Death cuts off dreams of man recently freed after 3 decades wrongfully in prison (www.chicagotribune.com)
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Dearborn mayor ramps up security measures after Wall Street Journal op-ed calling city 'Jihad Capital' (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/dearborn-wsj-article-jihad-capi…
Migrant advocates reject Senate border deal (www.wkrg.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrant-advocates-reject-senate…
Summer Has Long Stressed Electric Grids. Now Winter Does, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
Electric utilities, which designed their system to meet peak demand in sizzling weather, are straining to keep up during the cold....
Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price. (www.nytimes.com)
They vowed to fix water woes and save cities millions. But a Times investigation found the deals racked up debt and left many worse off than before....
Two-thirds of Canadian and American renters are in unaffordable housing situations (theconversation.com)
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
French govt under fire for putting pesticide phase-out on hold (phys.org)
France’s government was on the defensive on Friday after environmental campaigners and opposition politicians accused it of having scrapped a key green policy to appease protesting farmers....
US labor official says Dartmouth basketball players are school employees, sets stage for union vote (apnews.com)
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes....
Illinois man gets 5 years for trying to burn down planned abortion clinic (apnews.com)
A 73-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic and trying to set the building on fire last year....
China's chances of overtaking US economy "declining" (www.newsweek.com)
The possibility that China will overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy is declining as the country faces an obvious slowdown, according to Cornell professor and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Eswar Prasad....
Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm (www.theguardian.com)
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas....
Justin Timberlake Considers Opening Up to Oprah Amid Ongoing Britney Spears Controversy (menzmag.com)
Kate Middleton ‘coma’ claims debunked by Palace: ‘Totally made-up!’ (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Mother Urges Ban on Slushies for Children After Toddler’s Severe Reaction (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Prince Harry and Prince William Forced to Call Off Royal Rift Amid King Charles’ Health Scare (menzmag.com)
“I’m a mum-of-19 at 39 expecting my 20th child” Mother of 19 Children, Each with a Different Father, Shares Her Remarkable Story (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Texas Will Expand Effort to Control Land Along Mexican Border, Abbott Says - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
Immigrants who flock to Las Vegas for casino and service jobs fear AI could replace them (www.nbcnews.com)
Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement (apnews.com)
A Black woman and a group of four young girls who were wrongfully forced out of their car, held at gunpoint and handcuffed by police in suburban Denver in 2020 have reached a $1.9 million legal settlement.
Angry Chinese take to US Embassy’s social media account to vent about plunging stock market (www.cnn.com)
Tens of thousands of people in China are flocking to an unusual venue to vent their outrage about the continuing meltdown in the country’s stock market....
Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office (www.kpbs.org)
The path to Tennessee politics for Allie Phillips began last year in her doctor’s office. She was 19 weeks pregnant when she got the devastating news about her unborn daughter: only two of the four chambers in her heart were formed....
Biden Threatens to Veto Bill That Would Help Israel but Not Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border....
Protests as Atlanta council adopts new rules for referendum on Cop City (www.theguardian.com)
