MOSCOW, Idaho (NewsNation) — The family of alleged Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger released a statement Sunday, urging the public to accept his presumption of innocence and to let the legal process play out.

“We will continue to let the legal process unfold and as a family, we will love and support our son and brother,” the statement said. “We have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”

Kohberger, accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, was arrested in Scranton, Pennsylvania., on Friday morning and is currently being held at Pennsylvania Correctional Facility in Monroe County, where he is awaiting extradition to Idaho.

The public defender representing Kohberger told NewsNation’s Brian Entin on Sunday that Kohberger’s dad went out to Idaho and drove back with him to Pennsylvania in the white Hyundai Elantra in mid-December.

The family of Ethan Chapin, one of the four victims, told NewsNation they are relieved an arrest has been made, but say it “doesn’t alter the outcome or alleviate the pain.” They concluded their statement saying they miss Ethan and their family has been changed forever.

Following his arrest, NewsNation witnessed law enforcement raiding Kohberger’s Pullman, Washington, apartment, where police removed evidence from inside.

Kohberger was a graduate student at Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the time of the killings. However, he also studied criminology during his time at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.

It was at DeSales University that he studied under Dr. Katherine Ramsland, a forensic psychologist who has spent decades researching serial killers and mass murderers. She appeared on NewsNation in October to discuss the Delphi case.

She is known for having developed a close relationship with the serial killer Dennis Rader, more commonly known as BTK.

Ramsland said she is not discussing the case publicly. “I cannot make media statements about him at this time,” she said.

In an exclusive interview with NewsNation, one of his classmates said that Kohberger had a strong command of criminology, showing deep interest in it at all times.

“He very much liked it when everybody in the room knew that he knew what was going on but it wasn’t enough that you knew that he knew, he had to make absolutely sure you understood that he was smart, that he had this intellectual capacity,” classmate Benjamin Roberts said.

He said Kohberger’s behavior changed noticeably in the days after the deaths of the four college students.

“Bryan seemed like he was on the knife’s edge between exhaustion and worn out and at the time it was extremely difficult to tell which was which,” Roberts said. “He did become more chatty toward the tail end of the term, following the quadruple homicide in Moscow.”

The WSU campus in Pullman is just a 15-minute drive from Moscow, and Roberts said he and others made the drive between the communities for many reasons.

Authorities seized a computer and other evidence from Kohberger’s apartment on Friday after his arrest.

Kohberger is currently being held at Pennsylvania Correctional Facility in Monroe County, where he is being held while awaiting extradition. 

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Michael Burry.

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• Michael Burry said he expects the US to slump into recession in 2023 and inflation to spike again.
• The “Big Short” investor predicted inflation would decline overall in 2023 as the economy weakened.
• The Fed and US government would respond with stimulatory policy, causing inflation to jump again, he said.

The US economy is poised to suffer a recession in 2023 as well as another inflation spike, Michael Burry has said.

The investor of “The Big Short” fame, known for his dire but often accurate predictions, issued the gloomy forecast in a tweet posted Sunday.

“Inflation peaked. But it is not the last peak of this cycle,” he said. “We are likely to see CPI lower, possibly negative in 2H 2023, and the US in recession by any definition.”

He added: “Fed will cut and government will stimulate. And we will have another inflation spike. It’s not hard.”

Inflation surged to a 40-year high of 9.1% in June and remained above 7% in November, well ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s 2% target. The central bank reacted by hiking its base interest rate from near-zero to more than 4% and has signaled it will peak above 5% in 2023.

Higher interest rates aim to dampen upward pressure on prices by discouraging spending, investing, and hiring. However, they can simultaneously erode corporate profits and sap economic growth, leading to declines in asset prices and ultimately, recession.

Burry’s view appears to be that inflation will cool and the economy will weaken in 2023, prompting the Fed to cut rates and the government to boost spending in an effort to spur growth — which, in turn, will drive up demand and prompt inflation to rise again.

