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Man dies while in custody at Rikers Island on same day new scathing report released by federal monitor (www.cbsnews.com)

A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)

Russian Kh-59 missile factory struck by multiple drones: Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)

Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown (www.nbcnews.com)

A shutdown that would halt pay for military families and government workers comes at a particularly precarious time for many households that are already struggling financially....

Biden to walk the picket line in Michigan to support UAW strikers (www.cnn.com)

President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday and walk the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union, he announced Friday, a trip that comes after the president faced political pressure to ramp up his public support for the union members....

Hollywood studios, writers near agreement to end strike, hope to finalize deal Thursday, sources say (www.cnbc.com)

Judge who approved raid on Kansas newspaper has history of DUI arrests (www.kansas.com)

The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence

Neighbors say a Chicago man charged with killing an 8-year-old girl was upset over noise (apnews.com)

A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after witnesses say an 8-year-old girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise.

Minneapolis ex-officer sentenced to nearly 5 years in Floyd killing (www.reuters.com)

Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest....

'Top secret' Hamas documents show that terrorists intentionally targeted elementary schools and a youth center | NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)

Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.

FBI arrests redheaded cosplayer dubbed 'Conan O'Riot' by Jan. 6 sleuths (www.nbcnews.com)

An alleged Jan. 6 participant who online sleuths dubbed “Conan O’Riot” due to his resemblance to former late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien was arrested by the FBI this week....

After Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion access moves to New Mexico (apnews.com)

“As the laws in this country change before our very eyes,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said on the day Roe was reversed, “I will continue to fight for the right to a safe, legal abortion in New Mexico and stand as a brick wall against those who seek to punish women and their doctors just because they seek the care they...

Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white (abcnews.go.com)

A jury previously awarded Shannon Phillips $25.6 million.

New York appoints famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth as state’s loneliness ambassador (thehill.com)

If you didn’t know she was still alive, I didn’t either. Apparently she’s 95

Panera adds warnings about caffeinated lemonade after suit over student’s death (www.theguardian.com)

Family sued after Sarah Katz died last year after drinking Charged Lemonade, apparently unaware of soda’s high caffeine content

Texas prison guards put inmate into potentially permanent coma (www.hppr.org)

The violent incident saw seven guards fired, six resign, and the state said they used “excessive force.”...

MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown (www.newsweek.com)

Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses (www.bbc.com)

A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run".

K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce (www.clickorlando.com)

White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid (apnews.com)

Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating? (www.nytimes.com)

Inmate Deaths Raise Questions About Temperatures in Oklahoma Prisons (oklahomawatch.org)

Tonya Wilson Peel, a former correctional case manager at Dick Conner who worked alongside Lanford during her employment at the prison, said he had a sharp sense of humor and loved his job making license plates for the State of Oklahoma. She said Lanford had complained of excessive heat for several weeks leading up to his death...

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