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The Pentagon says a US warship and multiple commercial ships have come under attack in the Red Sea (apnews.com)

Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on TikTok blocked by judge who says it's unconstitutional (apnews.com)

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan, a truth-teller in a time of crisis (presswatchers.org)

No high-profile journalist has been more assertive about Palestinian rights than Mehdi Hasan, and MNSBC punished him on Thursday by taking away his shows.

Police: [Tennessee] Man shot at women who wouldn’t open their door (wreg.com)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who appeared to be intoxicated allegedly tried to get inside the wrong house in Midtown last month, then shot at two women inside when they wouldn’t let him in, police said.

Man sentenced to life after Canadian judge says incel-inspired attack was terrorism (www.washingtonpost.com)

A Toronto court sentenced a Canadian man to life imprisonment in a deadly stabbing attack at a massage parlor, in a landmark case that saw a Canadian judge designating an incel-inspired crime as terrorism for the first time....

CIA warns staff about social media posts after senior officer shares pro-Palestinian image (www.nbcnews.com)

Canadian man sentenced to life in prison for ‘incel’-motivated murder (www.theguardian.com)

Man who used machete to murder Toronto massage parlour employee in 2020 pleaded guilty in July

Berkshire Hathaway adviser Charlie Munger dies at 99 (www.axios.com)

A millennial startup founder who’s turning carbon emissions into rocks lays out how he’ll eliminate 1 million tons by 2030—and what a great mentor Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy has been (fortune.com)

Talal Hasan, founder and CEO of carbon elimination company 44.01, talks net-zero targets and what it’s like working with a Bill Gates venture.

Streaker arrested after parading around Disneyland’s ‘It’s a Small World’ ride naked (www.news.com.au)

Five women got eye syphilis from the same man—raising questions (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk to meet Israeli president, Gaza hostage families on Monday (www.reuters.com)

Derek Chauvin Is Stabbed in Federal Prison, Minnesota Attorney General Says (12ft.io)

Marty Krofft, Colorful Producer of ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ ‘Land of the Lost,’ Dies at 86 (variety.com)

Former Obama adviser in custody, faces hate crime charges after halal cart confrontation (abc7ny.com)

The owners of the cart say there have been several ugly confrontations at the cart over the last two weeks amid conflict in the Mideast.

Walmart shooter who injured 4 in Ohio may have been motivated by racial extremism, FBI says (apnews.com)

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday....

Western gray squirrels are now considered endangered in Washington state: "Seriously threatened with extinction" (www.cbsnews.com)

Monsanto hit with $165 million verdict over PCBs in Seattle school (www.reuters.com)

A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer's Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick.

Trump and Bolsonaro salute Javier Milei as far right rejoice around the world (www.theguardian.com)

Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment (www.propublica.org)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer. But he was no ordinary patient. He was a celebrated litigator. And he was ready to fight.

Ex-federal prison guard sentenced to 8 years in sex abuse scandal (www.nbcnews.com)

Eight correctional officers at FCI Dublin have been charged. The U.S. inspector general said there was a “culture of sexual abuse” of female inmates.

Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years (www.propublica.org)

Georgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump case (www.theguardian.com)

Fulton county prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia to immediately impose an “emergency” protective order over the discovery materials to prevent potential future leaks of evidence....

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