The longtime neutral government of Switzerland has frozen $8.81 billion in financial assets belonging to Russians.

Neutrality is one of the main principles of Switzerland's foreign policy which dictates that Switzerland is not to be involved in armed or political conflicts between other states. This policy is self-imposed and designed to ensure external security and promote peace.

This action is a result of sanctions designed to punish Moscow for its illegal invasion of the neighboring nation of Ukraine.

Former SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who became First Woman on the Supreme Court has died at age 93.

During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.

Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and its most powerful justice for much of her tenure,

December has to be the most significant month of the year. Think about theholidays and therefore a time to remember.

Can you recall which year these were on the TOP 10 HIT PARADE?

HINT: 1971, 72,73, 74, 75, 76...etc.

HINT: She was ahead of her time calling out trump thieves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVa7rPncjg&list=OLAK5uy_nR0_ZQAf-z5RUM…

HINT: Hip-Black Detective

Image of Jimmy Carter holding hands with his wife of 77 years. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

For 100 years, US women outlived US men, due to cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to smoking habits..

A new study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.

As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010

Five decades later his legaciy in question as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age 100.

He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.

In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut. 

During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy. 

What Really Happened to Jessica Savitch? I worked with her as a young NBC producer. She was a one-of-a-kind anchorwoman. 

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

On this date 11/29/01 - The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer. He was 58 years old.

Following The Beatles breakup he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM&list=RDEMpapDu9V1HLtqD6LLJq…

George was the youngest member of The Beatles, aged 16 when he joined, his compositions include: