'Cashing in on Genocide': Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate in Leveled Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
Recalled applesauce pouches now linked to more than 200 lead poisoning cases in 33 states, CDC says (www.cbsnews.com)
Health authorities are now investigating at least 205 cases of lead poisonings across 33 different states linked to contaminated applesauce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. That’s up from 125 cases in the agency’s last weekly tally....
Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital (www.theverge.com)
The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes....
Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries (www.timesofisrael.com)
Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal....
The NRA Is at Rock Bottom—And 15 Years of Tax Filings Tell the Story (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry (www.wired.com)
Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy after $148M defamation judgment (abcnews.go.com)
John Schneider (Dukes of Hazard, Smallville) calls for Joe Biden to be executed (www.newsweek.com)
Mass shooting in the center of Prague: 15 deaths confirmed (www.telegraph.co.uk)
International traveler tests positive for measles after arriving in Colorado, visiting several counties (www.cbsnews.com)
An international traveler to Colorado has tested positive for measles. The adolescent arrived at Denver International Airport on Dec. 13 and visited several counties in the state in the past week....
Wayfair CEO sends a harsh wake-up call to employees (www.thestreet.com)
The CEO recently informed employees that further blurring the line between work and life is the recipe for success and is pushing for staff to put in more overtime, according to an email Shah wrote to his employees, which was obtained by Business Insider last week....
FDA says it’s seized ‘thousands of units’ of counterfeit Ozempic (www.cnn.com)
The US Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday that it’s seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit versions of the type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic from the US drug supply chain, and it’s urging suppliers, pharmacies and patients to use caution. Five people have gotten sick in connection with the products, but none of...
Ukraine lawmakers vote to legalize medical marijuana and help ease stress from the war with Russia (www.seattletimes.com)
The new law, which will come into effect in six months’ time and which also allows cannabis to be used for scientific and industrial ends, passed by 248 votes in the 401-seat parliament in Kyiv. A full breakdown of the vote wasn’t immediately available. The law was proposed by Prime Minister Denys Smyhal....
At least 5 US-funded projects in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, but most are spared (apnews.com)
DeSantis spread false information while pushing trans health care ban and restrictions, a judge says (apnews.com)
A federal judge hearing a challenge to a transgender health care ban for minors and restrictions for adults noted Thursday that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly spread false information about doctors mutilating children’s genitals even though there’s been no such documented cases....
Pornhub owner agrees to pay $1.8M and independent monitor to resolve sex trafficking-related charge (apnews.com)
The owner of Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Thursday....
Palestinians support Hamas decision to go to war with Israel, survey suggests, with no political solution on horizon (www.cnn.com)
CNN reporting on some interesting survey results from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. Seven hundred and fifty adults were interviewed face to face in the West Bank, and 481 were interviewed in Gaza, also in person. The Gaza data collection was done during the recent truce, when it was safer for...
For years, he couldn't donate at the blood center where he worked. Under new FDA rules, now he can (abcnews.go.com)
New federal guidelines that dropped an abstinence requirement before gay men in monogamous relationships can give blood are opening a new pool of potential donors...
A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI (apnews.com)
Cancer patients face frightening delays in treatment approvals (www.cbsnews.com)
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Oregon Passed A Bill To Compensate The Wrongfully Convicted. Almost None Of Them Have Been Paid. (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/oregon-wrongful-conviction-comp…
It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at New York City's Floyd Bennett Field for Migrants (www.curbed.com)
Residents of the 2,000-bed shelter, which opened in November to house migrant families after the Adams administration said hotels and shelter space had hit capacity, were bracing for more long nights. The complex, four massive tents divided into private pods where families sleep on cots, is heated and fortified with ballasts...
More than 20,000 dead in Gaza, a historic human toll (www.washingtonpost.com)
More than 20,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Gaza Health Ministry....
The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a New Jersey prison (www.theguardian.com)
[Kory] McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. From a cell directly below the man’s cell, McClary overheard his decline over several weeks and described it in a harrowing article that was shared with MindSite News, a...