Moms for Liberty reeling and on the ropes after election losses and scandals (www.rawstory.com)
As 2023 holidays dawn, face masks have settled in as an occasional feature of the American landscape (abcnews.go.com)
It's taking longer to schedule abortions in Colorado and across the U.S. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures. (coloradosun.com)
About half of U.S. states now have laws that ban or restrict access to abortion
Hamas and Israel reach 'tentative deal' on new truce and hostage swap (www.thenationalnews.com)
Under proposed deal, Hamas will release at least 50 hostages and Israel will free 300 Palestinians, sources tell The National
Americans fear they can't pay back their debts, credit cards (www.newsweek.com)
Jeff Bezos foresees a trillion people living in millions of space colonies. Here's what he's doing to get the ball rolling. (www.nbcnews.com)
Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery (www.seattletimes.com)
A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday....
Xcel fined $14K for storing radioactive water without permit at Monticello plant (bringmethenews.com)
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) said Xcel began to store the tritium-contaminated groundwater in aboveground storage tanks without obtaining a required permit from the state.
GOP senator says Biden ‘may not be’ impeachable since he wasn’t in office during accused actions (www.washingtontimes.com)
Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers (www.propublica.org)
Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.
Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ (www.theguardian.com)
Quaker Oats recalls granola products over concerns of salmonella contamination (apnews.com)
Quaker, which is owned by PepsiCo, said in a news release that it has not received any reports of salmonella infections related to the recalled granola products. The full list of recalled foods includes granola oats cereals and Quaker Chewy Bars, which are also sold in PepsiCo’s snack mixes....
Senior cardinal convicted in Vatican corruption trial (www.reuters.com)
The trial, which exposed infighting and intrigue in the highest echelons of the Vatican, lasted for 86 sessions over two-and-a-half years....
Trump Makes Another 'Poison the Blood' Comment Evoking Hitler Yet Again (www.meidastouch.com)
Teamsters authorize strike at Anheuser-Busch's US breweries (www.reuters.com)
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Warning about Maine gunman on verge of shooting taken 'seriously' but with 'grain of salt,' police were told (abcnews.go.com)
US wants shakeup of Palestinian Authority to run Gaza after Hamas (www.reuters.com)
An architect of the 1993 Oslo peace accords with Israel that raised hopes of Palestinian statehood, Abbas has seen his legitimacy steadily undermined by Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank, which he oversees. Many Palestinians now regard his administration as corrupt, undemocratic and out of touch....
As Trump threatens to repeal Obamacare, these 'insurance godmothers' are signing Florida Latinos up (apnews.com)
Salsa music blares from the food court in a rundown Miami shopping center as Latinos head to a kiosk and an office showing signs for “ Obamacare,” where they hope to renew their health coverage plans before the year ends....
Justice Neil Gorsuch took 10 minutes to approve Dobbs abortion opinion – report (www.theguardian.com)
New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion...
New York Suspends Engineer Who Inspected Bronx Building That Collapsed (www.nytimes.com)
Officials said the inspector had “misdiagnosed” as a “decorative” element a column that was holding up the seven-story building....
Kate Cox’s ‘hellish’ experience reveals the reality of Texas’s abortion exceptions (www.independent.co.uk)
The legal fight between Kate Cox and Texas courts over her medical emergency underscores the need for states to quickly clarify their sweeping anti-abortion laws Ariana Baio and Kelly Rissman report...
Tornados left a swath of destruction in parts of Tennessee. A baby swept up in a twister was found alive on a downed tree (www.cnn.com)
By the time the tornado siren sounded one week ago, the roof of Sydney Moore’s mobile home in Clarksville, Tennessee, had been sheared off and her 4-month-old son Lord sucked up by the twister....
The border crossing in this tiny town has been closed because there are too many migrants (www.nbcnews.com)
A decline in funds has contributed to a drop in Mexico’s ability to stop U.S.-bound migrants from heading north, or to handle the migrants the U.S. wants to send back....
