New Treatment Shows Promise for Helping Veterans With PTSD Quit Tobacco (researchinenglish.com)
More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge (apnews.com)
More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses....
SpaceX illegally fired workers who criticized Elon Musk, federal labor watchdog says (www.cbsnews.com)
Federal labor regulators allege that SpaceX illegally fired employees who publicly criticized Elon Musk, the exploration company’s founder and CEO....
The names of more than 170 Jeffrey Epstein associates were just revealed in unsealed court documents. Here's what we know. (www.businessinsider.com)
Court records related to Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released, but they aren't a client list (apnews.com)
There is no such list and the truth is less scandalous....
As COVID spikes in NYC, mask mandates return to city hospitals (www.nydailynews.com)
Here’s what you need to know about BYD, the Chinese EV giant that just overtook Tesla (www.msn.com)
BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s top seller of electric vehicles (EV) at the end of last year, crowning an extraordinary rise for the Chinese carmaker....
Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage (apnews.com)
U.S. national debt surpasses $34 trillion (www.upi.com)
Nearly half of police force resigns in one day (www.wave3.com)
How common are earthquakes on the East Coast? Small explosions reported after NYC quake (www.usatoday.com)
Gas prices fall under 3 bucks a gallon at majority of U.S. stations (www.cbsnews.com)
Menendez Faces a New Accusation: Aiding the Qatari Government (www.nytimes.com)
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey — already accused of using his political influence to benefit Egypt — was newly charged on Tuesday with using his power to help the government of Qatar....
Child Care Gaps in Rural America Threaten to Undercut Small Communities (kffhealthnews.org)
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana....
Ex-gang leader makes his bid in Las Vegas court for house arrest before trial in Tupac Shakur case (apnews.com)
A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas plans to ask a judge on Tuesday to release him to house arrest ahead of the trial in June....
December migrant surge at Southern border largest in more than two decades as mayors call for action (www.cnn.com)
A new surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border is overwhelming already-stretched resources and prompting urgent talks with Mexican officials as December border crossings reached a record monthly high....
US to bring back aircraft carrier from eastern Mediterranean (abcnews.go.com)
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it was sent just after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, in the “coming days,” two U.S. officials tell ABC News....
Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024 (www.bbc.com)
In a new year’s message, Israel Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for “prolonged fighting”....
Sources say 8-9 died at RRMC from drug diversion (kobi5.com)
MEDFORD, Ore. – Sources say several Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center patients are dead and police are now conducting a criminal investigation....
Embezzlement of Oregon weekly newspaper's funds forces it to lay off entire staff and halt print (web.archive.org)
About a week before Christmas, the Eugene Weekly found inaccuracies in its bookkeeping, editor Camilla Mortensen said. It discovered that a former employee who was “heavily involved” with the paper’s finances had used its bank account to pay themselves $90,000 since at least 2022, she said....
Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun' (www.bbc.com)
It promises to be a remarkable moment in the history of space exploration....
Judge blocks most of an Iowa law banning some school library books and discussion of LGBTQ+ issues (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues....
Missouri school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum (apnews.com)
Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can continue to take elective Black history courses, school leaders announced Thursday in a reversal of a vote last week by the conservative-led school board to end the classes....
Huge waves damage homes, cause injuries along California coast (www.latimes.com)
California’s first huge swells of the winter are wreaking havoc on the state’s coastline as an incoming atmospheric river storm forces evacuations amid flooding of beach and coastal roads....
Social media platforms generate billions in annual ad revenue from US youth: Study (phys.org)
