Judge sentences Jan. 6 ‘chaos agent’ to 6 years in jail (www.politico.com)
Emergency Exit Slide Detaches As Delta Flight Takes Off, Forces Return to New York JFK (headtopics.com)
Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)
Trendy, unproven “vampire facials” performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today....
NBC News investigation reveals Israel strikes on Gaza areas it said were safe (www.nbcnews.com)
AIPAC is spending millions to take down the Squad. The Working Families Party is fighting back. (www.motherjones.com)
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....
Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/
Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)
The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials (www.cnbc.com)
There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....
Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets (apnews.com)
A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said....
US food regulator gathering information on Indian spices after alleged contamination (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly containing high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide....
New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually (apnews.com)
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United States....
White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule (thehill.com)
Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)
OTTAWA (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....
The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another (www.propublica.org)
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines....
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
Tennessee passes first-of-its-kind law attacking trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Student Protest Leader at Columbia: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ (www.nytimes.com)
Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism....
Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump (www.theguardian.com)
The Onion is sold to new firm known as Global Tetrahedron (www.axios.com)
global-tetrahedron.com/about...
New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay (www.usatoday.com)
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay....
US regulators seize troubled lender Republic First, sell it to Fulton Bank (www.reuters.com)
U.S. regulators have seized Republic First Bancorp and agreed to sell it to Fulton Bank, underscoring the challenges facing regional banks a year after the collapse of three peers....