Nonbinary Teacher in Florida Fired for Using Mx. Title (www.advocate.com)
The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
Former Middle School Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing Boy in Classroom, Giving Him Alcohol: Police (people.com)
Police say a former student came forward claiming that when he was 14, Melissa Curtis, 31, sexually abused him
EXCLUSIVE: San Lorenzo school board responds after special needs kids lost by staff (abc7news.com)
SAN LORENZO, Calif. (KGO) – We’re hearing from San Lorenzo Unified School District board members after a 5-year-old boy with special needs wandered from Del Rey Elementary School without staff noticing and was found a third of a mile away from the school by a driver.
Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95 (apnews.com)
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95....
After Getting Stuck in a Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, This Barred Owl Is Now Flying Free (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Created by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in the late 1990s, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is a large, colorful sculpture depicting this once-common but now obsolete tool. It stands outdoors at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Joe Manchin: West Virginia Democrat says he will not seek re-election (www.bbc.com)
Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years (www.bbc.com)
A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.
Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
"600+ person-years of effort" have not stopped the site from losing $30M a year.
Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website, is shutting down after 16 years - The Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
Family shares updates on Bruce Willis's dementia (news.sky.com)
Bruce Willis’s daughter Tallulah has spoken about her father’s “really aggressive” dementia and why it is so important for her family to be open about it....
Brad Raffensperger: USPS Intercepted Fentanyl-Laced Envelopes Addressed To Election Officials (www.mediaite.com)
Woman arrested for threatening to kill Texas federal judge in abortion pill case (www.reuters.com)
A woman was arrested in Florida on Wednesday on charges that she threatened to kill a Texas federal judge who earlier this year suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, according to court records....
US childhood vaccination exemptions reach their highest level ever (apnews.com)
The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday....
Georgia sheriff's candidate fired after hidden camera catches him sneaking into rival's locked office (news.yahoo.com)
Capt. Dale Dillow was fired after a hidden camera caught him using his master key to get into the office of a rival for Jackson County sheriff.
Jezebel shuts down, lays off staff in ‘excruciating’ decision, parent company says (www.cnn.com)
(CNN) — Jezebel, the punchy feminist blog with an outsized influence on internet culture, will suspend operations and lay off its staff effective immediately, its parent company G/O Media said Thursday as it announced broader restructuring in its portfolio of digital news outlets.
Americans may soon get warnings about ultra-processed foods: Report (arstechnica.com)
Gaza – ‘A Graveyard For Children’ (www.medialens.org)
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Donald Trump moves closer to losing Mar-a-Lago (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump has placed himself at further risk of losing control of properties such as his Mar-a-Lago resort following his testimony in the New York civil fraud trial, according to an attorney....
Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost (www.theatlantic.com)
Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins (www.npr.org)
On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they’d been chewed through by rats the...