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At least five people have been killed, and 200 injured, after a car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday in what authorities called a deliberate attack.
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg — an attack that has left Germans mourning the victims and with a shaken sense of security.
At first, Thi Linh Chi Nguyen thought the loud bangs were fireworks. The 34-year-old manicurist from Vietnam, whose salon is near the Christmas market, was on the phone during a break when she heard the noise just after 7 p.m. on Friday. Then she saw a car drive through the market at high speed. People screamed and a child was thrown into the air by the car.
The Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, is empty on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, is empty on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The woman recalled seeing the car bursting out of the market and turning right onto Ernst-Reuter-Allee street and then coming to a standstill at a tram stop where the suspect was arrested.
The Christmas market was surrounded by concrete barriers designed to prevent attacks, but there was a gap left for emergency access, wide enough for a car to speed through.
The market stood empty and cordoned off by police tape on Sunday, with armed officers deployed around it. Nearby, people stopped to light candles or leave flowers at a growing makeshift memorial.
The Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, is empty on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, is empty on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Police say the dead are four women, aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, and a boy, aged 9. Authorities said 200 people were injured, including 41 in serious condition. They were being treated in multiple hospitals in Magdeburg, which is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, and beyond.

Prosecutors said the suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, is under investigation on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and bodily harm. In a closed-door hearing on Saturday evening, a judge ordered that he be kept in custody pending a possible indictment.
Several German media outlets identified the suspect as Taleb A., withholding his last name in line with privacy laws, and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He has lived in Germany since 2006, practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.
The suspect’s X account describes him as a former Muslim. It is filled with tweets and retweets focusing on anti-Islam themes and criticism of the religion, while sharing congratulatory notes to Muslims who left the faith. He was critical of German authorities, saying they had failed to do enough to combat the “Islamification of Europe.” He has also voiced support for the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
People have lit candles at the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, . (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
People have lit candles at the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany on Saturday evening , Dec. 21, 2024, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, . (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Some described Taleb as an activist who helped Saudi women flee their homeland. Recently, he seemed focused on his theory that German authorities have been targeting Saudi asylum-seekers.
Investigators are analyzing the suspect’s computers, mobile devices and other evidence, trying to understand what motivated him to drive his black BMW into a crowd in the eastern German city. Prosecutors said the motive may have been “dissatisfaction with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany.”
There are unanswered questions about what the authorities knew about the suspect. The head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch, said the agency — Germany’s equivalent of the FBI — received a warning from Saudi Arabia in November 2023, but that the information was unspecific.
People lay flowers and light candles on concrete blocks that protect the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
People lay flowers and light candles on concrete blocks that protect the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Münch said the suspect “published a huge number of posts on the internet,” was in contact with various authorities and “made insults and even threats” — but was not known to be violent.
Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees also acknowledged it had received a warning about the suspect last year.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing criticism about security lapses that allowed the attack to happen, and was heckled by some bystanders during a visit to Magdeburg on Saturday.
The violence shocked all of Germany, prompting several other German towns to cancel their weekend Christmas markets as a precaution, and out of solidarity with Magdeburg’s loss. Berlin kept its markets open but increased the police presence.
Germany has suffered several extremist attacks in recent years, including a knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight at a festival in the western city of Solingen in August. Friday’s attack came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others.
Those attacks have led cities to beef up security at Christmas markets and other events.
The horror triggered by yet another act of mass violence in Germany make it likely that migration will remain a key issue as German heads toward an early election on Feb. 23.
It is the latest in a string of incidents around the world in which vehicles have been used as weapons by jihadi attackers, far-right extremists and others whose motives were unclear.
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Bulls could not hold the gained initiative until the end of the week, according to CoinMarketCap.
The rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has declined by 0.54% since yesterday. Over the last week, the price has fallen by 5.84%.
On the hourly chart, the price of BTC is near the local resistance level of $97,248. If a breakout happens, the growth may continue to the $98,000 area tomorrow.
On the bigger time frame, neither side is dominating. The rate of the main crypto is far from the key levels, which means any sharp moves are unlikely to happen shortly.
From the midterm point of view, one should pay attention to the weekly bar closure in terms of the $97,092 level. 

