The Feds Want to Know How Fake Titanium Got in Boeing's Planes (gizmodo.com)
Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says (www.independent.co.uk)
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....
Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings (www.mediaite.com)
‘Anti-Woke’ Water Makes a Splash at Conservative Conference (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...
FAA investigating Southwest flight that came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
A federal investigation is underway after a Southwest Airlines flight plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaiian island....
CDC warns of disruptions to ADHD meds after $100M fraud arrest (thehill.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning those who take medication for ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could face a disruption in accessing care after two executives were arrested for a $100 million fraud scheme....
‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again. (www.chicagotribune.com)
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Up to ten people including children shot at public splash pad in Michigan (www.theguardian.com)
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test (www.theguardian.com)
H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One (www.scientificamerican.com)
When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up....
Catholic Bishops finally apologize for church’s role in harming kids at Indigenous boarding schools (www.motherjones.com)
Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it (apnews.com)
A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer....
Trump to visit Detroit church as part of Black voter push (www.reuters.com)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election....
Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported on Saturday that over 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip are in urgent need of treatment for acute malnutrition, Anadolu Agency reports....
House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft (www.yahoo.com)
House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiry (www.rawstory.com)
28 riders stuck upside down on amusement park ride for about 30 minutes (www.washingtonpost.com)
As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas (www.nytimes.com)
Ordinary Gazans are bearing the brunt of the 8-month Israeli military onslaught on the territory and many blame the Palestinian armed faction for starting the war....
CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’ (www.cnbc.com)
Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC....
Huge telehealth fraud indictment may wreak havoc for Adderall users, CDC warns (arstechnica.com)
Two Pulse survivors are now 'ex-gays' running a conversion therapy organization (www.advocate.com)
Israel added to UN ‘List of Shame’ for abuses against children in war, joining Palestinian Armed Groups, Russia, Sudanese Forces (www.hrw.org)
For the first time, the United Nations secretary-general added the Israeli armed forces to the “list of shame” of warring parties committing grave violations against children in armed conflict. Although long overdue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ action was fully justified....
