Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden (www.vox.com)
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges....
The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America (www.thenation.com)
Recession odds are 'very high' as economy looks poised to see an unemployment wave and plunging consumer spending, chief economist says (www.businessinsider.com)
More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many. (www.texasmonthly.com)
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Former Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin forming investor group to buy TikTok (www.politico.com)
Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims (www.npr.org)
Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks Refreshers are missing mango, Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refreshers lack açaí and Pineapple Passionfruit Starbucks Refreshers have no passion fruit....
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS (www.theregister.com)
Since Apple implemented a browser choice screen for iPhones earlier this month to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Brave Software, Mozilla, and Vivaldi have seen a surge in the number of people installing their web browsers....
Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out (www.al.com)
Several Alabama politicians say they are concerned about children’s safety at Huntsville’s Space Camp after a parent complained about the presence of a transgender employee....
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms (krebsonsecurity.com)
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Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...
Four Years On, Covid Has Reshaped Life for Many Americans (www.nytimes.com)
Covid was declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020. Even as the threat of severe illness and death has faded, the pandemic’s effects linger....
Brooklyn pastor ‘Bling Bishop’ found guilty of spending $90,000 of his parishioner’s savings on luxury goods (www.cnn.com)
A flashy, jewelry-wearing Brooklyn pastor was convicted Monday in federal court of using a parishioner’s retirement savings and trying to extort a businessman while touting he had connections to the New York City mayor....
New details revealed from FAA audit of Boeing’s 737 MAX production. Dozens of issues found (www.seattletimes.com)
A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 MAX jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process at the plane maker and one of its key suppliers, according to a slide presentation reviewed by The New York Times....
Dozens of Palestinian orphans transferred from Rafah to Bethlehem (today.lorientlejour.com)
Sixty-eight orphaned children and eleven caregivers plus the caregivers’ families were evacuated from an orphanage in the southern Gazan city of Rafah and taken to the West Bank on Monday, according to a statement released by the German Embassy in Tel Aviv....
Virginia Lawmakers Approve Commission to Examine Universities’ Displacement of Black Communities (www.propublica.org)
House GOP launch new probe of Jan. 6 and try shifting blame for the Capitol attack away from Trump (apnews.com)
House Republicans are launching a vast re-investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election....
Kansas will pay $1 million over the murder of a boy torture victim whose body was fed to pigs (apnews.com)
Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs....
Tragedy Strikes as Billionaire Angela Chao Perishes in Tesla Model X with Unbreakable Glass (www.msn.com)
Angela Chao, the billionaire sister-in-law of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and CEO of the shipping company Foremost Group, drowned tragically when her Tesla Model X, with its nearly unbreakable glass, plunged into a pond on her Texas ranch. The vehicle’s reinforced windows, a feature designed for safety, became a death trap...
US pause on funding UN's main Palestinian relief agency UNRWA may become permanent (www.reuters.com)
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Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida....
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House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate (www.cnbc.com)
New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler (newrepublic.com)
In his new book The Return of Great Powers, which comes out Tuesday, reporter Jim Sciutto interviews several of Trump’s former advisers. All of them stressed that Trump regularly lavished praise on authoritarian leaders around the world, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “fantastic,” Chinese President Xi...
