Rite Aid, Facing Slumping Sales and Opioid Suits, Files for Bankruptcy (www.nytimes.com)
I-25 both directions closed after train derails north of Pueblo (www.cbsnews.com)
I-25 is closed going both directions after a train derailed just north of Pueblo Sunday afternoon....
Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material (www.theguardian.com)
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act for its failure to meet basic online safety expectations....
FDA plans to propose ban on hair-straightening chemical products linked to health risks (www.cnn.com)
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to propose a ban on certain hair-straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, that have been linked to health risks, according to an entry in the Unified Agenda, which lists actions that administrative agencies plan to issue....
Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured (www.who.int)
As the United Nation’s agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000 inpatients in northern Gaza. The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian...
71-year-old man targeted 6-year-old boy, woman in deadly Plainfield Illinois stabbing because they are Muslim: detectives say (abc7chicago.com)
Landlord charged with hate crime, accused of stabbing 6-year-old tenant to death allegedly because family is Muslim (www.cnn.com)
Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death in Gaza war-related killing in US (www.aljazeera.com)
The boy, 6, was stabbed 26 times with large military-style knife, according to autopsy, while his mother is in hospital.
Child’s Grave Unearths Ancient Mystery: 9,000-Year-Old Necklace Redefines Neolithic Culture (scitechdaily.com)
An ancient necklace from a child’s grave in Jordan reveals the Neolithic culture’s social intricacies, highlighting the importance of adornments and suggesting complex societal dynamics of the period. Final physical reconstruction of the necklace, today exposed at the new museum of Petra in Jordan.
A Palestinian kid paying farewell to his mom killed by Israel airstrikes in Gaza genocide (lemmy.ml)
Southern MN high school cancels homecoming events after racist incident at student's home (bringmethenews.com)
72-year-old man charged with sexually abusing wheelchair-bound child near Antioch (www.lakemchenryscanner.com)
New Orleans school's teacher assistant booked with child pornography, fired (www.nola.com)
The war between Israel and Hamas is testing the Republican Party's isolationist shift (apnews.com)
Nikki Haley vowed to stand with Israel “every step of the way.” She promised to “decimate” the Iranian economy. And she called for continued funding for Ukraine as it fights to repel the Russian invasion....
Man attacked by grizzly bear in Montana to return home after losing his lower jaw, says he's ready for 'round 2' (www.cnn.com)
Rudy Noorlander, who lost part of his jaw in a grizzly bear attack in Montana last month, says he’s looking forward to a special treat as he prepares to leave the hospital....
A Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires (apnews.com)
Charles and Kathleen Moore are about to have their day in the Supreme Court over a $15,000 tax bill they contend is unconstitutional....
Palestinians fleeing to the south find no escape from danger (www.reuters.com)
If paywalled, read here instead: bdnews24.com/world/middle-east/v77h2g1dym...
Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic (14 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Enshittification is the process by which a platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):...
It’s not just Paris. There’s a "global resurgence" of bedbugs. (www.vox.com)
It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.
Fears rise as 3 maternity units prepare to close in Alabama (www.nbcnews.com)
The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
China says Israel acting 'beyond scope of self-defense' (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's remarks came as Israel appeared poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza.
The military conducted testing in their neighborhood during the Cold War. Now, these former residents are demanding answers - and restitution (www.cnn.com)
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army sprayed chemicals around the Pruitt-Igoe housing development as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips lived in the development and say the chemicals, which the Army maintains were nontoxic, have made people sick.
Gaza residents lose entire families, fear more destruction (www.reuters.com)
N.J. corrections official at center of corruption probe demoted after DUI arrest (newjerseymonitor.com)
State corrections officials have demoted and stopped paying a top Department of Corrections official who got arrested last week after police accused her of causing an August drunken driving crash in Ocean County that seriously injured an elderly woman....
