Strong winds topple National Christmas Tree outside White House (www.nbcnews.com)
Some business leaders like Jeff Bezos hate the phrase 'work-life balance.' Here's what they prefer instead. (www.businessinsider.com)
The flu is soaring in 7 U.S. states and rising in others, health officials say (www.pbs.org)
The U.S. flu season is underway, with at least seven states reporting high levels of illnesses and cases rising in other parts of the country, health officials say....
Elon Musk agrees with X post that claims Jews ‘push hatred’ against White people (finance.yahoo.com)
FBI raids home of prominent bureau whistleblower (www.motherjones.com)
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The water [at Kealia Pond] has turned a shocking shade of magenta in this Hawaii refuge (www.cnn.com)
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Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada (www.cbc.ca)
A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party’s border policies aren’t tough enough....
The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn’t Set Safety Limits on Them (www.propublica.org)
Tlaib's defense of Palestinian chant prompts Jewish Democrats to call for retraction (www.detroitnews.com)
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s defense of a phrase used by Palestinians in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas is drawing condemnation from critics, including two prominent fellow Democrats — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
SC Jail Probed After Man “Eaten Alive” by Rats (www.theroot.com)
The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.
How the GOP became the party of tax cheats (www.rawstory.com)
Judge indicates she may delay Trump trial on charges he hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago (apnews.com)
A federal judge in Florida indicated Wednesday that she may delay the start of the classified documents trial of Donald Trump, pointing to the other criminal cases the former president is facing as well as the mounds of evidence his attorneys need to review....
Carlsberg CEO: Russia has 'stolen our business' (www.reuters.com)
Facing a strong economy, Fed puzzles over how to slow it down (www.washingtonpost.com)
Officials are trying to understand why consumer spending, the job market and overall growth have not responded to the most aggressive interest rates in decades.
The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank (www.politico.eu)
Judge rejects Ivanka Trump’s argument against testifying at father’s fraud trial (www.theguardian.com)
A New York judge has rejected Ivanka Trump’s argument that she should not have to testify at her father Donald Trump’s fraud trial....
Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school (apnews.com)
Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond’s warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions....
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)
Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard responded to the researchers’ questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the...
Jim Jordan loses even more support on third House speaker vote (www.axios.com)
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
Judge to consider imposing gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case (www.theguardian.com)
Protective order poses dilemma for Tanya Chutkan as Trump could use it to falsely attack the criminal case as political...
Hughes Van Ellis, one of last Tulsa race massacre survivors, dies aged 102 (www.theguardian.com)
One of the last known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 has died, his family has confirmed in a statement....
California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind (www.theguardian.com)
Measure signed into law by Gavin Newsom on Saturday is strong blueprint for national climate accountability, experts say...
Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating? (www.nytimes.com)
Desert horror: Music festival goers first took cover from rockets, then Gaza militants began firing on them (www.cnn.com)
The rockets began around 6:30 a.m., Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending a music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them....
