7 O'Clock News / Silent Night - Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple, Matt Berninger

Silent night, holy night!

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!

Shepherds quake at the sight

Glories stream from heaven afar

Heavenly hosts sing 'Alleluia!

Christ the Savior is born

Christ the Savior is born

Silent night, holy night!

Son of God, love’s pure light

Radiant beams from Thy holy face

With the dawn of redeeming grace

Jesus Lord, at Thy birth

Jesus Lord, at Thy birth

…The settlement enables the company to continue making Oxycontin.

According to the terms of the agreement, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue,

will not be required to admit any wrongdoing.

In other news today,

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the first all-female

spacewalk when they ventured outside of the International Space Station to

replace a power controller.

In Dallas, Texas, Amber Guyger has been found

guilty of murder.

Guyger, a white off-duty police officer, claims she

mistakenly entered the apartment of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean,

because she was distracted by her sexting with a fellow officer.

Guyger claimed that upon entering the apartment, she felt fearful for her

safety and felt justified in drawing her service revolver and shooting Jean

dead.

Guyger has been sentenced to ten years in prison.

The Supreme Court is

reviewing a Louisiana law that would effectively end women’s access to abortion.

The law, seen as a first step by evangelical conservatives toward the possible

reversing of Roe vs. Wade, flies in the face of public opinion.

The health and

safety of women across the nation, particularly those from lower-income homes

are especially vulnerable.

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House Chief of Staff,

threw the Trump administration’s defense against impeachment into disarray on

Thursday when he said that the White House withheld nearly $ 400 million in

military aid to Ukraine to further President Trump’s political interests.

And that’s the seven o' clock news