Israel-Gaza war: UN aid worker describes nightmare journey to al-Ahli Hospital (www.bbc.co.uk)
Last Saturday, 9 December, a joint World Health Organisation (WHO)/UN/Palestine Red Crescent Society convoy of six ambulances and a truck set off from southern Gaza to deliver desperately-needed medical supplies to the al-Ahli Hospital in the north, and to transfer critically-injured patients from there to a hospital in the...
Family of 11-year-old shot by police vows to seek justice after officer gets no charges (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli soldiers beating up a reporter (t.me)
Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school (www.theguardian.com)
Community members in a Tennessee school district want to banish Satan from their children’s halls after the formation of a new club was announced....
Prosecutors Refuse to Drop Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old Put in Solitary Confinement (themessenger.com)
Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police
Ukraine councilor detonates grenades at meeting, wounding 26, in attack captured on video (www.cbsnews.com)
Boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue (apnews.com)
The teenager, who is unnamed in court documents because he is a minor, is charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. He’s accused of posting a “detailed plan to complete a mass shooting” at Temple Israel in Canton, a city south of Akron, on the live streaming platform Discord....
Older Americans to pay less for some drug treatments as drugmakers penalized for big price jumps (apnews.com)
Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year, the Biden administration announced Thursday....
Jury Orders Giuliani to Pay $148 Million to Election Workers He Defamed (www.nytimes.com)
A federal jury on Friday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay two former Georgia election workers more than $148 million for destroying their reputations and causing them extreme emotional distress by spreading baseless lies that they had tried to steal a victory from President Donald J. Trump after the 2020 presidential election....
Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry (www.propublica.org)
When Shawn Murphy’s wife died in 2009 after a botched gallbladder surgery, he presumed the doctor who performed the operation would be forced out of medicine for good....
Conspiracy Theorists Think A24's 'Civil War' Is Actually 'Programming' Americans For Civil War (www.vice.com)
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Top Illinois NAACP Official Caught on Leaked Call Apparently Calling Migrants 'Savages' Who Have ‘Been Raping People’ (themessenger.com)
A civil rights leader in Illinois is facing calls to resign after referring to migrants as “savages” during a Zoom meeting....
White House directs federal employees to prioritize sustainable travel during official business (thehill.com)
A new Biden administration directive instructs federal employees to prioritize making sustainable choices while on official travel....
I Received Death Threats After Elon Musk Put A Target On My Back. Here's The Truth Of What Happened. (www.huffpost.com)
Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal sentenced to 50 months in prison for working with Russian oligarch (abcnews.go.com)
One of the highest-ranking FBI agents to ever face criminal charges was sentenced to over four years in prison on Thursday for secretly colluding with a Russian oligarch....
US Supreme Court lets Illinois assault weapon ban stand - for now (www.bbc.com)
The US Supreme Court has declined to put a temporary hold on an Illinois law that bans the sale of assault-style weapons and a variety of other guns and accessories....
15 states seeing 'high' or 'very high' levels of respiratory illness: CDC (abcnews.go.com)
Judges dubious of Mark Meadows’ bid to avoid facing charges in Georgia state court (www.politico.com)
The former White House chief of staff is charged alongside Donald Trump with a conspiracy to tamper with the 2020 election in Georgia....
Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West (apnews.com)
Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau....
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound (www.wired.com)
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US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies....
The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants (www.cnn.com)
A major credit union serving military members and veterans rejected more than half of its Black conventional mortgage applicants
Biden and Obama team up for Obamacare enrollment push following Trump’s latest repeal threat (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama teamed up on a new video vowing to protect and expand Obamacare at a time when former President Donald Trump has threatened to renew his efforts to repeal the health care law if he wins a second term....
Finland Closes Border With Russia Again (www.nytimes.com)
When they announced plans to reopen a small portion of Finland’s border with Russia on Tuesday, Finnish authorities said that they would be on the watch: If Moscow resumed funneling migrants, they would shut it again. Two days later, they announced a plan to close it, saying dozens of migrants were arriving....
