Los Angeles records 475 mudslides during historic storm that has drenched Southern California (apnews.com)
The storm continued to pose new hazards, with the National Weather Service issuing a rare tornado warning for San Diego County. The warning was cancelled shortly after it was issued, with forecasters explaining that the storm no longer appeared capable of producing a twister even if it briefly turned some San Diego streets into...
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How one state is tackling homelessness by turning abandoned buildings into shelters (abcnews.go.com)
The U.S. saw a 12% increase in homelessness in 2023, a recent HUD report found....
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Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York (www.propublica.org)
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers by unscrupulous employers, often targeting the workers with the fewest resources to fight back,” Rosenthal said. “If businesses refuse to do the right thing and pay their workers what they are owed, New York State should hold them to...
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Trump’s fraud trial rattled by witness’s possible perjury deal (www.theguardian.com)
A potential perjury deal with a key witness could shake up the verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m New York fraud trial, a new court document reveals....
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South Dakota has apologized and must pay $300K to transgender advocates (apnews.com)
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary.
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Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
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Trans people in Florida can no longer update their driver’s licenses: A new state rule may expose trans people to criminal or civil penalties if they try to update their documentation. (19thnews.org)
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Could Ohio follow Alabama in using nitrogen gas for executions? Ohio lawmakers are writing a bill (www.cleveland.com)
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Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office (www.kpbs.org)
The path to Tennessee politics for Allie Phillips began last year in her doctor’s office. She was 19 weeks pregnant when she got the devastating news about her unborn daughter: only two of the four chambers in her heart were formed....
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Israel tells families of 31 hostages their relatives are dead as Hamas mulls truce deal (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of Palestinian prisoners for the...
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Two-thirds of Canadian and American renters are in unaffordable housing situations (theconversation.com)
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Senators release $118 billion package pairing border policy with aid for Ukraine and Israel (www.pbs.org)
Senators on Sunday released a highly anticipated $118 billion package that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, setting off a long-shot effort to push the bill through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson....
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Trader Joe’s argues National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional — and other labor news - Minnesota Reformer (minnesotareformer.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/8284923...
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SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies (www.bloomberg.com)
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Illinois man gets 5 years for trying to burn down planned abortion clinic (apnews.com)
A 73-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic and trying to set the building on fire last year....
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US appeals court finds Bayer not shielded from Roundup lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. appeals court on Monday refused to dismiss a Georgia doctor’s lawsuit claiming that Bayer AG’s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer, the latest setback in the German company’s efforts to fend off thousands of similar cases carrying potentially billions of dollars in liability....
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Credit card debt hits a 'staggering' $1.13 trillion. Here's why so many Americans are under pressure (www.cnbc.com)
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Off-duty Nebraska police officers shoot and kill two men (slatereport.com)
Two off-duty police officers in Nebraska’s largest city shot and killed two men in an SUV, though authorities have provided few details about the confrontation....
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US labor official says Dartmouth basketball players are school employees, sets stage for union vote (apnews.com)
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes....
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WeWork’s Co-Founder Is Trying to Buy the Company (www.nytimes.com)
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China's chances of overtaking US economy "declining" (www.newsweek.com)
The possibility that China will overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy is declining as the country faces an obvious slowdown, according to Cornell professor and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Eswar Prasad....
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Sound Amplifies Suspense in Horror Films Without Altering Time Perception, Study Suggests (researchinenglish.com)
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS (fortune.com)
Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space....
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