Avoid cantaloupe unless you know its origins, CDC warns amid salmonella outbreak (www.npr.org)
Senate Committee Authorizes Subpoenas of Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo as Part of Supreme Court Ethics Probe (www.propublica.org)
But the ultimate fate of the subpoenas is uncertain. If Crow and Leo defy the information requests — which ask for a detailed accounting of gifts, transportation and lodging the two men provided or helped organize for Supreme Court justices and the justices’ relatives — Democrats would need a 60-vote majority to enforce...
Trump targets a bigger, cheaper and more popular Obamacare. Why the law could be harder to repeal in 2025 than it was in 2017. (www.politico.com)
The Obamacare that Donald Trump pledges to scrap in 2025 is not the same law that the GOP targeted during his first year in office — making it politically uncomfortable for the former president’s fellow Republicans to embrace a wholesale repeal....
Earthquake of 7.5 strikes Philippines, tsunami expected in Philippines and Japan (www.reuters.com)
An earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao in the southern Philippines late on Saturday, triggering evacuation orders for some areas and southwestern Japanese coasts because of warnings of tsunami waves of a metre (3 feet) or more....
Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s convictions and jail sentence (apnews.com)
An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police....
Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year (www.texastribune.org)
Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power (apnews.com)
An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar. The project in Wayne County Schools represents what a developer and U.S. Sen.
Ransomware ‘catastrophe’ at Fidelity National Financial causes panic with homeowners and buyers (techcrunch.com)
Undercover in Saudi Arabia’s secretive program to keep the world burning oil (climate-reporting.org)
Saudi Arabia publicly claims to support the Paris climate change agreement, which aims to limit global temperature increases to 1.5C or 2C – requiring an almost total transformation of the way in which the world produces and consumes energy. The Crown Prince [Mohammed bin Salman], also known as MBS, has said that the Kingdom...
Rescuers successfully drill through to trapped men in Himalayan tunnel in breakthrough for perilous operation (www.cnn.com)
New Delhi, India CNN — Rescuers on Tuesday successfully drilled through to 41 men trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan tunnel, as a weekslong evacuation effort fraught with uncertainty enters its final stretch....
Diplomas for sale, no classes required. Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools (abcnews.go.com)
Nearly 9,000 schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees....
A Horrifying Thing Happens to Your Fingernails After a Walk in Space (www.sciencealert.com)
Let’s face it, going to space is havoc on the human body. We evolved in an Earth environment, over hundreds of millions of years; so take away the Earth environment and things start going a little awry.
American Airlines investigates video of wheelchair falling from luggage chute (sjvsun.com)
How A Tinder Date Got 28-Year-Old Man Brutally Killed In Jaipur (www.ndtv.com)
TLDR: The guy was posing as a wealthy businessman and the girl, along with her actual boyfriend who was 21 lakhs in debt wanted to kidnap him take the ransom money and kill him anyway. And so they did.
Accuser who previously claimed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped filing lawsuit (www.cnn.com)
CNN —...
Exposure to widely used insecticides decreases sperm concentration, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Study’s author says ‘we need to reduce exposure in order to ensure men who want to conceive are able to without interference’
Georgia Supreme Court ruling prevents GOP-backed commission from beginning to discipline prosecutors (apnews.com)
Georgia’s state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors, meaning the commission can’t begin operating....
Toronto library systems won’t be restored until 2024 after October cyberattack (www.cp24.com)
According to my librarian wife, this is one of the largest library systems in the country, if not the world.
Why Xi Jinping sounds friendlier to America (www.economist.com)
A tactical move to boost China’s economic and diplomatic interests...
Nederland endurance rower tackles Pacific to save oceans from plastic (coloradosun.com)
2 million strokes and counting: Tez Steinberg pushed off from Hawaii this week and expects to spend 6 months rowing alone to Australia
Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent’s $700,000 exit deal (www.politico.com)
The battle in Pennsylvania is part of years of infighting.
Meet 3 people whose designs are finalists for the new Minnesota flag (www.mprnews.org)
Minnesota’s most intensely debated art contest in memory is down to six designs for the next state flag and just a handful for the official seal, a tiny fraction of the more than 2,500 in total submissions....
Elon Musk’s antisemitic comments have pushed X advertisers over the edge (www.independent.co.uk)
Judge declines to jail Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd in Georgia election interference case (abcnews.go.com)
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Hanover County (VA) schools bans 75 more books, including "Wicked" and "The Handmaid's Tale" (www.axios.com)
Hanover County school administrators on Friday instructed teachers and librarians to remove a list of 75 books from shelves, including an array of well-known titles....