Teenager 18 smashes into a beloved mom and three children in a minivan at 112mph, as he's caught smiling after pretending to look sad as charges read out to him in the hospital bed (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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Florida's manatees are addicted to power plants. Scientists are weaning them off (www.bbc.com)
Pollution drove Florida’s manatees from warm springs to power plants. As the state switches to renewable energy, their new manmade homes are disappearing....
Vermont advances bill requiring fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change (apnews.com)
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather....
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors...
Two investors in Trump Media insider trading case plead guilty (www.cnn.com)
Reddit Insiders Selling Days After IPO; Shares Fall (www.investors.com)
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (apnews.com)
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina...
San Francisco named healthiest city in US (thehill.com)
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He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared. (www.nytimes.com)
Mass shooting outside Indianapolis mall leaves 7 injured, all children and teens, police say (www.cbsnews.com)
Seven minors were hospitalized with injuries late Saturday night after a mass shooting broke out in downtown Indianapolis, police said....
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
Maggot-infested meals being served to inmates at Brooklyn federal jail, lawyers say (www.nydailynews.com)
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Prosecutors in Trump's classified documents case sharply rebuke judge's unusual and 'flawed' order (apnews.com)
In an unusual order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to formulate proposed jury instructions for most of the charges even though it remains unclear when the case might reach trial. She asked the lawyers to respond to two different scenarios in which she appeared to accept the...
Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car' (www.reuters.com)
Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, car by car.”...
White Supremacist Propaganda Incidents Soar to Record High in 2023 (www.adl.org)
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
Freight railroads must keep 2-person crews, according to new federal rule first proposed under Obama (apnews.com)
“As trains — many carrying hazardous material — have grown longer, crews should not be getting smaller,” said Eddie Hall, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union. He praised the FRA for taking the step President Joe Biden promised. Hall said keeping two people in the cab of a...
Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan Plans to Reopen With $1.5 Billion Loan (www.nytimes.com)
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to provide a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a nuclear power plant in Michigan — the latest step in the government’s effort to revive the nation’s reactors....
Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions (www.usatoday.com)
Shell says landmark climate ruling obstructs fight against climate change (www.reuters.com)
Shell on Tuesday told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change....
Columbia Is Waging War on Dissent (www.thenation.com)
Columbia is has now started going after its faculty, initiating internal discrimination complaints against faculty who are pro-Palestinian, monitoring syllabi to censure what faculty are teaching, and removing them from teaching when there are student complaints about professors applying terms such as “settler colonialism”...
How Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids’ Mental Health: ‘There’s Massive Evidence of Harm‘ (people.com)
Government of Ontario faces a class action lawsuit for scrapped UBI program. (www.cbc.ca)
7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes on coast of Taiwan (www.nbcnews.com)
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged (www.bbc.co.uk)
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