“One theory behind Japan’s custom of eating KFC on Christmas is that it was a foreigner’s food of choice for the holiday since turkey wasn’t available. This inspired the company to market it as a Christmas food, a KFC Japan representative told CNBC.”
Credit: Yuichi Yamazaki, Getty Images via CNBC
*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***
+ JOLT News: Code Blue hazardous weather declaration ratchets up support for homeless people in coming days
+ JOLT News: County health officer comments about omicron and how to minimize risk at holiday events
+ The News-Tribune (Tacoma): Nonprofit donated more than 200 acres on Nisqually River for threatened woodpecker
+ Office of Gov. Jay Inslee: Inslee statement on payments collected for long-term care program
*** VIRUS NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***
CNBC: United, Delta cancel dozens of Christmas Eve flights as Covid hits crews [Ed. note: Even Seattle-based Alaska Airlines canceled flights.]
Kaiser Health News: As Patients Caught COVID Inside Hospitals, Government Oversight Fell Short
*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***
Truthout: All They Want for the Holidays Is for Their Loved Ones to Come Home From Prison
The Atlantic’s David Frum: Biden Won Big With a Bad Hand – Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proved outstandingly successful.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Most Americans don’t trust social media platforms with personal info: poll
Daily Kos: Biden gets to claim a victory after supply chain crisis quietly evaporates
CNN: Democratic congresswoman carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia
The Olympian: NHL pulls out of Olympics due to COVID-19 surge
The Washington Post: Separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by Trump, a mother and daughter work to reconnect
Truthout: All They Want for the Holidays Is for Their Loved Ones to Come Home From Prison
*** TRUMP NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***
The New York Times Guest Essay By Laurence H. Tribe, Donald Ayer and Dennis Aftergut]: Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
MSNBC: Trump’s latest lawsuit against Letitia James is rich, even for Trump – It doesn’t take a legal scholar to know that Trump’s latest lawsuit is a mess. Here’s a professional explanation anyway. [Ed. note: Like Flynn’s case, Trump does not have the ability to hire proficient lawyers who will take his cases.]
CNBC: Trump asks Supreme Court to block House Jan. 6 riot panel from getting White House records
Daily Kos: Jim Jordan isn’t happy about being called before the Jan. 6 Select Committee, but it could be worse
CQ-Roll Call: Jan. 6 panel wants to interview Jim Jordan
The Washington Post: Trump’s newest [media company] business partner: A Chinese firm with a history of SEC investigations [Ed. note: For Trump, the modus operandi is always about who will give him money.]
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