N.J. man sentenced to 8 years in prison after video showed him harassing Black neighbors with racial slurs (www.nbcnews.com)
Edward C. Mathews, 47, had a pattern of terrorizing his Black neighbors, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said....
U.S. sanctions officials from Afghanistan to China on declaration of human rights anniversary (apnews.com)
Sudan violence 'verging on pure evil,' UN warns (www.modernghana.com)
Sudan Crisis - Mass Displacement and Death (allafrica.com)
Sudan: Four Killed and Village Destroyed As RSF Attacks SPLM-N Base in South Kordofan (allafrica.com)
Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban (apnews.com)
Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record (apnews.com)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....
Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says (www.theguardian.com)
One in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020...
Inside the Pro-Israel Information War (jackpoulson.substack.com)
Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.
U.S. celebrities were tricked into recording videos later doctored into anti-Zelenskyy propaganda (www.nbcnews.com)
UNLV senior recounts barricading in classroom, saying goodbye to his dad during mass shooting (abcnews.go.com)
“I said, ‘Dad, I have to go, if this is the last time we talk, I love you,’” Henderson recalled. “I lost my mom a few years ago, so my dad is like my lifeline. Just saying goodbye to him was tough.”
Father of boy killed by school shooter asks for harshest penalty | School shooter Ethan Crumbley to be sentenced for Oxford, Michigan (www.cnn.com)
“Ethan Crumbley will be sentenced in a hearing Friday for killing four students and wounding seven others when he opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan in November 2021. Live news updates.”
Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration (www.reuters.com)
Trudeau has made immigration his main weapon to blunt Canada’s big challenge of an aging and slowing population, and it has also helped fuel economic growth. That drove Canada’s population up at its fastest clip in more than six decades this year, Statistics Canada said....
Wall Street CEO tells Penn president: Resign or I'll pull $100 million (www.businessinsider.com)
It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in (www.npr.org)
It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming for 12 years. It is a...
Voting rights groups push for answers from Mississippi election officials about ballot shortages (apnews.com)
One month after Mississippi’s November statewide election, voting rights groups say election officials in the state’s largest county have failed to provide enough information about the problems that led to polling precincts running out of ballots....
It's taking longer to get an abortion in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures (apnews.com)
A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they...
How a factory city in Wisconsin fed military-grade weapons to a Mexican cartel (www.reuters.com)
But in 2018, Racine’s suburban sprawl on the edge of Lake Michigan became a source of high caliber weapons for one of Mexico’s top fentanyl trafficking gangs, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), U.S. federal arms-trafficking investigators allege....
The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops (www.texasmonthly.com)
Florida Woman Charged With Posing as Homeschooler to Prey on Boy (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Florida woman is facing felony charges for allegedly posing online as a homeschooler to sexually assault an underage boy....
Johnny Depp among stars paying tribute at funeral of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan (apnews.com)
Musicians including Cave and Imelda May performed several of MacGowan’s songs during the service, including a rousing rendition of “Fairytale of New York” led by Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill that had the congregation dancing in the aisles.
Perché le donne sposate frequentano le chat IRC anonime? * (feddit.it) Italian
Capiamo insieme i motivi per cui le donne sposate preferiscono le chat anonime di IRC
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home doused in gasoline in arson attempt, 1 arrested (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’ (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla must respect collective bargaining rights, Norway's sovereign wealth fund says (www.reuters.com)
The electric vehicle producer faces a backlash in the Nordic region from unions and some pension funds over its refusal to accept a demand from Swedish mechanics for collective bargaining rights covering wages and other conditions....
