Federal judge blocks Idaho ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Theatre chain AMC apologizes after civil rights leader says he was kicked out of screening (www.theguardian.com)
Movie theatre chain AMC has apologized to a North Carolina civil rights leader after he was kicked out of a screening of The Color Purple for trying to use his own chair in the disabled section....
Woman Wears Body Paint To Gym As "Social Experiment", Internet Slams her (www.ndtv.com)
Can we just round these people up and give them their own island to keep them out of society?
L'Oreal cosmetics heir has just become the first woman with a $100 billion fortune (fortune.com)
Mayor Adams announces executive order aimed at restricting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing (www.politico.com)
The executive order mandates migrant charter buses must announce their arrival 32 hours in advance and can only drop off migrants between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m....
‘A huge shock to the system’: Doctors warn about asthma inhaler switch coming in January in the US (www.cnn.com)
Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation filed in 2023 in the US (abcnews.go.com)
Gas prices will fall in 2024 and Americans will spend $32 billion less on fuel, GasBuddy predicts (www.cnn.com)
The Late Tommy Smothers Was Canceled Back When That Meant Something (lemmy.ca)
On another episode, the show welcomed blacklisted folk singer Pete Seeger — he’d been banned from television for years. He sang his “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” a song widely understood to ridicule President Lyndon Johnson for the Vietnam War. CBS refused to air the segment, but Tom and Dick brought Seeger back and he...
Nikki Haley backpedals Civil War comments in which she made no mention of slavery (www.nbcnews.com)
After a voter said he found it “astonishing” that Haley hadn’t used the word “slavery” at any point in her answer, she asked, “What do you want me to say about slavery?”
EU to use COVID-19 mechanism to bypass Orbán's veto and provide Ukraine with €20 billion (english.nv.ua)
The European Union is preparing an alternative plan to provide Ukraine with EUR 20 billion (22.09 billion USD) in financial support to circumvent the veto of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, reported the Financial Times....
Gypsy Rose Blanchard released early from US prison (www.bbc.com)
Her mother made her pretend to be sickly and disabled in a Munchausen syndrome scenario.
Not Even Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Firing Could Save Newsmax (www.thedailybeast.com)
Newsmax was riding sky-high on surging ratings after its top rival, Fox News, fired its biggest star—but here’s how it eventually came crashing back down.
Nikki Haley doesn't cite slavery as cause of the Civil War after question at campaign stop (abcnews.go.com)
She responded it was about “basically how the government was going to run."
U.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidents (www.forbes.com)
Philips recalled breathing machines in 2021. Chemicals of “concern” found in replacement machines raised new alarm (www.propublica.org)
Amid a massive recall in 2021, the medical device maker Philips raced to overcome troubling questions about its replacement machines as customers waited for help....
China's Alibaba must face a US toymaker's lawsuit over sales of allegedly fake Squishmallows (apnews.com)
A judge in New York has ruled that Alibaba must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant’s online platforms were used to sell counterfeit Squishmallows....
Gaston Glock, Austrian developer of the Glock handgun, dies at 94 (www.nbcnews.com)
Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, died on Wednesday. He was 94....
Haley declines to say slavery was cause of Civil War (www.politico.com)
The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’...
Jacksonville, Florida, mayor has Confederate monument removed after years of controversy (abcnews.go.com)
Crews removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida, park Wednesday morning following years of public controversy....
The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots (apnews.com)
The New York Times is striking back against the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the news industry, filing a federal lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots....
Colorado Republicans appeal to supreme court after Trump disqualified from state ballot (www.theguardian.com)
Former president and frontrunner for Republican 2024 presidential nomination also expected to file own appeal...
Apple can temporarily sell smartwatches after US appeals court win (www.reuters.com)
Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86 (apnews.com)
Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86....
