Dominican Republic rains kill at least 21, displace thousands (www.reuters.com)
Illinois governor ‘deeply concerned’ by Trump rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi era (www.theguardian.com)
Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter and former first lady, dies aged 96 (www.theguardian.com)
Argentina Takes Leap Into Unknown With Javier Milei as President (www.bloomberg.com)
Yaccarino On Hot Seat As Ad Execs Urge Twitter CEO To Resign (www.forbes.com)
In the aftermath of IBM, Disney and Apple pausing spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, top advertising executives made a personal appeal to CEO Linda Yaccarino.
Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m (www.theartnewspaper.com)
Michael Maurello is also expected to pay back what he he stole from the museum
Grove City [ohio] business aims to provide vital opportunities for autistic adults (abc6onyourside.com)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Changing lives and futures through opportunity. A Grove City company is taking a unique approach to celebrate and support adults with autism.
Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.
Israel rebuts report of casualties from friendly fire on October 7 (www.i24news.tv)
One poorly sourced claim in a Haaretz report spawned a wave of October 7 denialism on social media...
Suzanne Shepherd, Actress in The Sopranos and Goodfellas, Dead at 89: 'Force of Nature' (people.com)
Shepherd, who played Carmella Soprano’s mother in the HBO series, died “peacefully in her home” on Friday
A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages (www.nytimes.com)
Amazon warns workers who don’t return to the office will have a harder time getting promoted (www.cnn.com)
Amazon is once again doubling down on its return-to-office mandate, warning staff that not complying could impact their chances of being promoted....
DeSantis won't condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. 'I did not see the comment,' he says (apnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform....
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of the 39th president and advocate for mental health, dies at 96 (abcnews.go.com)
Houthi rebels hijack 'Israeli' cargo ship, report says; Netanyahu: 'Iranian attack against international vessel' (www.ynetnews.com)
Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
School district and The Satanic Temple reach agreement in lawsuit over After School Satan Club (apnews.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Saucon Valley School District had agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney’s fees and to provide The Satanic Temple and the After School Satan Club it sponsors the same access to school facilities as is provided to other organizations....
Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage (apnews.com)
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they hijacked the ship over its connection to Israel and took the crew as hostages. The group warned that it would continue to target ships in international waters that were linked to or owned by Israelis until the end of Israel’s campaign against Gaza’s Hamas rulers....
Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller (www.reuters.com)
The Cole County, Missouri jury found on Friday that Bayer’s Monsanto business was liable for claims of negligence, design defects and failing to warn plaintiffs of the potential dangers of using Roundup, according to court documents....
In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns (deadline.com)
Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X (www.npr.org)
“I wanted to create a moment for Lagos on the global art calendar,” says Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, the founder of Art X, sitting in a chic private booth within the fair. “A moment that brought the rest of Africa together here and enabled us on home soil to encounter those around the world and ourselves.”
Stocks and your 401(k) may surge now that Fed rate hikes seem to be over, history shows (www.usatoday.com)
News this week that inflation eased more than expected in October solidified the view that the Federal Reserve is done with its most aggressive rate-hike campaign in four decades....
Ex-federal prison guard sentenced to 8 years in sex abuse scandal (www.nbcnews.com)
Eight correctional officers at FCI Dublin have been charged. The U.S. inspector general said there was a “culture of sexual abuse” of female inmates.
With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies (www.nbcnews.com)
At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years....