Targeting the Messenger to Kill the Message (www.counterpunch.org)
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SEC v. Jarkesy: The Threat to Congressional and Agency Authority (www.americanprogress.org)
SEC v. Jarkesy is quietly one among a trio of important Supreme Court cases this term that could deal major blows to executive and congressional power.
Biden says 4-year-old Abigail Edan was released by Hamas. He hopes more U.S. hostages will be freed (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden confirmed Sunday that Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American girl held hostage by Hamas after her parents were killed, was released as part of the cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war....
Post-affirmative action, Asian American families are more stressed than ever about college admissions (www.latimes.com)
Parents who didn't grow up in the American system, and who may have moved to the U.S. in large part for their children's education, feel desperate and in-the-dark. Some shell out tens of thousands of dollars for consultants as early as junior high.
Large-scale arrests expected for suspected ringleaders of Dublin riot (www.theguardian.com)
Burlington, Vermont, shooting live updates: 3 Palestinian U.S. college students shot on their way to dinner (www.nbcnews.com)
Chicago scrambles to house migrants as winter approaches (www.nbcnews.com)
City and state officials are looking to get migrants off the streets and out of shelters more quickly, but advocates say new restrictions will only make things harder....
Shaming and pressuring donors: Israel's strategy against antisemitism on US campuses (www.ynetnews.com)
Following the surge in incidents of hatred on campuses across the United States, the Foreign Ministry along with the Diaspora Affairs Ministry will establish a task force; On the agenda: Deeming antisemitic students ineligible for employment, outlawing antisemitic organizations.
Samuel Paty: Six French teenagers on trial over teacher's murder (www.bbc.com)
The suspects are accused of inciting the murder and pointing out the teacher to the killer.
Some business leaders like Jeff Bezos hate the phrase 'work-life balance.' Here's what they prefer instead. (www.businessinsider.com)
‘A bit of a clown’: a look at Congressman George Santos’s endless fabrications (www.theguardian.com)
The New York fabulist accomplished practically nothing in his political career, just self-promotion through sheer chutzpah...
‘Archaic’: the Tennessee town that made homosexuality illegal (www.theguardian.com)
Republican lawmakers in the US are leaning into outdated definitions of obscenity to outlaw drag and ban books too...
US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked [oil] tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow (apnews.com)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Armed assailants seized and later let go of a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship aiding the tanker in the Gulf of...
Schools in Portland, Oregon, reach tentative deal with teachers union after nearly month-long strike (apnews.com)
Oregon’s largest school district said late Sunday it had reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and roughly 45,000 students would be back in school Monday after more than three weeks without classes....
Dozens kidnapped by motorcycle 'bandits' in north Nigeria (www.bbc.com)
Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus, says health ministry (www.theguardian.com)
Three students of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont, CNN says suspect held (www.reuters.com)
Four local employees of Germany's main aid agency arrested in Afghanistan (apnews.com)
Conservatives Are Boycotting Froot Loops for Creating a Library of Diverse Children's Books Online (www.them.us)
'Retirement isn't that easy': 3 people on working into their 90s and 100s (www.cnbc.com)
Two teenagers arrested for ‘misogynistic chanting’ at female referee (www.independent.co.uk)
Widespread election fraud claims by Republicans don't match the evidence (www.brookings.edu)
We are less than one year away from Election Day and although there has been no new evidence or litigation regarding election fraud in the 2020 election, many people continue to believe that the 2020 election was flawed. In the summer, a poll by the Associated Press showed that 22% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats have high...
Black Friday shoppers spent a record $9.8 billion in U.S. online sales, up 7.5% from last year (www.cnbc.com)
Black Friday e-commerce spending popped 7.5% from a year earlier, reaching a record $9.8 billion in the U.S., according to an Adobe Analytics report, a further indication that price-conscious consumers want to spend on the best deals and are hunting for those deals online....
Derek Chauvin, officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, expected to survive prison stabbing (www.nbcnews.com)
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, is expected to survive after he was stabbed in prison, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said Saturday....
At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say (www.nytimes.com)
Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states....
