Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 13 women, DOJ says (www.cnbc.com)
Tennessee bill targets adults who take minors out of state for abortion (thehill.com)
The Tennessee legislature introduced a bill on Monday that targets adults who take minors out of the state to have an abortion....
A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course (www.businessinsider.com)
A Chinese man has been disqualified from a marathon after he chain-smoked his way through the entire 26-mile race, MailOnline reported....
A Texas company is suing Chicago after the city began penalizing buses that drop off migrants (apnews.com)
A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to federal court, ratcheting up a legal battle over the migrant crisis that’s left U.S. cities struggling...
Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR (www.kpbs.org)
Alabama has already tried once to execute Kenneth Smith. On the evening of Nov. 17, 2022, Smith lay on a gurney as workers tried for an hour to insert needles into the veins of his hand, arms and collarbone so they could put him to death by lethal injection. Just before midnight, the execution was called off....
NYC issues vacate orders to stabilize synagogue and nearby buildings following discovery of 60-foot tunnel (www.nbcnews.com)
An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, an important Jewish site....
Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing Return To Office requirements (www.cnbc.com)
Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal (www.businessinsider.com)
Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water (www.latimes.com)
It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement produced by newborn babies....
First US moon landing mission in decades launches with NASA science, humans remains on board (www.cnn.com)
A towering new rocket has taken flight, carrying what could be the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon — and the first lunar landing mission to launch from the United States since 1972....
IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022 (www.wsj.com)
In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight (www.kuow.org)
When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities - and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it....
Special counsel Jack Smith hits back at Trump’s immunity claims (www.independent.co.uk)
The filing came in the federal election subversion case ahead of 9 January oral arguments...
Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy (apnews.com)
A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer “dude.”...
Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy in his home after a 911 call has been reinstated after suspension (www.cnn.com)
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound (web.archive.org)
or ‘Billionaire Haole Builds Underground Apocalypse Bunker On Island Chain Where Locals Find It Increasingly Difficult To Stay’...
Australian woman jailed for 20 years for death of her four children has conviction quashed (www.reuters.com)
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, and of manslaughter in the death of her fourth. Folbigg maintained her innocence and said the children had died of natural causes over a decade, from 1989-1999....
Senior OpenAI employees claimed Sam Altman was ‘psychologically abusive’: report (bit.ly)
A group of senior employees at OpenAI complained to the company’s former board of directors that CEO Sam Altman was “psychologically abusive” — and the allegations contributed to the shocking decision to fire him, according to a report Friday.
Florida boy arrested after hoax 911 call about school shooting so he could 'go home early' (www.nbcnews.com)
Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion (www.reuters.com)
Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas’s abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban....
Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism (finance.yahoo.com)
Chinese borrowers default in record numbers as economic crisis deepens (www.ft.com)
"Defaults by Chinese borrowers have surged to a record high since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the depth of the country’s economic downturn and the obstacles to a full recovery,” the Financial Times reports.
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, dies at 100 (apnews.com)
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
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US Osprey aircraft crashes off coast of Japan with eight on board | CNN (www.cnn.com)
