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A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, leaving thousands without power.

The earthquake, which struck at 2:34 a.m. (1034 GMT), was about 10 miles (16.1 km) deep, USGS said, and struck about 7.4 (12 km) west-southwest of Ferndale, California, a Humboldt County town about a four-hour drive north of San Francisco.

Local media and others on social media reported there were numerous gas leaks, powerlines down, and at least one structure fire in Ferndale. A representative from the Humboldt Sheriff’s Office was not immediately available for comment.

Local media reported that the California highway patrol was responding to reports of cracks in the Ferndale bridge over the Eel River in and out of Ferndale.

“That earthquake was insane,” said Twitter user Jimmy Eller, who said he lived in Humboldt County. “A good 15-20 seconds of shaking.”

Caroline Titus, the editor and publisher of The Ferndale Enterprise, posted video on Twitter of toppled furniture and household items scattered on the floor.

“Sorry for dark video. Power still out,” Titus tweeted.

More than 64,000 homes and businesses were without power early Tuesday in Ferndale and surrounding Humboldt County, according to the electric grid tracking website Poweroutageus.com. Ferndale is home to about 15,000 people and 261 miles (420 km) north of San Francisco and just south of Eureka.

The California Independent System Operator, which oversees much of the state’s electrical grid, issued a transmission emergency notice for the area following the earthquake.

There was no risk of a tsunami, the U.S. tsunami warning system said.

The U.S. Central Command forces conducted three helicopter raids in eastern Syria over the past 48 hours, which resulted in detaining six Islamic State operatives, according to a statement on Tuesday.

One of those detained was a senior IS Syria province member involved in attacks in Syria, according to the statement.

World stocks slid on Tuesday after a policy tweak by Japan’s central bank rattled investors already worried about the economic fallout of rising interest rates and untameable inflation.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) widened the allowable band for long-term yields to 50 basis points either side of its 0% target, from 25 basis points previously.

The policy decision caused an immediate spike in the yen, with the dollar index dropping 0.80% to 103.95, a six-month low. US stock futures traded down and slightly flat under 0.25%. ,

European stock markets hit six-week lows, with the German (.GDAXI) and French benchmark indices (.FCHI) falling by as much as 1%, while London’s FTSE 100 (.FTSE) lost as much as 0.8%.

Japanese 10-year government bond yields surged to their highest level since 2014, with euro zone yields following suit. Yields rise when bond prices fall. ,

Investors have needed time to digest the series of rate hikes delivered last week from central banks including the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and in particular, the U.S. Federal Reserve, said Tatjana Puhan, the deputy chief investment officer at TOBAM, a Paris-based asset management firm.

“Markets didn’t want to believe it, but this move by the BOJ emphasises that central banks remain concerned that inflation will stay higher,” Puhan said.

The BOJ has steadily bought billions of dollars’ worth of government bonds to keep long-term interest rates low, despite a pickup in inflation, both at home and abroad.

“Think of the scenario where we go into a recession and inflation remains higher,” Puhan said. Unsure whether Tuesday’s market moves would have a snowball effect or they were just a temporary shock, over the long term investors should prepare for more downside, she said.

Rising COVID cases that threatened to slow China’s reopening to the rest of the world from nearly three years of lockdowns was also a point of focus for investors, Puhan said, as further lockdowns that might compromise China’s growth would have a lasting effect on the world economy.

“So many US companies produce in China and rely on its supply chain. This can’t be changed overnight,” Puhan said.

However, James Rossiter, head of global macro strategy at TD Securities, said that thin liquidity in today’s markets should be taken into account.

“There has got to be a lot of people on holiday saying, ‘Wait, this wasn’t supposed to happen’,” he said.

Rossiter pointed to BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s speech in which he said the policy tweak was “aimed at improving market functions” and was “not an interest rate hike.”

This knocked other currencies from recent gains, with both the euro and pound falling more than 3.5% against the yen.

In turn, the Nikkei benchmark index (.N225) slumped 2.71% after trading in positive territory earlier in the day, while U.S. stock futures fell between 0.1% and 0.2%, suggesting a modestly weaker start to trading.

In the oil market, Brent crude rose 0.20% to $79.95 per barrel, while U.S. crude rose 1.3% to $76.19.

Spot gold benefited from the weakness in the dollar, rising 1% to around $1,805 per ounce.

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A curated weekday guide to major national security news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news.

