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Novelist Tim Dorsey, who mixed comedy and murder in his Serge A. Storms stories, dies at 62 (apnews.com)

GM sees $9.3 billion hit from labor deals, outlines $10 billion stock buyback (www.reuters.com)

US$280 in China, US$8,892 in the US: new Chinese cancer drug gets FDA approval (www.scmp.com)

Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.

Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on TikTok blocked by judge who says it's unconstitutional (apnews.com)

Wells Fargo accused of not paying overtime at shortstaffed US branches (www.reuters.com)

Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments (www.nytimes.com)

Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (abcnews.go.com)

US judge blocks Montana from banning TikTok use in state (www.reuters.com)

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago (www.nytimes.com)

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out....

Banksy’s identity: Elusive artist reveals his name in resurfaced interview - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT (apnews.com)

Julianna Margulies Says ‘Entire Black Community’ May Have Been ‘Brainwashed to Hate Jews’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

“As someone who plays a lesbian journalist on ‘The Morning Show,’ I am more offended by it as a lesbian than I am as a Jew,” the actress said at another point in a new interview.

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan, a truth-teller in a time of crisis (presswatchers.org)

No high-profile journalist has been more assertive about Palestinian rights than Mehdi Hasan, and MNSBC punished him on Thursday by taking away his shows.

Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power (apnews.com)

An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar. The project in Wayne County Schools represents what a developer and U.S. Sen.

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

Arizona voting officials charged for refusing to certify 2022 election results (www.theguardian.com)

Republican county supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd initially refused to certify their county’s election results...

Ajit Pai Elected To Public Television Board Of Trustees (indiawest.com)

Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm....

Russia Supreme Court Bans “LGBT Movement” as “Extremist” (www.hrw.org)

Taiwan urges elderly, young to avoid China visits due to respiratory illnesses (www.reuters.com)

Taiwan’s health ministry on Thursday urged the elderly, very young and those with poor immunity to avoid travel to China due to the recent increase in respiratory illnesses there, a move some experts said was ineffective to manage public health risks....

'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap (finance.yahoo.com)

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