A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages (www.nytimes.com)
DeSantis won't condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. 'I did not see the comment,' he says (apnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform....
K-12 schools improve protection against online attacks, but many are vulnerable to ransomware gangs (apnews.com)
Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
Congressional leaders are aiming to pass Ukraine and Israel supplemental aid before Christmas (www.nbcnews.com)
If Congress fails to move before the end of the year, Senate sources say, the chances of getting the entire plan over the finish line reduce dramatically....
An orphaned teenager who was taken to Russia early in the Ukraine war is back home with relatives (apnews.com)
Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, confirmed that Yermokhin had arrived back in Ukraine and shared a photo of him with a Ukrainian flag. Yermak thanked UNICEF and Qatari negotiators for facilitating Yermokhin’s return....
School district and The Satanic Temple reach agreement in lawsuit over After School Satan Club (apnews.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Saucon Valley School District had agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney’s fees and to provide The Satanic Temple and the After School Satan Club it sponsors the same access to school facilities as is provided to other organizations....
In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns (deadline.com)
Extreme weather can hit farmers hard. Those with smaller farming operations often pay the price (apnews.com)
Ukraine sacks top cyber defence officials amid graft probe (www.reuters.com)
Zelenskiy’s not taking prisoners and I wish every gov’t operated the same way.
The Fifth Circuit Will Soon Be the New NLRB (onlabor.org)
Amazon warns workers who don’t return to the office will have a harder time getting promoted (www.cnn.com)
Amazon is once again doubling down on its return-to-office mandate, warning staff that not complying could impact their chances of being promoted....
Jimmy Carter Calls Late Wife Rosalynn His 'Equal Partner in Everything' After Her Death at 96 (people.com)
Stocks and your 401(k) may surge now that Fed rate hikes seem to be over, history shows (www.usatoday.com)
News this week that inflation eased more than expected in October solidified the view that the Federal Reserve is done with its most aggressive rate-hike campaign in four decades....
With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies (www.nbcnews.com)
At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years....
Trump heads to US-Mexico border as he escalates anti-immigrant rhetoric (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to give a speech Sunday in Texas near the US-Mexico border as he escalates his anti-immigrant rhetoric and campaigns on hard-line immigration policy proposals....
Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence (www.theguardian.com)
Michael Zacharias’s victims said the priest waited until they began abusing drugs before he sexually trafficked them...
Oregon's first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law faces growing pushback amid fentanyl crisis (apnews.com)
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation of fentanyl and a surge in deaths...
Argentina Takes Leap Into Unknown With Javier Milei as President (www.bloomberg.com)
Sacked OpenAI boss Sam Altman to join Microsoft - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Israeli rightists are trying to reframe a Gaza population transfer as a 'moral act' (www.haaretz.com)
The idea of expelling Arabs to other countries was once linked to Meir Kahane and other far-right radicals, and thus considered anathema by most Israelis. Now, to the delight of right-wingers, the idea is gaining traction as a ‘moral' solution to the war.
Child Welfare Officials Have Searched Her Home and Her Son Dozens of Times. She’s Suing Them to Stop. (www.propublica.org)
The allegations against L.B., made by an anonymous caller at 4:45 a.m. that day, were false. These included that she was a stripper (she worked at a home for people with disabilities); that she used drugs (none were found, and a drug test was negative for all substances); and that an abusive man lived with her and that she owned...
Indian capital resumes some activities despite hazardous air, river foam (www.reuters.com)
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Israeli Government Spokesperson holds WHO complicit with Hamas’ human shield strategy (x.com)
Eylon Levi, an Israeli government spokesperson, tweeted today: “We hold the WHO complicit with Hamas’ human shield strategy and any loss of life from its gross negligence.”