E. Jean Carroll trial paused over Trump lawyer’s COVID exposure (thehill.com)
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against former President Trump was postponed on Monday after a juror and one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill...
Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions (www.wsj.com)
New data shows that people who log on from home five days a week get fewer promotions and less mentoring than people in the office...
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths as more people decline vaccinations: FDA (arstechnica.com)
Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....
Arkansas man accused of making pipe bombs, trying to flee US in kayak (thehill.com)
An Arkansas man has been arrested after being found with six homemade pipe bombs, according to court documents....
Supreme Court won’t fast-track ruling on Trump’s claim of immunity
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will not fast-track consideration of Donald Trump’s claim that he has immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president, a question crucial to whether he can be put on trial for plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election....
US supreme court refuses to overturn Illinois assault weapons ban (www.theguardian.com)
Law was passed following Highland Park shooting in 2022, and has been challenged by gun shops and gun rights groups...
Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins (apnews.com)
The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida’s ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect....
Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61 (variety.com)
Wall Street CEO tells Penn president: Resign or I'll pull $100 million (www.businessinsider.com)
Plastic recycling directory ends, citing lack of 'real commitment from industry' (abcnews.go.com)
Alaska Airlines says it's buying Hawaiian Airlines in $1.9 billion deal (www.cnbc.com)
Black Friday shoppers spent a record $9.8 billion in U.S. online sales, up 7.5% from last year (www.cnbc.com)
Black Friday e-commerce spending popped 7.5% from a year earlier, reaching a record $9.8 billion in the U.S., according to an Adobe Analytics report, a further indication that price-conscious consumers want to spend on the best deals and are hunting for those deals online....
Ex-Binance CEO Zhao urges judge to allow him to leave US before sentencing (www.reuters.com)
Nov 24 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao are urging a U.S. judge to reject the Justice Department’s request to bar him from returning to his home in the United Arab Emirates until he is sentenced for violating anti-money laundering requirements.
Geert Wilders' victory in Netherlands election spooks Europe (www.bbc.com)
U.S. to offer another round of free at-home Covid tests starting Monday (www.cnbc.com)
The Biden administration on Monday said it is offering another round of free at-home Covid tests to U.S. households ahead of the holiday season, when more people gather indoors and the virus typically spreads at higher levels....
Greyhound stations are leaving downtowns after sale to notorious investment firm (www.axios.com)
Michigan Democrats eye legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill (www.bridgemi.com)
Michigan Senate Democrats propose bills legalizing physician-assisted death for terminally ill patients...
We are living in a disconnected world, when did we start rewarding bad behavior? And when did bad behavior become so commonplace? (www.bostonglobe.com)
Florida grappling with flooding and high winds, more than 100K customers without power after intense rain (www.nbcnews.com)
Intense rain in parts of Florida has submerged neighborhoods, turned roads into rivers, closed schools and left more than 108,000 customers without power....
As war rages, Israelis' trust in Netanyahu plummets, polls find (www.haaretz.com)
Renowned doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital killed in Gaza City, health ministry official says (www.cbc.ca)
An internal medicine physician who told the world about the dire hardships in frequent dispatches from Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital has been killed, an official with the territory's Health Ministry said Tuesday.
British couple died on holiday after adjoining room fumigated for bed bugs (edition.cnn.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers (www.bbc.com)
In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an “illegal” purchase of stocks without telling the firm....
