Kansas City Cops Raped and Terrorized Black Residents With Impunity: Lawsuit (www.vice.com)
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Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)
Republicans demand Biden challenge China's Xi on fentanyl, prisoners (www.reuters.com)
Rare Titanic first-class menu, pocket watch belonging to victim hit auction (www.foxbusiness.com)
Rare, ‘unique’ items from RMS Titanic to be sold by UK-based auction house
Man crushed to death by industrial robot that confused him for a box: police (www.foxbusiness.com)
A man in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot that may have mistaken him for a box, according to reports....
The lazy, entitled millennials trope just doesn’t hold up. Whoopi in hot water again... (www.msnbc.com)
Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States (projects.propublica.org)
US Commercial fishing groups sue tire manufacturers over fish-killing chemical (www.reuters.com)
Nonbinary Teacher in Florida Fired for Using Mx. Title (www.advocate.com)
The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
Former Middle School Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing Boy in Classroom, Giving Him Alcohol: Police (people.com)
Police say a former student came forward claiming that when he was 14, Melissa Curtis, 31, sexually abused him
EXCLUSIVE: San Lorenzo school board responds after special needs kids lost by staff (abc7news.com)
SAN LORENZO, Calif. (KGO) – We’re hearing from San Lorenzo Unified School District board members after a 5-year-old boy with special needs wandered from Del Rey Elementary School without staff noticing and was found a third of a mile away from the school by a driver.
Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95 (apnews.com)
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95....
After Getting Stuck in a Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, This Barred Owl Is Now Flying Free (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Created by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in the late 1990s, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is a large, colorful sculpture depicting this once-common but now obsolete tool. It stands outdoors at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Joe Manchin: West Virginia Democrat says he will not seek re-election (www.bbc.com)
Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years (www.bbc.com)
A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.
Judge in Alaska upholds Biden administration's approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project (apnews.com)
Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
"600+ person-years of effort" have not stopped the site from losing $30M a year.
Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website, is shutting down after 16 years - The Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
Family shares updates on Bruce Willis's dementia (news.sky.com)
Bruce Willis’s daughter Tallulah has spoken about her father’s “really aggressive” dementia and why it is so important for her family to be open about it....
Anish Kapoor’s Controversial Vantablack Works Finally Make Their U.S. Debut. See Them Here (news.artnet.com)
The first headlines came way back in 2014. British Indian artist Anish Kapoor was experimenting with Vantablack, a newly invented material said to be the blackest black ever made....
Brad Raffensperger: USPS Intercepted Fentanyl-Laced Envelopes Addressed To Election Officials (www.mediaite.com)
$2 bill could be worth thousands, depending on age and condition (www.foxbusiness.com)
According to the U.S. Currency Auctions’ Pricing guide, depending on certain factors, a $2 bill — aka the “Tom” with its portrait of third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson — could be worth a lot more, even up to $5,000....
Woman arrested for threatening to kill Texas federal judge in abortion pill case (www.reuters.com)
A woman was arrested in Florida on Wednesday on charges that she threatened to kill a Texas federal judge who earlier this year suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, according to court records....
Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins (www.npr.org)
On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they’d been chewed through by rats the...
