Venmo and other payment app theft is ‘skyrocketing,’ Manhattan DA warns | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Can Mississippi permanently strip felons of voting rights? 19 federal judges will hear the case (apnews.com)
Nineteen federal appellate judges are scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Mississippi can continue to permanently strip voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes for which they have served a complete sentence....
Riot Games to lay off 530 workers amid broader gaming industry cuts (www.latimes.com)
Los Angeles-based video game giant Riot Games announced Monday it would lay off 530 workers, cuts that amount to roughly 11% of the company’s global workforce....
Libs of TikTok Fueled Bomb Threats at Oklahoma Schools. The Superintendent Just Hired Her (www.rollingstone.com)
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters has tapped Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik to serve on the state’s Education Library Media Advisory Committee.
Libs of TikTok creator accused of inspiring school bomb threats named to Oklahoma library board (www.nbcnews.com)
Chaya Raichik, who runs the inflammatory Libs of TikTok social media account, was named an adviser to the state Education Department’s library committee....
Suspect dead in Texas after 8 people are killed at 3 locations in Joliet, Illinois (www.cbsnews.com)
Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity' (themessenger.com)
A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Too many of the potential jurors said that even if the defendant, Elisa Meadows, was guilty, they were unwilling to issue the $500 fine a city attorney was seeking, said Ren Rideauxx, Meadows' attorney.
NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing (nypost.com)
A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.
California eases COVID protocols, mild cases no longer warrant isolation: State health department (abc7.com)
Turkey approves Sweden’s NATO bid (www.politico.eu)
Now action moves to Hungary, which is the last holdout on the Swedish application....
Mexico demands investigation into U.S. military-grade weapons being used by drug cartels (www.pbs.org)
Mexico wants an urgent investigation into how U.S. military-grade weapons are increasingly being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, Mexico’s top diplomat said Monday....
Chinese music student faces US trial for alleged threats to activist (news.yahoo.com)
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Chinese music student went on trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and threatened to report her activities to Chinese law enforcement....
New Mexico governor proposes $500M to treat fracking wastewater (apnews.com)
Environmental activists pushed back Monday against an initiative from the governor of New Mexico that would finance the treatment and recycling of oil-industry wastewater, warning that the plan relies on unproven technologies and might propel more water-intensive fracking for oil and natural gas....
Woman arrested after police found $2,500 worth of Stanley cups in her car (www.nbcnews.com)
The craze for Stanley stainless steel drinking cups reached new levels last week when a woman was arrested and accused of stealing 65 of them, worth almost $2,500, from a store in California....
‘It’s embarrassing’: Republicans worry they have no achievements to run on in 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, has openly questioned whether the GOP deserves to keep the House majority, lamenting the lack of accomplishments this Congress. He’s not alone....
The Buy Now, Pay Later holiday debt hangover has arrived, as consumers wonder how they'll pay bills (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border (apnews.com)
New York City plans to wipe out $2 billion in medical debt for 500,000 residents (apnews.com)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents.
HPV vaccine stops women in Scotland from getting cervical cancer, study finds (news.stv.tv)
No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.
Carriers sneak life-saving drugs over border as Mexico battles opioid deaths (www.theguardian.com)
People forced to bring overdose-reversal drug naloxone from US, as critics accuse Mexican government of creating shortage...
The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court allows Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire installed by Texas at Mexico border (www.nbcnews.com)
"The brief order noted that four conservative members of the nine-justice court would have rejected the government’s request. They were Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh....
A Texas company is suing Chicago after the city began penalizing buses that drop off migrants (apnews.com)
A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to federal court, ratcheting up a legal battle over the migrant crisis that’s left U.S. cities struggling...
E. Jean Carroll trial paused over Trump lawyer’s COVID exposure (thehill.com)
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against former President Trump was postponed on Monday after a juror and one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill...