Israel orders evacuation of largest hospital in southern Gaza (www.bbc.com)
Fuck Israel.
Angela Chao, C.E.O. of Family’s Big Shipping Company, Dies at 50 (www.nytimes.com)
Illegal border crossings from Mexico plunge after a record-high December, with fewer from Venezuela (apnews.com)
Arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico fell by half in January from record highs in December to the third lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, authorities said Tuesday....
MN District Grants Opt-Out From LGBTQ Curriculum To Somali Families (patch.com)
After Seeing Controversial Contract-for-Deed Home Sales Affect Constituents, Minnesota Lawmakers Propose Reforms (www.propublica.org)
‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy in the state (edition.cnn.com)
Jen and John Adkins never expected to have to send a package like this....
Nearly 200 abused corpses were found at a funeral home. Why did it take authorities years to act? (apnews.com)
A county coroner reported suspicions about bodies being poorly treated by a Colorado funeral home more than three years before nearly 200 decomposing bodies were discovered inside a decrepit building in October, according to newly unsealed court documents that raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to...
Ukraine's missing children tracked down in Russia by digital sleuths (www.bbc.com)
More than 60 detectives used digital open source techniques to trace the missing children who are understood to have appeared in Russian propaganda....
Dartmouth Players Are Employees Who Can Unionize, U.S. Official Says (www.nytimes.com)
Iran backed hackers interrupt foreign media with AI deep fake propaganda. (www.theguardian.com)
Los Angeles records 475 mudslides during historic storm that has drenched Southern California (apnews.com)
The storm continued to pose new hazards, with the National Weather Service issuing a rare tornado warning for San Diego County. The warning was cancelled shortly after it was issued, with forecasters explaining that the storm no longer appeared capable of producing a twister even if it briefly turned some San Diego streets into...
History shows that lower mortgage rates make housing less, not more, affordable (creditnews.com)
UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins (www.bloomberg.com)
Appeals court rejects Trump's immunity claim in federal election interference case (abc7news.com)
Federal Appeals Court Denies Trump Presidential Immunity (www.usnews.com)
“I’m a mum-of-19 at 39 expecting my 20th child” Mother of 19 Children, Each with a Different Father, Shares Her Remarkable Story (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Texas Will Expand Effort to Control Land Along Mexican Border, Abbott Says - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
DOJ says First National Bank discriminated against Black, Latino borrowers in North Carolina (apnews.com)
First National Bank of Pennsylvania discriminated against Black and Latino homebuyers in North Carolina for a period of at least four years, the Justice Department said Monday, the latest in a long list of banks who have been caught redlining....
LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules (www.jpost.com)
Senators Release Border Deal to Unlock Ukraine Aid, but Fate Remains Uncertain (www.nytimes.com)
Senate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday cemented a compromise plan to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and cleared a critical hurdle to an aid package for Ukraine, but the deal faces long odds in a Congress deeply divided over both issues....
Why the Department of Justice wouldn't let go of Charles Lynch’s 16-year old marijuana case (www.latimes.com)
The article honestly doesn’t answer the headline like at all, but the story of the federal government hounding this guy for over a decade for a bullshit weed case is wild...
US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say (www.bbc.com)
The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News....
'Hamas tore off my clothes, threatened to shoot': Gaza hostage tells her story. Mia Regev said Hamas abused her by hitting her injured leg, laughed, and mocked her. (www.jpost.com)
CBS correspondent says he faced recent discrimination at Louisiana high school (because he's openly gay) (www.theguardian.com)
An award-winning reporter for a major US news broadcaster recently faced discrimination from the Roman Catholic high school he attended while growing up in Louisiana because he is openly gay, he has said....
Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick? (apnews.com)
Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a national database....
