After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl (kffhealthnews.org)
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3 separate shootings erupt within 1 hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida (abcnews.go.com)
Three separate, unrelated shootings erupted within an hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on Sunday night, leaving one person dead and several hurt, according to authorities....
Starving Children in Gaza 'Cannot Wait' Weeks for US Port, Aid Groups Say (www.commondreams.org)
“Children in Gaza cannot wait to eat,” said Jason Lee, country director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory. “They are already dying from malnutrition and saving their lives is a matter of hours or days—not weeks.”...
A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects? (www.theguardian.com)
Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force...
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
American woman goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras (www.nbcnews.com)
Police in Madrid and Fort Lauderdale were notified, launching investigations on each side of the Atlantic....
Hiker Found After Week Missing in California Blizzard (voxheadlines.com)
Why isn’t the Biden administration suing Texas for taking over the job of Border Patrol? (www.nbcnews.com)
The Biden administration has not sued. It did win a Supreme Court ruling that it could take down the razor wire that Texas has deployed in Shelby Park and elsewhere, which the administration said has led to drowning deaths among migrants. It has now cut razor wire in some sections of the border, but not in Shelby Park, which it...
Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says (apnews.com)
The ruling is significant not only for its stark repudiation of Trump’s novel immunity claims but also because it breathes life back into a landmark prosecution that had been effectively frozen for weeks as the court considered the appeal....
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....
The majority of Americans are not engaged at work, 70% of managers have no training to lead a hybrid team and it could be killing employee engagement (www.cnbc.com)
Michigan’s Top Arab Elected Leader Says White House Never Reached Out About Gaza (www.huffpost.com)
US Senators Urge Biden to Retaliate with Direct Strike on Iran over Military Deaths in Jordan (www.jewishpress.com)
Bayer ordered to pay $2.25 billion in latest Roundup trial (news.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Bayer was ordered on Friday to pay $2.25 billion to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company’s Roundup weedkiller, the man’s attorneys said....
Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge (apnews.com)
He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”...
EU chief says Israel was responsible for Hamas' surge to power in Gaza: 'Financed by the government' (news.yahoo.com)
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said very plainly during a speech at the University of Valladolid in Spain that Israel financed Hamas in an effort to weaken the then-governing Palestinian Authority....
Arizona may join Italy by banning lab-grown meat from the state (www.foodsafetynews.com)
Republican governors in 15 states reject summer food money for kids (www.washingtonpost.com)
The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ( R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska...
Why there still aren’t limits on lead in baby food (www.nbcnews.com)
An outbreak of lead poisonings in children, tied to contaminated cinnamon applesauce pouches, illustrates the gaps in how heavy metals in foods are regulated....
Pending home sales drop to a record low, even worse than during the financial crisis (www.cnbc.com)
Donald Trump wants Jan. 6 police to be charged for fighting rioters (www.newsweek.com)
From the party of “Back the Blue!”...
The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system (gothamist.com)
The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police dispatches....
8 dead in crash after police chased a suspected human smuggler, Texas officials say (apnews.com)
The crash happened around 6:30 a.m. when the driver of a 2009 Honda Civic tried to outrun deputies from the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office and attempted to pass a semi truck, the state Department of Public Safety said. The Civic collided with a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox, which caught fire....
Idaho mother and son charged with kidnapping over out-of-state abortion (www.theguardian.com)
No evidence found linking synagogue president's fatal stabbing to antisemitism, Detroit police chief says (www.nbcnews.com)
Detroit police said Sunday that they have found no evidence that indicates the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue president this weekend was linked to antisemitism....
