O'Hare shuttle bus crash at Terminal 5 kills 80-year-old driver, coroner says (abc7chicago.com)
The driver of a a shuttle bus that crashed at O’Hare Airport Friday morning has died, the Cook County coroner confirmed....
Former Google recruiter shares 7 toxic phrases bosses use that are 'major red flags' (www.cnbc.com)
Medicare's priciest drugs may get cheaper as feds start negotiations. Big Pharma objects. (www.usatoday.com)
The Biden administration this week is expected to announce the first 10 prescription drugs the federal government will negotiate under a new federal law that aims to reduce the cost of Medicare’s most expensive medicines....
Jacksonville killings refocus attention on the city's racist past and the struggle to move on (apnews.com)
By some measures, the city was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people Saturday by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism continue to fester in Jacksonville, Florida....
Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? (www.theguardian.com)
Big corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft.
Webb telescope spots cosmic question mark in space | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Tampa mayor finds big catch off Florida Keys: 70 pounds of cocaine (www.nbcnews.com)
Mayor Jane Castor, a former police chief, recognized the package floating in the Atlantic as a bundle of cocaine, a city spokesperson said.
Illinois will make history as result of state supreme court decision on cash bail law (www.abajournal.com)
The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail.
Tesla directors agree to return $735m to settle claims they were grossly overpaid (www.theguardian.com)
Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols (www.bbc.com)
Iranian police are resuming controversial patrols to ensure women obey dress codes and cover their hair in public, state media reports.
Psychedelics can have enormous benefits but risks shouldn't be ignored (www.vox.com)
The term “psychedelic” was coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond: “To fathom Hell or go angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic.” But today’s public messaging around psychedelics has a dangerous tendency to gloss over the “fathoming hell” part, which has been euphemized into the language of a “bad” or...
Myanmar resistance claims first capture of a district capital from the military government (apnews.com)
San Jose officer fired after sending racially biased, ‘disgusting’ messages, police say (www.cnn.com)
A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata....
Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Vaccine misinformation, which first began spiraling during the Covid-19 pandemic, has grown in the United States in the years since, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Millions of fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles (thehill.com)
How the Biden administration tried to slow Israel’s invasion of Gaza (www.washingtonpost.com)
Jim Jordan will back empowering interim speaker Patrick McHenry temporarily (www.nbcnews.com)
The resolution to empower McHenry, appointed as speaker pro tempore after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Oct. 3, may also not have the votes, according to this source.
New York authorities are searching for 9-year-old Charlotte Sena who vanished while biking on a camping trip in a state park (www.cnn.com)
The girl was last seen around 6:15 p.m. ET riding her bike in one of the park’s loops, Lt. Colonel Richard L. Mazzone, of the New York State Police, said in the news conference....
Travel website Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket (www.theguardian.com)
Travel website Booking.com has left many hotel operators and other partners across the globe thousands of dollars out of pocket for months on end, blaming the lack of payment on a “technical issue”....
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns the world isn't ready for 7% interest rate (www.cnn.com)
Australia ‘better prepared’ for bushfires than ahead of black summer as government considers national community service (www.theguardian.com)
Emergency services minister says service would likely be voluntary as government ‘wouldn’t want to commit to obliging people or forcing them’
NYC day care operator tried to cover up fentanyl operation before 1-year-old's death, feds allege (apnews.com)
Officials say they discovered a kilogram of fentanyl stored on top of playmats used by children who attended the day care, which was run out of a small Bronx apartment. They also found multiple devices for mixing the powder with other narcotics and pressing it into bricks.
Yale Students Got a Terrifying Message. From the Campus Police. (www.nytimes.com)
Andre Fa’aoso, an incoming first-year student at Yale, has been in the United States for 12 days. He arrived from New Zealand on his own, three suitcases in tow....
Heavy drinking, handgun-carrying linked among rural youth (www.eurekalert.org)
In the rural United States, an adolescent who drinks heavily has a 43% greater probability of carrying a handgun in the following year, according to a study published this month in The Journal of Rural Health....