South Korea conducts 3rd solid-fuel space rocket test (www.aa.com.tr)
‘Near-total internet blackout’ as Israel attacks Gaza’s south (www.aljazeera.com)
State Department: No evidence Israel is deliberately targeting civilians (abcnews.go.com)
Protesters outside United Nations highlight sex assaults of women during Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel (www.cbsnews.com)
American woman killed in shark attack in the Bahamas (abcnews.go.com)
Hamas Held Some Female Hostages Fearing They Would Tell Public With What Really Happened, US Official Suggests (themessenger.com)
Derek Chauvin is released from the hospital and is back in prison after being stabbed by inmate (www.nbcnews.com)
Chauvin, who was convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, was allegedly stabbed with an “improvised knife” Nov. 24 while in the law library at Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, by inmate John Turscak, 52, according to a criminal complaint.
Former US ambassador to Bolivia arrested for acting as foreign agent for Cuba for 40 years, DOJ says (abcnews.go.com)
Federal prosecutors say as early as 1981 and continuing to present day, former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha secretly supported Cuba and its intelligence services by serving as an agent for the communist government against the U.S....
George Santos Movie In Works At HBO Films From ‘Veep’ EP Frank Rich (deadline.com)
The meteoric political rise of George Santos and the web of fabulist tales it was built on are getting a movie treatment. HBO Films has optioned the rights to Mark Chiusano’s new book The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, which was published on November 28, 2023....
Authorities Announce Arrest Of Man In Killings Of 3 Unhoused People Across LA (laist.com)
Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn. (www.propublica.org)
For Augustine and her colleagues, few things were more frustrating than knowing that NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) had empowered museums to decide whether Indigenous people had a valid connection to their ancestors. These were the same institutions that had collected the human remains and...
Switzerland's Banque Pictet admits hiding billions from US tax authorities (www.reuters.com)
According to prosecutors, U.S. taxpayers with Pictet accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere evaded about $50.6 million in taxes between 2008 and 2014. As part of the agreement, Banque Pictet agreed to pay $122.9 million to the U.S. Treasury....
BBC Says It Was Shut Down By Paramount PRs When Questioning Kelsey Grammer On His Support For Donald Trump (deadline.com)
Kelsey Grammer sounded curt this morning when he brusquely told a BBC Today program interviewer that he still supports Donald Trump but, according to his interviewer, this curtness doesn’t tell the full story....
California faculty at largest US university system launch strike for better pay (apnews.com)
Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., will hold a series of four one-day strikes starting Monday across four campuses to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches and other workers....
Former chair of Ohio utility regulator surrenders in $60 million bribery scheme linked to energy bill (www.pbs.org)
Ohio’s former top utility regulator surrendered Monday in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme related to a legislative bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker....
Did Hamas Make Millions Betting Against Israeli Shares Before October 7 Massacre? (www.haaretz.com)
Former Harvard disinformation scholar says she was pushed out of her job after college faced pressure from Facebook (www.cnn.com)
A nationally recognized online disinformation researcher has accused Harvard University of shutting down the project she led to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg....
OxyContin maker's bankruptcy deal goes before the Supreme Court, with billions of dollars at stake (apnews.com)
Supreme Court tackles Sackler family liability protections in opioid settlement (www.nbcnews.com)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work? (www.npr.org)
For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. Will commercial companies sprint to the finish?
The new American dream is leaving the U.S. (www.axios.com)
Atlanta police use Signal to discuss ‘Cop City’ amid outcry over transparency (www.theguardian.com)
'Burns me to a crisp': Farmers allege link between popular herbicide paraquat and Parkinson's disease (abcnews.go.com)