The Scion Asset Management chief warned back in April 2020 that the post-pandemic reopening of the economy could spark higher inflation. He also flagged last year that American households were putting away less money each month, racking up debt, and were on track to virtually exhaust their savings by December — raising the prospect of a slump in consumer spending and a prolonged recession.

Burry is best known for his billion-dollar wager against the mid-2000s housing bubble, which was immortalized in the book and movie “The Big Short.” He also bet against Elon Musk’s Tesla and Cathie Wood’s flagship Ark Innovation fund last year, and inadvertently laid the groundwork for the meme-stock craze by investing in GameStop before the stock skyrocketed at the start of 2021.

Moreover, the Scion chief last summer sounded the alarm on the “greatest speculative bubble of all time in all things,” warning buyers of meme stocks and cryptocurrencies that they were barreling towards the “mother of all crashes.”

Here’s a screenshot of Burry’s latest tweet:

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Read more: A Michael Burry expert breaks down what makes the ‘Big Short’ investor special. He also revisits Burry’s iconic bet against the housing bubble, and his GameStop, Tesla, and Ark wagers.

Former President Donald Trump, left, Mary Trump, right, in a composite image.

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• Donald Trump’s niece, Mary, told a podcast that she grew up listening to racism in her family.
• She said that her mother and her father, Donald’s brother, didn’t have any Black friends.
• Mary has previously accused the Trump family of using the N-Word and antisemitic slurs.

Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, said Friday that she grew up listening to her family making racist remarks, Newsweek was the first to report.

“I would listen to the racism in my family, “she said while appearing on “The Karen Hunter Show” podcast. “I didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.”

The author and psychologist added that “demeaning this entire class of people” was worlds apart from her own experience.

Mary didn’t specify any of the demeaning racist remarks. However, she told The Washington Post in July 2020 that the Trump family often used racist and antisemitic slurs when she was a child. “Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the N-word or use antisemitic expressions,” she said.

Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC that month, Mary also claimed that she’d heard the former president personally use the N-word and antisemitic slurs — which he refuted at the time.

“I didn’t share their ideas about race and Judaism at all,” she told Maddow, per USA Today. “But you know, when you grow up with that being perfectly normal, you don’t really think twice about it.”

In the podcast interview with Karen Hunter, Mary spoke of how her relatives interacted far less than she did with other races.

Her parents “didn’t have any Black friends,” she said. Mary’s father, Fred Trump Jr., was the younger brother of the former president.

And Mary said her grandparents, real estate developer and businessman Fred Trump Sr. and Mary Anne Trump, the parents of the former president, lived in a predominantly upper-middle-class neighborhood — Jamaica Estates — that was scandalized when “the first Italian family moved in.”

Of her childhood, however, she told the podcast: “I walked to the subway every day to go to school, and I walked home, and I passed by shops that were Black-owned. Most of the people I interacted with in stores and stuff were Black.”

Mary added that she “grew up with this unformed notion that racism was just absolute nonsense and anybody who subscribed to it was an idiot at best.”

Trump’s niece has become a fierce critic of the former president in recent years.

She has accused him of being a “fascist” and a “loser.” The former president, in turn, referred to her as a “seldom-seen niece” and a “mess.”

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Elon Musk.

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• Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has discussed Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter.
• Musk has previously discussed making Twitter a “town square” where vital matters could be debated.
• Haugen said he should open source its algorithms to facilitate that goal, per NBC News.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said if Elon Musk wants Twitter to be a public square, he should make its algorithm open source.

Musk had previously discussed making Twitter a digital town square “where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”

Haugen discussed Musk’s views in a special edition of NBC News’ Meet the Press on how social media is shaping politics on Sunday morning. She said to journalist Chuck Todd: “One of the most important things Elon Musk could do to prove that he wants to have the public square is he could publish the algorithms.”

“Open source it,” she added. “He’d have more help – it’d be cheaper for him. It’d be more profitable.”

Musk has been outspoken about one of the reasons he bought Twitter: giving “power to the people.” He also explained in a memo shortly after sealing the $44 billion deal that he acquired it to promote dialogue, which he believed had been lost.

