Nightclubs on the brink as clean-living Gen Zs ditch scene (www.yahoo.com)
Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump fundraising committee, lawmaker (www.pbs.org)
The commission alleges that Trump’s fundraising committee and state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Trump ally, conspired in a scheme to evade campaign finance laws to support the Republican primary challenger to [state House Speaker equivalent, Robin Vos] in 2022....
Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at 'Sneaker Con,' a day after a $355 million ruling against him (apnews.com)
As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”...
Netanyahu seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in Gaza in new postwar plan (apnews.com)
Couples race to move frozen embryos out of Alabama after court defines them as children (www.telegraph.co.uk)
The IRS will pursue business private jet usage in a new round of audits on high-wealth taxpayers (www.nbcnews.com)
Sultan: Girl Scouts threaten legal action over troop's fundraiser for children in Gaza (www.stltoday.com)
The Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri sent an email and said members could not raise money that represents “partisan politics” and must “stay neutral.”
WA lawmakers advance bill making it a felony to threaten election workers (www.seattletimes.com)
The Washington state Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to make harassing election workers a felony, three months after four county election offices received envelopes containing suspicious powder — including three testing positive for fentanyl — and had to be evacuated.
Trump’s Georgia Lawyers Surface Phone Records in Effort to Remove Prosecutors (www.nytimes.com)
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year (www.thedailybeast.com)
We live under corporate feudalism
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps (www.washingtonpost.com)
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New Tennessee law allows officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages (www.nbcnews.com)
Harvard pro-Palestinian faculty group apologizes after sharing antisemitic imagery (www.timesofisrael.com)
University to review since-deleted post shared by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, which includes 1960s-era cartoon that was also denounced then as antisemitic...
Uncle Sam is coming after businesses with overdue Covid loans (creditnews.com)
China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank. (www.businessinsider.com)
China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says....
US Vice President says no decision to halt or condition military aid to Israel (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China' (news.sky.com)
He was responding to a question about the cancellation of his exhibition by the Lisson Gallery in London in November following comments on social media referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict....
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Biden administration cancels student loans of more than 150,000 borrowers under new plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors confused a picture of sawdust with cocaine (www.nbcnews.com)
The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden’s attorney wrote....
Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen's death was not result of injuries from high school fight (apnews.com)
Police in Oklahoma say a teen who died a day after an altercation at school did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight.
You'll Never Guess Who Was Behind Those Fake Biden Robocalls! (crooksandliars.com)
Hint: It wasn't a Republican.
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Nova partygoer was misidentified as Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, killed by Israeli forces (www.haaretz.com)
Ofek Atun escaped the outdoor Nova rave with his girlfriend. They survived the assault on the bomb shelter in which they took refuge, before fleeing to nearby Kibbutz Alumim. The kibbutz’s volunteer security squad mistook them for Hamas terrorists – and opened fire
