Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
DC bar authorities file disciplinary charges against pro-Trump 2020 election lawyers (www.politico.com)
Washington, D.C., bar investigators have filed disciplinary charges against three lawyers who aided Donald Trump ally Sidney Powell’s campaign to mount discredited legal challenges to the 2020 election results....
Sources: Alabama death row left without heat for weeks, despite complaints (www.alreporter.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/death-row-allegedly-left-withou…
Names of police who use deadly force could be shielded under proposed Florida law (www.tampabay.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/police-marsys-law-victims-name-…
Prosecutors arrest flight attendant on suspicion of trying to record teen girl in airplane bathroom (apnews.com)
Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September....
Walmart pay raise: Store managers, hourly workers to get wage increase, restructure store manager bonuses (www.axios.com)
'I’m not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion (kffhealthnews.org)
Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom....
Justice Department report into Uvalde school shooting expected this week (apnews.com)
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is planning this week to release findings of an investigation into law enforcement’s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were killed....
Antifungals are going the way of antibiotics—overused, hitting resistance (arstechnica.com)
Crime Scene DNA Didn’t Match Marcellus Williams. Missouri May Fast-Track His Execution Anyway. (theintercept.com)
FELICIA ANNE GAYLE PICUS was found dead in her home, the victim of a vicious murder that devastated her family and rattled her neighbors in the gated community of University City, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. Police suspected a burglary gone wrong. The scene was replete with forensic evidence: There were bloody footprints...
Jordan police beat up illegally retained Indians who were protesting ,One hundred and twenty Indians who have been illegally retained in Jordan by their employer were holding peaceful protests outside (www.thenewsminute.com)
Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up (www.politico.eu)
Education Department to roll out another pathway to student loan debt relief in February (abcnews.go.com)
The Biden Administration is rolling out another pathway to debt relief for certain student loan borrowers next month....
New recording shows NRA treasurer plotting to conceal extravagant expenses involving Wayne LaPierre (www.thetrace.org)
Secret audio obtained by The Trace and ProPublica reveals executives from the gun group and its PR firm hatching a plan that would conceal payments for fancy hotels, limousines, and other luxury expenses for a decade....
‘We don’t have a say’: workers join push to unionize flagship Volkswagen plant (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. deficit tops half a trillion dollars in the first quarter of fiscal year (www.cnbc.com)
Israel lashes back at ICJ genocide case; Gazans return to wasteland (www.reuters.com)
Israel faced down accusations at the World Court on Thursday of genocide in its war in Gaza, as the first residents returned to scenes of total devastation in the north of the enclave where Israeli forces have begun withdrawing this week....
GOP-led House Judiciary Committee advances contempt of Congress resolution for Hunter Biden (www.cbsnews.com)
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee advanced Wednesday a resolution recommending Hunter Biden be held in criminal contempt of Congress, sending the matter to the full House amid heightened tensions arising from the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden....
Push to Create Permanent Chicago Police Oversight Board Begins (news.wttw.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/push-create-permanent-chicago-p…
Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Young Texas Woman Her Life? (www.newyorker.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/abortion-high-risk-pregnancy-ye…
Israel to tell Blinken Palestinians can't return to north Gaza without hostage deal (www.axios.com)
Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said....
Illinois Apartment Buildings Board Up Units Over ‘Imminent Safety Risk’ — With People Still Inside, Tenants Claim (themessenger.com)
East Coast land continues to collapse at a worrying rate (arstechnica.com)
It’s steadily sinking or subsiding, which is destabilizing levees, roads, and airports....
American Unions Long Backed Israel. Now, Some Are Protesting It. (www.nytimes.com)
For decades, the most prominent American unions were largely supportive of Israel. Today, though, amid a resurgence of the American labor movement, some activists are urging their unions to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and succeeding — a change that reflects a broader generational shift....
