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New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with climate change (apnews.com)

Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston....

Woman killed hours after Rio Rancho police respond to her home (www.koat.com)

Woman calls the police saying she thinks her caregiver is going to kill her and to get her out, the cops come, complement her caregiver’s weapons, and leave; hours later, the caregiver kills her.

‘Impossible’: Panic as Israel orders Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate (www.aljazeera.com)

Thousands of displaced people and patients, many in critical condition, do not have ambulances or a means to move.

He’s correctly predicting the US’s most critical elections. He’s still in college (www.theguardian.com)

Nuttycombe runs the forecasting site cnalysis.com, and these little-known legislative races are his expertise. While the science of forecasting presidential, gubernatorial, congressional and senatorial races has exploded in recent years, Nuttycombe is one of the only forecasters focused on the 7,383 state legislative districts...

Postal worker among 3 charged in $24 million stolen check scheme, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)

A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors said....

[crosspost from kbin] violence disrupts election in papua new guinea’s enga province (kbin.social)

https://kbin.social/m/politics/t/638672

In Wisconsin, The Ability to Read May No Longer Be a Requirement for Teachers (www.esquire.com)

What could go wrong?

China's "predatory" trawler fleet and the fishing industry's dirty secret (www.newsweek.com)

South Dakota tribe to declare state of emergency due to rampant crime on reservation (apnews.com)

WHO says Gaza's Shifa hospital a 'death zone,' urges evacuation (www.japantimes.co.jp)

The World Health Organization said Sunday it had led an assessment mission to Shifa hospital in Gaza City and determined it was a "death zone," urging a full evacuation.

Mike Johnson to publicly release 44,000 hours of sensitive January 6 footage (www.theguardian.com)

US House speaker to make good on promise to far-right Republicans including Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump

WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’ (www.theguardian.com)

Patients and staff leave Gaza's biggest hospital, and dozens are killed at a crowded refugee camp (apnews.com)

“We left at gunpoint,” Mahmoud Abu Auf told The Associated Press by phone after he and his family left the crowded hospital. “Tanks and snipers were everywhere inside and outside.” He said he saw Israeli forces detain three men....

These Evangelicals Are Cheering the Gaza War as the End of the World (www.rollingstone.com)

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)

Altman is “ambivalent” and wants governance changes.

Elon Musk May Have Just Signed X’s Death Warrant (www.wired.com)

US lawmakers urge scrutiny of SpaceX worker injuries after Reuters report (www.reuters.com)

Cassie Says Diddy Threatened To Blow Up Kid Cudi’s Car Before It Exploded In His Driveway (www.huffpost.com)

The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu (www.vox.com)

Last year, I wrote a great deal about the rise of “ventilation shutdown plus” (VSD+), a method being used to mass kill poultry birds on factory farms by sealing off the airflow inside barns and pumping in extreme heat using industrial-scale heaters, so that the animals die of heatstroke over the course of hours. It is one of...

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