Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York....
Missing kayaker faked his own death ahead of court date: Sheriff (abcnews.go.com)
A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office....
New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law (apnews.com)
Help-wanted advertisements in New York will have to disclose proposed pay rates after a statewide salary transparency law goes into effect on Sunday, part of growing state and city efforts to give women and people of color a tool to advocate for equal pay for equal work....
Texas prisoner accused of killing 22 older women is slain by cellmate while serving life sentence (apnews.com)
A Texas prisoner accused of killing 22 older women over two years, preying on them so he could steal jewelry and other valuables, was slain Tuesday by his cellmate while serving a life sentence, prison officials said....
Woman names newborn son ‘Methamphetamine Rules,’ prompting government response (nypost.com)
Wildfires in recent years have reversed some of the progress made in eliminating air pollution, new study suggests (abcnews.go.com)
The smoke from wildfires in recent years has been so intense that it is decreasing air quality in the majority of the U.S., reversing some of the improvements made to air quality in the last several decades, according to new research....
CTV News: London police force says it will take years to remove officers accused of corruption and misconduct (www.ctvnews.ca)
Facebook is Blocking Canadians’ Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India’s Government. (pressprogress.ca)
Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law
House GOP pulls key vote to advance stopgap government funding bill (www.cnbc.com)
The House of Representatives canceled a scheduled key procedural vote Tuesday on a temporary government funding bill hashed out by Republicans....
California fast food workers to get $20 minimum wage under new deal between labor and the industry (www.kcra.com)
US anti-child trafficking activist resigns after sexual harassment allegations (www.theguardian.com)
The anti-child slavery activist Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in the movie Sound of Freedom, resigned from the Operation Underground Railroad (Our) organization he founded amid allegations he sexually harassed colleagues, it was reported on Monday....
Family of four shot dead at home, rattling quiet Illinois neighborhood, ‘not a random incident,’ according to police (www.cnn.com)
Police in a quiet community outside Chicago who are investigating the shooting deaths of a family of four, including two children, in their home Sunday night say it wasn’t a random incident....
Rishi Sunak considers weakening key green policies (www.bbc.com)
Plans could include delaying a ban on sales of new petrol cars and the phasing out of gas boilers....
Small business owners are feeling more confident lately (www.axios.com)
'Renters Are Struggling': Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control (www.commondreams.org)
Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)
Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....
Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses (www.bbc.com)
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run".
FTC denies responsibility for major Microsoft document leak (www.vg247.com)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has denied responsibility for a major leak of Microsoft documents that occurred on S…
Giuliani sued for $1.4M by ex-lawyers over election interference defense (www.axios.com)
Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued for allegedly owing a law firm nearly $1.4 million, according to a Monday court filing....
A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination (apnews.com)
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
Russia, Ukraine Clash Over Genocide Charges at World Court (www.wsj.com)
International Court of Justice heard arguments on whether Russia’s invasion can be challenged under 1948 treaty....
NYC day care operator tried to cover up fentanyl operation before 1-year-old's death, feds allege (apnews.com)
Officials say they discovered a kilogram of fentanyl stored on top of playmats used by children who attended the day care, which was run out of a small Bronx apartment. They also found multiple devices for mixing the powder with other narcotics and pressing it into bricks.
Bankrupt Birmingham city council may have to sell libraries and art galleries (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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White supremacist admits threatening jury, witnesses in trial of Pittsburgh synagogue gunman (www.theglobeandmail.com)
A self-proclaimed white supremacist pleaded guilty Tuesday to making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the U.S. Justice Department said....
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