US Lawmakers Want to Use a Powerful Spy Tool on Immigrants and Their Families (www.wired.com)
Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers (www.reuters.com)
Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital (apnews.com)
Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old....
L.A. poultry firm hired kids as young as 14 to work with sharp knives, Labor Dept. says (www.cnbc.com)
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not. (www.propublica.org)
Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens. (www.propublica.org)
US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders (www.theguardian.com)
The U.S. is losing the global science race: STEM worker survey (www.axios.com)
Trump declines to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House after Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked him Tuesday to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric....
Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101 (www.nytimes.com)
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Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president (abcnews.go.com)
Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia (apnews.com)
Ohio Senate Republicans propose banning home grown marijuana and other changes to legal marijuana (www.pbs.org)
Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month....
Vandalized Jewish after-school center uses it as lesson on peace (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
Socher-Lerner said they overcame that by centering their values: human dignity and community....
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft (www.politico.com)
Court filing gives rare look inside FBI seizure of lawmaker's phone in 2020 election probe (apnews.com)
Snippets and short summaries of texts and emails sent by Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, a top Trump ally, have emerged publicly for the first time as part of a court filing that was unsealed — perhaps inadvertently — by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., as part of a legal battle with federal...
Forget the ‘tripledemic.’ The U.S. is headed for a ‘syndemic’—and experts warn we’re not prepared (fortune.com)
COVID will likely reach levels in December not yet seen this year, combining with surges of flu, RSV, and other pathogens for a winter not so different from last year’s “tripledemic,” experts say....
Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)
An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun....
Supreme Court to hear major case that could upend tax code and doom "wealth tax" proposals (www.cbsnews.com)
The Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case that some warn could have sweeping implications for the U.S. tax system and derail proposals from some Democrats to create a wealth tax....
23andMe says hackers gained access to data of about 6.9 million people (www.nbcnews.com)
Genetic testing company 23andMe said Monday that hackers were able to access the data of about 6.9 million people, far more than the company previously acknowledged....
Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home (www.nature.com)
Newly released documents detail Uvalde shooting: Teachers, Children knew what to do. Cops did not. (lemmy.world)
The accounts of law enforcement’s actions during one of the worst school shootings in history are among a trove of recorded investigative interviews and body camera footage obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE. Together, the hundreds of hours of audio and video offer a startling finding: The children in...
Jake Tapper Shocked When Israeli Official Blames CNN Producer’s Family Killed in Israeli Bombing: ‘You Can’t Blame Them’ (www.mediaite.com)
Tapper was visibly disgusted after ex-Israeli ambassador Mark Regev victim-blamed nine members of a CNN producer's family who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
College presidents face tough questions from Congress over antisemitism on campus (www.cbsnews.com)
Atmospheric river brings heavy rain, flooding to Pacific Northwest (www.cbsnews.com)
