Portal:Current events/2024 December 23
December 23, 2024 (Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people are killed and another is wounded after a series of storms since yesterday evening in Rome, Italy, while two more people are missing on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. (Roma Today) (Roma Today 2) (Il Messaggero)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment by the United States federal government
- U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment, including serial killer of 12 (including four children), Kaboni Savage. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder related crimes. (CBS News)
- A man is arrested and charged for animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (News.com.au)
- A man is arrested in New York City, United States, after immolating a woman yesterday aboard a subway train. It is suspected that the victim was chosen at random. (Al Jazeera)