US skips congressional review to approve emergency sale of tank shells to Israel (www.reuters.com)
'Nudify' apps that use AI to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity, prompting worries about non-consensual porn (fortune.com)
Apps and websites that use artificial intelligence to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity, according to researchers....
N.J. man sentenced to 8 years in prison after video showed him harassing Black neighbors with racial slurs (www.nbcnews.com)
Edward C. Mathews, 47, had a pattern of terrorizing his Black neighbors, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said....
US retail group retracts claim that half of $94.5bn inventory loss was from theft (www.theguardian.com)
National Retail Federation says 2021 data was flawed and based on congressional testimony from president of an advocacy group...
Texas Supreme Court pauses lower court's order allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion (apnews.com)
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S....
It's taking longer to get an abortion in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures (apnews.com)
A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they...
Feds grant $6 billion for high-speed rail projects (www.nbcnews.com)
Public support for the projects has overcome some concerns about costs, as the U.S. plays catchup with other parts of the world that have built extensive high-speed networks....
California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney (www.theguardian.com)
A teenager from California’s Central Valley has become the youngest person to ever pass the state’s bar exam and is now working as a practicing attorney....
Israel-Gaza latest news: UN warns half of Gazans starving, as Israeli hostage confirmed dead - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The UN warns that half the population of Gaza is starving and nine out of ten people there can’t eat every day - as Israeli bombardment of the territory continues...
15 states seeing 'high' or 'very high' levels of respiratory illness: CDC (abcnews.go.com)
Respiratory illness activity is elevated or increasing across most areas of the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
Johnny Depp among stars paying tribute at funeral of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan (apnews.com)
Musicians including Cave and Imelda May performed several of MacGowan’s songs during the service, including a rousing rendition of “Fairytale of New York” led by Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill that had the congregation dancing in the aisles.
Kentucky woman sues state over abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy (www.kentucky.com)
A Kentucky woman Friday filed an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a Jefferson County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky since the state banned nearly all abortions in 2022 and one of the only times nationwide since before Roe v. Wade in 1973 that an adult woman...
How a factory city in Wisconsin fed military-grade weapons to a Mexican cartel (www.reuters.com)
But in 2018, Racine’s suburban sprawl on the edge of Lake Michigan became a source of high caliber weapons for one of Mexico’s top fentanyl trafficking gangs, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), U.S. federal arms-trafficking investigators allege....
Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration (www.reuters.com)
Trudeau has made immigration his main weapon to blunt Canada’s big challenge of an aging and slowing population, and it has also helped fuel economic growth. That drove Canada’s population up at its fastest clip in more than six decades this year, Statistics Canada said....
Perché le donne sposate frequentano le chat IRC anonime? * (feddit.it) Italian
Capiamo insieme i motivi per cui le donne sposate preferiscono le chat anonime di IRC
Russian cities cancel New Year celebrations to save money for war (kyivindependent.com)
For those who don’t know, New Year’s in Russia is like Christmas in the west.
Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack (apnews.com)
Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’ (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world — on Earth (mashable.com)
A new palace for Ethiopia’s prime minister brings evictions and dissent in a country beset by hunger and war (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Students gather to mourn civilians killed in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tigray (dailycollegian.com)
Trump marks Pearl Harbor anniversary years after claim he didn’t know what it was (www.the-independent.com)
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that allowed woman emergency abortion (abcnews.go.com)
He blew the whistle on Amazon. He’s still paying the price (archive.ph)
Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him