Health care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike (theconversation.com)
Army private who fled to North Korea charged with desertion, held by US military, officials tell AP (apnews.com)
An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States last month has been detained by the U.S. military, two officials said Thursday night, and is facing charges including desertion and possessing sexual images of a child.
BBC News: Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of 'additional facts'
BBC News - Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of ‘additional facts’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67141319
RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here's who gets hurt by Kennedy's work (apnews.com)
Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people....
Palestinians fleeing to the south find no escape from danger (www.reuters.com)
If paywalled, read here instead: bdnews24.com/world/middle-east/v77h2g1dym...
X illegally fired worker over return to office protest, US labor agency says (www.cnn.com)
Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board....
Domestic Violence Murders in Texas Are Going Up (www.texasobserver.org)
The [Texas Council on Family Violence] tracked and analyzed hundreds of homicides from 2022 (PDF) and found it the second-highest number on record in the past 10 years, an 8 percent increase since 2021. The 216 victims included 179 women and 37 men, 17 people who were pregnant or had recently given birth, 19 teens and young...
Head of Exxon's shale oil business faces sexual assault charge in Texas (www.reuters.com)
The head of Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N) shale oil and gas business, a unit involved in merger talks with rival Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD.N), was arrested at a Texas hotel last week on a sexual assault charge, police said....
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions (apnews.com)
Large businesses in California will have to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday — the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation....
Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere (grist.org)
The state’s decision will do little to solve a water shortage largely driven by irrigated agriculture....
US economy added 336,000 jobs in September surpassing expectations (www.theguardian.com)
The US workforce added 336,000 jobs last month, much more than expected, as the world’s largest economy remained resilient in the face of higher interest rates....
Health care strike over pay and staff shortages heads into final day with no deal in sight (apnews.com)
A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages headed into its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week....
They paid thousands to give up their U.S. citizenship. Now they want a refund (www.nbcnews.com)
Many “accidental Americans” filed a lawsuit after the State Department announced it would lower the fee to renounce citizenship.
80% of Gen Z and millennial workers report being stressed out—and three-quarters of them are looking to their employers for help (fortune.com)
Trump reaped over $100 million through fraud, New York says as trial starts (www.reuters.com)
A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire....
Biden signs bill to keep government funded and avoid shutdown (thehill.com)
President Biden on Saturday night signed a stopgap funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown right before the midnight deadline....
IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn accused of disclosing Trump's tax returns (www.cbsnews.com)
A former contractor who worked with the Internal Revenue Service until 2021 was accused of disclosing tax return information of a high-ranking government official and “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people” without authorization, according to criminal information filed Friday in Washington, D.C....
In Los Angeles' Men’s Central Jail, fires are common, smoke alarms are not: Smells 'like a campfire' (www.latimes.com)
Men who’ve spent time in the 60-year-old downtown Los Angeles lockup say inmates are given cold food every day of the week — so sometimes they start blazes to heat it or cook their own. Other times, they use clandestine fires to warm their coffee, light contraband cigarettes or drugs, create jailhouse air freshener or just...
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
A baby and a dog died after being left in a car for about six hours, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida law restricting transgender adult care can be enforced while challenged in court (apnews.com)
A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court, a federal judge ruled Monday....
Spain's soccer chief Luis Rubiales quits in kiss scandal (www.reuters.com)
Rubiales announced his resignation in a statement in which he said his position had become untenable, with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) later confirming he had sent a resignation letter to acting president Pedro Rocha....
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water (apnews.com)
But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how to mimic human writing....