Study: Current Biodiversity Loss Outpacing the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event Over 252 Million Years Ago (medium.com)
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GM sees $9.3 billion hit from labor deals, outlines $10 billion stock buyback (www.reuters.com)
Banksy’s identity: Elusive artist reveals his name in resurfaced interview - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Hundreds of thousands in North Carolina will be added to Medicaid rolls this week (apnews.com)
A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition to the long-term uninsured....
Nine-year-old girl shot by mother's boyfriend in Midtown, Memphis PD says (www.localmemphis.com)
Memphis Police confirmed the shooting was a domestic violence incident.
Lead poisoning Part Two: Scientists find toxic metals in SA kitchenware (www.dailymaverick.co.za)
Health experts decry New Zealand’s reversal on world-first tobacco ban (www.nbcnews.com)
The country’s new center-right coalition is repealing a ban on the sale of tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, which critics say will cost lives....
US tells Israel any ground campaign in southern Gaza must limit further civilian displacement (apnews.com)
New research supports potential link between low-level lead exposure and liver injury (www.statnews.com)
Nearly a decade on, the Flint water crisis still looms large in the minds of environmental toxin researchers. It was — and continues to be — evidence that not all communities in the United States are equally affected by environmental pollutants....
$9 million seized from "pig butchering" scammers who preyed on lonely hearts (www.tripwire.com)
Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here's why that makes a deal so tough (apnews.com)
Pakistan defends charging £660 fee from Afghan refugees leaving country (www.independent.co.uk)
Hit by war, Israelis defer loan repayments in October - banks regulator (www.reuters.com)
Hotel still 'hostile and unwelcoming' to Native Americans despite DOJ order: lawsuit (www.rawstory.com)
A South Dakota hotel at the heart of a Justice Department case that forced the owner to resign for discriminating against Native Americans is accused of going back to its old tricks in a new lawsuit, reported The Daily Beast."The Department of Justice reached an agreement with South Dakota’s Grand ...
Top Iowa evangelical backs DeSantis over Trump in US presidential race (www.reuters.com)
Study undercuts premise for excluding women from medical research (www.washingtonpost.com)
Women’s body temperatures are no more variable than men’s, researchers found.
Girl dead, woman rescued, 5 missing after landslide hits small Alaska community, official says (apnews.com)
Brazil records its hottest ever temperature (www.bbc.com)
Supreme Court declines to review Derek Chauvin's conviction in George Floyd's murder (thehill.com)
Israeli Government Spokesperson holds WHO complicit with Hamas’ human shield strategy (x.com)
Eylon Levi, an Israeli government spokesperson, tweeted today: “We hold the WHO complicit with Hamas’ human shield strategy and any loss of life from its gross negligence.”
Gaza's largest hospital is 'death zone' with mass grave at the door - WHO says (news.sky.com)
US lawmakers urge scrutiny of SpaceX worker injuries after Reuters report (www.reuters.com)
Three U.S. lawmakers are calling for greater scrutiny of worker safety at Elon Musk's SpaceX following a Reuters investigation that documented hundreds of injuries at the rocket company's U.S. manufacturing and launch sites....
Israeli ex-PM claims Hamas centre is in the south of Gaza not hospital (www.euronews.com)
As Israel intensifies its ground offensive in Gaza, amid serious humanitarian concerns, its former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Euronews: "the war must go on" until Israel reaches its endgame: the end of Hamas.
Many corporations promote ‘net zero’ while lobbying for weaker climate action: Report (thehill.com)
Texas woman convicted and facing up to life in prison for killing pro cyclist Mo Wilson (apnews.com)
A woman convicted of murder in the shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson faces up to life in prison in Texas when sentenced in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search to find her....
