Alabama library flagged a children's book because the author’s last name is 'Gay' (www.nbcnews.com)
A public library system in Alabama flagged a children’s picture book as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s last name is “Gay.”...
The GDP gap between Europe and the United States is now 80% (www.lemonde.fr)
It was early this summer, before Americans started crossing the Atlantic to savor the sweetness of European life. Prices are very much affordable for them there, and the Wall Street Journal gave the reason as being Europe’s inexorable impoverishment: “Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven’t...
‘Threatened and vulnerable’: Cop City activists labeled as terrorists pay high price (www.theguardian.com)
Protesters say classification as ‘domestic terrorists’ for opposing planned Georgia police facility has upended their lives...
A key witness in the Trump classified docs case changed his testimony after switching lawyers, special counsel says (www.nbcnews.com)
The man identified as “Trump Employee 4” had been represented by Stanley Woodward, who was being paid by the former president’s Save America PAC.
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert (www.nature.com)
Indictment shows White House lawyers struggling for control as Trump fought to overturn election (apnews.com)
Trump was no longer listening to his White House counsel, the elite team of attorneys who take an oath to serve the office of the president. But by all accounts, he hadn’t been listening to them for some time.
She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Australia is gripped by the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected poisoning case that reads like a fictional thriller....
13-year-old girl kidnapped at gunpoint in Texas rescued in Long Beach thanks to 'help me' sign (abc7.com)
The teen’s alleged kidnapper repeatedly sexually assaulted her while driving her to Long Beach, according to federal prosecutors.
Colorado funeral home owner, wife, arrested on charges linked to the handling of at least 190 bodies (apnews.com)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years.
AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers (www.bbc.com)
In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an “illegal” purchase of stocks without telling the firm....
Nurse charged with killing patients with insulin now facing 19 additional charges (www.cbsnews.com)
Battle against hate: Violence, bigotry toward Palestinian Americans spiking across US (www.usatoday.com)
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Hurricanes now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study says (www.latimes.com)
Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills journalist, wounds several (www.aljazeera.com)
An Israeli artillery strike hit a group of reporters from several outlets who were clearly marked as press.
Federal prison censors ‘Reason’ issue about how federal prison employed serial rapists (reason.com)
The rejection notice from FMC Devens says the issue “is being rejected due to the nature of its content. The magainze [sic] contains an article about Bureau of Prisons staff at FCC Coleman including the names of Correctional Officers and victims. Such material jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution.”...
Tesla cuts Model 3 and Model Y prices in the U.S. after car deliveries fall (www.cnbc.com)
Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations....
61 Medieval Manuscripts digitized and available online (www.medievalists.net)
One of the largest databases of medieval manuscripts has added 61 new items to its collection. They include manuscripts from the Franciscan order as well as fragments dating back to the eighth century.
Teacher busted after students find her meth at family fun night: police (www.foxnews.com)
UK rents rise faster in deprived areas – and drag more people into poverty (www.theguardian.com)
Cost doubles in some poor urban districts, driven in part by mortgage rate rise, UK-wide study shows
Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent (www.nbcnews.com)
A Tulsa-area school district is in its second week of bomb threats after Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post about a school librarian on social media.
TSMC's Arizona plant is delayed over poor management, not a shortage of US skilled labor, the workers building it say (www.businessinsider.com)
TSMC says its Arizona chip factory’s opening has been delayed partly over a skilled-worker shortage....
'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans (news.sky.com)
While initial results are promising, the research so far has only concluded that AOH1996 can suppress tumour growth in cell and animal models - with the first phase of a clinical trial in humans now under way.
Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says (apnews.com)
Support for Israel and verbal sparring propel fiery third Republican debate (www.theguardian.com)
“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the...
With 10 days to go, House Republicans remain undecided on best strategy to avert shutdown (www.cnn.com)
House Republicans have yet to coalesce around their own plan to avert a government shutdown with just 10 days until the deadline, raising the stakes for a new speaker who will have to contend with the internal dynamics of his conference and a Democratically-controlled Senate and White House....
