Not Even Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Firing Could Save Newsmax (www.thedailybeast.com)
Newsmax was riding sky-high on surging ratings after its top rival, Fox News, fired its biggest star—but here’s how it eventually came crashing back down.
Kari Lake is in deep, deep trouble with judge's refusal to dismiss defamation lawsuit (www.azcentral.com)
Lake has become the darling of the MAGA movement by grinding the reputation of people like Richer into dust....
China's Alibaba must face a US toymaker's lawsuit over sales of allegedly fake Squishmallows (apnews.com)
A judge in New York has ruled that Alibaba must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant’s online platforms were used to sell counterfeit Squishmallows....
Philips recalled breathing machines in 2021. Chemicals of “concern” found in replacement machines raised new alarm (www.propublica.org)
Amid a massive recall in 2021, the medical device maker Philips raced to overcome troubling questions about its replacement machines as customers waited for help....
Trump ballot ban appealed to US Supreme Court by Colorado Republicans (apnews.com)
Gaston Glock, Austrian developer of the Glock handgun, dies at 94 (www.nbcnews.com)
Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, died on Wednesday. He was 94....
Jacksonville, Florida, mayor has Confederate monument removed after years of controversy (abcnews.go.com)
Crews removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida, park Wednesday morning following years of public controversy....
The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots (apnews.com)
The New York Times is striking back against the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the news industry, filing a federal lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots....
'Parasite' actor Lee Sun-kyun found dead in apparent suicide amid drug probe (m.koreatimes.co.kr)
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Fishermen find driver trapped in truck for six days in Indiana (www.bbc.com)
Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre had been killing time while waiting for their wives, police say....
Black History Month, other observances back on in Huntington Beach California, it appears after 'miscommunication' (www.latimes.com)
Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86 (apnews.com)
Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86....
Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the US Health-Care Market Is (www.bloomberg.com)
When a baby is about to arrive, every minute counts. Yet when Jen Villa of Salinas, California, was in labor, she and her partner drove 45 minutes in the middle of the night, bypassing nearby hospitals to reach one they could afford....
Arkansas man accused of making pipe bombs, trying to flee US in kayak (thehill.com)
An Arkansas man has been arrested after being found with six homemade pipe bombs, according to court documents....
America's housing shortage explained in one chart (www.axios.com)
Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals, finds nationwide analysis (medicalxpress.com)
1st Amendment claim struck down in Project Veritas case focused on diary of Biden's daughter (abcnews.go.com)
Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected the conservative group Project Veritas’ First Amendment claim....
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (www.nytimes.com)
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
Why US double standards on Israel and Russia play into a dangerous game (www.theguardian.com)
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LGBTQ+ Population in the U.S. Grows by Over 2 Million (news.yahoo.com)
Alcohol misuse and loneliness ‘increase risk of early-onset dementia’ (www.theguardian.com)
Ground-breaking research identifies 15 factors that significantly raise chance of developing illness...
Michigan supreme court rules that Trump will stay on state ballot (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president can participate in state primary despite accusations of insurrection stemming from the January 6 Capitol attack...
TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says (www.nbcnews.com)
'Jane Roe' is anonymous no more. The very public fight against abortion bans in 2023 (www.kuow.org)
As 2023 comes to a close, so too does the first full year of the post-Roe era in America. Some of the year’s developments were expected, like more conservative states enacting abortion restrictions. Others were surprising, like the fact that there were more abortions nationally in the year after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...
