Other News to Consider

• Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
• Germany’s Scholz confident that budget crisis can be overcome
• Sri Lanka experiences a temporary power outage after a main transmission line fails
• New US aid for Ukraine by year-end seems increasingly of out reach as GOP ties it to border security
• Russia tries to unfreeze gold reserves for climate funds at COP28