JAN. 6 ATTACK 

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack yesterday released the executive summary of its final report. The summary outlines 17 specific findings, including that former President Trump disseminated false allegations of fraud related to the 2020 presidential election, and pressured state officials to change the results of the election in their states. The New York Times has published these 17 findings, alongside additional context. 

The executive summary of the Jan. 6 committee’s final report does not address law enforcement and intelligence failures surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Whilst the summary does discuss information that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies received in the days before Jan.6, it argues that no one could have predicted Trump’s actions on that day. This omission has been criticized by some as leaving out an essential part of the story. Ryan J. Reilly and Ken Dilanian report for NBC News. 

The full executive summary of the Jan.6 committee’s report can be read on NBC News. The committee expects to release the full report later this week, along with a number of transcripts from witness depositions. 

The Jan. 6 committee voted yesterday to refer Trump to the Justice Department for four potential criminal charges. These charges include obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to make false statements, and incitement of an insurrection. The criminal referrals, which do not carry legal weight, are the first ever by Congress against a former president. Scott Patterson reports for the Wall Street Journal. 

OTHER DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS

Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order yesterday temporarily maintaining Title 42, a Trump-era public health measure that allows the government to expel asylum seekers who cross the southern border unlawfully. The chief justice’s order is provisional and aims to give the Supreme Court time to consider whether to maintain the measure, which a trial judge had ordered to be ended by Wednesday. The order was prompted by an emergency application filed yesterday by 19 Republican-led states, who argued the order was necessary to prevent a surge of border crossings. Adam Liptak reports for the New York Times. 

Several federal agencies warned yesterday of a significant rise in cases of “financial sexploitation” of children and teenagers. The FBI, in partnership with the Justice Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, issued a national public safety alert about what an FBI official described as a “staggering increase” in cases of young people being coerced into sending explicit images online and then extorted for money.  The majority of offenders are based in West Africa — specifically Nigeria and the Ivory Coast — and the victims are overwhelmingly male, according to the alert. Kelly Garrity reports for POLITICO. 

Sam Bankman-Fried, the head of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has agreed to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges. Bankman-Fried, who lives in the Bahamas, has been accused of “one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history,” U.S. authorities have said. It is not clear when Bankman-Fried will be extradited. Michael Race reports for BBC News. 

Lawmakers included a proposal to ban federal government employees from using the Chinese app TikTik on government-owned devices in a key spending bill. The ban is in a massive omnibus measure to fund U.S. government operations that is expected to be voted on this week. The bill gives the White House Office of Management and Budget 60 days “to develop standards and guidelines for executive agencies requiring the removal” of TikTok from federal devices. David Shepardson reports for Reuters. 

RUSSIA, UKRAINE

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged “extremely complicated” conditions in four eastern and southern Ukrainian territories. In a transcript of a video address published early today, Putin also called on Russian security agencies to intensify their effort “to put a firm stop to the activities of foreign special services and to promptly identify traitors, spies and diversionists.” Putin’s comments are a rare admission from Moscow of the military challenges it faces as its war in Ukraine passes its three hundredth day. Carly Olson reports for the New York Times. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko yesterday. Appearing after their talks, Putin and Lukashenko spoke about the need for the two countries to withstand Western economic pressure and maintain close military ties. Putin said the leaders discussed the creation of a “unified defensive space,” although he did not give details as to what that would entail.  He also said they agreed to continue joint military exercises and to manufacture new military equipment. Anatoly Kurmanaev reports for the New York Times. 

Ukraine is increasing the defense of its border with Belarus over fears that Russia may be preparing a fresh attack. Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin told the BBC Ukraine would be bolstering the Belarusian border with armed forces and ammunition. Thomas Mackintosh reports for BBC News. 

Russian forces shot down four U.S.-made anti-radiation missiles over a region in southern Russia, the Russian defense ministry said yesterday. “Four American anti-radar ‘HARM’ missiles were shot down in the airspace of the Belgorod region,” said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for Russia’s Defense Ministry. This is the first such claim to be made by Moscow since the start of the war. Anna Chernova and Sebastian Shukla report for CNN. 

The Pentagon’s Cyber National Mission Force has been supporting Ukraine’s digital defense with daily consultations, a top U.S. cyber commander said yesterday. According to Maj. Gen John Hartman, the collaboration has helped unearth thousands of warning indicators of potentially compromised Ukrainian computer networks. Julian E. Barnes reports for the New York Times. 

