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Disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has been released on a $250m (£208m) bond package as he awaits fraud charges – the largest ever pretrial bond in history.

Senate clears $1.7T government funding bill – POLITICO  POLITICO Senate passes $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from Republicans  Fox News BREAKING: Senate Passes $1.7 Trillion Government Spending Bill  MSNBC With House shifting, Congress moves to lock in Ukraine funds  WHIO Congress gives itself

Senate passes $1.7 trillion government funding bill to avert shutdown  CNN Congress gives itself a Christmas present: A huge funding boost in the $1.7T spending bill  Fox News Senate Reaches Deal On Government Funding Bill  MSNBC How the $1.7T omnibus affects energy, from

Members of Just Stop Oil moments after throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. | Just Stop Oil/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images An art expert breaks down Just Stop Oil’s infamous climate protests. In the lead-up to Christmas, the climate action group

The minister of higher education in the Taliban government on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities — a decree that had triggered a global backlash.

The military move came after Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s Fiji First party refused to concede, despite rival Sitiveni Rabuka’s party and two other parties announcing they had formed a majority coalition and would serve as the next government.

Holiday travel upended as forecasters warn of ‘bomb cyclone’  The Associated Press – en Español Hundreds of flights canceled due to winter storm  Eyewitness News ABC7NY ‘Bomb cyclone’ to impact holiday travel with blizzards, cold temps across the nation  Fox News b28273284dd44acc9d5971b07e6496f4 g  ABC

Boy, have we talked a lot about inflation. It affected every part of our lives (and the economy) in 2022. Here are some of its highest highs and lowest lows. (It wasn’t all bad news!) (Image credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Read former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s full testimony  The Hill

Read former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s full testimony  The Hill