More companies, especially airlines, warn higher costs will eat into profits (www.cnbc.com)
The first Bob Ross work from ‘The Joy of Painting’ is on sale (www.cnn.com)
It’s hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start....
Biden and Zelensky to meet in US next week (www.cnn.com)
US President Joe Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week around the United Nations General Assembly meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the plans....
Top Biden adviser was advising Madigan on #MeToo crisis while her firm was helping woman suing former speaker (chicago.suntimes.com)
A top adviser to President Joe Biden, whose prominent communications firm helped launch a high-profile effort to assist victims of sexual harassment, rape and assault, was also a paid adviser to a powerful Illinois politician while he was being sued by one of those victims....
California school district to pay $2.25M to settle suit involving teacher who had student's baby (abcnews.go.com)
A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing....
Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors, end race-based hiring | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Conservative delegates voted Saturday to add some new social conservative policies to their policy playbook including a proposal to limit access to transgender health care for minors and to do away with vaccine mandates.
Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays (finance.yahoo.com)
Justice Department Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring (www.justice.gov)
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider...
Doctors, patients try to shame insurers online to reverse authorization denials (www.nbcnews.com)
Insurers say prior authorization helps control costs by preventing medically unnecessary care, but patients say the process can delay or deny access to needed treatments.
Yellowknife residents wonder if wildfires are the new normal as western Canada burns (www.npr.org)
Judge orders FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried to jail after bail revoked (www.theguardian.com)
Lewis Kaplan says he has cause to believe defendant ‘had tried to tamper with witnesses at least twice’ since December arrest
Canadian border agents seize $6 million in cocaine at North Dakota entry point (apnews.com)
Canadian border agents seized nearly 140 pounds (63 kilograms) of cocaine worth $6 million from a commercial truck seeking to enter the country from northeastern North Dakota, officials said.
NASA loses contact with ISS after power outage in Texas, uses backup system for first time (www.euronews.com)
Australian sailor and his dog survive two months at sea (www.bbc.com)
An Australian sailor who survived two months in the Pacific Ocean by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater is “stable and very well”, a doctor says.
Sullivan says 9 U.S. citizens, 1 green card holder missing after Hamas attack (thehill.com)
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that nine Americans and one green card holder were still unaccounted for following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7....
Missouri School District being investigated for disenrolling students without giving their parents due process (www.stlpr.org)
In March, a frustrated parent wrote an email to the Hazelwood School District. Her daughter had been kicked out of Jamestown Elementary School after the district conducted an investigation into where the family lived....
F.B.I. Says Israel-Hamas War Raises Potential for Attack Against Americans (www.nytimes.com)
Highlights: The F.B.I. director warned Tuesday that the Israel-Hamas war had raised the potential for an attack against Americans to a new level and escalated threats against Jews and Muslims in the United States....
BBC Confirm Policy Change On Describing Hamas In Meeting With Jewish Leaders (www.mediaite.com)
Following weeks of backlash the BBC will reportedly no longer refer to Hamas as “militants” opting instead to describe them as "a proscribed terrorist organisation" or simply "Hamas." This shift in policy by the public service broadcaster was announced by the Board of Deputies of British Jews in a press release on Friday,...
This isnt actually the first time microplastics have been found like this, but it will be the first we properly study the effects. (uk.yahoo.com)
Having talked to a Doctor friend about this he suggests the only safe way to deal with it is to draw blood, to dispose of it, and let the body recover. He had some concern that some of the plastic was as small as blood cells and platelets so might be too hard to filter out. But I guess research will look at that.
Three female doctors sue L.A. County, alleging it ignored complaints about an abusive boss at Harbor-UCLA hospital (www.nbcnews.com)
One plaintiff says she witnessed Dr. Louis Kwong sticking his finger in surgical hip wounds on an unconscious patient while making sexual sounds and saying he was “finding the G-spot.”...
Inside the cult of Buc-ee’s: How a Texas gas station became the people’s pump | CNN (www.cnn.com)
‘He wasn’t raping her’: Woody Allen defends Spanish football boss over World Cup kiss (www.smh.com.au)
Director Woody Allen says Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales should not lose his job for forcibly kissing a player on the lips after the Women’s World Cup final, saying it was not like he murdered someone or burnt down a school....
‘Hellscape’: DOD launches massive drone swarm program to counter China (www.defenseone.com)
China’s most important asset in potential war with the United States is “mass,” says Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks: “More ships. More missiles. More people.”...
School district in South Texas temporarily closes due to uptick in COVID-19 cases (www.ksat.com)
A school district in South Texas is closing temporarily after seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases among students and staff members....
US, Japan and South Korea condemn 'dangerous and aggressive actions' by China (www.reuters.com)
The United States prevailed on Japan and South Korea on Friday to use their strongest language yet in a joint statement to condemn China’s “dangerous and aggressive actions” in the South China Sea.
