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)
The U.S. is losing the global science race: STEM worker survey (www.axios.com)
Trump declines to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House after Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked him Tuesday to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric....
Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101 (www.nytimes.com)
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Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president (abcnews.go.com)
Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia (apnews.com)
Ohio Senate Republicans propose banning home grown marijuana and other changes to legal marijuana (www.pbs.org)
Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month....
Vandalized Jewish after-school center uses it as lesson on peace (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
Socher-Lerner said they overcame that by centering their values: human dignity and community....