Musk wants Twitter to also be the “most accurate source of information about the world.” In the weeks following the acquisition, however, he reduced the number of people who were primarily in charge of dealing with content moderation.

Haugen is a former product manager on Facebook’s civic integrity team. She went public in 2021 and leaked masses of internal documents illuminating decisions, which she told Congress had led to “more division, more harm, more lies, more threats, and more combat.”

In the interview with NBC News, Haugen also said social-media companies were generally opposed to government intervention since it could decrease profits by at least 20%. 

“Facebook is scared,” Haugen said. “If we actually had transparency, if we actually had accountability, they would not be a company with 35% profit margins. They’d be a company with 15% profit margins.” 

In a subsequent multi-part investigation, known as The Facebook Files, The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram worsens body image issues for teens; Facebook saw pre-teens as an untapped market; and it has a secret system to allow 5.8 million users, including politicians and celebrities, to skirt some of its content rules.

The whistleblower previously said the company wouldn’t be able to recover until CEO Mark Zuckerberg stepped down. 

Meta and Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment by Insider, made outside normal working hours. 

Plan your exit.

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• Quiet quitting can mean doing your job without caring much about it.
• Rage quitting involves leaving suddenly after frustrations have built up.
• Choose an approach based on factors like your performance and your mental health.

There was an era when quitting your job meant having an awkward conversation with your boss and giving your two weeks’ notice.

But times have changed. “Quitting” has taken on many new (and confusing, if you’re over 30 like I am) connotations, including quiet quitting, rage quitting, and good old-fashioned leaving to pursue another opportunity.

So if you’re feeling trapped at work, you have options. And knowing you have options — beyond staying miserable or risking your livelihood by leaving — can be freeing.

Below you’ll find the case for quiet quitting, rage quitting, and finding a new job. To be sure, everyone’s career is unique and the following advice might not apply perfectly to you. Consider this a general guide to getting unstuck.

Before you begin, figure out why you’re unhappy

Figure out why you hate your job. Is your boss rude? Your assignments dull? Your schedule unpredictable?

When I interviewed Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling author of “The Happiness Project,” she said, “Once you actually pinpoint the precise nature of what’s driving you crazy, it’s often a lot easier to fix it than you think.” A rude boss and boring assignments are arguably easier to tackle than a nebulous blob of misery.

You’ll also have a better sense of which type of quitting (if any) makes the most sense.

Consider quiet quitting if … you have other pressing priorities in your life right now

In 2022, I published a book to help professionals who feel stuck in their careers but can’t realistically make a big change. Several people told me their relationship to work had changed over the course of their careers — and they were more willing to invest in their careers during different life stages.

One man with a toddler said he used to be more professionally “ambitious” and interested in networking opportunities that would help him advance in his career. Now he’s more inclined to spend time with his family outside work hours, even if that means missing out on some of those opportunities.

This man does what’s required of him at his job, which he’s held for more than a decade and which has generous PTO and remote-work policies, but rarely more than that. By some definitions, that bare-minimum approach epitomizes quiet quitting.

Consider rage quitting if … your job is hurting your mental health

It’s considered professional to give your employer at least some notice before you leave. But if this job is causing or exacerbating issues such as anxiety or depression, it might not be worth adhering to those norms.

Rahkim Sabree, an entrepreneur, wrote for Insider that he quit his job as a banking program manager on the spot when “it started to take a toll on my mental health — I was angry, anxious, unfulfilled, and unhappy.”

Likewise, if you’re working in a toxic environment where leadership tolerates disrespect, unethical decisions, and exclusionary behaviors, you might be better off elsewhere.

Consider finding a new job if … you’re resentful and performing poorly

How is your frustration manifesting?

As Toni Thompson, the vice president of people strategy and operations at Etsy and the former senior vice president of people and talent at The Muse, told me in an Insider interview, you shouldn’t stay in your current role if “you’re suddenly not doing a good job, and you’ve become a bad teammate and a bad employee because you’re so frustrated.” 