During his end-of-year press conference, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was not hopeful about the prospect of peace between Russia and Ukraine. “I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks in the immediate future,” said Guterres. “I do believe that the military confrontation will go on, and I think we will have still to wait a moment in which serious negotiations for peace will be possible. I don’t see them in the immediate horizon.” Jack Guy and Eliza Mackintosh report for CNN. 

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS 

Russia and China will hold joint naval drills, the Russian Defense Ministry said yesterday. The drills will start on Wednesday and run through Dec.27.  According to the Defense Ministry, the main goal of the drills was to strengthen naval cooperation between the two nations, enhance their combat capability to jointly counter threats at sea, and to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. Ann M. Simmons reports for the Wall Street Journal.

A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenage typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. Although she was a civilian worker, the judge found she was fully aware of what was going on at the camp. Furchner, one of the few women to be tried for Nazi crimes in decades, was given a two-year suspended jail term. Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall report for BBC News. 

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte offered an official apology yesterday on behalf of the Dutch government for two centuries of Dutch slave trading. He offered his apology to enslaved people in the past, as well as their descendants. He added that the government will create a fund for social initiatives in the Netherlands and Suriname, one of the places where the consequences of slavery are most visible, that will aim to give the history of slavery the attention and action it deserves. Sammy Westfall reports for the Washington Post. 

Fijian opposition parties have reached a deal to form a new coalition government, ending Prime minister Frank Bainimarama’s nearly 16-year premiership. His Fiji First party and the rival People’s Alliance, led by Sitiveni Rabuka, were left in a deadlock following last week’s election. The deal comes after the right-wing Social Democrat Liberal Party voted in favor of Rabuka. The center-left National Federation Party, which made a pre-election deal with the People’s Alliance, will also be involved in the new government. Kathryn Armstrong reports for BBC News. 

COVID-19

COVID-19 has infected over 99.950 million people and has now killed over 1.09 million people in the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Globally, there have been over 654.053 million confirmed coronavirus cases and over 6.67 million deaths. Sergio Hernandez, Sean O’Key, Amanda Watts, Byron Manley and Henrik Pettersson report for CNN.

A map and analysis of all confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S. is available at the New York Times.

U.S. and worldwide maps tracking the spread of the pandemic are available at the Washington Post. 

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Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas.

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• SBF had to be “awakened” by a court official after closing his eyes during a hearing, per Reuters.
• Bankman-Fried was in court in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on Monday.
• Bankman-Fried was also admonished for his appearance and demeanor during the hearing.

Sam Bankman-Fried had to be “awakened” by a court official after closing his eyes during his extradition hearing, Reuters reported.

The cofounder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX was in court in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on Monday, where he was expected to agree to extradition to the US over eight criminal charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Last week he had indicated to the court that he wasn’t waiving his right to challenge his extradition to the US.

In the Monday hearing, Bankman-Fried reportedly said he was ready to agree to voluntary extradition, however, Jerone Roberts, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer in the Bahamas, said he wasn’t aware of the plan, per Bloomberg.

Roberts said he was “shocked” to see his client in court at all and requested a break to confer with Bankman-Fried privately, The New York Times reported. 

Bankman-Fried was remanded back to Fox Hill prison after the judge said that he couldn’t take action on Bankman-Fried’s extradition without his consent. Staff from the FBI and the US Department of State were present at the hearing, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Roberts later told outlets including The New York Times that the former CEO had ultimately agreed to extradition. He said that Bankman-Fried had defied “the strongest possible legal advice” and agreed to extradition voluntarily, per The Times.

The Journal reported that at the hearing, a court official told Bankman-Fried to stand up straight. He was also reported to be sat slumped in his seat with his head down while shaking his leg, a known characteristic of the tech mogul.

When asked to stand in court, Bloomberg reported that Bankman-Fried had removed his blue suit jacket, untucked his shirt, and had his sleeves rolled up. He was also ordered by a bailiff to keep his hands out of his pockets, per Bloomberg. 

Bankman-Fried, the son of two Stanford Law professors, is well known for his mop of curls, casual attire, and behavioral quirks, with The Wall Street Journal’s Jacob Gallagher saying that he “embodied Silicon Valley’s disheveled-exec trope better than anyone.” He’s been regularly photographed in cargo shorts and baggy T-shirts, sometimes featuring FTX’s logo, and was recently caught playing a video game during an interview.

“He branded himself as a slob, and it makes him more authentic and people like it more,” Michael Pachter told The Journal.

US federal prosecutors have accused Bankman-Fried of misappropriating customer funds, including using them to make political contributions, buy real estate, and repay loans owed by Alameda Research. They also accused Bankman-Fried of defrauding lenders. The charges carry a combined maximum sentence of 115 years in prison.

