Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s convictions and jail sentence (apnews.com)
An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police....
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Is Israel criminalising Palestinian thoughts too, amid Gaza war? (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel is taking a variety of actions to crack down on any form of support for the Palestinian cause.
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Trump doesn’t have presidential immunity from lawsuits over January 6, appeals court rules (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump isn’t immune from being held accountable in civil lawsuits related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot in a long-awaited, consequential decision from the federal appeals court in Washington, DC....
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War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses (www.reuters.com)
As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west....
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16-year-old dies after shooting at Oklahoma high school football game (www.nbcnews.com)
Gunshots were fired on the visitor’s side of the stadium at Choctaw High School during the third quarter of their game against Del City High School on Friday. At least four other people sustained injuries as a result of the incident, according to police.
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Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation (www.foreignaffairs.com)
Nearly a million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools on the Tibetan plateau. Chinese authorities subject these children to a highly politicized curriculum designed to strip them of their mother tongue, sever their ties to their religion and culture, and methodically replace their Tibetan identity with a...
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House Expels George Santos From Congress (www.nytimes.com)
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Millions of seniors struggle to afford housing — and it's about to get a lot worse (www.npr.org)
A few decades ago, Leslie McIntire thought she was doing everything right for a comfortable life. She was a tax accountant in Washington, D.C., and co-owned a not-for-profit bookstore. “I had good savings,” she says. “I was quite happy, quite frankly, and I was preparing to go back to school.”...
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DNC Senator Dick Durbin blocks subpoena of Epstein Flight Logs. (www.blackburn.senate.gov)
Chicago homeless migrants shelter faces backlash (www.reuters.com)
Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this week huddled near tents wearing parkas, knit hats and even ski goggles to cope with the cold weather and falling snow....
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‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs (www.cnbc.com)
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UAW Endorses Cease-Fire, the Largest U.S. Union to Call for an Immediate End to the Violence (inthesetimes.com)
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US lawmaker George Santos, indicted on fraud charges, faces House expulsion vote (www.reuters.com)
*** Update – Santos got the boot. \O/...
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Don't eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows (apnews.com)
Consumers shouldn’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as the number of illnesses and recalls tied to a deadly salmonella outbreak grows....
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City Council in Portland, Oregon, approves $2.6M for police body cameras (apnews.com)
The City Council in Portland, Oregon, approved $2.6 million for permanent police body cameras in a unanimous vote, a crucial step toward the city no longer being among the last major U.S. police agencies without the technology....
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US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power (www.reuters.com)
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Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year (www.texastribune.org)
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Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan vote (www.washingtonpost.com)
Co-founder of Students for Trump was charged with assault after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show (www.cnn.com)
CNN — Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the political organization Students for Trump, was arrested and charged with assault last week in North Carolina after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show.
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Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs (www.cnn.com)
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Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93 (apnews.com)
The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness....
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Ferry operators around the country to receive $220M in federal grants to modernize fleets (apnews.com)
The Biden administration will issue $220 million in grants to modernize the country’s ferry systems, officials announced Thursday....
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US govt pays AT and T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant (www.theregister.com)
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Montana’s TikTok ban blocked by federal judge (arstechnica.com)
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