Refugee camp reportedly hit as Israel bombards Gaza | Reuters Video (www.reuters.com)
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Former US ambassador to Bolivia arrested for acting as foreign agent for Cuba for 40 years, DOJ says (abcnews.go.com)
Federal prosecutors say as early as 1981 and continuing to present day, former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha secretly supported Cuba and its intelligence services by serving as an agent for the communist government against the U.S....
FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms (www.bostonglobe.com)
Marie Tornyenu missed more than 100 days of high school while hospitalized repeatedly for sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that causes crippling pain. Somehow, she still managed to complete at least eight advanced placement courses, play clarinet in the school band, and get admitted to Boston University....
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’...
Switzerland's Banque Pictet admits hiding billions from US tax authorities (www.reuters.com)
According to prosecutors, U.S. taxpayers with Pictet accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere evaded about $50.6 million in taxes between 2008 and 2014. As part of the agreement, Banque Pictet agreed to pay $122.9 million to the U.S. Treasury....
South Korea conducts 3rd solid-fuel space rocket test (www.aa.com.tr)
Florida Woman Charged With Posing as Homeschooler to Prey on Boy (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Florida woman is facing felony charges for allegedly posing online as a homeschooler to sexually assault an underage boy....
'Burns me to a crisp': Farmers allege link between popular herbicide paraquat and Parkinson's disease (abcnews.go.com)
On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He’d spent his life as a fugitive for robbing a bank (www.cnn.com)
Alaska Airlines says it's buying Hawaiian Airlines in $1.9 billion deal (www.cnbc.com)
In Florida’s Hot Political Climate, Some Faculty Have Had Enough (www.nytimes.com)
Liberal-leaning professors are leaving coveted jobs with tenure. And there are signs that recruiting scholars has become harder....
Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has also verified pictures on social media which shows an Israeli tank operating near the city....
Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn. (www.propublica.org)
For Augustine and her colleagues, few things were more frustrating than knowing that NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) had empowered museums to decide whether Indigenous people had a valid connection to their ancestors. These were the same institutions that had collected the human remains and...
How America racked up a record $1 trillion credit card bill (www.cnbc.com)
California faculty at largest US university system launch strike for better pay (apnews.com)
Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., will hold a series of four one-day strikes starting Monday across four campuses to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches and other workers....
The Race to Find What’s Making America’s Dogs Sick (www.wired.com)
Atlanta police use Signal to discuss ‘Cop City’ amid outcry over transparency (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese borrowers default in record numbers as economic crisis deepens (www.ft.com)
"Defaults by Chinese borrowers have surged to a record high since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the depth of the country’s economic downturn and the obstacles to a full recovery,” the Financial Times reports.
Man fatally stabs 4 relatives and wounds 2 officers in Queens attack, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
Pending home sales drop to a record low, even worse than during the financial crisis (www.cnbc.com)
‘Medical Freedom’ Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates (www.nytimes.com)
Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds....
Protester sets self on fire outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta, suffers critical burns (www.pbs.org)
A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured....
Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections (apnews.com)
A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey....
The Pentagon says a US warship and multiple commercial ships have come under attack in the Red Sea (apnews.com)
Moscow police raid multiple LGBTQ+ clubs in wake of new Supreme Court ban — Meduza (meduza.io)
