North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" (popular.info)
11-year-old boy to stand trial for mother's murder, motive suspected to be VR headset (abcnews.go.com)
An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of murdering his mother has been ordered to stand trial....
Conservative groups sue to block Biden plan canceling $39 billion in student loans (apnews.com)
Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers.
‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by LA County Sheriff's deputy during stop (web.archive.org)
Elon Says He's Giving Trump PAC $45 Million… Per Month: Report (www.rollingstone.com)
Trump rally: Witness says he saw gunman minutes before shots fired (www.bbc.com)
Trump seeks to distance himself from pro-Trump Project 2025 | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals....
Joe Biden's chances of winning election plummet after debate (www.newsweek.com)
Supreme Court Will Rule On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors (www.forbes.com)
OceanGate co-founder organising trip to one of world’s deepest sinkholes a year after Titan disaster (www.independent.co.uk)
Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/biden-immigration-border-crackd…
Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border (www.theguardian.com)
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems...
Bodycam Videos Show Mom Begging ‘Please Don’t Shoot’ as Cops Shoot Son During Mental Health Crisis (www.thedailybeast.com)
Israel fears ICC will issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and other top officials (www.nbcnews.com)
Tesla driver was using Autopilot before fatal Monroe crash, police say (www.seattletimes.com)
A 56-year-old Snohomish man had set his Tesla Model S on Autopilot and was looking at his cellphone on Friday when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in front of him in Monroe, court records show....
Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives (apnews.com)
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex....
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts (www.theguardian.com)
Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers...
Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries (newatlas.com)
Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in the UK are not great either. A new study has examined what’s caused this rise in the death rates of these two cultural...
Andrew Tate's arrest prompted by livestreamer who said Tate was leaving Romania, law firm says (www.nbcnews.com)
Influencer Adin Ross said he had one last chance to record content with Andrew Tate. A law firm says the comment tipped off U.K. authorities....
First Misogynist Incel Sentenced on Federal Hate Crime Charges (www.splcenter.org)
A Florida high school required parents' permission for students to watch Disney's 'Tangled,' prompting some to say local education laws are 'out of control' (www.businessinsider.com)
One parent said the influx of permission slips is getting "out of control" and "burdensome."
Boeing 747 makes emergency landing in Florida after ‘engine malfunction’ (www.theguardian.com)
A Boeing cargo airliner made an emergency landing in Florida on Thursday night after what its operator called “an engine malfunction” occurred shortly after takeoff, in the latest setback for the beleaguered company. A gaping hole where a paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on...
Holocaust memorial vandalised with swastika graffiti (www.independent.co.uk)
A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia...
Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday....
