A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry (www.wired.com)
Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy after $148M defamation judgment (abcnews.go.com)
John Schneider (Dukes of Hazard, Smallville) calls for Joe Biden to be executed (www.newsweek.com)
Mass shooting in the center of Prague: 15 deaths confirmed (www.telegraph.co.uk)
International traveler tests positive for measles after arriving in Colorado, visiting several counties (www.cbsnews.com)
An international traveler to Colorado has tested positive for measles. The adolescent arrived at Denver International Airport on Dec. 13 and visited several counties in the state in the past week....
Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
Scientists in California shooting nearly 200 lasers at a cylinder holding a fuel capsule the size of a peppercorn have taken another step in the quest for fusion energy, which, if mastered, could provide the world with a near-limitless source of clean power....
Wayfair CEO sends a harsh wake-up call to employees (www.thestreet.com)
The CEO recently informed employees that further blurring the line between work and life is the recipe for success and is pushing for staff to put in more overtime, according to an email Shah wrote to his employees, which was obtained by Business Insider last week....
Gunman kills 10 people in Prague university shooting (www.reuters.com)
Obamacare Enrollment Sets Another Record Even As Trump Threatens The Law Yet Again (www.forbes.com)
A record 19 million Americans are expected to purchase individual coverage, also known as Obamacare, via the health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act for the 2024 coverage year....
Trump’s deal with LIV Golf is awkward for his impeachment-happy allies (www.washingtonpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9827143...
Palestinians support Hamas decision to go to war with Israel, survey suggests, with no political solution on horizon (www.cnn.com)
CNN reporting on some interesting survey results from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. Seven hundred and fifty adults were interviewed face to face in the West Bank, and 481 were interviewed in Gaza, also in person. The Gaza data collection was done during the recent truce, when it was safer for...
International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing (apnews.com)
An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon by decade’s end under an agreement announced Wednesday by NASA and the White House....
Los Angeles Orders More Residential Hotels to Stop Renting to Tourists (www.propublica.org)
Twenty-one hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent housing for the city’s poorest residents....
More US auto buyers are turning to hybrids as sales of electric vehicles slow (apnews.com)
America’s automakers have staked their futures on the notion that electric vehicles will dominate sales in the coming years, spurred by buyers determined to reduce carbon emissions and save on fuel....
Wisconsin Republican proposal to legalize medical marijuana coming in January (apnews.com)
Wisconsin Republicans plan to unveil a proposal soon to legalize medical marijuana in the state and could vote on it sometime in 2024, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said....
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people (www.latimes.com)
If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on?...
As Los Angeles Politicians Trade Barbs, Jail Deaths Keep Mounting (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/los-angeles-county-board-of-sup…
This Agency Is Supposed to Monitor New York's Jails. Is Anyone Monitoring It? (nysfocus.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/new-york-jail-prison-correction…
Do audits actually matter?
The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren’t relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?...
These Oklahomans Needed Mental Health Care. Instead, They Died in Jail. (oklahomawatch.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/these-oklahomans-needed-mental-…
Florida State Guard unit received weapons training for migrant responses (www.tampabay.com)
The training sessions, authorized this summer following a surge in migrant arrivals by boat to the Keys, mostly from Cuba and Haiti, were for a specialized unit of the Florida State Guard, revived last year by the Florida Legislature. The unit that received the training has the power to make arrests and carry weapons under state...
A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him (apnews.com)
It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think....
'Total systemic breakdown': Missteps over years allowed Detroit serial killer to roam free (apnews.com)
Unaffordable rents are linked to premature death, Princeton study finds (www.cnbc.com)
Renters burdened by unaffordable housing costs may be at a higher risk of dying sooner, according to a new study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine....
A Frederick Douglass mural in his hometown in Maryland draws some divisions (www.npr.org)
A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.
