Gaza cease-fire protests block New York City bridges, and over 300 are arrested (www.kcrg.com)
Monkey see protest in Seattle so monkey do protest in New York.
Massive dumping ground of WWII-era munitions discovered off Los Angeles coast (www.adn.com)
Avian flu surges in Northern California, threatening national poultry, egg supplies (thehill.com)
Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations (www.theguardian.com)
After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation...
It took decades, but San Francisco finally installs nets to stop suicides off Golden Gate Bridge (apnews.com)
Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his hands released the rail and he plunged the equivalent of 25 stories into the Pacific Ocean, breaking his back....
Japan Airlines plane in flames on runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport (www.bbc.com)
Pictures show the aircraft on fire while it is travelling along the runway at the busy airport.
Who Is Killing All These Stories About Rajat Khare, Controversial Tech Mogul? (www.thedailybeast.com)
It sure would be a shame if everyone shared this story of hacker Rajat Khare covering up his hacking crimes and gagging governments and media outlets reporting it. I bet milionaire hacker Rajat Khare would hate that....
Anti-democracy playbook has new threats in store for the US in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Family shares 5 photos showing how daughter escaped sex trafficking (www.cbsnews.com)
More patients are losing their doctors – and their trust in the primary care system (www.npr.org)
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, R.I. retired. Then her other doctor, at a health center a few miles away, left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system....
Wisconsin prosecutor appeals ruling that cleared way for abortions to resume in state (apnews.com)
A Republican district attorney has appealed a court ruling that determined that an 1849 Wisconsin law does not ban abortions, a decision that cleared the way for abortions to resume in the state....
Consumer wallets are pinched, creating ripe conditions for buy now, pay later platforms (finance.yahoo.com)
Consumers are eager to fill up their stockings, even if they don’t have the means to do so.
Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos (apnews.com)
The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....
Pentagon Taps “Tiger Team” to Rush Weapons to Israel (theintercept.com)
In its effort to speed up arms sales to Israel, the Biden administration dismissed concerns about harm to civilians in Gaza....
French warship shoots down two drones coming from Yemen (www.reuters.com)
Judge rules Elon Musk’s posts about bot accounts and poop emoji were ‘false’ as Twitter investor lawsuit moves forward (lawandcrime.com)
A federal judge ruled to allow a lawsuit over the Twitter deal to proceed against Elon Musk, reasoning that Musk's false tweets and a comment of a poop emoji may be securities fraud.
Some states spurn migrants. The Rust Belt wants them. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/pittsburgh-immigration-new-york…
US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show (www.theguardian.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/us-police-agencies-idf-files-bl…
Cleveland Jewish and Palestinian organizations call for vigilance and harassment to stop (www.news5cleveland.com)
Antisemitic, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian, and Islamophobia rhetoric has spiked across the nation. Heightened security measures are being taken at local places of worship and businesses....
Wisconsin university regents reject deal with Republicans to reduce diversity positions (apnews.com)
Universities of Wisconsin regents narrowly rejected a deal Saturday reached with Republicans that would have given employees a pay raise and paid for construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion....
Agencies warn of ‘apocalyptic’ situation in southern Gaza as half of population go hungry (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Chronic fatigue syndrome is not rare, says new CDC survey. It affects 3.3 million U.S. adults (www.boston.com)
N.J. man sentenced to 8 years in prison after video showed him harassing Black neighbors with racial slurs (www.nbcnews.com)
Edward C. Mathews, 47, had a pattern of terrorizing his Black neighbors, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said....
California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney (www.theguardian.com)
A teenager from California’s Central Valley has become the youngest person to ever pass the state’s bar exam and is now working as a practicing attorney....
It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in (www.npr.org)
It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming for 12 years. It is a...
