Infosys billionaire founder Narayana Murthy wants young workers to have a 70-hour work week—and thinks it should be a matter of national pride (fortune.com)
EPA to strengthen lead protections in drinking water after multiple crises, including Flint (apnews.com)
About four decades ago, when the Environmental Protection Agency was first trying to figure out what to do about lead in drinking water, Ronnie Levin quantified its damage: Roughly 40 million people drank water with dangerous levels of lead, degrading the intelligence of thousands of kids....
Fight over Texas anti-abortion transport bans reaches biggest battlegrounds yet (www.reuters.com)
Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....
Trump vows to expand Muslim ban and bar Gaza refugees if he wins presidency (www.theguardian.com)
Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns (theconversation.com)
Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Oregon launches legal psilocybin access amid high demand and hopes for improved mental health care (apnews.com)
Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, to the public....
Carbon markets are 'bogus solutions' as rich world keeps polluting, African Climate Summit is told (apnews.com)
The summit has sought to reframe the African continent, which has enormous amounts of clean energy minerals and renewable energy sources, as less of a victim of climate change driven by the world’s biggest economies and more of the solution....
Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen" (www.cbsnews.com)
Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday....
2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons (www.vox.com)
The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...
Illinois becomes first state in nation to eliminate cash bail: Here’s how it will work (chicago.suntimes.com)
Illinois became the first state in the nation Monday to completely remove cash bail as a condition to be released ahead of a criminal trial....
Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers (www.detroitnews.com)
The retailer says the change will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores.
Avalanche of lawsuits accuse New York prison guards of sexually abusing inmates (buffalonews.com)
Georgia school district is banning books, citing sexual content, after firing a teacher (apnews.com)
Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”...
‘Historic’: Ecuador voters reject oil drilling in Amazon protected area (www.aljazeera.com)
US suicides hit an all-time high last year (apnews.com)
Leah Remini: The King of Queens star sues Church of Scientology (www.bbc.com)
Leah Remini is taking legal action against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, for harassment and defamation....
2nd police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold, given ketamine (apnews.com)
A second Denver-area police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The 23-year-old Black man was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police as he walked home from a convenience store.
Man accused of Antarctic assault was then sent to remote icefield with young graduate students (www.nbcnews.com)
Stephen Tyler Bieneman has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault over the incident last November at McMurdo Station....
Teen raped by father for a year: The girl’s sister told police their father was responsible for the pregnancy and threatened to kill the victim if she told anyone. (indianexpress.com)
3 anti-LGBTQ+ groups are behind 86% of all book bans across the U.S. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Approximately 86% of all book bans across the nation have occurred in school districts with a local chapter of one of three anti-LGBTQ+ groups: Moms for Liberty, Citizens Defending Freedom (CDF), and Parents’ Rights in Education, according to a new report from the free speech organization PEN America....
Ohio high school coach resigns after team's 'Nazi' playcall (www.espn.com)
BROOKLYN, Ohio – An Ohio high school football coach resigned Monday after his team used racist and antisemitic language to call out plays during a game last week....
Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows (www.theguardian.com)
Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states...
A Florida Jewish Community Center canceled a Jewish author’s talk because her novel mentions slavery (forward.com)
Citing the "political climate," a Florida JCC canceled a Jewish author's talk about a book set in Virginia in 1811 that mentions slavery.
[USA] Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet (www.nbcnews.com)
WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday afternoon following his conviction on a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Delta flight diverted after passenger reportedly has 'diarrhea all the way through the airplane' (www.foxbusiness.com)
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