Federal agency quashes Georgia's plan to let pharmacies sell medical marijuana (www.seattletimes.com)
Federal drug officials are warning Georgia to shelve its plans to be the first state to allow pharmacies to dispense medical marijuana products....
‘Poisoning the blood of our country’: Trump delivers caustic attack on immigrants (www.politico.com)
The FDA is investigating whether lead in applesauce pouches was deliberately added (text.npr.org)
“We’re still in the midst of our investigation. But so far all of the signals we’re getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we’re trying to sort of figure that out,” FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones said in an interview with Politico published Thursday.
South Korea's military says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters (apnews.com)
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t immediately say what type of missile it was or how far it flew....
Prelude to War by US Puppet Yun Seok Yol (www.youtube.com)
Obviously biased propaganda. Why don’t they just get The Guardian in DPRK?
Ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare, research suggests (www.bbc.com)
Parents whose baby died before or shortly after birth believed their ethnicity led to worse care.
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don't Warn Residents (www.scientificamerican.com)
Staggering amounts of toxic “forever chemicals” have been found in freshwater fish, but there is no federal guidance on what is a safe amount to eat...
Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule (www.kut.org)
Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market....
International court rules against Guatemala in a landmark Indigenous and environmental rights case (apnews.com)
The landmark verdict marks a monumental step in a four-decade struggle for Indigenous land rights and a long, bitter legal battle, which has at times spilled into the streets of northern Guatemala....
Jungle between Colombia and Panama becomes highway for migrants from around the world (apnews.com)
Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world....
IDF conducts operation in Hamas-controlled hospital, apprehends 90 terrorists (www.i24news.tv)
Hospital workers confessed to concealing weapons in incubators in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a space intended for treating premature babies....
State supreme court dismisses Ohio’s effort to enforce abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Abortion clinics have asked judge to block ban after amendment to state constitution was passed enshrining right to procedure...
Biden campaign: Trump ‘parroted Adolf Hitler’ in remarks targeting immigrants (www.politico.com)
The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”...
Alex Jones proposes $55 million legal debt settlement to Sandy Hook families (www.cbsnews.com)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax....
More boomers are staying in their jobs instead of retiring. They’re working longer hours and making more money, new Pew data finds (finance.yahoo.com)
The graying of the American workforce continues: Baby boomers are working longer and earning more than their predecessors did in what Americans typically think of as retirement years, new research finds....
Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest (apnews.com)
Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence....
Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos (apnews.com)
The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....
Ukrainian drone video provides a grim look at casualties as Russian troops advance toward Avdiivka (apnews.com)
A Ukrainian military drone unit near Stepove, a village just north of Avdiivka, where some of the most intense battles have taken place, shot the video this month....
Apology letters by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in Georgia election case are one sentence long (apnews.com)
The letters, obtained Thursday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, were hand-written and terse. Neither letter acknowledges the legitimacy of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Georgia’s 2020 election nor denounces the baseless conspiracy theories they pushed to claim Trump was cheated out of...
Britain's National Grid drops China-based supplier over cyber security fears - FT (www.reuters.com)
The decision came in April after the utility sought advice from the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the nation’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ, the newspaper quoted a Whitehall official as saying....
Israel social security data reveals true picture of Oct 7 deaths, less than originally claimed (www.france24.com)
Moms for Liberty reeling and on the ropes after election losses and scandals (www.rawstory.com)
As 2023 holidays dawn, face masks have settled in as an occasional feature of the American landscape (abcnews.go.com)
It's taking longer to schedule abortions in Colorado and across the U.S. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures. (coloradosun.com)
About half of U.S. states now have laws that ban or restrict access to abortion
Hamas and Israel reach 'tentative deal' on new truce and hostage swap (www.thenationalnews.com)
Under proposed deal, Hamas will release at least 50 hostages and Israel will free 300 Palestinians, sources tell The National
