The first Bob Ross work from ‘The Joy of Painting’ is on sale (www.cnn.com)
It’s hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start....
Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)
Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....
Cyberdog, the Internet's Most Iconic Cartoon, Goes Up For Auction (gizmodo.com)
Explosion at world’s largest railyard in Nebraska prompts evacuations because of heavy toxic smoke (apnews.com)
An explosion inside a shipping container at the world’s largest railyard prompted evacuations in western Nebraska Thursday because of the toxic smoke generated when one of the chemicals aboard caught fire....
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law restricting release of her travel, security records (apnews.com)
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law Thursday restricting release of her travel and security records after the Legislature wrapped up a special session marked by a fight to more broadly scale back the state Freedom of Information Act....
Miami city commissioner charged with bribery and money laundering (abcnews.go.com)
A city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering was arrested Thursday on multiple corruption charges, officials said....
Biden and Zelensky to meet in US next week (www.cnn.com)
US President Joe Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week around the United Nations General Assembly meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the plans....
Some traders bet on a cataclysmic stock sell-off in December (creditnews.com)
Some traders are betting that the stock market will go into a cataclysmic selloff that could make the Covid crash look like a picnic....
LAPD assistant chief is investigated over allegations he stalked a subordinate (www.latimes.com)
An assistant Los Angeles police chief is under internal investigation after a subordinate he was dating filed a police report alleging he tried to stalk her.
UAW members go on strike at three key auto plants after deal deadline passes (www.cnbc.com)
UAW to target strikes at Ford, GM and Stellantis at midnight if no deal reached (www.cnn.com)
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Thursday night said the union will strike all the Big Three automakers – GM, Ford and Stellantis – at the same time as of midnight if the companies do not reach tentative labor deals with the auto workers....
Fentanyl plus stimulants drives ‘fourth wave’ of overdose epidemic in the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.S. is in the throes of what researchers have deemed a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, a phase characterized by overdose deaths caused by the combination of stimulants and the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl....
Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know. (www.nature.com)
U.S. school shootings hit another annual record high (www.axios.com)
Frost rips into McCarthy, GOP: They ‘care more about themselves and their politics than you’ (thehill.com)
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) attacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on the floor of the House on Thursday, saying that his caucus is a “circus” and can’t gather enough votes to pass any significant legislation....
Supporters of Native activist Leonard Peltier hold White House rally, urging Biden to grant clemency (apnews.com)
Hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied outside the White House on Tuesday to support Leonard Peltier on the imprisoned activist’s 79th birthday, holding signs and chanting slogans urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency to the Native American leader....
Georgia teacher who read book about gender identity appeals firing (www.axios.com)
The Cobb County teacher who was fired last month after reading a book about gender identity to her students has appealed her termination to the State Board of Education.
Republicans soften on federal marijuana reform in a shift that could make it a reality (www.nbcnews.com)
Cannabis reform is moving one step closer to reality at the federal level, with a committee hearing on a bipartisan bill to expand banking services for legal marijuana businesses expected to take place at the end of the month, according to multiple people directly involved in the process....
Biden administration restores the power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways (abcnews.go.com)
Cleveland police officers who pulled people over and robbed them sentenced to prison (www.nbcnews.com)
Their arrests are connected to a wider investigation into the East Cleveland Police Department for corruption....
SEC Charges Connecticut Advisory Firm GlennCap and its Owner with Cherry-Picking. (www.sec.gov)
Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows (www.theguardian.com)
Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states...
Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin to resume abortion care after judge’s ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Announcement comes after July ruling that 1849 abortion law does not apply in significant victory for abortion rights in midwest...
IRS will pause taking claims for pandemic-era tax credit due to an influx of fraudulent claims (apnews.com)
The Internal Revenue Service is pausing accepting claims for a pandemic-era tax credit until 2024 due to rising concerns that an influx of applications are fraudulent....