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If the candle closes far from it, traders may witness a local bounce back to the $100,000 area. Such a scenario is relevant until the end of the month.
Bitcoin is trading at $96,396 at press time.
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The Internet Archive has finally recovered from a devastating series of cyberattacks last month with all its main sites and services back up and running. Only a few ancillary features are still down, but those should be coming back soon.
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In Monday's update to the blog post, Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services at Internet Archive, reported that the key archive page is up, along with its Wayback Machine, Open Library, Archive-It service, Vault, and the scholarly archive site. On the archive page, most of the key services seem to be available once again, including publicly available texts, TV news search and borrowing, audio files, moving images, institutional uploads, institutional web archiving, and access via the API.
"More services and features coming online soon," Freeland said in the blog post. "Services may be interrupted for ongoing maintenance. Thank you for your patience and ongoing support."
Though the Internet Archive may appear on the surface as just one service, it actually provides a variety of resources. The main archive page offers free access to digital artifacts of the past, including software, music, movies, TV shows, and books. The Open Library is stocked with a huge catalog of electronic books you can read and borrow. Archive-It is a subscription-based service that helps organizations build large collections of videos, social media posts, and other digital content. The Vault is a digital repository and preservation service for libraries and other organizations.
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While all of those sites and services were affected last month by a series of cyberattacks, the chain of events started in September when two attacks hit the Internet Archive.
One was a data breach that compromised 31 million user accounts. Cyber attackers stole site users' usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. Exploiting a JavaScript library to deface the archive, the attackers displayed the following message to visitors: "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened."
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Another incident occurred around the same time — a pro-Palestinian group named SN_BlackMeta launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against the archive. Here, the hackers said they hit the site "because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of 'Israel'."
The irony with the DDoS attack is that the archive is a non-profit and non-government organization with no ties to or affiliation with the US government.
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The third incident saw the theft of GitLab authentication tokens, as described by Bleeping Computer, giving the attackers access to the site's email support platform. Several people who had previously sent support emails to the archive received the following response from the attackers as shown in a Reddit forum:
It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their GitLab secrets. As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token with perms to access 800K+ support tickets sent to info@archive.org since 2018. Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it'd be someone else.
Some people who chimed in on Reddit blamed the Internet Archive for not changing its API keys in the wake of the initial attacks, and others sympathized with the site. As a non-profit organization devoted to sharing valuable historical information, the Internet Archive has a limited budget. That means cybersecurity may get short shrift in the overall running of things.
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"In a third attack on the Internet Archive this month, hackers are exploiting access tokens to the organization's Zendesk implementation," said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport. "This means they now have access to more than 800 support tickets. While many have been critical of Internet Archive for not rotating API keys, it can be challenging in the aftermath of a breach for organizations to pick through the blast radius of an attack to prevent further exploitation."
As a result of the attacks, the archive was forced to go offline and has slowly come back one service at a time.
"Along with a DDOS attack and exposure of patron email addresses and encrypted passwords, the Internet Archive's website javascript was defaced, leading us to bring the site down to access and improve our security," Kahle said in a blog post on October 18. "The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely. This new reality requires heightened attention to cyber security and we are responding. We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable."

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By Jason Hall
December 22, 2024
Monday’s (December 23) Powerball jackpot will be worth an estimated $103 million after zero players matched all six numbers during the $92 million drawing Saturday (December 21) night.
Results from Saturday’s Powerball game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 1-12-17-21-58
POWERBALL: 1
POWER PLAY: 3x
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are reported to be 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.com. The Powerball jackpot previously reset after one player in New York won the $256 million drawing on December 7. The Powerball jackpot reset after one player in California won the $44 million drawing on August 19.
One player in Pennsylvania won the $214 million Powerball drawing on August 12, exactly one week prior to another jackpot. The Powerball jackpot had previously reset after one player won the $139 million Powerball drawing on July 3.
One player in California matched all six numbers to win the $2.04 billion ($997.6 million) jackpot on November 7, 2022, the largest jackpot offered in U.S. lottery history, according to the official Powerball website. Powerball has had jackpots exceeding $1 billion five times.
Mega Millions games have also exceeded $1 billion six times, which includes its largest offering, a $1.603 billion jackpot that was one by a player in Florida on August 8. Both jackpots increase during each following game until there’s a jackpot winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn, which includes the additional Mega Millions Gold Ball or Powerball in each respective game.
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By Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto
December 22, 2024 / 9:00 AM EST / CBS News
There’s plenty of public uncertainty about who’s controlling drones spotted over the East Coast. One idea does dominate, though: the public suspects the U.S. government is keeping information from them. 
Americans have a range of theories about who is controlling the drones, with the U.S. government the most suspected, but no one answer dominates. 
Just over half the country is paying attention to the story, and the more they’re paying attention to it, the more likely they are to suspect the U.S. government is controlling the drones.
Either way, about half of Americans consider the drones a threat to the U.S. This is particularly so among those who think the drones are being controlled by a foreign country or government. 
This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,244 U.S. adults interviewed between December 18-20, 2024. The sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, and education, based on the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Current Population Survey, as well as 2024 presidential vote. The margin of error is ±2.4 points.


Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News’ executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates outcomes on election nights
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As the cryptocurrency market continues to gain momentum, December offers investors many promising opportunities to diversify their portfolios. This month’s most notable projects are Qubetics, Near Protocol, Polygon, Celestia, XRP, Algorand, Injective, Binance, Fantom, and Bitcoin Cash. These projects stand out for their innovative solutions, market relevance, and potential for significant returns.
The Qubetics Network is redefining the blockchain landscape by introducing a marketplace that harnesses the power of tokenisation to democratise asset ownership. By leveraging blockchain technology, Qubetics enables the seamless conversion of various physical and digital assets into tradable digital tokens. This fractionalisation process allows investors to participate in opportunities that were once the exclusive domain of high-net-worth individuals and institutions.
The Qubetics marketplace is envisioned as a vibrant hub where investors can access a wide range of tokenised assets, including:
By catering to diverse investment preferences and risk profiles, the Qubetics marketplace is set to become a cornerstone of the blockchain ecosystem, empowering global investors with unprecedented access and opportunities.
Currently in Presale Phase 13, $TICS tokens are priced at $0.034. Over $7.4 million has been raised, with 11,100 holders and 365 million tokens sold. Weekly price hikes of 10%, culminating in a 20% rise during the final stage, offer a compelling case for early investment. The post-presale target of $0.25 per token provides an ROI of 630.27%.
Analysts predict that $TICS could reach $10 to $15 after the mainnet launch, with potential ROIs of 29,106.88% and 43,660.31%, respectively. For investors seeking to combine innovation and profitability, Qubetics is a top choice this month.
Near Protocol is making waves with its focus on user and developer accessibility. Its sharded architecture ensures scalability, while its emphasis on simplicity allows developers to create dApps easily. Near’s growing ecosystem and partnerships solidify its position as a blockchain designed for mass adoption.
With its commitment to usability and scalability, Near Protocol is a strong investment choice for December.
Polygon has cemented itself as a leading Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, addressing high fees and slow transaction speeds. Its robust ecosystem supports DeFi, NFTs, and gaming applications, attracting developers and projects across the blockchain space.
Polygon’s ongoing upgrades and partnerships ensure its continued relevance, making it a must-watch crypto this month.
Celestia is pioneering a modular blockchain architecture, separating consensus from data availability. This innovative approach allows developers to build blockchains tailored to specific use cases, providing unparalleled flexibility and efficiency.
Celestia’s focus on modularity positions it as a unique and promising project, making it a strong contender for investment this month.
XRP continues to lead in the cross-border payments sector, offering a faster and more cost-effective alternative to traditional systems. Despite regulatory challenges, XRP’s use case and adoption remain robust, especially among financial institutions.
With its strong fundamentals and growing adoption, XRP is a reliable investment for diversifying its portfolios.

Algorand combines security, scalability, and sustainability, making it one of the most advanced blockchain platforms. Its pure proof-of-stake consensus mechanism ensures energy efficiency, while its ecosystem supports DeFi, NFTs, and enterprise applications.
As a blockchain designed for real-world use cases, Algorand offers strong long-term potential and is a smart investment choice this December.
Injective is a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform offering innovative features such as gas-free transactions and cross-chain capabilities. Its ecosystem includes trading, lending, and staking solutions, appealing to retail and institutional users.
With the DeFi market expanding, Injective’s innovative approach makes it a standout project to watch this month.
Binance’s native token, BNB, remains a cornerstone of the cryptocurrency market. With use cases spanning exchange fee discounts, DeFi applications, and NFT marketplaces, BNB continues to gain utility and value.
As Binance expands its ecosystem, BNB remains a strong investment for December and beyond.
Fantom is gaining traction as a high-performance smart contract platform offering near-instant transaction finality and low fees. Its growing ecosystem of DeFi and dApp projects highlights its appeal to developers and users alike.
Fantom’s focus on speed and scalability ensures its place among the best cryptos to invest in this month.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) offers faster and cheaper transactions compared to Bitcoin, making it a preferred choice for peer-to-peer payments. Its consistent upgrades and growing adoption as a digital currency solidify its position in the market.
BCH is a solid pick for December as a reliable and established cryptocurrency.
The cryptocurrency market is teeming with opportunities for forward-thinking investors. Whether you’re drawn to Qubetics’ innovative marketplace, Near Protocol’s user-friendly blockchain, or Injective’s DeFi solutions, these cryptos are paving the way for the next era of blockchain adoption.
Don’t let FOMO hold you back—invest in these transformative projects today and position yourself for long-term success. The future of blockchain innovation is here, and these are the projects leading the charge!

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