Biden Campaign Blocked Muslim Women From Event, Pro-Palestinian Group Says (www.msn.com)
‘I wasn’t allowed to get the healthcare I needed’: the women suing Tennessee for being denied abortions (www.theguardian.com)
K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state...
Georgia senate passes bill curtailing charitable bail funds for protest groups (www.theguardian.com)
Bill passed by Republican-dominated state senate may exacerbate deadly overcrowding in Fulton county jail
Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds (fortune.com)
Verdict in Trump’s New York fraud trial delayed until early to mid-February (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m fraud trial will be coming later than expected, with a decision expected in early to mid-February, a New York court spokesperson said on Thursday....
OnlyFans Owner Leonid Radvinsky Pledged $11 Million to Israel Lobby, Denies It Despite Appearing on Internal AIPAC Documents: Report (www.rollingstone.com)
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....
Chicago becomes latest US city to call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
Chicago is latest U.S. city to approve such a non-binding resolution, following Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco in recent months.
A child's body was found encased in concrete in Colorado as the search for 2 other kids continues (apnews.com)
A child's body was found encased in concrete in a Colorado storage unit, and Pueblo officers announced this week they are searching for two other children to determine if they are safe.
Syphilis cases rise to their highest levels since the 1950s, CDC says (www.mprnews.org)
The number of syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80 percent to more than 207,000 between 2018 and 2022....
House Republicans are moving forward with a bill that would overhaul student-loan repayment and make it harder for Biden to get relief to borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
House Republicans are reviewing a bill that would overhaul the student-loan system....
Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds (www.theguardian.com)
A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction....
Pennsylvania man arrested after allegedly killing his father and displaying his decapitated head on YouTube (www.nbcnews.com)
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father, before displaying his decapitated head in a gruesome YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories…...
Online news site The Messenger shuts down after less than a year (apnews.com)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50 million ratcheting up its business effort, abruptly shut down Wednesday after only eight months in operation....
US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say (www.bbc.com)
The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News....
Advertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits (www.pbs.org)
An advertising agency that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other prescription painkillers has agreed to pay U.S. states $350 million rather than face the possibility of trials over its role in the opioid crisis, attorneys general said Thursday....
17-year-old alleged ‘serial swatter’ charged after police say he made threats throughout the country (edition.cnn.com)
A Brief Guide to the Growing Eric Adams Donor Scandal (nymag.com)
Workers at Alabama Hyundai plant announce union as UAW drives deeper into Southeast (thehill.com)
Thirty percent of the workers at the sole Hyundai plant in the U.S., in Alabama, have joined the United Auto Workers (UAW)....
Alabama said he was too dangerous to parole. He’d been dead for 10 days. (www.al.com)
Massive taxidermy polar bear stolen in bizarre Canadian heist (www.bbc.com)
‘No end in sight’: Blackstone CEO doesn't think the US can handle another term under President Biden — or what he calls 'four more years' of debt misery. But is it really that bad? (finance.yahoo.com)
No charges for New Mexico officers who knocked on wrong door before fatal shooting (www.bbc.com)
Authorities in New Mexico will not seek charges against three police officers involved in a fatal shooting after arriving at the wrong house last year....
Biden sanctions Israeli settlers over West Bank violence (www.bbc.com)
He signed an executive order on Thursday, saying violence had reached “intolerable levels”....