That way, Thompson said, you’ll still leave a positive impression on your employer in case you ever want to work there again or ask them for a recommendation.

Whichever option you choose, remember that you can eventually make a different decision. Find the approach that works for now and reevaluate in a few months to see what you’ve learned about your job — and yourself.

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• Advocates on both sides of a long-running effort to rewrite the Constitution will face off again in 2023.
• Conservatives have been pushing an unprecedented convention to re-write the US bedrock text since 1788. 
• In 2022, a group with ties to Trump’s orbit was able to get four more states to join its efforts.

Senior Republicans torched Donald Trump’s idea to terminate parts of the Constitution. While the former president’s far-fetched idea will likely never come to pass, his allies are busy pushing an unprecedented rewrite of the foundational document that would fundamentally alter Americans’ daily lives.

While nationally, conservatives are frustrated by the lack of a red wave in the midterms, 2023 will offer them more opportunities to build on progress in pushing for a constitutional convention. 

“Show up at the town hall meeting. You don’t win this in one great land battle, it is a bunch of skirmishes,” former US and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum recently told supporters during a meeting at Pennsylvania’s statehouse. Santorum is connected with Convention of States, an organization founded by Tea Party stalwart Mark Meckler.

Earlier this year, Insider published an in-depth report on how conservatives are mostly behind a movement to invoke Article V of the US Constitution, triggering a convention of state delegations whose only precedent is effectively the authoring of the document in the first place. The movement’s supporters are drawn to how the framers of the Constitution created a second route to changing the document outside of the process that has been the traditional source of the 27 amendments to date.

Meckler’s organization is one of the largest players in the Article V push. The Convention of States successfully pushed four states to pass its model resolution in 2022, as Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin joined 15 other states in formally calling for a convention. Article V requires there to be 34 states for a convention to be formed. 

Adding to its arsenal, Meckler’s organization formed a super PAC that spent more than $1 million in state legislative races. Much of the money was spent on primary races in which Convention of States tried to elevate supporters in states where they have yet to pass a resolution.

“Two years from now I expect to increase our involvement tenfold,” Meckler said during a recent Facebook Live, focused on how the midterm election results affect the future of the convention fight.

Meckler and those who are pushing a convention are encountering stiff opposition. The public interest advocacy group Common Cause is trying both to thwart any new convention pushes alongside repealing old resolutions calling a convention.

“We also know hearing what the opposition is talking about that they are going to be hitting every state that they can think of,” Viki Harrison, director of Constitutional Convention and Protecting Dissent Programs at Common Cause, told Insider.

The goal of repealing old resolutions is rooted in undermining a legal theory advanced by some convention advocates that unrelated state resolutions for a convention can be counted together to reach the 34-state threshold. This so-called “fuzzy math” theory is questioned by a number of legal scholars.

Convention of States is not alone in its pursuit of the Article V movement.

While conservatives are active on the issue, the topic does not perfectly split by ideological lines. That being said, Meckler’s organization has pushed a convention based on imposing term limits and a broad declaration limit “the power and jurisdiction” that could affect anything from environmental and education standards to making it difficult for someone like Dr. Anthony Fauci to serve for decades in the federal government. Outside of Convention of States, efforts to call a convention to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment also continue. There have been 28 states that passed a balanced budget-related resolution.

Some very conservative lawmakers, including Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, are vehemently opposed to a convention. Biggs wrote an entire book on how a convention could backfire.

As Insider previously reported, there have been hundreds of pro-convention resolutions passed over the more than 230 years since ratification. Some progressive groups, including one linked to Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur, have pushed pro-convention messages in the wake of Citizens United.  

Harrison and others involved in trying to thwart the movement have said that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has fundamentally changed how Americans respond to this issue. While the high court has no role in a convention, Harrison said people are now aware that major changes to fundamental rights can occur.

“We’re talking about rights about Americans have taken for granted,” Harrison said. “I think that is what has woken the public up and why I am talking to way more about this this year than last year .”

Read more from Insider’s original report here.

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