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
Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity (apnews.com)
Native American tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted hydropower projects (apnews.com)
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce U.S. Southwest....
Israeli ground offensive in Rafah ‘aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable’ (www.france24.com)
Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to “completely destroy” Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now host to half of Gaza’s...
Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted (apnews.com)
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results....