Israel will begin 4-hour pauses in military operations in Gaza each day, White House says (www.cnn.com)
New Speaker Mike Johnson grasps for a funding plan with a government shutdown rapidly approaching (apnews.com)
With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions in the party over federal spending....
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules....
FDA approves first vaccine for mosquito-born viral disease [chikungunya] (thehill.com)
Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years (www.bbc.com)
A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.
CDC reports salmonella outbreak linked to dry dog food (www.cnn.com)
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday of a salmonella outbreak in humans that’s linked to dry dog food....
Protective vaccination rates falling out of reach in US; exemptions hit record (arstechnica.com)
Vaccination exemptions among kindergartners rose from 2.6% to a record high of 3%.
Filmmakers Praise Shelved Film Coyote vs. Acme: 'Best of Its Kind Since Roger Rabbit' - IGN (www.ign.com)
Filmmakers took to Twitter/X to sing their praises for Coyote vs. Acme after Warner Bros. Discovery shelved and scrapped the live-action CGI hybrid film for a $30 million tax write-off.
How Warren Buffett Privately Traded in Stocks That Berkshire Hathaway Was Buying and Selling (www.propublica.org)
How Russia is recruiting Wagner fighters to continue war in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies (www.nytimes.com)
Psychedelics can have enormous benefits but risks shouldn't be ignored (www.vox.com)
The term “psychedelic” was coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond: “To fathom Hell or go angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic.” But today’s public messaging around psychedelics has a dangerous tendency to gloss over the “fathoming hell” part, which has been euphemized into the language of a “bad” or...
Moody’s Changes U.S. Credit Outlook to ‘Negative’ [amid congressional dysfunction] (www.nytimes.com)
Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)
The head of an Israeli media watchdog says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.
Iceland declares state of emergency over escalating earthquakes, and volcano eruption fears (www.euronews.com)
Spain rolled out a new animal welfare law. It has many contradictions (www.euronews.com)
Germany hiking group reported to police as illegal migrants (www.bbc.co.uk)
Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were "foreigners".
Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost (www.theatlantic.com)
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (apnews.com)
Andy Kim launches formal challenge to Menendez: ‘It’s about being a decent human being’ (thehill.com)
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) officially launched his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday at a packed brewery in South Jersey....
(US) EPA sides with tribes on petition to regulate toxic tire chemical that kills salmon (www.kuow.org)
In the radio segment, they also mentioned that this chemical might be responsible for many other environmental and human health conditions. This is likely the tip of the iceberg....
New York appoints famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth as state’s loneliness ambassador (thehill.com)
If you didn’t know she was still alive, I didn’t either. Apparently she’s 95
Eric Adams: FBI seize NYC mayor's phones in fundraising investigation (www.bbc.com)
4-foot-7-inch Marine says peers in boot camp ‘kind of looked up to’ him (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
A 4-foot-7-inch man completed Marine boot camp in September, possibly making him the shortest U.S. service member ever....
'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
