How America racked up a record $1 trillion credit card bill (www.cnbc.com)
Demonstrators march to protest L.A. City Council’s approval of rent hikes (ktla.com)
The Race to Find What’s Making America’s Dogs Sick (www.wired.com)
Casino workers with MGM Grand Detroit ratify deal, ending 47-day strike (apnews.com)
Man plotted 'mass casualty' attack at Cybertruck event attended by Elon Musk in Texas, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
Refugee camp reportedly hit as Israel bombards Gaza | Reuters Video (www.reuters.com)
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Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’...
Scientists Warn Vampire Bats May Soon Spread Into The Southern US (www.sciencealert.com)
Former US ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of serving as an agent of Cuba, AP source says (apnews.com)
Florida Woman Charged With Posing as Homeschooler to Prey on Boy (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Florida woman is facing felony charges for allegedly posing online as a homeschooler to sexually assault an underage boy....
On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He’d spent his life as a fugitive for robbing a bank (www.cnn.com)
Mobile internet ban lifted in Manipur in most areas after 7 month (www.hindustantimes.com)
‘Right to speak’ is a lie
Alaska Airlines says it's buying Hawaiian Airlines in $1.9 billion deal (www.cnbc.com)
Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has also verified pictures on social media which shows an Israeli tank operating near the city....
The Pentagon says US warship, commercial ships attacked in Red Sea. Houthis claim attacking 2 ships (apnews.com)
The attack potentially marked a major escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war as multiple vessels found themselves in the crosshairs of a single Houthi assault for the first time in the conflict....
One of the three Palestinian-American students shot in Vermont is paralyzed (www.theguardian.com)
Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, his family say...
Moscow police raid multiple LGBTQ+ clubs in wake of new Supreme Court ban — Meduza (meduza.io)
Greenhouse gas emissions soar – with China, US and India most at fault (www.theguardian.com)
The Pentagon says a US warship and multiple commercial ships have come under attack in the Red Sea (apnews.com)
Breaches by Iran-affiliated hackers spanned multiple U.S. states, federal agencies say (apnews.com)
Chinese borrowers default in record numbers as economic crisis deepens (www.ft.com)
"Defaults by Chinese borrowers have surged to a record high since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the depth of the country’s economic downturn and the obstacles to a full recovery,” the Financial Times reports.
Pending home sales drop to a record low, even worse than during the financial crisis (www.cnbc.com)
‘Medical Freedom’ Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates (www.nytimes.com)
Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds....
U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level (www.statnews.com)
S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the Covid-19 pandemic....
US announces rule to slash powerful planet-warming gas by nearly 80% from fossil fuels (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration has finalized a rule to significantly cut the US oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas that scientists and climate advocacy groups have pressed nations to rapidly reduce as global temperature soars....
