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It’s not just Israel in the dock over genocide, it’s everyone who looked away | Nimer Sultany ( www.theguardian.com )
What has been remarkable about the last three months is the chilling disregard shown towards Palestinian civilian lives. Too many lazy talking points were used to enable so many in Europe and North America to look away, or worse, to justify complicity in what South Africa argues is a genocide, through their support for Israel...
It’s not just Israel in the dock over genocide, it’s everyone who looked away | Nimer Sultany ( www.theguardian.com )
What has been remarkable about the last three months is the chilling disregard shown towards Palestinian civilian lives. Too many lazy talking points were used to enable so many in Europe and North America to look away, or worse, to justify complicity in what South Africa argues is a genocide, through their support for Israel...
Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords ( www.theguardian.com )
After a 15-year dispute, the private company Nordic Mining has been given the go-ahead to dispose of 170m tons of mining waste at the bottom of the Førde fjord, which critics say will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at risk....
Emails surface from LU's VP of Student Affairs sent the day she died by suicide ( krcgtv.com )
A controversial start to the year for Lincoln University President Dr. John Moseley and the Board of Curators after the University’s Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey, took her own life on January 8. Bailey’s passing has sparked outrage from LU alumni across the country who are now...
Hardliners pressure Johnson to back off spending deal with Schumer as shutdown looms ( www.cnn.com )
Hardline conservatives are ramping up pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson to walk away from a topline spending deal struck with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a move that threatens to derail bipartisan negotiations with Congress just days from a partial government shutdown....
California city to pay $5m to family of Willie McCoy, who police shot 55 times ( www.theguardian.com )
The 2019 killing of the 20-year-old rapper raised scrutiny of Vallejo police department, which has a history of brutality...
Milwaukee kindergartner left behind on school bus, found honking horn Monday night ( www.jsonline.com )
Police said the student was physically unharmed.
St. Paul makes history with all-female city council, a rarity among large US cities ( apnews.com )
St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.
A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy ( www.businessinsider.com )
The great baby-boomer retirement wave is upon us. According to Census Bureau data, 44% of boomers are at retirement age and millions more are soon to join them. By 2030, the largest generation to enter retirement will all be older than 65....
Palestinian viewers are captivated and moved by case at UN's top court accusing Israel of genocide ( apnews.com )
Televisions typically filled with images of bloodshed and destruction in Gaza instead broadcast foreign lawyers and judges holding forth in lofty halls. In at least one cafe in the West Bank city of Ramallah, some cheered as they watched South Africa’s justice minister expound on the decades-long “systematic oppression and...
Ohio woman who miscarried at home won't be charged with corpse abuse, grand jury decides ( apnews.com )
The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office said grand jurors declined to return an indictment for abuse of a corpse against Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, resolving a case that had sparked national attention for its implications for pregnant women as states across the country hash out new laws governing reproductive health care...
Trump tangles with judge as NY civil fraud trial nears its end ( www.reuters.com )
Donald Trump on Thursday accused the New York judge in his civil fraud trial of "having your own agenda" - and the judge told his lawyer to control his client - as a months-long case that could hobble the former U.S. president's business empire neared its end....
Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M ( abcnews.go.com )
The Steiners, the newsletter's publisher and editor, have also sued the e-commerce giant in federal court, describing how cyberstalking and upsetting deliveries of anonymously sent packages upended their lives....
Rental giant Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars ( www.reuters.com )
Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ.O) said on Thursday it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, from its U.S. fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles....
Israel lashes back at ICJ genocide case; Gazans return to wasteland ( www.reuters.com )
Israel faced down accusations at the World Court on Thursday of genocide in its war in Gaza, as the first residents returned to scenes of total devastation in the north of the enclave where Israeli forces have begun withdrawing this week....
Groupon to Sponsor STEM Training for Black Students Following EEOC Inquiry ( hrmjunkies.com )
Many Republicans seek a largely unconstrained president: Reuters/Ipsos poll ( www.reuters.com )
The week-long poll, which closed on Tuesday, found Trump's Republican Party appears divided on where to draw the limits on presidential power that help define American democracy....
Why is Biden engaging in disinformation on Gaza? ( www.aljazeera.com )
This fact came back to me as I watched the Israeli terror unfold in al-Shifa Hospital, eight weeks ago now. I became fixated on the 39 premature babies there, the ones who were evacuated from the neonatal intensive care unit into two beds, wrapped with foil. I pictured them gasping for breath, slowly dying....
Montana fire chief who had refused vaccine mandate in Washington state charged in Jan. 6 riot ( apnews.com )
Prosecutors say that Frank Dahlquist sprayed “an orange-colored chemical agent” directly into the face of one officer and later sprayed a second officer as supporters of former president Donald Trump attacked the Capitol building in Washington D.C., according to court documents unsealed Wednesday....
Yellen says 100,000 firms have joined a business database aimed at unmasking shell company owners ( apnews.com )
Boeing admits mistake over plane door blow-out ( www.bbc.com )
On Tuesday, Boeing's president and chief executive Dave Calhoun said the firm was "acknowledging our mistake"....
LaPierre turned NRA into 'Wayne's World,' NY lawyer says at graft trial ( www.reuters.com )
Wayne LaPierre ran the National Rifle Association (NRA) as "Wayne's World" for decades, a lawyer for New York state said at the start of the gun rights group's corruption trial, three days after LaPierre suddenly resigned as chief executive....
Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability.’ One obvious solution is also a big part of the problem | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 ( edition.cnn.com )
Experts: Jack Smith’s “dramatic new proof” so “overwhelming” reluctant witnesses may decide to flip ( www.salon.com )
Australia bans Nazi salute, swastika, other hate symbols in public as antisemitism spikes ( www.cbsnews.com )
Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense....
MI6 spy detained in China, authorities claim ( www.bbc.com )
Chinese authorities say they have detained an individual alleged to be spying for Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI6....
Donald Trump did not sign Illinois pledge not to overthrow government ( www.theguardian.com )
Former president sidestepped signing state’s loyalty oath, which opponents Nikki Haley and Chris Christie also have not signed...
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit ( www.reuters.com )
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters....
Iowa's Christian conservatives follow their faith when voting, and some say it leads them to Trump ( apnews.com )
“We thank you for the upcoming election, Lord — or caucus, as we call it in Iowa,” said Hundley, speaking from the sanctuary of his evangelical Christian church in his slight Texas drawl as his parishioners bowed their heads....
Location of 600 Al-Aqsa Hospital patients, staff ‘unknown’, says WHO ( www.aljazeera.com )
Location of 600 patients, health workers from Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital “unknown”, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after hospital director says they were forced to leave.
The NYPD Spent $150 Million to Catch Farebeaters Who Cost the MTA $104,000 ( hellgatenyc.com )
All Internet Access Blocked In Pakistan ( english.alarabiya.net )
Internet and social media services in Pakistan faced severe disruptions on Sunday night as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepared for a massive online campaign ahead of elections. Khan and key PTI leaders were disqualified as candidates, alleging interference by the...
Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist's rape claim at upcoming defamation trial ( apnews.com )
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence was sufficient to conclude that he raped her....
'Try not to let moose lick your car,' warns Parks Canada, as more moose flock to highways ( www.cbc.ca )
Parks Canada is warning drivers not to stop while on highways to let moose lick their cars this winter....
Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza ( www.bbc.co.uk )
The eldest son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza....
The many lives of Trump Tower - BBC News ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Trump first set sights on the old granite and limestone Bonwit Teller building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in the mid-1970s. It was a time of street gangs and violent crime, when New York City was known more for the Son of Sam serial killer than for glamour and style....