Battle against hate: Violence, bigotry toward Palestinian Americans spiking across US (www.usatoday.com)
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Hurricanes now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study says (www.latimes.com)
Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills journalist, wounds several (www.aljazeera.com)
An Israeli artillery strike hit a group of reporters from several outlets who were clearly marked as press.
Federal prison censors ‘Reason’ issue about how federal prison employed serial rapists (reason.com)
The rejection notice from FMC Devens says the issue “is being rejected due to the nature of its content. The magainze [sic] contains an article about Bureau of Prisons staff at FCC Coleman including the names of Correctional Officers and victims. Such material jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution.”...
Tesla cuts Model 3 and Model Y prices in the U.S. after car deliveries fall (www.cnbc.com)
Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations....
61 Medieval Manuscripts digitized and available online (www.medievalists.net)
One of the largest databases of medieval manuscripts has added 61 new items to its collection. They include manuscripts from the Franciscan order as well as fragments dating back to the eighth century.
Teacher busted after students find her meth at family fun night: police (www.foxnews.com)
UK rents rise faster in deprived areas – and drag more people into poverty (www.theguardian.com)
Cost doubles in some poor urban districts, driven in part by mortgage rate rise, UK-wide study shows
Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent (www.nbcnews.com)
A Tulsa-area school district is in its second week of bomb threats after Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post about a school librarian on social media.
TSMC's Arizona plant is delayed over poor management, not a shortage of US skilled labor, the workers building it say (www.businessinsider.com)
TSMC says its Arizona chip factory’s opening has been delayed partly over a skilled-worker shortage....
'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans (news.sky.com)
While initial results are promising, the research so far has only concluded that AOH1996 can suppress tumour growth in cell and animal models - with the first phase of a clinical trial in humans now under way.
Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says (apnews.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
With 10 days to go, House Republicans remain undecided on best strategy to avert shutdown (www.cnn.com)
House Republicans have yet to coalesce around their own plan to avert a government shutdown with just 10 days until the deadline, raising the stakes for a new speaker who will have to contend with the internal dynamics of his conference and a Democratically-controlled Senate and White House....
Likely human skull found in Halloween section of Florida thrift store (www.cbsnews.com)
An anthropologist made a surprising discovery in a Florida thrift shop’s Halloween section on Saturday, officials said....
Arab Muslim student struck in hit-and-run as Stanford University investigates spate of hate crime incidents (www.cnn.com)
At least five possible hate crime incidents at Stanford University since the Israel-Hamas war’s onset are under investigation, including an apparent hit-and-run crash involving an Arab Muslim student, according to the university’s public safety department....
Government misuse of data rightly worries Americans (reason.com)
DJ Mark the 45 King, Producer for Eminem, Jay-Z, Queen Latifah, Dies at 62 (variety.com)
DJ Mark the 45 King, who produced or co-produced such hip-hop classics as Eminem’s “Stan,” Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” and early Queen Latifah hits like “Wrath of My Madness” and “Ladies First,” has died, a rep confirms to Variety. No cause of death was cited; he was 62.
Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere (grist.org)
The state’s decision will do little to solve a water shortage largely driven by irrigated agriculture....
Migrants' DNA is fueling a massive expansion of the FBI's genetic database (www.motherjones.com)
Disney World Shut Down Half of Magic Kingdom After Bear Snuck In (gizmodo.com)
Lead Poisoning: A Global Health Crisis That's Worse Than We Thought, According to a New Study (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
Antioch and Pittsburg police officers arrested by FBI (www.kron4.com)
A sweeping investigation began in early 2022 as a narrow probe into officers who allegedly cheated on college tests to obtain salary raises. FBI agents dug into the cheating scandal and opened a “Pandora’s Box” of unethical and criminal behavior among officers, a source told KRON4.
Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars (apnews.com)
The case now before him in America’s biggest red state does not surround abortion, which has been banned in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. But Planned Parenthood argues the attempt to recoup at least $17 million in Medicaid payments for health services, including cancer screenings, is a...
Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank (yle.fi)
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