What is mycoplasma pneumonia, the illness driving an outbreak in Ohio? (www.nbcnews.com)
House Expels George Santos From Congress (www.nytimes.com)
Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan vote (www.washingtonpost.com)
Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year (www.texastribune.org)
City Council in Portland, Oregon, approves $2.6M for police body cameras (apnews.com)
The City Council in Portland, Oregon, approved $2.6 million for permanent police body cameras in a unanimous vote, a crucial step toward the city no longer being among the last major U.S. police agencies without the technology....
Ferry operators around the country to receive $220M in federal grants to modernize fleets (apnews.com)
The Biden administration will issue $220 million in grants to modernize the country’s ferry systems, officials announced Thursday....
Israel tells civilians to leave parts of Gaza as fighting resumes (www.the-star.co.ke)
The Israeli military has dropped leaflets warning residents in parts of southern Gaza to flee for their safety as bombing resumes....
Chinese celebrity chef vows to never cook egg fried rice again after nationalist backlash (www.cnn.com)
Light, tasty and simple to make, egg fried rice has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world....
For a male sexual assault survivor, justice won in court does not equal healing (apnews.com)
As many as 95% of male sexual violations go unreported, according to research cited in a review of scientific literature about male victims of sexual assault, published in April in the journal Behavioral Sciences. Four of five men who reported assaults regretted doing so, saying that police were often unsympathetic and...
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93 (apnews.com)
The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness....
Chicago homeless migrants shelter faces backlash (www.reuters.com)
Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this week huddled near tents wearing parkas, knit hats and even ski goggles to cope with the cold weather and falling snow....
US lawmaker George Santos, indicted on fraud charges, faces House expulsion vote (www.reuters.com)
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DNC Senator Dick Durbin blocks subpoena of Epstein Flight Logs. (www.blackburn.senate.gov)
US says Mexican drug cartel was so bold in timeshare fraud that some operators posed as US officials (abcnews.go.com)
Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs (www.cnn.com)
‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike (www.theguardian.com)
Democrats Clash Over Move to Add Asylum Changes to War Funding Bill (www.nytimes.com)
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In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis (apnews.com)
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Whistleblower alleges failures in medical care at U.S. border facilities (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Details of Scott Perry’s role in Trump efforts to stay in power unsealed (www.washingtonpost.com)
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'Everything's like a gamble': U.S. immigration policies leave lives in limbo (www.latimes.com)
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War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses (www.reuters.com)
As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west....
Millions of seniors struggle to afford housing — and it's about to get a lot worse (www.npr.org)
A few decades ago, Leslie McIntire thought she was doing everything right for a comfortable life. She was a tax accountant in Washington, D.C., and co-owned a not-for-profit bookstore. “I had good savings,” she says. “I was quite happy, quite frankly, and I was preparing to go back to school.”...
Social media posts Trump claimed were made by judge's wife were not made by her, court says (www.cbsnews.com)
Social media posts that former President Donald Trump claimed were made by the wife of the judge in his New York fraud trial were not made by her, a court spokesperson said....
The threat of respiratory illnesses is underway, CDC director says, and hospitalizations are on the rise (www.cnn.com)
Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated a congressional subcommittee Thursday about cases of respiratory illness in the US due to three viruses: flu, the coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV....
