How one state is tackling homelessness by turning abandoned buildings into shelters (abcnews.go.com)
The U.S. saw a 12% increase in homelessness in 2023, a recent HUD report found....
Atmospheric river parks over Southern California, posing potentially deadly flood threat for millions (www.cnn.com)
Judge rejects a claim that New York's marijuana licensing cheats out-of-state applicants (apnews.com)
A federal judge has rejected a challenge to New York state’s licensing program for selling legal marijuana, a system two California applicants say unconstitutionally discriminates against out-of-state residents....
Pennsylvania statewide court agency's website hit by disabling cyberattack, officials say (apnews.com)
The Pennsylvania state courts agency’s website was hit by a cyberattack that did not appear to compromise any data, but left some online systems disabled, officials said Sunday night....
Hispanic Caucus urges new direction in immigration talks (thehill.com)
The CHC’s Tuesday proposals also come as the group has been purposefully excluded from Senate negotiations on border policy, which reportedly have centered on ways to curtail asylum and further fortify the border without addressing calls to overhaul the legal immigration system and appeals to give longtime undocumented...
Minnesota’s immigrants, advocates anxious about Congress’ effort to tighten border (www.minnpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/minnesotas-immigrants-advocates…
Trans people in Florida can no longer update their driver’s licenses: A new state rule may expose trans people to criminal or civil penalties if they try to update their documentation. (19thnews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/florida-trans-drivers-license-u…
10 Guards, 900 Inmates and the Dire Results of Warnings Ignored at Wisconsin’s prisons (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/dLDFy
Alabama said he was too dangerous to parole. He’d been dead for 10 days. (www.al.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/alabama-said-he-was-too-dangero…
Colorado legal settlement would raise care and housing standards for trans women inmates (www.cbsnews.com)
Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of transgender women like her who were housed in men’s prisons in Colorado. It gave her hope....
US corporations push to neuter laws used to hold opioid firms accountable (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing pressure group Alec seeks to limit public nuisance laws used to take on big business from tobacco to climate crisis...
Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court (www.cnbc.com)
A group of lawsuits accuse large landlords of price-fixing the market rate of rent in the United States...
Anxiety, mood swings and sleepless nights: life near a Bitcoin mine (www.nytimes.com)
Pushed by an advocacy group, Arkansas became the first state to shield noisy cryptocurrency operators from unhappy neighbors. A furious backlash has some lawmakers considering a statewide ban....
The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? | Washington Post (www.yahoo.com)
Washington Post link...
Two men wanted to start a family. Soon, they could be outlaws. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Non-paywall link...
LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules (www.jpost.com)
Outrage over Bigotry, Islamophobia in Wall Street Journal and New York Times (www.commondreams.org)
The nation’s leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as “Bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” “Racist,” and “Reckless.”...
‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter (www.theguardian.com)
Four years after Robyn Cory’s daughter was groomed at 15 on Meta’s platform and sold for sex by a gang, she is still missing...
'The economy is different now': Parents pay grown-up kids' bills with retirement savings (finance.yahoo.com)
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’ (www.theguardian.com)
Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives
Economists say the labor market is strong — but job seekers don't share that confidence. Why getting a job feels impossible right now (www.cnbc.com)
US counties are blocking the future of renewable energy: These maps, graphics show how (www.usatoday.com)
Florida parents say 2-year-old was restrained during Rosa Parks reenactment at day care (www.wesh.com)
ST. CLOUD, Fla. — Parents of a 2-year-old in Osceola County say their daughter, who they believe is the only Black child in the class, was made to play Rosa Parks in a reenactment that included her being restrained by another student in a police uniform and fingerprinted.
New quality glitch to delay some Boeing 737 Max deliveries (www.cnbc.com)
Boeing Co said on Sunday it will have to do more work on about 50 undelivered 737 Max airplanes, potentially delaying near-term deliveries, after its supplier Spirit AeroSystems discovered two mis-drilled holes on some fuselages....
Jan. 6 rioter may be seeking to delay sentencing because he likes being locked up, prosecutors say (www.nbcnews.com)
Brandon Fellows, who has called incarceration “awesome and very fun,” wants to push back his sentencing until the Supreme Court rules in a case that may affect one of his charges....
