Inhale, exhale. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also a time when holiday stress may start to pile on. Between shopping, cooking, parties, wrapping presents, guests and busy travel, try to remember to enjoy the present moment and all the little things this joyous season has to offer. The next weekday edition of 5 Things will be in your inbox bright and early on Tuesday after the Christmas holiday. But until then,
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- Extreme weather
- Rudy Giuliani
- Border crisis
Extreme weather
Portions of Southern California will see continued rainfall today from an atmospheric river that threatens to cause flooding into the holiday weekend. The storm system has already wreaked havoc on several roadways this week, with some areas seeing more than 6 inches of rainfall since Wednesday. As the atmospheric river continues to move east today, parts of southern Arizona are also under the same level of rainfall threat. On the East Coast, thousands are still feeling the impacts of a deadly storm that hammered the region earlier this week, flooding roadways and knocking out power for thousands as cold temperatures persisted. As of early today, more than 50,000 homes and businesses in Maine were still without power.
Rudy Giuliani
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, listing debts of up to $500 million. The bankruptcy declaration comes just days after a jury ordered him to pay nearly $150 million to two former Georgia election workers for defamation. It's another setback for the former federal prosecutor and one-time front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, all stemming from his time as Donald Trump's attorney after the 2020 election. Giuliani may ask the bankruptcy court to excuse his debt, but in the meantime, lawyers for the former election workers have indicated they would move quickly to attempt to claim his properties and assets.
Border crisis
President Joe Biden is ramping up the pressure on Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to help with the migrant crisis at the US southern border. In a call between the two on Thursday, the presidents agreed that "additional enforcement actions are urgently needed" to reopen ports on the US-Mexico border where a migrant surge has strained federal resources and led to port closures, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. Over recent days, more than 10,000 migrants have unlawfully crossed the US-Mexico border daily — numbers not seen since days before the lifting of a Covid-era restriction known as Title 42 that allowed authorities to turn back migrants at the border.
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