mRNA vaccine use should be stopped, controversial Florida Surgeon General tells FDA, CDC (themessenger.com)
Florida’s firebrand surgeon general is calling for use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be stopped....
Armed man breaks into Colorado Supreme Court building, causes “significant and extensive” damage (www.denverpost.com)
A man shot through a window and broke into the Colorado Supreme Court building early Tuesday morning and caused “significant and extensive” damage in several areas of the building before surrendering to police, according to the Colorado State Patrol....
Inflation has created a dark cloud over how everyday Americans view the economy (www.cnbc.com)
Jimmy Kimmel hints at potential lawsuit against Aaron Rodgers (www.nbcsports.com)
Bernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
NYC councilmember says Mayor Adams tried to stop police transparency bill by trading budget cuts (gothamist.com)
Mayor Eric Adams told at least one member of the City Council he would restore cuts to their favorite programs if they agreed to vote against a police transparency bill the mayor and NYPD officials vigorously opposed, according to four people familiar with conversations in the Council....
Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP (chicagoreader.com)
Full title (exceeded character limits) - “‘Not the way a transparent, democratic process should work,’ Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP and say Mayor Brandon Johnson should’ve pushed for greater accountability for...
How safety rules ‘written in blood’ saved lives in Tokyo plane crash (www.cnn.com)
Watching the footage of the Japan Airlines collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, it seems miraculous that anyone has emerged unscathed....
Souvenir sellers have flooded the Brooklyn Bridge. Now the city is banning them (apnews.com)
Visitors to New York City hoping to take home a souvenir from the Brooklyn Bridge will now have to settle for a photograph, as vendors are about to be banned from the iconic span....
Nearly half of police force resigns in one day (www.wave3.com)
'Rich Dad, Poor Dad's' Robert Kiyosaki Says He's $1.2 Billion In Debt Because 'If I Go Bust, The Bank Goes Bust. Not My Problem' (finance.yahoo.com)
Texas can ban emergency abortions despite federal guidance, court rules (www.theguardian.com)
The ruling by a unanimous panel of fifth US circuit court of appeals comes amid a wave of lawsuits focusing on abortion exceptions...
How common are earthquakes on the East Coast? Small explosions reported after NYC quake (www.usatoday.com)
Kim Davis must pay $260,000 legal fees over same-sex marriage license refusal (www.theguardian.com)
Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling....
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History (www.thecrimson.com)
Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5....
Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expand (abcnews.go.com)
Nearly 200 names linked to Jeffrey Epstein expected to be made public (www.theguardian.com)
List could be released as soon as Tuesday after deadline for objections to unsealing of names passes midnight Monday...
A six-year-old girl was drowned in a water tank and her head was smashed with a stone to hide her identity after a failed rape bid, 43-year-old private watchman arrested (www.ndtv.com)
A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (www.politico.com)
The Fastest Growing Demographic In The Workforce? People Over Age 75 (www.forbes.com)
X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency (www.vice.com)
As misinformation proliferated on X thanks to verified users, a massive account sharing accurate information hit its Musk-imposed posting limit.
UAW President Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike (www.thenation.com)
US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions (apnews.com)
Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at requests for these pills from people who weren’t pregnant and sought them through Aid Access, a European online...
Gas prices fall under 3 bucks a gallon at majority of U.S. stations (www.cbsnews.com)
To tackle poverty, more states will offer bigger child tax credits in 2024 (www.npr.org)
