Ford makes new offer in US labor dispute, GM furloughs more workers (www.reuters.com)
Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1003636...
[US] A nationwide emergency alert will be sent to all U.S. cellphones Wednesday (www.nbcnews.com)
A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios....
Where are the homes? Glaring need for housing construction underlined by Century 21 CEO (apnews.com)
The highest mortgage rates in more than two decades are keeping many prospective homebuyers out of the market and discouraging homeowners who locked in ultra-low rates from listing their home for sale....
More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
Netflix is planning to raise prices... again (www.theverge.com)
Corporate manslaughter probe launched into British hospital that employed Lucy Letby (www.upi.com)
Police on Wednesday launched a corporate manslaughter investigation into the British Countess of Chester Hospital that employed nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of killing infants.
Nanny convicted in California of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his care (apnews.com)
A nanny who worked for families across Southern California was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his care and showing another boy child pornography, prosecutors said....
China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (www.nytimes.com)
They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States....
Elon Musk must face fraud lawsuit for disclosing Twitter stake late (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk was ordered by a U.S. judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested in the social media company, which he later bought and renamed X....
US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles (apnews.com)
U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles....
Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging (www.cnn.com)
The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue....
The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended (apnews.com)
The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday....
‘Lock Them Up’ Is Now the Republican Party’s Highest Goal (nymag.com)
3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history (www.upworthy.com)
What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue (www.nbcnews.com)
The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls on Biden to step up action on the migrant crisis (www.nbcnews.com)
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday fired off a letter to President Joe Biden about an “untenable” migrant crisis in the state, calling for an overhaul to the system and blasting the White House for a “lack of intervention and coordination at the border.”...
75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are on strike (www.cnn.com)
More than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, are walking off the job Wednesday, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history....
Pandas could be gone from America's zoos by the end of next year (apnews.com)
FIFA awards the 2030 World Cup to Spain, Portugal and Morocco (elpais.com)
Nonunion autoworkers are watching the UAW — and deciding whether they want in (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump reaped over $100 million through fraud, New York says as trial starts (www.reuters.com)
A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire....
Judges aiming to give Black voters more influence in Alabama set to redraw congressional districts (apnews.com)
A federal judge said Tuesday that the court will soon adopt new congressional districts for Alabama, choosing among proposals aimed at giving Black voters a greater opportunity to influence election outcomes in the Deep South state....
Phones to receive an emergency alert test this week (youtu.be)
The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that’s not what I thought people would enjoy. It’s the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).
Fulton County DA opens plea deal talks with several defendants, including Trump 2020 campaign official, in Georgia election interference case (www.cnn.com)
Several defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been approached about their interest in accepting plea deals, as the Fulton County district attorney seeks to pare back the pool of defendants and pick up cooperators ahead of potential trials, according to sources familiar with the matter....
