Two dead as planes collide mid-air in Nairobi, Kenya | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Haitian prime minister has arrived in Puerto Rico amid turmoil in Haiti, local official says | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
UN finds ‘convincing information’ that Hamas raped and tortured Israeli hostages (www.theguardian.com)
Pramila Patten’s findings are based on interviews with released hostages, whose testimony suggests abuses are continuing in Gaza.
Hamas and Israel fail to reach ceasefire deal in Cairo (intlmonitor.com)
Ukraine Live: Victory As Ukraine Forces hit another Russian Ship in the crimea - Ministry of Defence (see video) (shorturl.at)
X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaints (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk Loses World’s Richest Person Title to Jeff Bezos (www.bloomberg.com)
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ASIA TODAY Iran sets new record with 834 death sentences carried out in 2023 (www.asianews.it)
Passengers sue Boeing, Alaska Airlines for $1 billion over midair door panel blowout (www.nbcnews.com)
The “preventable incident” endangered scores of lives both on the plane itself and others flying Max 9 aircraft, the suit alleges....
SpaceX faces hearing on engineers fired after criticizing Elon Musk over sexism (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. labor board judge on Tuesday held a hearing in a case accusing rocket maker SpaceX of illegally firing eight engineers for criticizing CEO Elon Musk and accusing him of sexist conduct in a letter to company executives....
A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects? (www.theguardian.com)
Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force...
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants (apnews.com)
Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally and order them to leave the country is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration....
France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first (www.lemonde.fr)
A joint session of Parliament voted to adopt a constitutional reform to protect the ‘freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed.’ The move was designed as a response to the US Supreme Court overturning the federal right to abortion in 2022....
Study calls US infrastructure spending a "climate time bomb" (www.motherjones.com)
Appeals court blocks Fla. ‘Stop Woke Act,’ says it’s a ‘First Amendment sin’ (www.washingtonpost.com)
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a ruling that blocked Florida from enforcing a law, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that restricts how private companies teach diversity and inclusion in the workplace....
Following “flour massacre,” hundreds of thousands around the world protest Gaza genocide (www.wsws.org)
Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack (apnews.com)
Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading. (www.propublica.org)
Last June, Pfizer, the lone U.S. manufacturer of the injections, notified the Food and Drug Administration of an “impending stock out” that it anticipated would last a year. The company blamed “an increase in syphilis infection rates as well as competitive shortages.”...
Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals (www.nbcnews.com)
The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.
Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems, further stressing shrinking US cities (apnews.com)
For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose. Until it became impossible to ignore....
Opinions of the Court - 2023 (www.supremecourt.gov)
This case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency....
Minnesota Dems Push to Repeal School Ban on Restraint That Killed George Floyd (www.the74million.org)
Nearly four years after George Floyd suffocated to death while being pinned face down to the pavement by a police officer, Minnesota Democrats are fast-tracking legislation that would undo a less-than-year-old ban prohibiting school-based cops from using that same type of restraint on students....
Mining company can't tap water needed for Okefenokee wildlife refuge, US says (apnews.com)
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells Georgia state regulators that federal law prohibits diverting water from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in quantities that would harm its function as a protective habitat for native animal and plant species....
Shielding US Public From Israeli Reports of Friendly Fire on October 7 (fair.org)
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Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill: President Akufo-Addo to wait for Supreme Court ruling (www.bbc.com)
Nana Akufo-Addo says he will not assent to the anti-LGBTQ+ bill until a Supreme Court ruling.
