Cooking spray burn victim awarded $7.1 million in damages after can 'exploded into a fireball' (abcnews.go.com)
FDA proposes ban on additive found in sodas (www.cnn.com)
The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed revoking its regulation authorizing the nationwide use of brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, as an additive in food....
City of Marion refuses to turn over records following newsroom raid that should be publicly available (www.kshb.com)
The attorney hired by the city of Marion following the raids on a Kansas newsroom has blocked access to records that should be publicly available under state law....
Justice Department opens civil rights probes into South Carolina jails beset by deaths and violence (apnews.com)
Two South Carolina jails where incarcerated people have died violently at the hands of employees or others held behind bars are under federal investigation, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday....
Cornell University cancels class Friday after student was charged with threatening its Jewish community (www.cnn.com)
Cornell University has canceled classes Friday to acknowledge the “extraordinary stress” its campus has been under as one of its students is accused of making violent antisemitic threats against Jewish people at the college, where unease over the Israel-Hamas war has been escalating for weeks....
Israel ‘severing all contact with Gaza’, will send Gazan workers back to enclave | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Israel will return Gazans working in the country back to the besieged Palestinian enclave, Israel’s Security Cabinet announced on Thursday, adding that it would also sever contact with Gaza.
HBO boss apologises for using fake Twitter accounts to troll TV critics (www.theguardian.com)
The HBO CEO and chairman, Casey Bloys, has apologised for tasking employees with creating fake Twitter accounts to attack TV critics....
Three charged with sending Russia electronics for Ukraine war (www.cnbc.com)
IRS raises 401(k), IRA contribution limits for 2024 (www.foxbusiness.com)
Beginning in 2024, workers will be allowed to contribute up to $23,000 to their 401(k), an increase of $500 from this year. The increase applies to other retirement savings accounts, including the 403(b) plan, most 457 plans and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan.
National Association of Realtors CEO steps down, days after the trade group was found liable for conspiracy to inflate rates (www.cnn.com)
Bob Goldberg, chief executive officer of the National Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest trade association, is stepping down, the organization announced Thursday.
Biden officials alarmed by soaring Palestinian death toll in Gaza (www.nbcnews.com)
US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo (www.commondreams.org)
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Ivanka Trump asks to pause NY fraud trial, says testimony during ‘school week’ creates ‘undue hardship’ (www.cnbc.com)
Ivanka Trump asked a New York appeals court to pause the $250 million fraud trial of her family and its business empire as she appeals a judge’s order requiring her to testify in the case next week....
“Racist and bigoted”: AOC claims AIPAC is an “extremist organization that destabilizes US democracy” (www.salon.com)
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Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries (www.cnbc.com)
Target CEO Brian Cornell says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries, as they feel stressed about their budgets....
Ivanka Trump's bid to block fraud trial testimony crashes and burns: report (www.rawstory.com)
Ivanka Trump has lost her appeal to try to overturn the order forcing her to testify in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, reported Law360's Frank G. Runyeon on Thursday evening."Ivanka Trump must testify after NY appellate court rejects her bid to freeze her trial subpoena," wrote R...
Los Angeles Wants Its Citizens to Stay at Home for the 2028 Olympics (www.bloomberg.com)
Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
Ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of defrauding FTX customers (www.reuters.com)
Newspaper publisher and reporter arrested and accused of revealing grand jury information (apnews.com)
A smalltown newspaper publisher and reporter in Alabama were arrested after authorities accused them of publishing an article that revealed information about a grand jury investigation involving the local school system.
Australian woman charged with murder over suspected death cap mushroom poisonings (www.cnn.com)
Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning.
'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud (www.bbc.co.uk)
Australian police charge a woman with 3 murders in alleged mushroom poisoning (www.npr.org)
It’s the kind of story a mystery novelist might conjure. But for months, a real murder case has been playing out in a small Australian town where three people died after eating a family meal that was suspected to contain poisonous death cap mushrooms.