Donald Trump wants Jan. 6 police to be charged for fighting rioters (www.newsweek.com)
From the party of “Back the Blue!”...
America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland (www.wired.com)
Spotify Wrapped 2023: 'Music genres are now irrelevant to fans' (www.bbc.co.uk)
How very punk rock
Florida Republican party chair under investigation for alleged sexual assault (www.theguardian.com)
Christian Ziegler mentioned in heavily redacted police documents that includes the word ‘raped’, reports say...
Maryland roommates claim police detained them at gunpoint for no reason and shot their pet dog: "No remorse" (www.cbsnews.com)
Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized....
Senators Question KPMG Role in Microsoft Profit-Shifting Scheme (www.propublica.org)
The centerpiece of the audit, as ProPublica detailed in an investigation nearly four years ago, is a 2005 transaction that moved tens of billions of Microsoft’s U.S. profits to Puerto Rico to help the software giant save billions in taxes. In a letter sent Wednesday, three senators, citing ProPublica’s reporting, focused...
New California mental health court sees more than 100 petitions in first two months (apnews.com)
An alternative mental health court to compel treatment for people with severe mental illness has received more than 100 petitions since launching in seven California counties in October, state officials said Friday....
Rugby concussion: Wales' Henson and Charvis named in lawsuit (www.bbc.co.uk)
They’re suing over brain injuries
Five senators ask Biden to impose China travel ban after respiratory illness cases (www.reuters.com)
An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S., Threatening Livestock (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s convictions and jail sentence (apnews.com)
An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police....
Is Israel criminalising Palestinian thoughts too, amid Gaza war? (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel is taking a variety of actions to crack down on any form of support for the Palestinian cause.
Trump doesn’t have presidential immunity from lawsuits over January 6, appeals court rules (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump isn’t immune from being held accountable in civil lawsuits related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot in a long-awaited, consequential decision from the federal appeals court in Washington, DC....
War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses (www.reuters.com)
As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west....
16-year-old dies after shooting at Oklahoma high school football game (www.nbcnews.com)
Gunshots were fired on the visitor’s side of the stadium at Choctaw High School during the third quarter of their game against Del City High School on Friday. At least four other people sustained injuries as a result of the incident, according to police.
Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation (www.foreignaffairs.com)
Nearly a million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools on the Tibetan plateau. Chinese authorities subject these children to a highly politicized curriculum designed to strip them of their mother tongue, sever their ties to their religion and culture, and methodically replace their Tibetan identity with a...
House Expels George Santos From Congress (www.nytimes.com)
Millions of seniors struggle to afford housing — and it's about to get a lot worse (www.npr.org)
A few decades ago, Leslie McIntire thought she was doing everything right for a comfortable life. She was a tax accountant in Washington, D.C., and co-owned a not-for-profit bookstore. “I had good savings,” she says. “I was quite happy, quite frankly, and I was preparing to go back to school.”...
DNC Senator Dick Durbin blocks subpoena of Epstein Flight Logs. (www.blackburn.senate.gov)
Chicago homeless migrants shelter faces backlash (www.reuters.com)
Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this week huddled near tents wearing parkas, knit hats and even ski goggles to cope with the cold weather and falling snow....
‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs (www.cnbc.com)
UAW Endorses Cease-Fire, the Largest U.S. Union to Call for an Immediate End to the Violence (inthesetimes.com)
US lawmaker George Santos, indicted on fraud charges, faces House expulsion vote (www.reuters.com)
*** Update – Santos got the boot. \O/...
Don't eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows (apnews.com)
Consumers shouldn’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as the number of illnesses and recalls tied to a deadly salmonella outbreak grows....
City Council in Portland, Oregon, approves $2.6M for police body cameras (apnews.com)
The City Council in Portland, Oregon, approved $2.6 million for permanent police body cameras in a unanimous vote, a crucial step toward the city no longer being among the last major U.S. police agencies without the technology....
