Thermo Fisher stops sale of DNA kits in Tibet after activists raised fears of rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama still can’t find heart missing from prisoner’s body (www.al.com)
215 bodies found buried behind Jackson, Mississippi jail (chicagocrusader.com)
Hyundai and Kia thefts soar more than 1000% since 2020 (edition.cnn.com)
Young Britons exposed to online radicalisation following Hamas attack (www.bbc.co.uk)
There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit....
Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in Response to Assassination in Beirut (www.nytimes.com)
The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon five days ago that has raised fears of a wider conflagration....
Billionaires are hoarding trillions in untaxed wealth. They want the Supreme Court to keep it that way (www.rollingstone.com)
A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness found that America’s richest families accumulated $8.5 trillion in untaxed capital gains in 2022...
CNN Runs Gaza Coverage Past Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of IDF Censor (theintercept.com)
The Jerusalem bureau has long reviewed all CNN stories relating to Israel and Palestine. Now, it’s helping shape the network’s coverage of the war.
Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son (www.nbcnews.com)
Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh espoused racist views and encouraged listeners commit violent acts against ethnic minorities.
Los Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators retrace their lives (apnews.com)
Martirosyan acts as a living representative of those Los Angeles County calls “the unclaimed dead.” She is one of more than a dozen investigators who work for the Public Administrator, an understaffed and little-known branch of the county’s Department of the Treasurer and Tax Collector....
Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 (www.intelligent.com)
Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees (www.972mag.com)
Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
In Gaza 'safe zone,' Palestinians are living out their nightmares (www.972mag.com)
Israel ordered thousands to evacuate to Al-Mawasi, where they are struggling to find food, water, and shelter amid the war and winter cold.
Auto dealers challenge new US FTC car-buyer consumer protection rules (www.reuters.com)
The FTC said the new rules will ban bait-and-switch advertising tactics, prohibit charging for add-on costs that do not benefit consumers and require dealers to make key disclosures to consumers, including accurate pricing disclosures in advertising and sales communications....
Famine in Gaza ‘around the corner,’ as people face ‘highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded,’ UN relief chief says (edition.cnn.com)
Neri Oxman, billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s wife, accused of plagiarism in MIT dissertation (www.nbcnews.com)
Ackman has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s recently resigned president, Claudine Gay, over allegations of plagiarism and her handling of antisemitism on campus.
Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after window blows out in mid-air (www.cbsnews.com)
‘Speed Racer’ Actor Christian Oliver and His Two Young Daughters Killed in Caribbean Plane Crash (variety.com)
A model suspected of recruiting for Epstein was asked whether Bill Clinton's security advisor tipped him off about search warrant (www.businessinsider.com)
Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....
Sudanese women describe being gang-raped in attacks by Arab forces (www.reuters.com)
Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe say they were sexually assaulted at gunpoint by RSF paramilitary and Arab militia forces during attacks on the city of El Geneina in West Darfur.
US supreme court allows Idaho’s strict abortion ban to stand pending hearing (www.theguardian.com)
Biden administration had argued hospitals receiving Medicare funds are required to provide emergency care, including abortion...
Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’ (www.theguardian.com)
Vatican stands by approval of blessing same-sex couples despite criticism (www.thepinknews.com)
Kentucky governor backs longer list of conditions eligible for treatment under medical marijuana law (apnews.com)
Access to medical marijuana in Kentucky should expand to include a longer list of severe health conditions, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday in advocating a change that would make hundreds of thousands more people eligible for treatment when the program begins next year....
