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Giuliani spread lies about Georgia election workers. A jury will decide what he owes them. (www.politico.com)

A damages trial begins Monday in a case in which a judge has already ruled that Rudy Giuliani is liable for defamation....

An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S., Threatening Livestock (www.smithsonianmag.com)

EVs less reliable than conventional cars: Consumer Reports [Lauren Sforze | 11/29/23 | The Hill] (thehill.com)

The annual car reliability survey by Consumer Reports found EVs are 79 percent more likely to have problems than conventional cars. Consumers reported electric drive motors, charging and EV batteries had the most common issues associated with EVs, according to the survey....

North Korea says its new spy satellite photographed White House, Pentagon (www.reuters.com)

In unrelated news, Google Maps site traffic from North Korea sees odd spike.

Births have increased in states with abortion bans, research finds (www.cnn.com)

Nearly a quarter of people seeking an abortion in the United States were unable to get one due to bans that took effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, researchers estimate. In the first half of 2023, states with abortion bans had an average fertility rate that was 2.3% higher than states where abortion was not...

Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence (www.theguardian.com)

Michael Zacharias’s victims said the priest waited until they began abusing drugs before he sexually trafficked them...

Police say there has been a shooting with multiple victims at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital (apnews.com)

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The Guardian Deletes Bin Laden Letter After It Goes Viral on TikTok (www.thewrap.com)

The Guardian removed a 21-year-old letter from Osama Bin Laden after a TikToker urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader's missive.

Baby Boomers Are Buying Up All The Houses (www.sfgate.com)

‘Acts of terrorism’ across Washington as 4 election offices get white powder in mail (www.kiro7.com)

The powder sent to both King and Spokane counties tested positive for traces of fentanyl.

White House under growing pressure as Democrats demand Gaza ceasefire (scrippsnews.com)

‘They’re throwing us out’: Boston begins clearing encampment at Mass. and Cass (www.wgbh.org)

Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue as part of an effort to enforce a new encampment ban across the city.

Fight over Texas anti-abortion transport bans reaches biggest battlegrounds yet (www.reuters.com)

Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....

Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of Tiktok Anti-LGBTQ Posts (www.vice.com)

At least eleven schools or school districts that were targeted by the account “Libs of TikTok” over anti-LGBTQ grooming conspiracies last month received bomb threats just days later....

China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (www.nytimes.com)

They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States....

Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says (apnews.com)

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past....

Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall (www.reuters.com)

Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts, sending its shares down 2.4% in early trading....

Donald Trump committed fraud for years by inflating his worth to banks and insurers, a New York judge finds (www.businessinsider.com)

Jim's West Steaks: Philadelphia cheesesteak shop hires armed agents to protect customers outside. (6abc.com)

DEI Jobs Have Dried Up Post George Floyd Protests But The Ones Left Are Filled Mostly By White People (www.theroot.com)

Even though diversity, equity and inclusion jobs increased by 55% following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a recent study has showed that the vast majority of them have dried up. Across the country, DEI layoffs have been fast and unrelenting....

Rolling Stone Founder: Women, Black Musicians Not ‘Articulate Enough’ on ‘Intellectual Level’ to Feature in New Book (www.nationalreview.com)

Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)

Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....

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