A starring role for NASA in Biden’s push to end cancer (www.politico.com)
Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in Response to Assassination in Beirut (www.nytimes.com)
The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon five days ago that has raised fears of a wider conflagration....
Auto dealers challenge new US FTC car-buyer consumer protection rules (www.reuters.com)
The FTC said the new rules will ban bait-and-switch advertising tactics, prohibit charging for add-on costs that do not benefit consumers and require dealers to make key disclosures to consumers, including accurate pricing disclosures in advertising and sales communications....
Neri Oxman, billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s wife, accused of plagiarism in MIT dissertation (www.nbcnews.com)
Ackman has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s recently resigned president, Claudine Gay, over allegations of plagiarism and her handling of antisemitism on campus.
A model suspected of recruiting for Epstein was asked whether Bill Clinton's security advisor tipped him off about search warrant (www.businessinsider.com)
US supreme court allows Idaho’s strict abortion ban to stand pending hearing (www.theguardian.com)
Biden administration had argued hospitals receiving Medicare funds are required to provide emergency care, including abortion...
LaPierre to step down as National Rifle Association leader (www.reuters.com)
Wayne LaPierre, the longtime leader of the National Rifle Association, announced his resignation as chief executive on Friday, days before a corruption trial involving the gun rights group begins in a Manhattan courtroom....
TurboTax maker Intuit’s $100 million tax credits challenged by US lawmakers (arstechnica.com)
Iowa school shooter believed to have posted an ominous TikTok video before killing a 6th grader and wounding 5 other people (www.cnn.com)
Moments before a 17-year-old unleashed gunfire at Iowa’s Perry High School, killing a sixth grader and wounding five other people, the student is believed to have posted a foreboding TikTok video....
Mexican cartel provided wifi to locals – with threat of death if they didn’t use it (www.theguardian.com)
State government buildings face bomb threats for second consecutive day (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/state-government-buildings-face…
With more records, world sees how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged powerful to abuse vulnerable girls (apnews.com)
A new batch of unsealed documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls was released Thursday, adding several hundred pages to a trove of information detailing how the financier leveraged connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his victims and cover up his crimes....
New video of a jaguar found in Southern Arizona (tucson.com)
CNN Runs Gaza Coverage Past Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of IDF Censor (theintercept.com)
Archive archive.ph/W6JCV...
Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed (www.theguardian.com)
Islamic State Takes Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Iran (www.nytimes.com)
The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for the bombing attack that killed 84 people in Kerman, Iran, a day before, during a memorial procession for Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, according to a post on the extremist group’s official Telegram account....
Release of Epstein documents crashes court website but details are less scandalous (www.theguardian.com)
The majority of those whose names appear in the documents are not accused of wrongdoing and have been mentioned previously...
Several Midwestern cities are going to be counted again like it's 2020 (apnews.com)
Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting a new grocery store or more state funding to build roads, fire stations and parks....
Biden administration announces $162 million to expand computer chip factories in Colorado and Oregon (www.cnbc.com)
The Biden administration is providing $162 million to Microchip Technology to support the domestic production of computer chips — the second funding announcement tied to a 2022 law designed to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing....
Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food (www.ctvnews.ca)
Consumer Reports has found that plastics retain a “widespread” presence in food despite the health risks, and called on regulators to reassess the safety of plastics that come into contact with food during production....
Everyone is on their phone (www.theguardian.com)
But is it phone addiction we’re experiencing?
1.3.24 Epstein documents 943 pages unsealed (www.documentcloud.org)
New Treatment Shows Promise for Helping Veterans With PTSD Quit Tobacco (researchinenglish.com)
More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge (apnews.com)
More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses....
SpaceX illegally fired workers who criticized Elon Musk, federal labor watchdog says (www.cbsnews.com)
Federal labor regulators allege that SpaceX illegally fired employees who publicly criticized Elon Musk, the exploration company’s founder and CEO....
