Michael Cohen to face former boss Trump in New York courtroom (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen is set to deliver highly anticipated testimony on Tuesday against his former boss at the former president’s fraud trial in New York....
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs (www.vice.com)
Juveniles charged with dousing acid on playground slides that injured 4 children (apnews.com)
Two juveniles have been charged after several slides at a Massachusetts park were doused with acid in this summer and four children were injured, the Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said....
Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia (www.washingtonpost.com)
Governments, firms should spend more on AI safety, top researchers say (www.reuters.com)
“Companies will complain that it’s too hard to satisfy regulations - that ‘regulation stifles innovation’ - that’s ridiculous,” said British computer scientist Stuart Russell....
Tim Burton-inspired pumpkin mosaic sets world record (www.bbc.com)
A Tim Burton-inspired mosaic made with more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes has set a new Guinness World Record.
Man accused of killing 15-year-old was beaten by teen's family during melee in Texas courtroom (apnews.com)
A man accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old last year was beaten by members of the teen’s family during a courtroom melee in San Antonio, authorities said....
Got a Mouse in Your Apartment? These Scientists Will Take It. (www.nytimes.com)
A research study is examining how mice that live in cities, close to humans, may have evolved differently from their country cousins.
Blue state suspends basic skills graduation requirement again, citing harm to students of color (www.foxnews.com)
Oregon high schoolers won't have to prove proficiency in core subjects for at least five more years. Here's why education officials suspended the graduation requirement.
Mood swing: Global producers in US hunt for China alternatives (www.reuters.com)
Jason Andringa’s company was part of the stampede of U.S. businesses that built factories in China....
You have to earn $115,000 a year to afford a typical house now in the US (www.axios.com)
This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment? (apnews.com)
In ads, debates and public statements, the opposition campaign and top Republicans have increasingly been referencing “partial-birth abortions” as an imminent threat if voters approve the constitutional amendment on Nov. 7. “Partial-birth abortion” is a non-medical term for a procedure known as dilation and extraction,...
Moon may be ‘40m years older’ than previously thought, researchers say (www.theguardian.com)
It has shone down upon the dinosaurs, inspired the greatest poets, and been explored by intrepid astronauts. But despite its enduring presence, quite when the moon came into being has remained a matter of debate. Now researchers say they have the answer, revealing the Earth’s satellite is 40m years older than previously...
Names written on children's bodies speak to the fears of Gazan parents amid the Israel-Hamas war | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
“We received some cases where the parents wrote the names of their children on the legs and abdomen,” Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Masri, the head of the emergency department Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, told CNN....
Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says (www.reuters.com)
If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said....
The Media Falls for Trump’s Labor Lies (nymag.com)
Who are the Republican candidates to be US House Speaker? (www.bbc.com)
Last week, embattled House Republicans moved to remove Jim Jordan as the party’s nominee after three unsuccessful rounds of votes....
EPA proposes banning cancer-causing chemical used in automotive care and other products (apnews.com)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed banning the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene, which can be found in consumer products including automobile brake cleaners, furniture care and arts and crafts spray coating....
How the Biden administration tried to slow Israel’s invasion of Gaza (www.washingtonpost.com)
A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far (apnews.com)
It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig –- and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover....
Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why (www.nature.com)
‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low....
Domestic violence calls about ‘reproductive coercion’ doubled after the overturn of Roe (19thnews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/domestic-violence-calls-reprodu…
Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell. (www.motherjones.com)
Florida man sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for trying to run over 6 Black men (apnews.com)
A 62-year-old white man convicted of attempting to run down six Black men at the site of the Rosewood massacre has been sentenced to a single year in prison....