Houses set alight as lava from volcano eruption reaches Icelandic town (www.theguardian.com)
Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavík, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two years...
Bidding wars erupt as 2024 kicks off, with some listings seeing over 30 offers (finance.yahoo.com)
'Want to abuse for 2 hours': UP man seeks approval to insult newspaper officials (www.indiatoday.in)
Crime Scene DNA Didn’t Match Marcellus Williams. Missouri May Fast-Track His Execution Anyway. (theintercept.com)
FELICIA ANNE GAYLE PICUS was found dead in her home, the victim of a vicious murder that devastated her family and rattled her neighbors in the gated community of University City, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. Police suspected a burglary gone wrong. The scene was replete with forensic evidence: There were bloody footprints...
Trump official who OK'd drugs from Canada chairs company behind Florida's import plan (kffhealthnews.org)
The Food and Drug Administration’s unprecedented approval of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after Alex Azar, as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, certified that bringing medicines over the border could be done safely....
U.S. health officials ask DEA to reclassify marijuana following review (www.upi.com)
DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace (apnews.com)
As legal challenges mount, some companies retool diversity and inclusion programs (apnews.com)
The case against the Fearless Fund alleges that one of its grant programs discriminates against non-Black women and asks the courts to imagine a similar program designed only for white applicants. It is among a growing list of lawsuits against corporate diversity and inclusion programs that are making their way through the...
Three migrants drown at US border as Texas blocked their rescue (www.aljazeera.com)
Texas Military Department barred US border agents from trying to rescue the migrants in the Rio Grande, US officials say.
Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday....
A fossil fuel plant is leaving Louisiana families with ‘barely enough water for your toothbrush’ (www.theguardian.com)
States with big climate goals strip local power to block green projects (apnews.com)
Clean energy developers had planned a 75-turbine wind farm in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in 2022 and recalled seven local officials who had supported it....
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman marries partner Oliver Mulherin in seaside ceremony (www.nbcnews.com)
US delivers ‘private message’ to Iran after Yemen strikes (www.bbc.com)
President Biden says the US has delivered a “private message” to Iran about the Houthis in Yemen after the US carried out a second strike on the group....
Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.
Federal scientists recommend easing restrictions on marijuana (www.boston.com)
Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7 (theintercept.com)
Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes (www.theguardian.com)
3 migrants, including 2 kids, drowned in Eagle Pass days after Texas blocked Border Patrol from area, congressman says (www.cnn.com)
Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar....
Federal judge rules ban on firearms in post offices unconstitutional (thehill.com)
A federal judge in Florida ruled a U.S. law that prohibits people from having firearms in post offices to be unconstitutional, the latest court decision declaring gun restrictions violate the Constitution....
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack (www.theguardian.com)
Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal problem to feed children from low-income families during summer break...
More US pharmacists can now prescribe birth control and soon, prescriptions won’t be needed at all for some (www.cnn.com)
Access to hormonal birth control — such as birth control pills and patches — is getting major changes in 2024....
Two U.S. Navy Sailors missing off the coast of Somalia (www.centcom.mil)
A Florida hotel cancels a Muslim conference, citing security concerns after receiving protest calls (apnews.com)
A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group’s conference at the last minute after a protest group claimed the coalition was promoting Hamas, terrorism and antisemitism....
Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds (www.cnn.com)
Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration say in documents supporting its reclassification as a Schedule III substance....
