Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit...
Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions (www.cnn.com)
A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies working with Texas, court documents...
Peregrine, aiming to be first private lunar lander, burns up in Earth's atmosphere (www.nbcnews.com)
An early malfunction left the Peregrine lander with no way to reach the moon....
Mexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans (apnews.com)
Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023....
Man cleared in a 1996 Brooklyn killing said for decades he knew who did it. Prosecutors now agree (apnews.com)
A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades....
Fears grow for largest remaining hospital in Gaza as Israeli forces bombard Khan Younis (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli forces have advanced further into southern Gaza’s main city, pounding areas near the territory’s biggest functioning hospital and sparking fears it could be forced to close due to Israeli bombardments and evacuation orders....
Benjamin Netanyahu Just Said “From the River to the Sea”, rejects the premise of a Palestinian state and promised that Israel will take over the entire region it currently occupies (newrepublic.com)
New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say (www.desmog.com)
Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. Among the files, reported for the first time today by DeSmog and Follow The Money, and published on Climate Files, there is a 1970 industry journal article where...
Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest (abcnews.go.com)
Outrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’ (www.theguardian.com)
NY midwife who gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines fined $300K for falsifying records (apnews.com)
A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week....
Prosecutors arrest flight attendant on suspicion of trying to record teen girl in airplane bathroom (apnews.com)
Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September....
Long Covid explanation in new study possibly paves way for tests and treatments, reveals major insights on a potential cause (www.nbcnews.com)
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find (arstechnica.com)
Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge....
Kids of color get worse health care across the board in the U.S., research finds (www.npr.org)
From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
IDF fails to confirm Gaza hostages' cause of death, mother claims poison (www.jpost.com)
The mother of slain hostage Ron Sherman accused the IDF of 'poisoning' her son to death inside a Jabaliya tunnel.
Hate Crime and Stalking Charges Against Ex White House Adviser to Be Dropped (www.vice.com)
Stuart Seldowitz has agreed to complete an anti-bias course after telling a halal food cart worker that 4,000 dead Palestinian children “wasn’t enough.”
California health officials shorten COVID isolation period to 1 day, previously 5 days (ktla.com)
Netanyahu publicly rejects US push for Palestinian state (www.bbc.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end....
Walmart pay raise: Store managers, hourly workers to get wage increase, restructure store manager bonuses (www.axios.com)
Congress Clears Stopgap Spending Bill for Biden, Moving to Avert Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
Congress on Thursday raced to send legislation to avert a partial government shutdown to President Biden, moving to fund federal agencies through early March one day before money was to run out....
Trump Demands Total Presidential Immunity -- Even for Acts That 'Cross the Line' (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president has made clear once again that he believes the office should have absolute power...
Missouri abortion rights groups launch effort to place constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot (www.nbcnews.com)
Missouri is the latest state where abortion-rights advocates have sought to put the issue directly on the ballot in the post-Roe era....
Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial (www.theguardian.com)
E Jean Carroll’s New York defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday with the ex-president’s lawyer trying to discredit her on cross-examination with a bizarre dialectic about genitals and by intimating that she has loose morals....
