Mayor Adams announces executive order aimed at restricting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing (www.politico.com)
The executive order mandates migrant charter buses must announce their arrival 32 hours in advance and can only drop off migrants between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m....
Biden administration's Medicare drug price negotiations will face major tests in 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. patients and drugmakers will get a first glimpse of how much Medicare can negotiate down drug prices in 2024, setting the precedent for a controversial process that may affect what seniors pay for dozens of medications by the end of the decade....
Free returns are going away (www.cnn.com)
If you’re thinking of sending back a disappointing gift you just received over the holidays, the return may bring even more disappointment....
Federal judge blocks Idaho ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
‘A huge shock to the system’: Doctors warn about asthma inhaler switch coming in January in the US (www.cnn.com)
Record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation filed in 2023 in the US (abcnews.go.com)
Gas prices will fall in 2024 and Americans will spend $32 billion less on fuel, GasBuddy predicts (www.cnn.com)
Nikki Haley backpedals Civil War comments in which she made no mention of slavery (www.nbcnews.com)
After a voter said he found it “astonishing” that Haley hadn’t used the word “slavery” at any point in her answer, she asked, “What do you want me to say about slavery?”
EU to use COVID-19 mechanism to bypass Orbán's veto and provide Ukraine with €20 billion (english.nv.ua)
The European Union is preparing an alternative plan to provide Ukraine with EUR 20 billion (22.09 billion USD) in financial support to circumvent the veto of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, reported the Financial Times....
Starting in 2024, Californians can redeem empty wine and liquor containers for cash (abc7news.com)
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people (www.latimes.com)
If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on?...
Haley declines to say slavery was cause of Civil War (www.politico.com)
The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’...
Apple can temporarily sell smartwatches after US appeals court win (www.reuters.com)
Everyone in California seems to be sick with respiratory illness. Here's why (www.latimes.com)
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Set to Be Freed From Prison Thursday Dec. 28, Regrets Murdering Mother: 'She Didn’t Deserve That' (people.com)
It's a 'massive student debt strike' activist says, as millions of borrowers still aren't making payments (www.cnbc.com)
Gypsy Rose Blanchard released early from US prison (www.bbc.com)
Her mother made her pretend to be sickly and disabled in a Munchausen syndrome scenario.
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....
