Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
Catherine, Princess of Wales, Has Cancer (www.nytimes.com)
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”...
Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly detected by sonar 16,000 feet underwater, exploration team claims (www.cbsnews.com)
Oil tanker on fire after Houthi missile attack, firm says (www.bbc.com)
An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile....
Yes, a Lot of People Are Getting Sick Right Now (nymag.com)
Welcome to sick season....
Jimmy Fallon apologises to Tonight Show staff after toxic workplace allegations - reports (www.theguardian.com)
Earlier on Thursday, Rolling Stone published allegations from two current and 14 former employees, including production crew and writers, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Rolling Stone claimed they had approached an additional 80 current and former employees, but “not a single one agreed to speak on the...
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics (apnews.com)
A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harrissaying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away....
A $1 million starter home is now the norm in more than 200 US cities (www.cnn.com)
The number of US cities where first-time homebuyers are faced with at least a $1 million price tag on the average entry-level home has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to new research....
'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside (www.nbcnews.com)
‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows (www.theguardian.com)
The same percentage of employed people who worked remotely in 2023 is the same as the previous year, a survey found...
John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year (franknez.com)
Poll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their lives (www.thehill.com)
A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn (edition.cnn.com)
Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....
Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders (www.theguardian.com)
County officials alert Montecito homeowners that they face prosecution, including daily fines of $850 if stones are not removed...
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits (www.al.com)
The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.
New York governor vetoes bill that would ban noncompete agreements (apnews.com)
New York’s governor vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have banned noncompete agreements, which restrict workers’ ability to leave their job for a role with a rival business....
Actors’ Union Says It Receives ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer From Studios (www.nytimes.com)
What the fuck are the studios gonna do, make movies and shows without actors?...
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
‘He’s alone’: Trump arraignment sees no family, no posse, no protests (www.msnbc.com)
“There’s no posse and there’s no retinue and there’s no family,” says Chris Hayes on Trump’s arraignment. “The guy is alone. He is solo rolling with the lawyers who hope his checks clear.”
Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues (www.tpr.org)
Conservative editor backtracks after seeming to use n word regarding Haitian migrants (www.advocate.com)
My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters....
Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Congress makes it harder to vote (www.vox.com)
‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Drops Brutal Ad Questioning If Trump is a ‘False Prophet’ (www.mediaite.com)
