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The crackdown on pro-Palestinian students is a disaster for free speech (www.motherjones.com)

Kansas mayor who tried to rid city library of LGBTQ books loses school board race (www.rawstory.com)

TOPEKA — St. Marys Mayor Matthew Childs, who previously attempted to ban LGBTQ books from the city’s public library, lost on his school board bid. Tuesday’s election saw several candidates from the religion-dominated area attempt to win school board seats on the USD 321 Kaw Valley School Board...

A Request for This Fruit Caused a Bomb Scare in Portugal (thetakeout.com)

Apparently the word “pomegranate” gets lost in translation....

Antisemitic Hate Crimes Soar in New York City (www.nytimes.com)

Several high-profile incidents are being investigated as hate crimes in New York, where anti-Jewish incidents more than tripled in October compared with last year.

Jan. 6 suspect Gregory Yetman surrenders to police after widespread manhunt, FBI says (abcnews.go.com)

Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in daytime raid in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)

TheGuardian.com

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in hospital (www.bbc.co.uk)

I hope it isn’t anything too serious. Get well soon, Woz.

Transgender people can be baptized, Vatican says (www.axios.com)

Transgender people can be baptized in the Catholic Church and serve as godparents, per an official Vatican document published Wednesday....

Amazon lowers cost of health care plan for Prime members to $9 a month (www.cbsnews.com)

Amazon is lowering the cost of a One Medical membership for Amazon Prime subscribers, shaving $100 off the annual fee to $99 a year. The step is the latest effort by the e-commerce company to mesh its chain of doctor’s offices with its retail services....

Trump fraud trial live updates: Ivanka testifies at New York court - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

Live reporting on Ivanka Trump’s testimony from the BBC

South Korea fights off unprecedented bedbug infestation (abcnews.go.com)

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean authorities have been desperately detecting and exterminating bedbugs for the last two weeks, as a major disinfection of transportation and public facilities is on the way.

Flagship gaming website loses its video team as star of ‘Zero Punctuation’ resigns (www.news.com.au)

Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)

Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

Spinal implant allows Parkinson’s patient to walk for miles (www.engadget.com)

A Parkinson’s patient can now walk 6km (3.7 miles) thanks to an implant targeting the spinal cord. The Guardian reports that the man — 62-year-old “Marc” from Bordeaux, France — developed severe mobility impairments from the degenerative disease. “I practically could not walk anymore without falling frequently,...

China says humanoid robots are new engine of growth, pushes for mass production by 2025 and world leadership by 2027 (www.scmp.com)

Zelenskiy pushes US for more aid, invites Trump to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

Warplanes strike Gaza refugee camp as Israel rejects US push for a pause in fighting (apnews.com)

Palestinian health officials say Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. Sunday's strike came as Israel vowed to press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause in fighting to get aid to civilians....