What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? (www.wonkette.com)
What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? It did, and they did? Well how about that....
Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist's rape claim at upcoming defamation trial (apnews.com)
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence was sufficient to conclude that he raped her....
Who is Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire who used corporate-raider tactics to push out Harvard’s president? (www.marketwatch.com)
The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects are (www.vox.com)
It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway....
It's Been An Abysmal Two Years. But Biotech Is Looking Up. (www.investors.com)
Fact Check: Do Jeffrey Epstein documents "exonerate" Donald Trump? (www.newsweek.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene Fined $12,000 For Alleged Illegal Super PAC Solicitations (www.forbes.com)
Judge denies Rudy Giuliani’s request to extend deadlines in Georgia election case (www.nbcnews.com)
Fatal New York bus crash: officials say most people on board were Canadian (www.sasktoday.ca)
Yellen says US ‘soft landing’ underway, low inflation, wage growth to spur confidence (wtvbam.com)
Missouri’s top election official threatens to remove Biden from 2024 ballot (www.independent.co.uk)
Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor (apnews.com)
Biden Was in Dark for Days on Defense Secretary’s Hospital Stay (www.bloomberg.com)
Trump: Civil War didn't need to happen, could have been "negotiated" (boingboing.net)
Lead-contaminated applesauce pouches also contained chromium, FDA says (www.nbcnews.com)
Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report (www.usatoday.com)
2024 is the biggest global election year in history (www.vox.com)
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The US sees a drop in illegal border crossings after Mexico increases enforcement (apnews.com)
Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials....
‘January 6 never ended’: alarm at Trump pardon pledge for Capitol insurrectionists (www.theguardian.com)
The ex-president has said he would pardon those convicted of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracy...
Covid Slashed Consumer Choices. This Is Why They Aren’t Coming Back. (www.wsj.com)
Retailers and suppliers say it didn’t pay to offer products for everyone, and customers didn’t care that much when they stopped...
War Brings Tensions, and Assault Rifles, Into an Israeli College (www.nytimes.com)
At the University of Haifa, a uniquely mixed institution where more than 40 percent of students are Arabs, those anxieties are amplified by what is among the school’s proudest achievements — its diversity....
East Coast land continues to collapse at a worrying rate (arstechnica.com)
It’s steadily sinking or subsiding, which is destabilizing levees, roads, and airports....
American Unions Long Backed Israel. Now, Some Are Protesting It. (www.nytimes.com)
For decades, the most prominent American unions were largely supportive of Israel. Today, though, amid a resurgence of the American labor movement, some activists are urging their unions to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and succeeding — a change that reflects a broader generational shift....
‘I can ride the bus. I can walk the streets’: the joy of freedom for Rohingya resettled in the US (www.theguardian.com)
A diplomatic breakthrough has allowed 62 refugees to start a new life in America. Yet a million still remain in fear and poverty in the Bangladeshi camps...
The many lives of Trump Tower - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump first set sights on the old granite and limestone Bonwit Teller building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in the mid-1970s. It was a time of street gangs and violent crime, when New York City was known more for the Son of Sam serial killer than for glamour and style....
