The U.S. is losing the global science race: STEM worker survey (www.axios.com)
Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia (apnews.com)
Plastic recycling directory ends, citing lack of 'real commitment from industry' (abcnews.go.com)
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....
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas (apnews.com)
Indictments dropped against 17 Austin police officers accused of assault during 2020 George Floyd protests (www.cnn.com)
A Texas prosecutor has dropped indictments against 17 Austin police officers who were charged with assault after being accused of injuring demonstrators during the 2020 George Floyd protests, and city officials are asking the US Justice Department to investigate possible police misconduct within the department....
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....
Supreme Court signals it will uphold a tax on foreign income and leave a wealth tax for another day (apnews.com)
On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington state couple challenging a provision of the 2017 tax bill would threaten other provisions of the tax code....
Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism (finance.yahoo.com)
Students around the world suffered huge learning setbacks during the pandemic, study finds (apnews.com)
Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharply, a new study finds....
Jeff Bezos-Backed Real Estate Company Is Launching A New Fund To Acquire More Single-Family Homes Across The U.S. (finance.yahoo.com)
Applications for unemployment benefits up modestly, but continuing claims reach highest level in 2 years (apnews.com)
Newly released documents detail Uvalde shooting: Teachers, Children knew what to do. Cops did not. (lemmy.world)
The accounts of law enforcement’s actions during one of the worst school shootings in history are among a trove of recorded investigative interviews and body camera footage obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE. Together, the hundreds of hours of audio and video offer a startling finding: The children in...
Hamas planned sexual violence as weapon of war - Israeli campaigner (www.bbc.com)
Hamas had a premeditated plan to use sexual violence as a weapon of war, an Israeli women’s rights campaigner and lawyer has said....
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)
More US home buyers willing to purchase despite high rates -BofA study (www.reuters.com)
US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas drugged hostages before releasing them (jewishinsider.com)
US prison deaths soared by 77% during height of Covid-19 crisis, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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Texas kept Syed Rabbani on death row unconstitutionally for decades. It almost killed him. (houstonlanding.org)
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New Jersey Prisons Isolate Trans Women Even After Reforms to Reduce Solitary Confinement (boltsmag.org)
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