To tackle poverty, more states will offer bigger child tax credits in 2024 (www.npr.org)
Japan Airlines plane in flames on runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport (www.bbc.com)
Pictures show the aircraft on fire while it is travelling along the runway at the busy airport.
Menendez Faces a New Accusation: Aiding the Qatari Government (www.nytimes.com)
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey — already accused of using his political influence to benefit Egypt — was newly charged on Tuesday with using his power to help the government of Qatar....
Nearly 50 people suffer carbon monoxide poisoning at Mormon church in Utah (www.nbcnews.com)
Nearly 50 people who attended a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Utah were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, church officials said Monday....
The Union Density Rate Likely Increased in 2023. You Read That Right. (poweratwork.us)
More Than 6,700 Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled Over Possible E. Coli Contamination (themessenger.com)
Ground beef and ground beef patties affected by the recall were sent to distributors in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan...
Changes coming to US Postal Service prices in 2024 (thehill.com)
The price to ship your letters and packages is going up in the new year....
Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail (www.theverge.com)
The news hasn’t reported the cause, but it may be due to DRM.
They Were Wrongfully Convicted. Now They’re Denied Compensation Despite Michigan Law. (www.propublica.org)
Freedom, however, was frightening. Night after night, he awoke every 15 minutes or so, wrestling with the covers, wondering if he’d hallucinated it all. He kept the television on to remind himself he wasn’t in prison anymore. Its noise broke the first complete silence he’d experienced in half a lifetime, he said, which...
In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight (www.kuow.org)
When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities - and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it....
North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer (www.cbsnews.com)
Marine Corps veteran convicted of carrying tomahawk inside Capitol on Jan. 6 (www.wusa9.com)
These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection. They May Never Be the Same. (www.nytimes.com)
If you’re the creative type and you’re struggling to come up with your next idea, do not fear: some big works, including the original version of Mickey Mouse, are entering the public domain on Jan. 1 in the United States....
BYD is set to beat Tesla for a second straight year after producing more than 3 million cars in 2023 (www.cnbc.com)
BYD said Monday it produced more than 3 million new energy vehicles in 2023, putting the Chinese electric car giant on track to surpass Tesla’s production for a second straight year....
Hidden panels, counterfeit bottles, fentanyl: A year of buying drugs in Mexican pharmacies (www.latimes.com)
The tag on her white lab coat read “professional pharmacist,” and the framed health and safety certificates lining the walls behind her gave the drugstore an air of legitimacy....
New York AG case against NRA leader faces trial after court again rejects gun group's claim of political probe (www.foxnews.com)
More Americans can now get insulin for $35 (www.cnn.com)
More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024....
Uttar Pradesh: Dalit teen cooked alive for protesting against molestation (www.telegraphindia.com)
Russia Hammers Kyiv With Missiles in Large-Scale Attack (www.nytimes.com)
Russian missiles and drones hammered Kyiv on Tuesday morning, officials said, in a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian capital and other cities that killed at least five people and injured nearly 130 others, a day after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia promised to retaliate for a Ukrainian assault on a Russian city....
Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast (apnews.com)
An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said....
North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer (www.cbsnews.com)
More EVs lose US tax credits including Tesla, Nissan, GM vehicles (finance.yahoo.com)
Many electric vehicles lost eligibility for tax credits of up to $7,500 after new battery sourcing rules took effect on Monday, including the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive, some Tesla Model 3s and Chevrolet Blazer EV, the U.S. Treasury said....
Child Care Gaps in Rural America Threaten to Undercut Small Communities (kffhealthnews.org)
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana....
Ex-gang leader makes his bid in Las Vegas court for house arrest before trial in Tupac Shakur case (apnews.com)
A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas plans to ask a judge on Tuesday to release him to house arrest ahead of the trial in June....