City Has Paid $500K to Employee Who Hasn't Shown Up to Work in 7 Years: Report (themessenger.com)
Secret records: Government says Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone (www.independent.co.uk)
Thousands sign up to experience magic mushrooms as Oregon’s novel psilocybin experiment takes off (apnews.com)
Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe....
TikTok is hit with $368 million fine under Europe's strict data privacy rules (abcnews.go.com)
European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy, the first time that the popular short video-sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe’s strict data privacy rules....
How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years (www.propublica.org)
For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.
Hurricane Lee to strike weather-worn New England after heavy rain, flooding and tornadoes (apnews.com)
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
Psychedelic drug MDMA eases PTSD symptoms in a study that paves the way for possible US approval (apnews.com)
The psychedelic drug MDMA can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported in a new study published Thursday....
2 librarians were fired after the board mistook an autism symbol for a Pride display. They’re suing. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
The first Bob Ross work from ‘The Joy of Painting’ is on sale (www.cnn.com)
It’s hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start....
Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)
Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....
Cyberdog, the Internet's Most Iconic Cartoon, Goes Up For Auction (gizmodo.com)
Explosion at world’s largest railyard in Nebraska prompts evacuations because of heavy toxic smoke (apnews.com)
An explosion inside a shipping container at the world’s largest railyard prompted evacuations in western Nebraska Thursday because of the toxic smoke generated when one of the chemicals aboard caught fire....
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law restricting release of her travel, security records (apnews.com)
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law Thursday restricting release of her travel and security records after the Legislature wrapped up a special session marked by a fight to more broadly scale back the state Freedom of Information Act....
Miami city commissioner charged with bribery and money laundering (abcnews.go.com)
A city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering was arrested Thursday on multiple corruption charges, officials said....
Biden and Zelensky to meet in US next week (www.cnn.com)
US President Joe Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week around the United Nations General Assembly meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the plans....
Bloomberg: ABC News May Be On Disney's Chopping Block (crooksandliars.com)
Parts of coastal New England and Atlantic Canada are under tropical storm warnings as Hurricane Lee nears (www.cnn.com)
Hurricane Lee will take a swipe at parts of coastal New England and Atlantic Canada starting Friday with heavy rain and strong winds that could lead to localized flooding and knock out power across communities....
LAPD assistant chief is investigated over allegations he stalked a subordinate (www.latimes.com)
An assistant Los Angeles police chief is under internal investigation after a subordinate he was dating filed a police report alleging he tried to stalk her.
UAW members go on strike at three key auto plants after deal deadline passes (www.cnbc.com)
Mexico on track to break asylum application record (apnews.com)
Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route....
UAW to target strikes at Ford, GM and Stellantis at midnight if no deal reached (www.cnn.com)
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Thursday night said the union will strike all the Big Three automakers – GM, Ford and Stellantis – at the same time as of midnight if the companies do not reach tentative labor deals with the auto workers....
Fentanyl plus stimulants drives ‘fourth wave’ of overdose epidemic in the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.S. is in the throes of what researchers have deemed a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, a phase characterized by overdose deaths caused by the combination of stimulants and the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl....
Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know. (www.nature.com)
