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Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’ (www.theguardian.com)

US skips congressional review to approve emergency sale of tank shells to Israel (www.reuters.com)

Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack (apnews.com)

Sudan: Designation of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed in Sudan (allafrica.com)

Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. and 5 in Canada (apnews.com)

A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people — three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday....

Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows (www.theguardian.com)

Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes

South Carolina jury convicts inmate in first trial involving deadly prison riots (apnews.com)

Smith was imprisoned at the time of the riot after being convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of a University of South Carolina student. That conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court three years ago. He’s been held since then at a Columbia detention center.

University of Pennsylvania president steps down amid criticism of antisemitism testimony (www.nbcnews.com)

Moms for Liberty founder leaves rightwing leadership role amid queer sex scandal & rape allegations (www.lgbtqnation.com)

The co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group Moms for Liberty seems to have resigned from her most recent position in the wake of rape allegations against her husband and her own involvement in a same-sex sex scandal....

Israel-Gaza latest news: UN warns half of Gazans starving, as Israeli hostage confirmed dead - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

The UN warns that half the population of Gaza is starving and nine out of ten people there can’t eat every day - as Israeli bombardment of the territory continues...

McDonald's plans to start selling bigger burgers (www.businessinsider.com)

N.J. man sentenced to 8 years in prison after video showed him harassing Black neighbors with racial slurs (www.nbcnews.com)

Edward C. Mathews, 47, had a pattern of terrorizing his Black neighbors, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said....

U.S. sanctions officials from Afghanistan to China on declaration of human rights anniversary (apnews.com)

Sudan violence 'verging on pure evil,' UN warns (www.modernghana.com)

Sudan Crisis - Mass Displacement and Death (allafrica.com)

Sudan: Four Killed and Village Destroyed As RSF Attacks SPLM-N Base in South Kordofan (allafrica.com)

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban (apnews.com)

Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record (apnews.com)

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....

Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says (www.theguardian.com)

One in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020...

Inside the Pro-Israel Information War (jackpoulson.substack.com)

Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.

U.S. celebrities were tricked into recording videos later doctored into anti-Zelenskyy propaganda (www.nbcnews.com)

UNLV senior recounts barricading in classroom, saying goodbye to his dad during mass shooting (abcnews.go.com)

“I said, ‘Dad, I have to go, if this is the last time we talk, I love you,’” Henderson recalled. “I lost my mom a few years ago, so my dad is like my lifeline. Just saying goodbye to him was tough.”

Father of boy killed by school shooter asks for harshest penalty | School shooter Ethan Crumbley to be sentenced for Oxford, Michigan (www.cnn.com)

“Ethan Crumbley will be sentenced in a hearing Friday for killing four students and wounding seven others when he opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan in November 2021. Live news updates.”

Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration (www.reuters.com)

Trudeau has made immigration his main weapon to blunt Canada’s big challenge of an aging and slowing population, and it has also helped fuel economic growth. That drove Canada’s population up at its fastest clip in more than six decades this year, Statistics Canada said....