More People Are Watching Videos on Their Phones While Driving. Often, It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.vice.com)
Israeli diplomat pressured US college to drop course on ‘apartheid’ debate (www.theguardian.com)
Likely human skull found in Halloween section of Florida thrift store (www.cbsnews.com)
An anthropologist made a surprising discovery in a Florida thrift shop’s Halloween section on Saturday, officials said....
Fall back: How daylight saving time can seriously affect your health (apnews.com)
Israel ‘severing all contact with Gaza’, will send Gazan workers back to enclave | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Israel will return Gazans working in the country back to the besieged Palestinian enclave, Israel’s Security Cabinet announced on Thursday, adding that it would also sever contact with Gaza.
F.B.I. Raids Home of Eric Adams’s Fund-Raising Chief (www.nytimes.com)
Teachers kick off strike in Portland, Oregon, over class sizes, pay and resources (abcnews.go.com)
Teachers in Portland, Oregon, went on strike Wednesday, shuttering school for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s biggest city
Prisoner exchange? Israeli captive families demand answers from Netanyahu (www.aljazeera.com)
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Scientists discover hidden landscape ‘frozen in time’ under Antarctic ice (www.theguardian.com)
Hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers in area the size of Belgium has remained untouched for more than 34m years...
This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment? (apnews.com)
In ads, debates and public statements, the opposition campaign and top Republicans have increasingly been referencing “partial-birth abortions” as an imminent threat if voters approve the constitutional amendment on Nov. 7. “Partial-birth abortion” is a non-medical term for a procedure known as dilation and extraction,...
China says Israel acting 'beyond scope of self-defense' (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's remarks came as Israel appeared poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza.
Dell Suicide: Employee died from suicide by shooting at Dell Technologies (news.snbc13.com)
Dell Technologies had $102.3 Billion in revenue.
Pumpkin weighing 2,749 pounds wins California contest, sets world record for biggest gourd (apnews.com)
A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms)....
Kevin McCarthy says he’s willing to return as House speaker (www.washingtonpost.com)
Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe, claimed SEC is harassing him (arstechnica.com)
After being sued by SEC, Musk says he wants US regulators to be punished....
Inmate Deaths Raise Questions About Temperatures in Oklahoma Prisons (oklahomawatch.org)
Tonya Wilson Peel, a former correctional case manager at Dick Conner who worked alongside Lanford during her employment at the prison, said he had a sharp sense of humor and loved his job making license plates for the State of Oklahoma. She said Lanford had complained of excessive heat for several weeks leading up to his death...
California elementary teacher arrested after allegedly driving to school, teaching class drunk (www.cbsnews.com)
A second-grade teacher in Northern California has been arrested on allegations that she drove to work and was teaching class drunk....
US Customs officials seize giraffe feces from woman at Minnesota airport (apnews.com)
Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage....
Three-Time Convicted Sex Offender, 73, Gets 25 Years for Molesting 5-Year-Old Girl at USD Church (timesofsandiego.com)
FBI arrests redheaded cosplayer dubbed 'Conan O'Riot' by Jan. 6 sleuths (www.nbcnews.com)
An alleged Jan. 6 participant who online sleuths dubbed “Conan O’Riot” due to his resemblance to former late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien was arrested by the FBI this week....
How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits (www.propublica.org)
A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives. But its development slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines....
Pope urges rich world to make profound changes to tackle climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
John Zitzner, Founder of Breakthrough Charter Schools, Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting (www.clevescene.com)
Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard (apnews.com)
Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a rail yard originally owned by Southern Pacific and later bought by Union Pacific near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The wood preservative creosote, which has been associated with an...