The US economy added 353,000 jobs in January, starting off 2024 with a bang | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Black man was holding sandwiches and keys when an Ohio deputy fatally shot him, prosecutor says (www.nbcnews.com)
The gun the deputy said Casey Goodson Jr. was waving when he was shot in the back multiple times was found in the man's kitchen with the safety on, the prosecutor shared publicly for the first time.
Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll (www.theguardian.com)
Fifth of men aged 16-29 look favourably on social media influencer Andrew Tate
California issues statewide prison threat warning after 200 inmates rush guards at Riverside County facility (www.cbsnews.com)
Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions (www.typeinvestigations.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/louisiana-judges-financial-ince…
Small town residents unite to fight a common enemy: A huge monkey farm (www.msn.com)
Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, a rural outpost 20 miles north of the Florida Panhandle, recently approved a startup’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation. At its capacity, the $396 million complex would hold up to 30,000 monkeys – double the city’s human population.
EPA proposes some ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support (www.theguardian.com)
‘I wasn’t allowed to get the healthcare I needed’: the women suing Tennessee for being denied abortions (www.theguardian.com)
K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state...
Israel To Pursue Genocide Case Against Iran At ICJ (www.iranintl.com)
Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds (fortune.com)
Verdict in Trump’s New York fraud trial delayed until early to mid-February (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m fraud trial will be coming later than expected, with a decision expected in early to mid-February, a New York court spokesperson said on Thursday....
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....
US auto safety agency upgrades probe into Tesla power steering loss (news.yahoo.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators have upgraded their probe into Tesla vehicles over power steering loss to an engineering analysis - a required step before the agency could demand a potential recall....
Chicago becomes latest US city to call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
Chicago is latest U.S. city to approve such a non-binding resolution, following Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco in recent months.
House Republicans are moving forward with a bill that would overhaul student-loan repayment and make it harder for Biden to get relief to borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
House Republicans are reviewing a bill that would overhaul the student-loan system....
Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds (www.theguardian.com)
A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction....
Pennsylvania man arrested after allegedly killing his father and displaying his decapitated head on YouTube (www.nbcnews.com)
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father, before displaying his decapitated head in a gruesome YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories…...
17-year-old alleged ‘serial swatter’ charged after police say he made threats throughout the country (edition.cnn.com)
Why the Department of Justice wouldn't let go of Charles Lynch’s 16-year old marijuana case (www.latimes.com)
The article honestly doesn’t answer the headline like at all, but the story of the federal government hounding this guy for over a decade for a bullshit weed case is wild...
‘No end in sight’: Blackstone CEO doesn't think the US can handle another term under President Biden — or what he calls 'four more years' of debt misery. But is it really that bad? (finance.yahoo.com)
No charges for New Mexico officers who knocked on wrong door before fatal shooting (www.bbc.com)
Authorities in New Mexico will not seek charges against three police officers involved in a fatal shooting after arriving at the wrong house last year....
Biden sanctions Israeli settlers over West Bank violence (www.bbc.com)
He signed an executive order on Thursday, saying violence had reached “intolerable levels”....
A year on, a small Ohio town is recovering from a fiery train derailment but health fears persist (apnews.com)
Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears are always there....
CNN Poll: Public views of the economy are on the rise, but remain dim (www.cnn.com)
The public’s long-held pessimism about the economy shows signs of easing since last year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But even with the uptick, many Americans’ views of the economy – and the nation as a whole – remain bleak....
