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▪ Els van der Plas, director of the Allard Pierson historical museum in the Netherlands, said “cultural heritage became a victim of geopolitical developments” as artifacts held at the Dutch museum were finally shipped to Ukraine after a dispute between the country and Russia over whether they belonged in Crimea or Kyiv.
▪ Tony Gregory, president and chief executive officer of the Battleship Texas Foundation, claimed moving the battleship from the Houston Ship Channel to Pier 21 Galveston to gather more tourists will “give us the greatest chance of success” to ensure that the attendance numbers can help maintain the vessel.
▪ Travis Grant, a 30-yearold New York Police Department officer, was arrested Sunday and accused of punching and choking his girlfriend in two domestic violence incidents in Brooklyn.
▪ Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, announced she would leave X, formerly known as Twitter, in one final post where she called the social media site a “gigantic global sewer” for disinformation, hatred, antisemitism and racism, and a “tool for destroying our democracies.”
▪ Tony Evers, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, was reported by a local conservative news outlet to have been using an alternate state email under the name of the late Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn in conversations with Cabinet appointees.
▪ Brandon Veal, a sergeant of the Jefferson Parish, La., sheriff’s office, said a passenger opened the emergency exit of a parked Southwest Airlines flight and made it to the wing before hopping off and getting caught on the ground as he tried to drive away in a service vehicle at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Sunday.
▪ Iris Logan, a 70-year-old resident of St. Paul, Minn., has become a subject of debate as the city gave her warning to clear out her decorative mosaic in her yard, leading to the City Council electing to take up the situation in a Dec. 6 meeting.
▪ Peter Sokolowski, editor at large of Merriam-Webster, said “the line between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ has become increasingly blurred,” as the dictionary chose “authentic” for its word of the year.
▪ Greg Abbot, the Republican governor of Texas, skydived for the first time as he joined 106-year-old Al Blaschke, and the two of them took separate jumps in an area between Austin and San Antonio.