Texas prosecutor convenes grand jury to investigate Uvalde shooting, multiple reports say (www.pbs.org)
A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting, multiple media reported Friday, as families of the 19 children and two teachers killed continued their calls for criminal charges against officers involved in the hesitant and haphazard police response to the massacre....
Day 2 – Turkish airstrikes on North and East Syria target electricity, oil and other civilian infrastructure. (rojavainformationcenter.org)
Accustomed as we are to looking where the spotlight shines, it is easy to forget that Rojava is still a reality and that Kurdistan has not stopped resisting just because the world has turned away
'I’m not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion (kffhealthnews.org)
Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom....
Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families (www.cnn.com)
Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (www.scientificamerican.com)
President Biden Signs Stopgap Bill, Averts Government Shutdown (businesswisehub.com)
President Biden took a decisive action on Friday, signing a stopgap funding bill aimed at ensuring the government’s continued operation until early March. This two-step continuing resolution is strategically designed to buy lawmakers additional time to complete the formal appropriations process.
The 'old American Dream died,' Realtor details salary needed to buy a home, afford a middle class life in 2024 (finance.yahoo.com)
TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.
Prosecutors arrest flight attendant on suspicion of trying to record teen girl in airplane bathroom (apnews.com)
Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September....
US attorney general calls for ‘speedy’ trial in Trump election interference case (www.independent.co.uk)
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said he agrees with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a speedy trial in Donald Trump’s federal election interference case – citing an increased public interest ahead of the 2024 election....
Kids of color get worse health care across the board in the U.S., research finds (www.npr.org)
From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
US police killed a record number of people in 2023 (thehill.com)
In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence....
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit...
Holocaust memorial vandalised with swastika graffiti (www.independent.co.uk)
A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia...
Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds (www.reuters.com)
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....
U.S. health officials ask DEA to reclassify marijuana following review (www.upi.com)
Iowa high school principal who was shot while trying to protect students dies from his injuries (abcnews.go.com)
The Iowa high school principal who was shot and wounded while trying to protect his students during a school shooting earlier this month has died from his injuries, according to the school district....
'It's the wrong house': Audio of Ohio police raid that left a baby injured raises new questions (www.nbcnews.com)
The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns....
Two of the country’s largest transgender rights organizations will merge (www.nbcnews.com)
The National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund will join forces by this summer....
Sources: Alabama death row left without heat for weeks, despite complaints (www.alreporter.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/death-row-allegedly-left-withou…
DOJ report on Uvalde shooting cites 'cascading failures' (abcnews.go.com)
Trump unleashes Truth Social attacks against E Jean Carroll while in court (www.independent.co.uk)
The former president fired off a series of potentially defamatory statements as he arrived in court...
Uvalde families renew demands for police to face charges after a scathing Justice Department report (apnews.com)
Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history....
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Schools close in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh as new blast of snow hits Northeast (abcnews.go.com)
More than 100 million Americans are under winter alerts Friday as a storm hits the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and another brutal surge of Arctic air pushes into the South.
