China denies accusations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom in Tibet (apnews.com)
Texas Couple Allegedly Conned Black Community To The Tune of $10 Million (www.theroot.com)
Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment (www.propublica.org)
Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman dies aged 95 (www.independent.co.uk)
In South America's Andes, a shrinking Lake Titicaca rings climate alarm bell (www.reuters.com)
Columbia suspends Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace (thehill.com)
Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)
In a dispute over a repair law, Subaru and Kia crippled their own wireless features in Massachusetts. Maine could be next.
Antisemitic Hate Crimes Soar in New York City (www.nytimes.com)
Several high-profile incidents are being investigated as hate crimes in New York, where anti-Jewish incidents more than tripled in October compared with last year.
Utah Therapist Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Abusing Patients During Sessions (www.propublica.org)
‘Aliens,’ or a foreign power? Pentagon UFO chief says someone is in our backyard (thehill.com)
This week, the director of the U.S. government’s UFO analysis office stated that there is “evidence” of concerning unidentified flying object activity “in our backyard.” According to physicist Seán Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, this alarming UFO activity can...
'They're clearing out the homeless people': San Francisco gets ready for arrival of world leaders (www.yahoo.com)
F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies (www.nytimes.com)
Spain rolled out a new animal welfare law. It has many contradictions (www.euronews.com)
Former Indiana legislator agrees to plead guilty to fraud in casino corruption scheme (apnews.com)
Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana lawmaker has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge alleging that he accepted promises of compensation from a casino company during his time in public office.
Israel-Gaza live news: Firing outside Gaza hospitals, with patients and staff trapped inside - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has now weighed in on the hospital situation in northern Gaza....
Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada (www.cbc.ca)
A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party’s border policies aren’t tough enough....
Big Ten suspends Michigan's [College Football Coach] Harbaugh through end of regular season (theathletic.com)
Reminds me of the Astros… Just a tiny slap on the wrist...
Prince Harry and Elton John can take case against Daily Mail publisher to trial (www.reuters.com)
Poverty in the State of Palestine set to soar by more than a third if war continues for a second month | United Nations Development Programme (www.undp.org)
If the war in Gaza continues for a second month the poverty rate in the State of Palestine will soar by 34 percent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plummets by 8.4 percent—a loss of US$1.7 billion—according to initial estimates by the United Nations...
Judge declines to push back Trump's classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines (apnews.com)
A federal judge in Florida on Friday declined to delay Donald Trump’s classified documents trial, calling a request by the former president’s defense lawyers to postpone the date “premature.” But she postponed other deadlines in the case and signaled that she would revisit the trial date later....
Honda Will Give Autoworkers 11% Raise Following UAW’s Big Wins (www.bloomberg.com)
Jan. 6 suspect Gregory Yetman surrenders to police after widespread manhunt, FBI says (abcnews.go.com)
Germany hiking group reported to police as illegal migrants (www.bbc.co.uk)
Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were "foreigners".
Clashes over Israel-Hamas war shatter students' sense of safety on US college campuses (apnews.com)
As a Jewish student, Eden Roth always has felt safe and welcome at Tulane University, where more than 40% of the students are Jewish. That has been tested by the aftermath of last month’s Hamas incursion into Israel....
Biden and Xi meeting set for next week as US hopes to halt downward spiral in relations (www.cnn.com)
President Biden’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping is set for next Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay Area, senior US administration officials said, setting up a test of whether the two men can slow a downward spiral in relations at a moment of heavy global turbulence....
