Why it’s so hard to find an apartment you can afford (us.cnn.com)
Stalled US aid for Ukraine underscores GOP's shift away from confronting Russia (apnews.com)
At about 2 a.m. last Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin....
John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court (www.theguardian.com)
Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire....
Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar (www.eso.org)
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies and they are powered by supermassive black holes. The...
Pope prays for peace in Sudan, and Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Israel declared Brazilian President Lula da Silva “persona non grata” - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Rafah: War cabinet minister Benny Gantz says ground offensive will begin by Ramadan if hostages aren’t returned | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Texas nationalists rage at power grid plans (www.newsweek.com)
Louisiana governor declares state of emergency due to police shortage (abcnews.go.com)
Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage....
What's at stake for Trump, Haley in South Carolina's primary (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump wants to make South Carolina the end of the road for Nikki Haley in their battle for the Republican nomination. Haley aims to survive and take their fight into the multistate Super Tuesday contest in March....
‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana (www.theguardian.com)
Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor...
New York lobbyists ‘aiding and abetting’ climate crisis, research reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Lobbying firms work double-duty, representing political interests of victims and perpetrators of climate change in state capital...
U.S. military reports 1st Houthi unmanned underwater vessel in Red Sea (www.cbsnews.com)
US admiral says the fight against the Houthis in the Red Sea is the largest battle the Navy's fought since World War Ii (www.businessinsider.com)
Neo-Nazis march in Nashville, leave after being challenged (www.nbcnews.com)
The group left in a U-Haul box truck that was driven out of the county, police said, indicating the demonstrators were outsiders....
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’...
Arrests made after girl's body found encased in concrete and boy's remains in a suitcase (abcnews.go.com)
Police have arrested two people on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl’s body encased in concrete and a boy’s remains in a suitcase in Colorado...
A 19-Year-Old Died After Taking ‘Gas Station Heroin’. His Mom Wonders Why It’s Still Being Sold Legally. (www.vice.com)
Johnathon Morrison’s mother helped get tianeptine banned in Alabama. But she says it makes her “sick” it is still being sold in stores across the U.S....
Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China' (news.sky.com)
He was responding to a question about the cancellation of his exhibition by the Lisson Gallery in London in November following comments on social media referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict....
Knesset to vote on expulsion of MK Ofer Cassif over signing ICJ petition (www.haaretz.com)
The expulsion vote was prompted by the Hadash party lawmaker’s support for South Africa’s genocide case at the ICJ....
Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff (www.nbcnews.com)
Russia takes full control of Avdiivka, as Kyiv decries ‘artificial deficit’ in ammo (www.politico.eu)
“Ukrainian soldiers had to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies,” US President Biden says in pushing for approval of more American aid....
A broke Chinese real estate developer left Los Angeles with empty, graffiti-covered towers and a billion-dollar bill (www.businessinsider.com)
Two police officers and firefighter fatally shot after call in Minneapolis suburbs (www.theguardian.com)
Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns (apnews.com)
The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....
