Republican secretary of state threatens to kick Biden off the ballot as Trump payback (www.nbcnews.com)
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is....
What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? (www.wonkette.com)
What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? It did, and they did? Well how about that....
Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist's rape claim at upcoming defamation trial (apnews.com)
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence was sufficient to conclude that he raped her....
Fact Check: Do Jeffrey Epstein documents "exonerate" Donald Trump? (www.newsweek.com)
At Florida's only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education (apnews.com)
A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students....
Alaska Airlines accident could have been ‘much more tragic,’ NTSB official says (www.nbcnews.com)
2024 is the biggest global election year in history (www.vox.com)
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It's Been An Abysmal Two Years. But Biotech Is Looking Up. (www.investors.com)
Fatal New York bus crash: officials say most people on board were Canadian (www.sasktoday.ca)
Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor (apnews.com)
Biden Was in Dark for Days on Defense Secretary’s Hospital Stay (www.bloomberg.com)
War Brings Tensions, and Assault Rifles, Into an Israeli College (www.nytimes.com)
At the University of Haifa, a uniquely mixed institution where more than 40 percent of students are Arabs, those anxieties are amplified by what is among the school’s proudest achievements — its diversity....
‘I can ride the bus. I can walk the streets’: the joy of freedom for Rohingya resettled in the US (www.theguardian.com)
A diplomatic breakthrough has allowed 62 refugees to start a new life in America. Yet a million still remain in fear and poverty in the Bangladeshi camps...
Billionaires are hoarding trillions in untaxed wealth. They want the Supreme Court to keep it that way (www.rollingstone.com)
A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness found that America’s richest families accumulated $8.5 trillion in untaxed capital gains in 2022...
The many lives of Trump Tower - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump first set sights on the old granite and limestone Bonwit Teller building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in the mid-1970s. It was a time of street gangs and violent crime, when New York City was known more for the Son of Sam serial killer than for glamour and style....
FBI arrests three people linked to January 6, 2021, insurrection (www.aljazeera.com)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jonathan D Pollock, 24, his sister, Olivia M Pollock, 33 and Joseph D Hutchinson, 27, at a ranch in Groveland, Florida, the FBI said in a statement on Saturday. The three will be arraigned on Monday....
Pentagon waited three days to inform White House that the defense secretary was hospitalized in ICU (www.nbcnews.com)
Amid tensions in the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized, including spending four days in the intensive care unit, according to two senior administration officials....
Federal officials order grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout (apnews.com)
Federal officials on Saturday ordered the immediate grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage....
Hamas command in north Gaza destroyed, Israel says (www.bbc.com)
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters that Palestinian militants are now operating in the area only sporadically and “without commanders”....
Former NRA executive pleads guilty to fraud, agrees to testify in New York AG trial (abcnews.go.com)
Ex-operations director Joshua Powell settled civil claims of fraud and abuse....
Most Recent Gaza Update (Live Feed in Link) (www.aljazeera.com)
This war seems to do nothing but kill innocent women and children at this point. Israeli government seems hell-bent on destroying Gaza and its people. lmk what y’all think
Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....
Ukraine war: Atesh, the group spying on Russians in occupied Crimea (www.bbc.com)
Atesh says it collects information on Russian military movements - mostly in Crimea but also in other occupied areas and even inside Russia itself....
When Veterans in Crisis Can’t Get Help (www.propublica.org)
Marty and Candy Larsen were in their pajamas, getting ready to watch a movie in the living room, when they heard their 27-year-old daughter scream....
Alabama still can’t find heart missing from prisoner’s body (www.al.com)
