How a legal loophole allows anti-abortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data (www.dallasnews.com)
Some leading drug store chains turn over customers’ private health care information without a warrant....
Trump’s next trial: E. Jean Carroll seeks $10M in defamation case (thehill.com)
Fresh off his runaway win in the nation’s first 2024 presidential nominating contest, the next phase of former President Trump’s courtroom chronicles will begin Tuesday as a jury convenes to determine how much Trump must pay for defaming a longtime advice columnist....
DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace (apnews.com)
Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7 (theintercept.com)
Oregon Supreme Court won’t remove Trump from ballot for now, says it’s waiting on SCOTUS (www.cnn.com)
The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue....
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)
2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed....
US naval officer sentenced to two years in prison over spying for China (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. oil production has hit a record under Biden, but he seldom mentions it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Diversity offices on college campuses will soon be illegal in Texas, as 30 new laws go into effect (www.texastribune.org)
When Texas college students return to their campuses after the winter break, they’ll discover the lights are still off in their campuses’ diversity offices....
Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub (www.theguardian.com)
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U.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidents (www.forbes.com)
Multiple people injured in shooting at Florida mall, police say (abcnews.go.com)
Putin ally 'behind bomb' that killed Wagner boss, new report alleges (i.stuff.co.nz)
A new study bolsters evidence that severe obesity is increasing in young kids in the US (apnews.com)
‘Poisoning the blood of our country’: Trump delivers caustic attack on immigrants (www.politico.com)
IDF accidentally shoots and kills three Israelis held hostage in Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Students and Educators in Idaho Show Us What It’s Like When a State Fails to Fund School Repairs (www.propublica.org)
No other state spends less on school infrastructure per student than Idaho. As a result, many students, especially those in rural districts, deal with leaking ceilings, freezing classrooms and discolored drinking water. Some students have to miss school when the power or heat goes out....
Boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue (apnews.com)
The teenager, who is unnamed in court documents because he is a minor, is charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. He’s accused of posting a “detailed plan to complete a mass shooting” at Temple Israel in Canton, a city south of Akron, on the live streaming platform Discord....
Supreme Court leaves Illinois semiautomatic gun ban in place (text.npr.org)
Doritos thinks we want nacho cheese-flavored booze (www.cnn.com)
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Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61 (apnews.com)
Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor who would master gritty drama for seven seasons on “Homicide: Life on The Street” and modern comedy for eight on “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday at 61....
Turkish MP has heart attack while saying Allah punishes pro-Israel people (www.newsweek.com)
Michigan teen sentenced to life for school shooting that killed four (www.theguardian.com)
Ethan Crumbley apologized before the sentencing for the 2021 high school shooting as parents still in jail on related charges...
2024 California law to protect most workers using cannabis on own time begins January 1st (www.nbcsandiego.com)
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital (apnews.com)
Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old....
