Elderly man facing homelessness after Social Security orders $60,000 repayment (local12.com)
PECULIAR, Mo. (KCTV/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - An elderly man is facing homelessness after Social Security ordered him to repay over $60,000.
Kansas School Demands Eight-Year-Old Native American Student Cut Hair to Attend (nativenewsonline.net)
School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU)....
New York calls PepsiCo's plastic pollution a 'public nuisance' in first-of-its-kind lawsuit (grist.org)
The company’s packaging was found to be the most significant contributor to plastic waste clogging the Buffalo River....
Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border (www.nytimes.com)
The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China....
Harvard under fire for helping elite skip the queue (www.bbc.com)
Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.
Colorado Hospital Finally Admits to Cutting Lakota Elder’s Hair Without His Permission (nativenewsonline.net)
The UC Health Hospital in Aurora, Colorado on Friday finally admitted that a hospital staff member cut the hair of a 65-year-old Lakota elder Arthur Janis, without his or his family’s permission....
Accuser who previously claimed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped filing lawsuit (www.cnn.com)
CNN —...
Exposure to widely used insecticides decreases sperm concentration, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Study’s author says ‘we need to reduce exposure in order to ensure men who want to conceive are able to without interference’
More salmonella cases, two deaths reported as cantaloupe recall expands (www.cnn.com)
Two people are dead and at least 99 have become ill in a salmonella outbreak tied to contaminated cantaloupes and cut fruit, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday....
Russia launches biggest drone attack against Kyiv since start of war, Ukrainian officials say (www.cnn.com)
Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — Russia on Saturday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv since the start of its invasion, according to local officials.
State suspends license of former prosecutor convicted of sex crimes (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
The state of Iowa has suspended the law license of a former county prosecutor who pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving children.
'I thought climate change was a hoax. Now I've changed my mind' (www.bbc.com)
I spent years doubting the science of climate change and spending time with people who didn’t believe in the science either....
'Biggest Ever Global Strike Against Amazon' Kicks Off on Black Friday (www.commondreams.org)
Israel says Hamas ceasefire violated after 15 minutes (www.newsweek.com)
Friday’s pause in the fighting comes after several weeks of tough negotiations between Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar. It is the first significant break in combat since the Hamas infiltration attack into southern Israel on October 7, which killed some 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken back into the Gaza Strip as...
NPR: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows half the country has shifted (www.npr.org)
A newly updated government map has many of the nation’s gardeners rushing online, Googling what new plants they can grow in their mostly warming regions.
California jogger charged over killing of homeless man blocking sidewalk (www.theguardian.com)
Craig Sumner Elliott, 68, allegedly shot Antonio Garcia Avalos, 40, in incident in Orange county...
Courts Strike Down Gun Control Measures in Two States (www.nytimes.com)
The rulings in Maryland and Oregon come amid a shifting legal landscape in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that has imposed new limits on gun regulation....
Kenya’s Ogiek people fight on against eviction from Mau Forest (www.aljazeera.com)
The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths (www.bloomberg.com)
In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.
More Americans are expected to 'buy now, pay later' for the holidays. Analysts see a growing risk (apnews.com)
Human Rights Watch Under Fire For Allegedly Accepting Millions In Qatar Funds (www.i24news.tv)
In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East....
Alabama priest who fled to Italy with teen he later married is expected to be defrocked (www.nbcnews.com)
State records show that a suspended Alabama priest recently married the 18-year-old woman he fled to Italy with this summer, and an archbishop said Wednesday that he expects the Vatican to pursue the man’s official dismissal from the priesthood....
Israel's Palestinian prisoner release a 'window of hope' in West Bank (www.bbc.com)
The return of 39 women and teenagers is being seen by some as a symbolic victory over Israel.
"Super pigs" — called the "most invasive animal on the planet" — threaten to invade northern U.S. (www.cbsnews.com)
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion....
Ohio voters just passed abortion protections. Whether they take effect is now up to the courts (apnews.com)
Ohio’s new constitutional projections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. That prospect seems increasingly uncertain....
