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Former Marine pleads guilty in California Planned Parenthood firebomb attack (www.nbcnews.com)

A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said....

Chicago homeless migrants shelter faces backlash (www.reuters.com)

Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this week huddled near tents wearing parkas, knit hats and even ski goggles to cope with the cold weather and falling snow....

Social media posts Trump claimed were made by judge's wife were not made by her, court says (www.cbsnews.com)

Social media posts that former President Donald Trump claimed were made by the wife of the judge in his New York fraud trial were not made by her, a court spokesperson said....

US$280 in China, US$8,892 in the US: new Chinese cancer drug gets FDA approval (www.scmp.com)

Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.

Study: Current Biodiversity Loss Outpacing the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event Over 252 Million Years Ago (medium.com)

Medium.com

Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year (www.texastribune.org)

Wells Fargo accused of not paying overtime at shortstaffed US branches (www.reuters.com)

Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments (www.nytimes.com)

Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago (www.nytimes.com)

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out....

City Council in Portland, Oregon, approves $2.6M for police body cameras (apnews.com)

The City Council in Portland, Oregon, approved $2.6 million for permanent police body cameras in a unanimous vote, a crucial step toward the city no longer being among the last major U.S. police agencies without the technology....

US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power (www.reuters.com)

Montana’s TikTok ban blocked by federal judge (arstechnica.com)

Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on TikTok blocked by judge who says it's unconstitutional (apnews.com)

Julianna Margulies Says ‘Entire Black Community’ May Have Been ‘Brainwashed to Hate Jews’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

“As someone who plays a lesbian journalist on ‘The Morning Show,’ I am more offended by it as a lesbian than I am as a Jew,” the actress said at another point in a new interview.

Rugby concussion: Wales' Henson and Charvis named in lawsuit (www.bbc.co.uk)

They’re suing over brain injuries

DNC Senator Dick Durbin blocks subpoena of Epstein Flight Logs. (www.blackburn.senate.gov)

Ajit Pai Elected To Public Television Board Of Trustees (indiawest.com)

Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm....

'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap (finance.yahoo.com)

Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country (www.theguardian.com)

A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of understanding with representatives of a fugitive Indian guru’s fictional country, who also appear to have duped several other officials in the South American country....

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