Police-involved shootings require more transparency, not less (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/harden-sjc-fall-river-police-sh…...
Candidate for Santos' old seat is convicted on Jan. 6 charges after testifying he had 'no idea' Congress met in the Capitol (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawsuit accuses NCAA of antitrust violation in college athlete transfer rule (apnews.com)
A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law....
Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban (apnews.com)
Inside an alleged Amazon union-busting campaign in Kentucky: 'They want to scare us' (abcnews.go.com)
We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees | The Narwhal (thenarwhal.ca)
Petryshen, who works for the conservation group Wildsight, is on a detective mission of sorts. He’s about to bushwhack into the Nagle Creek Valley, 150 kilometres north of Revelstoke, B.C., to ground-truth provincial government logging maps he obtained in May. The maps outline the government’s plans for new clearcuts in the...
Hundreds of Jewish organization staffers call for White House to back Gaza cease-fire (www.nbcnews.com)
McDonald's plans to start selling bigger burgers (www.businessinsider.com)
Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices (www.cnbc.com)
The Biden administration on Thursday asserted its authority to seize the patents of certain costly medications in a new push to slash high drug prices and promote more pharmaceutical competition....
House Republicans censure Jamaal Bowman over fire alarm (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana's prison population sees troubling growth in latest DOJ report (www.wwno.org)
Archived at wwno.org/…/louisianas-prison-population-sees-trou…
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds (www.reuters.com)
FTC urges US appeals court to reject Microsoft-Activision merger (edition.cnn.com)
Wisconsin judge rules 1849 law doesn’t outlaw abortion (thehill.com)
A Wisconsin circuit court judge has ruled that an 1849 law that classifies the destruction of a fetus by someone other than the mother as a felony does not outlaw abortions, returning the state’s abortion access to its pre-Dobbs status....
UNLV gunman was unemployed professor who had 150 rounds of ammunition and a target list, police say (apnews.com)
After police killed him in a shootout, Anthony Polito was found to be carrying nine magazines for a 9mm handgun he’d legally purchased last year.
Judge says Texas woman may abort fetus with lethal abnormality (www.texastribune.org)
Facebook and Instagram content enabled child sexual abuse, trafficking: New Mexico lawsuit (www.cnbc.com)
Meta enabled child sexual abuse, served up explicit content, and failed to disrupt trafficking on its platforms, New Mexico's attorney general said in a suit.
A veteran economist just echoed Elon Musk and Michael Burry's warning that Americans are drowning in credit-card debt - and he says the economy will pay the price (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Meet the "magic" mushroom shop salesman hoping to demolish Canada's war on drugs (www.salon.com)
A Chinese military surveillance balloon is spotted in Taiwan Strait, island's Defense Ministry says (apnews.com)
Screaming children to amputations: Inside a southern Gaza hospital (www.independent.co.uk)
As Israel expands its ground assault into Khan Younis, a surgeon at the European Hospital in the city describes desperately trying to treat a relentless stream of wounded children as critical supplies run out
Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies (www.theguardian.com)
Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online
Millions of People Used Tainted Breathing Machines. The FDA Failed to Use Its Power to Protect Them. (www.propublica.org)
In 2021, after Philips Respironics sold millions of defective medical devices to those who struggle to breathe, the federal agency charged with protecting the health of the American public swept in....
High-speed rail project bridging Las Vegas and LA receives $3bn in US aid (www.theguardian.com)
The complete cost is estimated to be $12bn and is expected to be completed before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics...
The World Got Failing Grades on Climate Action. Here’s How COP28 Aims to Fix That (www.scientificamerican.com)
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