New Study Finds Subsidizing Transit Actually Makes It More Efficient (usa.streetsblog.org)
U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court for collusion (www.cnbc.com)
New York vigilantes take down ‘migrant’ on live TV – but he was from the US (www.theguardian.com)
Trump Pardon Recipient Fined $20 Million in Predatory Lending Case (www.nytimes.com)
Jonathan Braun, whose sentence for drug smuggling was commuted in the final hours of the Trump presidency, was fined over separate accusations that he bilked and threatened borrowers....
Former Marion police chief had ‘pizza party’ after raid, turned off body cam, new lawsuit says - Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/8358951...
North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine (apnews.com)
Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign....
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
In key election year, prisoners with felonies seek right to vote in Massachusetts (www.wgbh.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/in-key-election-year-prisoners-…
Current and former DHS officials grumble about Biden's talk of shutting down the border (www.nbcnews.com)
One of the two former officials said Biden is sending a political message but not one that is based in logistical reality....
U.S. Will Pay to Add Solar Panels to Hospitals, Schools After Disasters (www.nytimes.com)
The federal government plans to reimburse state and local governments that rebuild damaged public buildings to be more energy resilient....
US disabled Chinese hacking network targeting critical infrastructure, sources say (news.yahoo.com)
Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter....
Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success (www.psypost.org)
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (apnews.com)
A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison....
US convicts Russian man who flew to LA without passport (www.bbc.com)
Climate activists throw soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa as farmers’ protests continue (apnews.com)
Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. This came amid protests by French farmers against several issues, including low wages....
Russian man who flew on Los Angeles flight without passport or ticket found guilty of being stowaway (apnews.com)
A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket is guilty of being a stowaway on an aircraft, a federal jury found Friday....
US 'planning to move nuclear weapons to Suffolk RAF base' (news.sky.com)
Top UN court says Israel must take ‘all measures’ to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of calling for ceasefire (www.cnn.com)
The UN’s top court ordered Israel to “take all measures” to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for Israel to suspend its military campaign in the war-torn enclave....
Supreme Court rejects Alabama death row inmate's lethal gas claim (www.nbcnews.com)
Mother of disabled girl who was allegedly raped in Starbucks bathroom sues company, school district (apnews.com)
The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Starbucks, Pittsburgh Public Schools and a property management company of negligence....
Colorado pastor accused of pocketing $1.3M in crypto scheme says 'Lord told us to' (www.nbcnews.com)
New York City plans to wipe out $2 billion in medical debt for 500,000 residents (apnews.com)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents.
DNA proves a long-dead man attacked 3 girls in Indiana nearly 50 years ago, police say (apnews.com)
A man who died in a Texas prison decades ago has been identified as the person who abducted and stabbed three Indiana girls and left them in a cornfield nearly 50 years ago, police said, citing DNA evidence....
Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona's Sonoran Desert monument (apnews.com)
Father of American teen killed in West Bank by Israeli fire rails against US support for Israel (apnews.com)
The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank has railed against Washington’s military support for Israel.
