Study bolsters evidence that severe obesity increasing in young US kids (apnews.com)
A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children....
Southwest Airlines reaches $140 million settlement for December 2022 flight-canceling meltdown (apnews.com)
Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million agreement to settle a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of flights and stranded more than 2 million travelers over the holidays....
Some Trump fake electors from 2020 haven't faded away. They have roles in how the 2024 race is run (apnews.com)
Hindle was another replacement in what was a revolving door of county election officials across Nevada as the 2022 midterms approached. He had just unseated the interim clerk, who had stepped in after the prior clerk resigned....
36 days at sea: How these castaways survived hallucinations, thirst and desperation (apnews.com)
** This is the problem …...
Storm slams East Coast with wind-swept rain flooding streets, delaying travel (www.usatoday.com)
An intense storm system battered the Northeast with torrential rains and fierce winds on Monday, snarling traffic, delaying flights and knocking out power across the region....
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound (web.archive.org)
or ‘Billionaire Haole Builds Underground Apocalypse Bunker On Island Chain Where Locals Find It Increasingly Difficult To Stay’...
Federal agency quashes Georgia's plan to let pharmacies sell medical marijuana (www.seattletimes.com)
Federal drug officials are warning Georgia to shelve its plans to be the first state to allow pharmacies to dispense medical marijuana products....
Ukrainian troops face artillery shortages, scale back some operations - commander (www.reuters.com)
Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi was speaking after Republican lawmakers held up a $60-billion U.S. aid package and Hungary blocked 50 billion euros ($54.5 billion) in European Union funding for Kyiv as it battles Russia’s invasion....
Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them (www.cnn.com)
Greyhound bus terminals are rapidly closing around the country, causing access problems for low-income riders.
Al Jazeera: People Buried Alive at Gaza Hospital (www.aljazeera.com)
‘Poisoning the blood of our country’: Trump delivers caustic attack on immigrants (www.politico.com)
Ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare, research suggests (www.bbc.com)
Parents whose baby died before or shortly after birth believed their ethnicity led to worse care.
What to do about disinformation (www.ft.com)
In the digital age, the echoes of truth and falsehood reverberate with increasing intensity. Each click, share and retweet amplifies narratives, shaping perceptions and moulding realities. Yet amid this cacophony of voices, some pressing questions emerge. Whose narrative do we trust? And at what cost?...
Oil major BP becomes latest to pause Red Sea shipments as Houthi attacks continue (www.cnbc.com)
BP has become the latest firm to pause travel through the Suez Canal following a series of attacks on vessels by Houthi militants from Yemen....
Flooding drives millions to move as climate-driven migration patterns emerge (apnews.com)
In the first two decades of the 21st century, the threat of flooding convinced more than 7 million people to avoid risky areas or abandon places that were risky, according to a paper Monday in the journal Nature Communications and research by the risk analysis organization First Street Foundation....
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don't Warn Residents (www.scientificamerican.com)
Staggering amounts of toxic “forever chemicals” have been found in freshwater fish, but there is no federal guidance on what is a safe amount to eat...
Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule (www.kut.org)
Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market....
IDF conducts operation in Hamas-controlled hospital, apprehends 90 terrorists (www.i24news.tv)
Hospital workers confessed to concealing weapons in incubators in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a space intended for treating premature babies....
Biden campaign: Trump ‘parroted Adolf Hitler’ in remarks targeting immigrants (www.politico.com)
The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art to return more than a dozen ancient artworks following alleged links to looted art (www.cnn.com)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen Southeast Asian sculptures after they were linked to a late art dealer accused of trafficking artifacts looted from the region, according to the museum and the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York....
Alex Jones proposes $55 million legal debt settlement to Sandy Hook families (www.cbsnews.com)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax....
More boomers are staying in their jobs instead of retiring. They’re working longer hours and making more money, new Pew data finds (finance.yahoo.com)
The graying of the American workforce continues: Baby boomers are working longer and earning more than their predecessors did in what Americans typically think of as retirement years, new research finds....
Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest (apnews.com)
Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence....
Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them (us.cnn.com)
(European) Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers....
