In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not. (www.propublica.org)
EVs less reliable than conventional cars: Consumer Reports [Lauren Sforze | 11/29/23 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
The annual car reliability survey by Consumer Reports found EVs are 79 percent more likely to have problems than conventional cars. Consumers reported electric drive motors, charging and EV batteries had the most common issues associated with EVs, according to the survey....
Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens. (www.propublica.org)
COVID map shows positive cases across US regions (www.newsweek.com)
In rare action against Israel, U.S. will deny visas to extremist West Bank settlers (www.cbsnews.com)
Starlink has now lost over 1,000 satellites and over 400 of it's newest satellites in the last three months. (tiblur.com)
A nonprofit group is pushing to get estrogen FDA approved for gender-affirming care (www.statnews.com)
Hormone replacement therapies have long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use by cisgender patients, such as women who take estrogen when going through menopause. Now, for the first time, a nonprofit group is pursuing research with the goal of FDA approval for the use of estrogen as a gender-affirming...
US Lawmakers Want to Use a Powerful Spy Tool on Immigrants and Their Families (www.wired.com)
Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president (abcnews.go.com)
Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101 (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10115569...
Court filing gives rare look inside FBI seizure of lawmaker's phone in 2020 election probe (apnews.com)
Snippets and short summaries of texts and emails sent by Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, a top Trump ally, have emerged publicly for the first time as part of a court filing that was unsealed — perhaps inadvertently — by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., as part of a legal battle with federal...
Vandalized Jewish after-school center uses it as lesson on peace (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
Socher-Lerner said they overcame that by centering their values: human dignity and community....
Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump declines to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House after Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked him Tuesday to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric....
College presidents face tough questions from Congress over antisemitism on campus (www.cbsnews.com)
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft (www.politico.com)
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital (apnews.com)
Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old....
Atmospheric river brings heavy rain, flooding to Pacific Northwest (www.cbsnews.com)
Trump calls on supporters to 'guard the vote' in Democratic-run US cities (www.reuters.com)
Speaking at a campaign event in Iowa, Trump said it was important to scrutinize the vote in the battleground states likely to determine the general election. He singled out the biggest cities in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia....
Protester sets self on fire outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta, suffers critical burns (www.pbs.org)
A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured....
Former Harvard disinformation scholar says she was pushed out of her job after college faced pressure from Facebook (www.cnn.com)
A nationally recognized online disinformation researcher has accused Harvard University of shutting down the project she led to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg....
Supreme Court signals it will uphold a tax on foreign income and leave a wealth tax for another day (apnews.com)
On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington state couple challenging a provision of the 2017 tax bill would threaten other provisions of the tax code....
Protesters outside United Nations highlight sex assaults of women during Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel (www.cbsnews.com)
France's parliament considers a ban on single-use e-cigarettes (apnews.com)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
