Far-right Israeli minister's criticism of Biden sparks anger at a sensitive time for US ties (apnews.com)
The Biden administration has skirted Congress to rush weapons to Israel and shielded its ally from international calls for a cease-fire in the four months since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war. But the White House has also urged Israel to take greater measures to avoid harming civilians and to facilitate the...
‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances (www.theguardian.com)
Patients, advocates and researchers welcome regulations but argue rules don’t go nearly far enough to tackle scale of problem...
Senator faces backlash for asking TikTok CEO [Singaporean] if he’s a secret Chinese communist (www.independent.co.uk)
‘Happy to provide additional basic facts to you or your staff that I learned in elementary school. Ask anytime,’ California Democrat tells Tom Cotton...
NYC woman arrested after human head, body parts found in refrigerator (www.pennlive.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman was charged with concealing a corpse after officers discovered a man’s head and body parts in her apartment’s refrigerator, officials said Friday.
Wrestler Hulk Hogan helps rescue teenage girl trapped after Florida car crash (apnews.com)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Retired wrestler Hulk Hogan and a friend rescued a teenage girl who was trapped in an overturned vehicle after a crash in Florida, according to Hogan’s social media posts.
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by Elon Musk, according to the mutual fund Fidelity....
The premise of Black Santas caused a fuss 10 years ago — now, they're everywhere (www.nbcnews.com)
Megyn Kelly went viral when she declared Santa Claus “just is white,” but a decade later the idea of what St. Nick can look like has only expanded....
A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him (apnews.com)
It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think....
Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people (apnews.com)
Justice Neil Gorsuch took 10 minutes to approve Dobbs abortion opinion – report (www.theguardian.com)
New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion...
Scientists Discover 512-Year-Old Shark, Which Would Be The Oldest Living Vertebrate On The Planet (www.beautyofplanet.com)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home doused in gasoline in arson attempt, 1 arrested (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
COVID-19 now increasing again, especially in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, CDC says (www.cbsnews.com)
Several key COVID-19 trends that authorities track are now accelerating around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It’s the first major nationwide uptick in the spread of the virus seen in months....
PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says (www.bbc.com)
A drug which stops HIV infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective “real-world” preventative treatment, a study has confirmed. The results of the research on 24,000 people taking it across England, have been described as “reassuring”....
Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons? (www.theguardian.com)
Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result (www.cnn.com)
Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....
World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report (www.france24.com)
Iran tells Hamas it will not enter the war with Israel (www.telegraph.co.uk)
No bar exam required to practice law in Oregon starting next year (www.reuters.com)
'A complete failure': Senate Republicans on a punishing election night (abcnews.go.com)
Senate Republicans on Wednesday took a hard look at Tuesday night’s punishing election results in some key battleground states, and they’re not pleased with what they’re seeing....
With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy (www.inquirer.com)
News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy....
Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process (fortune.com)
When Axton Betz-Hamilton set up her first utility bill at college, she soon realized something was very, very wrong....
U.S. economy glows red hot with a 4.9% GDP reading for the third quarter (fortune.com)
The nation’s economy expanded at a robust 4.9% annual rate from July through September as Americans defied higher prices, rising interest rates and widespread forecasts of a recession to spend at a brisk pace....
