Germany hiking group reported to police as illegal migrants (www.bbc.co.uk)
Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were "foreigners".
Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost (www.theatlantic.com)
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (apnews.com)
Andy Kim launches formal challenge to Menendez: ‘It’s about being a decent human being’ (thehill.com)
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) officially launched his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday at a packed brewery in South Jersey....
(US) EPA sides with tribes on petition to regulate toxic tire chemical that kills salmon (www.kuow.org)
In the radio segment, they also mentioned that this chemical might be responsible for many other environmental and human health conditions. This is likely the tip of the iceberg....
New York appoints famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth as state’s loneliness ambassador (thehill.com)
If you didn’t know she was still alive, I didn’t either. Apparently she’s 95
Eric Adams: FBI seize NYC mayor's phones in fundraising investigation (www.bbc.com)
4-foot-7-inch Marine says peers in boot camp ‘kind of looked up to’ him (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
A 4-foot-7-inch man completed Marine boot camp in September, possibly making him the shortest U.S. service member ever....
'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)
In a dispute over a repair law, Subaru and Kia crippled their own wireless features in Massachusetts. Maine could be next.
Joe Manchin: West Virginia Democrat says he will not seek re-election (www.bbc.com)
Texas Couple Allegedly Conned Black Community To The Tune of $10 Million (www.theroot.com)
Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result (www.newsweek.com)
Republicans demand Biden challenge China's Xi on fentanyl, prisoners (www.reuters.com)
The Women’s Bureau has spent 100 years improving work for women — but the House wants to eliminate it (19thnews.org)
For the first time in at least a decade, the House has put forward a funding bill that includes no money for the only federal agency to “represent the needs and interests of working women.”
Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)
China denies accusations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom in Tibet (apnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada (www.cbc.ca)
A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party’s border policies aren’t tough enough....
Poverty in the State of Palestine set to soar by more than a third if war continues for a second month | United Nations Development Programme (www.undp.org)
If the war in Gaza continues for a second month the poverty rate in the State of Palestine will soar by 34 percent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plummets by 8.4 percent—a loss of US$1.7 billion—according to initial estimates by the United Nations...
Big Ten suspends Michigan's [College Football Coach] Harbaugh through end of regular season (theathletic.com)
Reminds me of the Astros… Just a tiny slap on the wrist...
An Auto Loan Debt Crisis Looks Imminent (www.automoblog.net)
'They're clearing out the homeless people': San Francisco gets ready for arrival of world leaders (www.yahoo.com)
In South America's Andes, a shrinking Lake Titicaca rings climate alarm bell (www.reuters.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman dies aged 95 (www.independent.co.uk)