Prior to his arrest, Bankman-Fried denied knowingly committing fraud in multiple interviews about the collapse of FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest on fraud charges could pop the crypto bubble, Mark Cuban said Monday.

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• Mark Cuban said there’s still some underlying value in crypto despite the ongoing sell-off.
• “99% of it was noise but there’s real value there,” he told ‘The Problem with Jon Stuart’ Monday.
• Cuban added that Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest on fraud charges will force crypto to “get its act together”.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban still believes there’s some value in the crypto space, but says the asset class’s stratospheric rise in 2021 now looks like it was almost all “noise”.

Last year’s bull run led to cryptocurrencies becoming overvalued, before signs of stress in the industry — such as the fraud charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — could pop that bubble this year, he said.

“There’s the signal and the noise,” Cuban told Apple TV+’s “The Problem with Jon Stewart”. “In crypto, 99% of it was noise. But there’s real value and signal there.”

Cuban — the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and “Shark Tank” investor — was speaking Monday as a brutal year for digital assets draws to a close.

The price of bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, has plunged 64% to below $17,000 since January, and it’s down 75% from its all-time high of almost $68,790 in November 2021. The value of the global crypto market is 63% lower than a year ago.

Stablecoin issuer Terra and hedge fund Three Arrows Capital collapsed earlier in 2022 as the crypto selloff brought to light potential instabilities in the digital asset sector. More recently, the disgraced founder of now-bankrupt FTX Bankman-Fried — commonly known as “SBF” — was arrested in the Bahamas last week and faces fraud charges in the US.

Those events prompted Cuban to talk about the collapse of Enron and WorldCom MCI during the early-2000s selloff in tech stocks.

“It takes a couple of frauds to pop a financial bubble,” he said. “It took Enron and WorldCom MCI.”

“Now it’s going to take what we saw with Sam and Terra and Luna and Three Arrows Capital,” he added. “So now crypto will get its act together.”

But the sector can only do that if there’s greater transparency and regulatory oversight, according to the billionaire investor, who has described crypto as a big part of the future.

FTX’s new CEO John Ray III has said the exchange misstated the overall value of its crypto holdings, while a Reuters investigation into rival exchange Binance showed most of its balance sheet remains hidden from public view.

“Where you find opacity and lack of transparency, you’re going to find fraud,” Cuban said. “When it comes to legislating any of this, it comes down to who is willing to keep the kimono open.”

“Because it’s digital, it’s easier to disclose, it’s easier to review, it’s easier to analyze. But we have no transparency and as long as that’s the case, SBF can do what he did,” he added.

Cuban is a longtime crypto bull who previously said he would accept joke token dogecoin — which has tumbled 56% during this year’s selloff — as a method of payment for Dallas Mavericks merchandise and tickets. He has owned the Texas-based NBA franchise since 2000.

Read more: FTX’s collapse could be crypto’s dot-com crash moment – with the industry struggling to ever regain investors’ trust

Jason Ruiyi Chin, known online as Easlo, found six-figure success as a student selling Notion templates.

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• Jason Ruiyi Chin used Notion for taking lecture notes at school and then began toying with the app. 
• He tweeted free Notion-template downloads and grew a big following before he paywalled new content. 
• Chin has made $239,000 this year selling templates for budget tracking and organization.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Ruiyi Chin, a 20-year-old from Singapore who sells Notion templates and goes by Easlo online. Insider verified his revenue with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I graduated from high school in 2021. While in school, I often used Notion — a note-taking software platform — to organize my lecture notes.

I realized after graduating that people could customize Notion for different uses and decided to fiddle around with the program’s functionality.

I started producing basic templates, like a budget tracker and a habit tracker, under my internet persona, Easlo.

I studied YouTube videos and other Twitter users to create my brand

I learned how to set up various functions in Notion by watching YouTube videos. I released these first templates for free, advertising them to my growing Twitter followers and posting on Product Hunt to get the word out.

While developing my templates, I was growing my Twitter audience. I followed popular productivity Twitter accounts and studied what formats and content they used. I modeled my Twitter behavior after theirs. This research has paid off because I now get significant support on Twitter for my products.

For about two months in summer 2021, I regularly released new, free Notion templates and made them available to anyone who wanted them. They could be downloaded from Gumroad for free, with the option of leaving a tip. 

