UN chief gives interview from melting Antarctica on eve of global climate summit (apnews.com)
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding a restoration of Nepal's monarchy clash with police (www.thestar.com)
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Riot police used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital on Thursday to demand the restoration of the monarchy and the nation’s former status as a Hindu state.
Fort Worth cop fired after officials say he showed up to work intoxicated (www.audacy.com)
New York City mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assault in 1993 (www.theguardian.com)
‘A sense of home’: Native American land rights grow in industrial midwest (www.theguardian.com)
Haitian police say member of a gang accused of kidnapping Americans has been extradited to the US (apnews.com)
NTSB warns Congress: Air safety showing 'clear signs of strain' (www.ksby.com)
WHO asks China for details on respiratory illness outbreaks (www.reuters.com)
EU will continue to fund the Palestinians as probe shows no money is reaching Hamas (apnews.com)
Big Pharma fought drug pricing reform with record $7.5M dark money donation (arstechnica.com)
Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department (www.businessinsider.com)
The women soldiers who warned of a pending Hamas attack – and were ignored (www.haaretz.com)
Over the past year, the Israel Defense Forces’ spotters situated on the Gaza border, all women, warned that something unusual was happening. Those who survived the October 7 massacre are convinced that if it had been men sounding the alarm, things would look different today
New Hampshire man died with a big secret, leaving his town millions (apnews.com)
Prison phone company leaked 600K users’ data and didn’t notify them, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
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Listeria outbreak linked to fruit now being recalled (abcnews.go.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning Monday about a listeria outbreak linked to recalled peaches, nectarines and plums after 10 hospitalizations and one death were reported in seven states....
Alabama police chief says department policies violated when officers fatally shot Black man outside home (apnews.com)
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Navy plane overshoots runway and ends up in ocean, but all aboard escape unharmed (www.latimes.com)
All 9 aboard US Navy plane that overshot runway escape injury, Hawaii official says (apnews.com)
The Gaza war's youngest evacuees reach safety in Egypt — many without their parents (www.npr.org)
On Monday, 28 newborns were evacuated from Gaza to Egypt, after being transported from Al-Shifa Hospital. Four mothers accompanied the babies. It's not known how many of the other parents are alive.
OpenAI Employees Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns (www.wsj.com)
I will call them what I call them.
I will not be using the terms meta or X I will be using the terms facebook and twitter until zukerberg and musk PAY me to not call them facebook and twitter.
Congressional leaders are aiming to pass Ukraine and Israel supplemental aid before Christmas (www.nbcnews.com)
If Congress fails to move before the end of the year, Senate sources say, the chances of getting the entire plan over the finish line reduce dramatically....
Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X (www.npr.org)
“I wanted to create a moment for Lagos on the global art calendar,” says Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, the founder of Art X, sitting in a chic private booth within the fair. “A moment that brought the rest of Africa together here and enabled us on home soil to encounter those around the world and ourselves.”
IBM to pause ad spending on X after its ads ran on pro-Nazi accounts (www.cnn.com)
IBM on Thursday announced it had suspended advertising on Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after an ad for the computing giant appeared alongside pro-Nazi content....
