COVID map shows positive cases across US regions (www.newsweek.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson says God will punish “depraved” U.S. because more teens identify as LGBTQ+ (www.lgbtqnation.com)
CVS will change the way it prices drugs (www.cnn.com)
CVS is revamping the way it reimburses its pharmacies for prescription medications, a move that could make prescription drug pricing simpler and change how much consumers pay for their medicines....
Sean Combs faces fourth sexual assault lawsuit in less than a month (www.washingtonpost.com)
Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)
The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.
Starlink has now lost over 1,000 satellites and over 400 of it's newest satellites in the last three months. (tiblur.com)
Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested (www.rollingstone.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to release more than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6 to the public, with one major caveat: The faces of some individuals who participated in the storming of the Capitol, a violent attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election, will be blurred out....
Starlink has lost over 1,000 satellites totaling billions in waste. UFO conspiracy theorists are saying UFO's are destroying his rockets because both humans and aliens don't like Elon. (tiblur.com)
Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks....
Drug trafficker with ties to son of 'El Chapo' shot dead in LA (abc7.com)
The Washington Post braces for historic 24-hour strike as journalists protest staff cuts and contract frustrations (www.cnn.com)
Hundreds of staffers at The Washington Post are set to strike for 24 hours on Thursday, protesting recently announced cuts to the newspaper’s workforce and applying pressure on management to reach an agreement on a new union contract....
Plastic recycling directory ends, citing lack of 'real commitment from industry' (abcnews.go.com)
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas (apnews.com)
Killer’s family allegedly knew Gabby Petito was dead weeks before discovery (www.theguardian.com)
The fiance and killer of the domestic violence murder victim Gabby Petito desperately called his parents and told them that she was “gone” weeks before she was discovered dead – yet they later shared messages expressing hope that search efforts for her would end in success, her family has alleged....
Tucker Carlson’s former top producer at Fox News accused of sexual assault (www.cnn.com)
Tucker Carlson’s top producer, who left Fox News along with the far-right host to work on his X show, is accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in an alleged incident that occurred more than a decade ago....
Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism (finance.yahoo.com)
Jeff Bezos-Backed Real Estate Company Is Launching A New Fund To Acquire More Single-Family Homes Across The U.S. (finance.yahoo.com)
Relative of Israeli captives confirms ‘3 hostages killed by Israeli fire,’ blasts military - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
An Israeli whose family members were held by Palestinian militants tells of friendly fire deaths and complains, “We used to think the IDF knows what it’s doing.” Meanwhile, freed captives detail “horrifying captivity trauma” from Israeli bombings....
US Lawmakers Want to Use a Powerful Spy Tool on Immigrants and Their Families (www.wired.com)
Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers (www.reuters.com)
Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital (apnews.com)
Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old....
L.A. poultry firm hired kids as young as 14 to work with sharp knives, Labor Dept. says (www.cnbc.com)
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not. (www.propublica.org)
Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens. (www.propublica.org)
US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders (www.theguardian.com)
