New York Daily News and Forbes staffers walk out amid US media job cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Florida students protest imminent closing of university LGBTQ center (www.nbcnews.com)
Nancy Pelosi Made $500,000 From Her Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) Bet, Doubling Her Annual Government Salary In Just 2 Months (finance.yahoo.com)
Italia. Ora legale tutto l'anno, quando? (www.caserta24ore.it) Italian
Quando in Italia l’ora legale sara’ in vigore tutto l’anno? Perche’ conviene? Oggi 26 gennaio alle ore 18 il sole e’ tramontato ma un piccolo bagliore di luce ancora c’e’. Pensiamo se invece che le 18 fossero state le 19. Un’ora in piu’ di luce. D’altra parte la mattina alle alle 7:00 gia’ si vede la luce...
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone (www.nytimes.com)
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump wrote messages on Twitter warning that increased reliance on mail-in ballots would lead to a “rigged election,” the platform ran a corrective, debunking his claims....
Florida advances law banning children under 16 from using social media (www.theguardian.com)
Bill would prohibit teenagers from creating an account, and is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled senate...
Extremists Call for ‘Civil War’ and ‘Secession’ Over Texas Border Ruling (www.vice.com)
They do this all the time. Maybe Biden should call their bluff, execute his powers as Commander in Chief, and order the National Guard in Texas to turn on State Police.
Feds will try Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey for a third time (reason.com)
WWE Founder Vince McMahon Accused of Sexual Abuse and Trafficking in Lawsuit by Former Employee (variety.com)
CONTENT WARNING: This article describes graphic accusations of SA.
Peter Navarro: Ex-Trump adviser sentenced for contempt of Congress (www.bbc.com)
Peter Navarro, a former senior trade adviser to Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress....
Biden to deploy CIA director to help broker major Gaza deal (www.washingtonpost.com)
President Biden plans to dispatch CIA Director William J. Burns in the coming days to help broker an ambitious deal between Hamas and Israel that would involve the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza and the longest cessation of hostilities since the war began last year, according to officials familiar with the...
Proposed CA bill would electronically restrict cars from going 10mph over speed limit (abc7.com)
44% of Americans can't pay an unexpected $1,000 expense from savings. ‘We're just not wired to save,’ expert says (www.cnbc.com)
When faced with an unexpected $1,000 expense, more than one-third of Americans would borrow the money, according to a new Bankrate survey. That may include tapping their credit cards, seeking money from friends or family or taking out a personal loan....
Alaska charter company pays $900k after guide caused wildfire by not properly extinguishing campfire (apnews.com)
An Alaska fishing guide company has paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government alleging one of its guides started a wildfire in 2019, the U.S. attorney’s office for Alaska said in a statement Wednesday....
Why China poses a growing threat to the U.S. auto industry (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese automakers pose a growing threat to their American counterparts — even without selling directly to consumers in the U.S. market....
Kenneth Eugene Smith: US inmate faces first nitrogen execution after losing last-minute appeals (www.bbc.com)
An Alabama death row inmate is expected to become the first person in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, after losing last-minute appeals....
The U.S. economy grew at a 3.3% pace in the fourth quarter, much better than expected (www.cnbc.com)
The Lost Promise of Refuge Ranch - Christian activists brought concerns about sex trafficking to prominence in Texas and then failed the survivors they sought to help (www.texasobserver.org)
In January 2023, about 10 months after it was forced to close, the Refuge reached a settlement with [the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)] that allowed it to reopen on probation. The conditions included implementing a reopening plan, monthly team meetings to evaluate the program’s compliance and efficacy, and...
How many are jailed awaiting mental health treatment in Mississippi? We still don't know (mississippitoday.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/how-many-are-jailed-awaiting-me…
A dairy farm is accused of stealing $3 million in wages. But was there a crime? (minnesotareformer.com)
Over the past three years, dairy farmers Keith Schaefer and his daughter Megan Hill stole at least $3 million from hundreds of their workers across central Minnesota, according to a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Keith Ellison earlier this month....
Proud Boys member gets six years in prison for Capitol riot after insulting judge (www.theguardian.com)
Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge before the sentence was handed down, calling him a ‘clown’ and a ‘fraud’...
West Virginia GOP majority pushes contentious bills arming teachers, restricting bathrooms, books (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school....
TED Fellows Resign Over ‘Genocide Apologist’ Bill Ackman’s Speaker Invite (www.thedailybeast.com)
The fellows called Ackman a “genocide apologist.”
Who invented butter chicken? Indian judge to rule in dispute over global favorite (www.nbcnews.com)
Two Indian restaurant chains are battling it out in court over claims to the dish’s origins....
64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates (www.nbcnews.com)
The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states....
