For Alaska Families, Questions Remain About Unsolved Deaths and “Suicides” (www.propublica.org)
A 41-year-old Inupiaq woman raised in Kotzebue, Chase recently became the city’s mayor. Before that she worked for the Alaska State Medical Examiner Office, preparing autopsy tables, and at a local nonprofit that offers legal help to domestic violence survivors....
Rainbow Bridge between US, Canada closed following vehicle explosion: FBI (abcnews.go.com)
Former US official filmed abusing Muslim street vendor (www.aljazeera.com)
JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses (abcnews.go.com)
Biden declares emergency over lead in water in US Virgin Islands (apnews.com)
Bridge between US and Canada closed following explosion. (Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls) (abcnews.go.com)
Rainbow Bridge closed after incident with vehicle on U.S. side (www.niagarathisweek.com)
Top Iowa evangelical backs DeSantis over Trump in US presidential race (www.reuters.com)
Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department (www.businessinsider.com)
Detailed data on employees of U.S. national security lab leak online (cyberscoop.com)
Western gray squirrels are now considered endangered in Washington state: "Seriously threatened with extinction" (www.cbsnews.com)
Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear lab (www.engadget.com)
“We’re willing to make a deal with INL. If they research creating irl catgirls we will take down this post,” SiegedSec wrote in a post announcing the leak on Monday.
Border Patrol sending migrants to unofficial camps in California's desert, locals say (www.npr.org)
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Flu activity gaining steam in the U.S. as vaccination rates lag (www.statnews.com)
Flu activity in many parts of the United States is starting to rise more rapidly, signaling that flu season is on the horizon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday....
Political Pressures on Biden Helped Drive ‘Secret Cell’ of Aides in Hostage Talks (www.nytimes.com)
US Catholic priest who avoided charges marries teen he fled to Italy with (www.theguardian.com)
US thwarts plot to kill Sikh separatist and issues diplomatic warning to India (www.theguardian.com)
US authorities have thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources....
Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud (www.iowapublicradio.org)
Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.”...
Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result (www.cnn.com)
Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....
Ex-employee sues LA Taco Bell after reporting group sex act at holiday party (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists said the ozone hole was recovering. That good news was premature, one study claims (www.cnn.com)
The recovery of the ozone layer — which sits miles above the Earth and protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation — has been celebrated as one of the world’s greatest environmental achievements. But in a new study published Tuesday, some scientists claim it may not be recovering at all, and that the hole may even be...
Pilot killed in small plane’s fiery crash into Texas shopping center parking lot, official says (www.cnn.com)
A pilot flying a single-engine aircraft that careened into a Texas shopping center parking lot on Tuesday has died, Plano Fire Department Lt. Daniel Daly told CNN....
Judge declines to jail Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd in Georgia election interference case (abcnews.go.com)
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The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system (gothamist.com)
The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police dispatches....