The audience for my free templates was happy to start paying for my new product

I realized that being Easlo might be a lucrative endeavor in fall 2021 when I began receiving tips of up to $100 on Gumroad. In November 2021, I decided to start charging for my new templates and turn “Easlo” into a business. I stumbled into this entrepreneurship opportunity; it was my first job ever. 

To get the word out about my new, paid products, I sent an email to all the people who had downloaded my free templates. To my surprise, people started paying for my new product.

Gumroad made it easy to switch from free products to paid ones. I just changed the price from $0 to whatever I was setting it as. The paid template was profitable immediately, as it brought over $3,000 in the first month.

My audience came largely from Twitter, where I have over 211,000 followers, and Product Hunt, a website that elevates new software programs. My Notion templates performed well there, drawing tons of new customers to my website.

Running a business alone can be stressful, but I take pride in it

I’m a one-man machine, which can be stressful sometimes, but I take pride in that every template, tweet, and Product Hunt post is designed and implemented by me alone.

I’ve never paid for an ad campaign. I focus on growing my online audience organically. I invest a lot of time in growth on Twitter, which has brought me the greatest return on the investment of my time. 

My tweets these days focus on helping others grow their audiences and ventures, which is a popular topic that gets a lot of attention. I tweet two to three times a day, reply to at least 10 tweets, and make an informative Twitter thread weekly. My working hours vary from week to week — it’s definitely a full-time commitment.

I’ve made $239,000 in template sales this year. My less-expensive templates — such as my Bullet Journal, which costs $20, and Finance Tracker, which costs $40 — make up nearly half of my business.

But sales of my $130 flagship product, the Second Brain template, make up over $100,000 of the profit I’ve made this year. The template allows you to track personal finance, health and fitness, personal growth, and relationship goals. It also displays your inbox and schedule.

There is a lot more competition in the Notion-template market now 

Over the past year, the landscape for Notion templates has changed significantly. More competition has emerged in the template market, and I’ve had to adapt Easlo around that. Alongside releasing new templates, I’ve pivoted to creating educational content for the Notion-using community.

I was a recently graduated student when I began my journey with Notion templates. I never imagined the success I’ve found in this niche.

My advice to anyone considering building their own template business is that you need to build your audience first by providing them with free, valuable content before you can start selling templates. 

If done correctly, this method creates a loyal audience that multiplies over time, and your sales will reflect this growth.

Rep. Lauren Boebert; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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• Marjorie Taylor Greene ripped into Lauren Boebert on Monday, saying she acted “childishly.”
• Greene reacted to Boebert’s refusal to endorse her choice of Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. 
• Boebert hearkened back to Greene’s infamous “space lasers” Facebook post in her refusal. 

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert on Monday, accusing her of engaging in petty feuding, while also taking a swipe at her narrow margin of re-election.

Greene’s ire was stoked by a video showing Boebert with Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk at its “AmericaFest” event. 

Kirk asked Boebert and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also listed as a speaker at the event, what they thought of Greene’s endorsement of Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next House speaker. 

Neither Gaetz nor Boebert were fans of the idea. While Gaetz politely disagreed, Boebert was more personal.

“Well you know, I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” said Boebert. “I don’t believe in this, just like I don’t believe in Russian space lasers, Jewish space lasers and all of this.”

The remark was a reference to a since-deleted 2018 Facebook post in which Greene speculated that that year’s wildfires in California were caused by lasers controlled by politicians and Jewish bankers. 

Greene took exception, and responded to Boebert by tweeting the clip while noting that the congresswoman “just barely came through by 500 votes” in the 2022 midterms despite support from Greene, former President Donald Trump, and McCarthy. 

—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2022

Boebert survived an extraordinarily tight race for Colorado’s Third Congressional District in the midterms.

The contest was close enough to prompt a legally-required recount, which confirmed that she won by 546 votes.

In her thread, Greene complained that Boebert didn’t endorse Trump or McCarthy even after she “gladly takes our $$$” in getting re-elected.

“And she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite,” Greene added, in a likely reference to Boebert’s “space lasers” quip. 

“Americans expect conservative fighters like us to work together to Save America and that is the only mission I’m 100% devoted to, not high school drama and media sound bites,” Greene said in a third tweet. 

—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2022

Boebert did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. 

Boebert, Greene and Gaetz — who all sit to the far right of the Republican Party — have long been grouped together, but reports emerged in April of a rift between Greene and Boebert. 

Politico reported that the pair got into a heated debate over Greene’s attendance, in February, of a white nationalist-organized event. According to the outlet, Boebert dislikes being associated with Greene.