‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 (www.nytimes.com)
Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of sexual assault...
Woman Wears Body Paint To Gym As "Social Experiment", Internet Slams her (www.ndtv.com)
Can we just round these people up and give them their own island to keep them out of society?
Kari Lake is in deep, deep trouble with judge's refusal to dismiss defamation lawsuit (www.azcentral.com)
Lake has become the darling of the MAGA movement by grinding the reputation of people like Richer into dust....
Americans ramped up spending during the holidays despite some financial anxiety and higher costs (apnews.com)
Holiday sales rose this year and spending remained resilient during the shopping season even with Americans wrestling with higher prices in some areas and other financial worries, according to the latest measure....
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli airstrikes kill 100 people in one of war’s deadliest nights, say Gaza officials (www.theguardian.com)
Medics have now said that an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23 people, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100, Reuters reports.
Yacouba Sawadogo, African Farmer Who Held Back the Desert, Dies at 77 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
He took barren and dry lands and turned them into incredible forests. People thought he was insane as they fled dying villiages. They burned his forests. He replanted his forests and tripled his crop yields, becoming a hero to farmers all over.
A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI (apnews.com)
Pregnant cancer patients often have to terminate. Abortion pill restrictions could make that choice even harder (www.statnews.com)
The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruciating. She would need urgent surgery — and she would have to undergo an emergency C-section...
There were nearly 400 strikes in 2023, and experts think there's more to come: 'Nothing succeeds like success' (www.cnbc.com)
A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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St. Louis Police File Felony Charge Against Bar:PM Owner After SUV Crash (www.riverfronttimes.com)
A south St. Louis bar owner is now facing charges stemming from an incident that began when police crashed an SUV through the front wall of his business.
Armed robbers have their getaway car stolen. (www.bbc.com)
Probably the one thing they didn’t plan on going wrong.
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly demands Gaza ceasefire, further isolating Israel and US (www.lemonde.fr)
Israel-Gaza latest news: UN Security Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The US representative at the UN, Robert Wood, has said that they wouldn’t support an immediate ceasefire....
Man federally charged after firing shots outside New York synagogue, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
The suspect was identified as Mufid Al Khader, 28, officials A man arrested in connection with shots that were fired outside a synagogue in Albany, New York, on Thursday has been federally charged, officials said....
Ex-Philadelphia labor leader convicted of embezzling from union to pay for home renovations, meals (apnews.com)
Former Philadelphia labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and a codefendant were convicted Thursday of using more than $650,000 in union funds for personal use, marking the second conviction federal prosecutors have secured against the long-powerful figure since a sweeping 2019 indictment....
Judge says Texas woman may abort fetus with lethal abnormality (www.texastribune.org)
Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia (apnews.com)
More US home buyers willing to purchase despite high rates -BofA study (www.reuters.com)
Supreme Court tackles Sackler family liability protections in opioid settlement (www.nbcnews.com)
How America racked up a record $1 trillion credit card bill (www.cnbc.com)
Chicago homeless migrants shelter faces backlash (www.reuters.com)
Suicide deaths reached a record high in the US in 2022, despite hopeful decreases among children and young adults (www.cnn.com)
CNN —...
France moves to shut down far-right groups (www.euronews.com)
Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer (apnews.com)
