New drug found to slow Alzheimer's hailed a 'turning point in fight against disease’ (news.sky.com)
Facebook, Instagram face Norwegian ban from tracking users for ads (www.politico.eu)
*Permanently Deleted* (gizmodo.com)
Extreme heat intensifies across south-west US (www.bbc.co.uk)
An otter in California that keeps bullying people off of their surfboards has been too quick for wildlife officials to catch (www.insider.com)
Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States (foreignpolicy.com)
Facing an increasingly suspicious research climate, a growing number of Chinese scientists are leaving the United States for positions abroad, the latest indicator of how worsening U.S.-China relations are complicating academic collaboration and could hamstring Washington’s tech ambitions.
Revealed: How major US banks are funding anti-LGBTIQ groups (www.opendemocracy.net)
Bank of America and Goldman Sachs have both been lauded for their LGBTIQ-friendly workplaces. But tax filings uncovered by openDemocracy show nonprofit foundations linked to the banks have also funded ultraconservative groups fighting to roll back civil rights for the queer community worldwide....
Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/446751...
Report Exposes Trump Proposal to Stop Taxing Tips as 'Hollow Promise'. (www.commondreams.org)
No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor (apnews.com)
A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation....
People Are Still Being Swallowed by Storm Drains. One U.S. Agency Is Pushing for Safety Measures. (www.propublica.org)
Secret Service chief to Congress: 'We failed' (www.npr.org)
Aaron Sorkin Takes Back ‘Fever Dream’ Biden Replacement Idea (www.thedailybeast.com)
Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/thedailybeast.com/aaron-sorkin-takes-back-fever-d…
A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pro-Trump multimillionaire and election denier boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Overstock chief Patrick Byrne using Maga-allied America Project to steer large amounts to groups pushing fringe theories...
Member of eBay security team sentenced in harassment scheme involving bloody Halloween pig mask (apnews.com)
The former senior manager of special operations for eBay Inc.’s. global security team was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign that included sending a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse to a Massachusetts couple’s...
LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)
THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent....
Montana’s Plan To Curb Opioid Overdoses Includes Vending Machines (kffhealthnews.org)
Veteran who lost driver's license because TN said he wasn't a U.S. citizen gets welcome news from the state (www.newschannel5.com)
Israel Has Attacked Gaza “Safe Zone” 10 Times Since Forcing Palestinians to Evacuate There (truthout.org)
China's banking turmoil: 40 banks vanish in one week as crisis in the property sector deepens (essanews.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/860815...
In New York, Wage Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contracts (www.propublica.org)
Nike Pledged to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen. (www.propublica.org)
Eight years ago, the world’s largest sports apparel brand made a bold commitment. Nike was embarking on what it called a moonshot: doubling its business while halving its impact on the warming planet....
GOP jump-starts 2024 election challenges with Trump-inspired lawsuits (www.washingtonpost.com)
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