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How Warren Buffett Privately Traded in Stocks That Berkshire Hathaway Was Buying and Selling (www.propublica.org)

How Russia is recruiting Wagner fighters to continue war in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies (www.nytimes.com)

Psychedelics can have enormous benefits but risks shouldn't be ignored (www.vox.com)

The term “psychedelic” was coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond: “To fathom Hell or go angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic.” But today’s public messaging around psychedelics has a dangerous tendency to gloss over the “fathoming hell” part, which has been euphemized into the language of a “bad” or...

Moody’s Changes U.S. Credit Outlook to ‘Negative’ [amid congressional dysfunction] (www.nytimes.com)

Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)

The head of an Israeli media watchdog says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.

Iceland declares state of emergency over escalating earthquakes, and volcano eruption fears (www.euronews.com)

Spain rolled out a new animal welfare law. It has many contradictions (www.euronews.com)

Germany hiking group reported to police as illegal migrants (www.bbc.co.uk)

Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were "foreigners".

Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost (www.theatlantic.com)

In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (apnews.com)

Andy Kim launches formal challenge to Menendez: ‘It’s about being a decent human being’ (thehill.com)

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) officially launched his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday at a packed brewery in South Jersey....

(US) EPA sides with tribes on petition to regulate toxic tire chemical that kills salmon (www.kuow.org)

In the radio segment, they also mentioned that this chemical might be responsible for many other environmental and human health conditions. This is likely the tip of the iceberg....

New York appoints famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth as state’s loneliness ambassador (thehill.com)

If you didn’t know she was still alive, I didn’t either. Apparently she’s 95

Eric Adams: FBI seize NYC mayor's phones in fundraising investigation (www.bbc.com)

4-foot-7-inch Marine says peers in boot camp ‘kind of looked up to’ him (www.marinecorpstimes.com)

A 4-foot-7-inch man completed Marine boot camp in September, possibly making him the shortest U.S. service member ever....

'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....

Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)

In a dispute over a repair law, Subaru and Kia crippled their own wireless features in Massachusetts. Maine could be next.

Joe Manchin: West Virginia Democrat says he will not seek re-election (www.bbc.com)

Texas Couple Allegedly Conned Black Community To The Tune of $10 Million (www.theroot.com)

Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result (www.newsweek.com)

Republicans demand Biden challenge China's Xi on fentanyl, prisoners (www.reuters.com)

The Women’s Bureau has spent 100 years improving work for women — but the House wants to eliminate it (19thnews.org)

For the first time in at least a decade, the House has put forward a funding bill that includes no money for the only federal agency to “represent the needs and interests of working women.”

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