Federal agents investigate sugar exporter over allegations of forced labor (www.motherjones.com)
Inside the psychiatric hospitals where foster kids are a "gold mine" (www.motherjones.com)
New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people...
Giant Aztec snakehead beneath Mexico City university (www.yahoo.com)
“The sculpted snake is 5.9 feet (1.8 meters) long, 2.8 feet (0.85 m) wide and 3.3 feet (1 m) high, and it weighs about 1.3 tons (1.2 metric tons), the INAH said. Several colors — including red, blue, black and white — are preserved on the sculpture.”
DJ Mark the 45 King, Producer for Eminem, Jay-Z, Queen Latifah, Dies at 62 (variety.com)
DJ Mark the 45 King, who produced or co-produced such hip-hop classics as Eminem’s “Stan,” Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” and early Queen Latifah hits like “Wrath of My Madness” and “Ladies First,” has died, a rep confirms to Variety. No cause of death was cited; he was 62.
Sister of Denver man and her mother released by Hamas after being held hostage for nearly 2 weeks, ABC News reports (www.denverpost.com)
[US] House Republicans drop Jim Jordan as their nominee for speaker, falling back to square one (apnews.com)
Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel....
Jim Jordan loses even more support on third House speaker vote (www.axios.com)
Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins (www.bbc.com)
This isnt actually the first time microplastics have been found like this, but it will be the first we properly study the effects. (uk.yahoo.com)
Having talked to a Doctor friend about this he suggests the only safe way to deal with it is to draw blood, to dispose of it, and let the body recover. He had some concern that some of the plastic was as small as blood cells and platelets so might be too hard to filter out. But I guess research will look at that.
Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order (www.nbcnews.com)
Tropical parasite gains a foothold in the US, especially in Texas (www.livescience.com)
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs (www.vice.com)
We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices (www.cbc.ca)
When you need to drop off your tech devices for a repair, how confident are you that they won’t be snooped on?...
When a Fire Struck a Texas Prison; One person’s inside account of the blaze and its aftermath at the Huntsville Unit (prisonjournalismproject.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/what-its-like-experience-fire-t…
An Egregious NYPD Cover-up Poses a Moral Test for Eric Adams (nymag.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/an-egregious-nypd-cover-up-pose…
Battle against hate: Violence, bigotry toward Palestinian Americans spiking across US (www.usatoday.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/71211197007/
Domestic violence calls about ‘reproductive coercion’ doubled after the overturn of Roe (19thnews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/domestic-violence-calls-reprodu…
He was beaten to death in Men’s Central Jail. It took staff nearly 4 hours to notice (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/los-angeles-mens-central-jail-h…
State Department official resigns over Biden administration's handling of Israel-Hamas conflict | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Josh Paul, who said he has worked in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for more than 11 years, said in his LinkedIn post that he resigned “due to a policy disagreement concerning our continued lethal assistance to Israel.”...
Maryland authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Judge Andrew Wilkinson was killed in an apparent shooting in the northern Maryland city of Hagerstown, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said....
Florida man found guilty of murdering wife after she refused to go on home renovation TV show (www.nbcnews.com)
A jury convicted a Florida man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2018 strangling and beating death of his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show, prosecutors said....
State Department issues 'worldwide caution' alert amid Israel-Hamas war (abcnews.go.com)
U.S. citizens traveling abroad are urged to “exercise increased caution” in light of the heightened global tensions spurred by Hamas’ terror attack on Israel and the unfolding Israel-Hamas war, the State Department said in a new advisory on Thursday....
300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum (apnews.com)
After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday....
Home sales fell again in September as surging mortgage rates, rising prices discouraged homebuyers (apnews.com)
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade as prospective homebuyers grapple with surging mortgage rates and a near historic-low level of properties on the market.
