Oil major BP becomes latest to pause Red Sea shipments as Houthi attacks continue (www.cnbc.com)
BP has become the latest firm to pause travel through the Suez Canal following a series of attacks on vessels by Houthi militants from Yemen....
The "American Dream" costs far more than most people will earn over their lifetime (www.cbsnews.com)
White House directs federal employees to prioritize sustainable travel during official business (thehill.com)
A new Biden administration directive instructs federal employees to prioritize making sustainable choices while on official travel....
Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them (us.cnn.com)
Flooding drives millions to move as climate-driven migration patterns emerge (apnews.com)
In the first two decades of the 21st century, the threat of flooding convinced more than 7 million people to avoid risky areas or abandon places that were risky, according to a paper Monday in the journal Nature Communications and research by the risk analysis organization First Street Foundation....
(European) Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers....
This COVID study has been tracking immunity for 3 years. Now it's running out of money (www.cbc.ca)
A long-running study into COVID-19 immunity has unearthed promising insights on the still-mysterious disease, one of its lead researchers says — but she’s concerned its funding could soon dry up....
Ukraine probes suspected spying device found in army command office (www.france24.com)
Ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare, research suggests (www.bbc.com)
Parents whose baby died before or shortly after birth believed their ethnicity led to worse care.
Israel-Hamas War: U.S. to Push Israel to Scale Back War (www.nytimes.com)
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III was traveling on Sunday in the Middle East for a visit to Israel and three Persian Gulf nations as Biden administration officials push Israel to end its large-scale ground and air campaign in the Gaza Strip within weeks and transition to a more focused phase in its war against Hamas....
‘Poisoning the blood of our country’: Trump delivers caustic attack on immigrants (www.politico.com)
Alex Jones proposes $55 million legal debt settlement to Sandy Hook families (www.cbsnews.com)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax....
Trump quotes Putin to call Biden ‘threat to democracy,’ reiterates anti-immigrant rhetoric at New Hampshire rally (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack President Joe Biden as a “threat to democracy” and doubled down on language condemned for its ties to White supremacist rhetoric, saying at a campaign event in New Hampshire that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our...
Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos (apnews.com)
The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....
Apology letters by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in Georgia election case are one sentence long (apnews.com)
The letters, obtained Thursday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, were hand-written and terse. Neither letter acknowledges the legitimacy of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Georgia’s 2020 election nor denounces the baseless conspiracy theories they pushed to claim Trump was cheated out of...
Ukrainian drone video provides a grim look at casualties as Russian troops advance toward Avdiivka (apnews.com)
A Ukrainian military drone unit near Stepove, a village just north of Avdiivka, where some of the most intense battles have taken place, shot the video this month....
The FDA is investigating whether lead in applesauce pouches was deliberately added (text.npr.org)
“We’re still in the midst of our investigation. But so far all of the signals we’re getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we’re trying to sort of figure that out,” FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones said in an interview with Politico published Thursday.
Navy Federal rejected more than half of black applicants for mortgages (www.cnn.com)
I’m not super happy with the lack of supporting data, just colorful graphs and a lot of emotional anecdotes but there is a clear disparity that I think warrants greater investigation. I love the credit union movement and was shocked to read this article. I would love to hear your opinions lemmings!
Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado (apnews.com)
A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward in the coming days by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the predators’ release....
Britain's National Grid drops China-based supplier over cyber security fears - FT (www.reuters.com)
The decision came in April after the utility sought advice from the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the nation’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ, the newspaper quoted a Whitehall official as saying....
Jeff Bezos foresees a trillion people living in millions of space colonies. Here's what he's doing to get the ball rolling. (www.nbcnews.com)
US supreme court refuses to overturn Illinois assault weapons ban (www.theguardian.com)
Law was passed following Highland Park shooting in 2022, and has been challenged by gun shops and gun rights groups...
Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry (www.propublica.org)
When Shawn Murphy’s wife died in 2009 after a botched gallbladder surgery, he presumed the doctor who performed the operation would be forced out of medicine for good....
It's taking longer to schedule abortions in Colorado and across the U.S. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures. (coloradosun.com)
About half of U.S. states now have laws that ban or restrict access to abortion
Moms for Liberty reeling and on the ropes after election losses and scandals (www.rawstory.com)
