How Deregulation, Government Guarantees, and Greed Ruined Boeing (statecraft.beehiiv.com)
World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (www.bbc.com)
For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service....
Wettest storm in southern California history leaves at least seven dead and causes hundreds of mudslides (www.theguardian.com)
SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies (www.bloomberg.com)
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Ukraine-born Miss Japan relinquishes crown following affair (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Karolina Shiino's decision, the first time a Miss Japan winner has relinquished their title, follows a report that she was dating a married man.
Colorado legal settlement would raise care and housing standards for trans women inmates (www.cbsnews.com)
Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of transgender women like her who were housed in men’s prisons in Colorado. It gave her hope....
Two men wanted to start a family. Soon, they could be outlaws. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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4 Things To Know About The Atmospheric River Storm In California (www.forbes.com)
The National Weather Service is not mixing words. The graphic above tells the story. This particular storm has the potentioal for dangerous and threatening flooding Sunday and Monday. In parts of southern California, the nation’s weather agency is calling for 3 to 6 inches of rainfall, with up to a foot in elevated terrain....
Courtney Dauwalter's Historic Triumph at UTMB Redefines Ultra-Running (runnerstribe.com)
Her summer of 2023 not only marked a triple crown by conquering the Western States 100, Hardrock 100, and UTMB in a single season but also solidified her status as an unparalleled force in ultra-running. Dauwalter’s narrative, from a setback in her initial 100-mile race to becoming a dominant force, is a tale of resilience and...
Il Sorriso Splendente: Recensione del Kit Sbiancante HiSmile (feddit.it) Italian
Thousands surround the German Parliament against the far right: “We are the firewall” (english.elpais.com)
Small Texas border city lands unsolicited spotlight in state-federal showdown over border security (apnews.com)
As a ceremony with the blaring horns of mariachi musicians and rhythmic click-clack of horse hooves was about to begin, Mayor Rolando Salinas took a moment to reflect that his Texas border city is “more than just the immigration crisis that you see in the media.”...
Rate of US babies born prematurely has grown 12%, analysis says (www.theguardian.com)
Report adds to evidence of a maternal and infant health crisis, which experts expect will be exacerbated by abortion bans...
CNN Poll: Public views of the economy are on the rise, but remain dim (www.cnn.com)
The public’s long-held pessimism about the economy shows signs of easing since last year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But even with the uptick, many Americans’ views of the economy – and the nation as a whole – remain bleak....
Could Ohio follow Alabama in using nitrogen gas for executions? Ohio lawmakers are writing a bill (www.cleveland.com)
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US Steel agrees to $42M in improvements and fines over air pollution violations after 2018 fire (apnews.com)
U.S. Steel has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the Pittsburgh-based company of violating federal clean air laws by operating plants without its desulfurization controls for more than three months, emitting clouds of sulfurous gas into surrounding towns....
Wesley Bell Seeks to Overturn Marcellus Williams' 2001 Murder Conviction: The St. Louis County Prosecutor cites new DNA evidence in Williams' case (www.riverfronttimes.com)
Williams was found guilty of the 1998 murder of former Post-Dispatch writer Felicia “Lisha” Gayle. Bell filed a motion to vacate that conviction in St. Louis County late Friday....
Massachusetts man arrested for allegedly threatening Jewish community members and to bomb synagogues (apnews.com)
A Massachusetts man was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening to kill members of the state’s Jewish community and a bomb local synagogues, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said....
UN agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks (www.reuters.com)
GENEVA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. “The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with...
Man accused of smuggling migrant family who froze to death at border found living outside Toronto (www.cbc.ca)
A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the United States has been found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found....
New York Daily News and Forbes staffers walk out amid US media job cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Florida students protest imminent closing of university LGBTQ center (www.nbcnews.com)
The Lost Promise of Refuge Ranch - Christian activists brought concerns about sex trafficking to prominence in Texas and then failed the survivors they sought to help (www.texasobserver.org)
In January 2023, about 10 months after it was forced to close, the Refuge reached a settlement with [the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)] that allowed it to reopen on probation. The conditions included implementing a reopening plan, monthly team meetings to evaluate the program’s compliance and efficacy, and...
FAA approves inspection process that could clear the way for grounded Boeing planes to fly again (abcnews.go.com)
Federal regulators have approved an inspection process that will let airlines resume flying their Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners, which have been grounded since a side panel blew out of a plane in midflight earlier this month....
Homicides fell in many big U.S. cities in 2023, report says (www.msn.com)
Homicides declined last year in nearly two dozen U.S. cities, though many communities still continued to face higher levels of deadly violence than they did in 2019, before a spike in killings, according to a new report on crime trends....