New Scientist)

• Winter storm slams western U.S., bringing heavy snow to Northern California (NPR)

• As bitcoin plummets, Miami vows to hold onto its dreams to become the ‘capital of crypto’ (WP)

• Future of the internet or a 'Ponzi scheme' — what exactly is Web3? (Fox)

• Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists (NYT)

• Fragments of me: An ode to my Berkeley childhood (Daily Cal)

• Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s (The Onion)