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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....
When Veterans in Crisis Can’t Get Help ( www.propublica.org )
Marty and Candy Larsen were in their pajamas, getting ready to watch a movie in the living room, when they heard their 27-year-old daughter scream....
FBI arrests three people linked to January 6, 2021, insurrection ( www.aljazeera.com )
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jonathan D Pollock, 24, his sister, Olivia M Pollock, 33 and Joseph D Hutchinson, 27, at a ranch in Groveland, Florida, the FBI said in a statement on Saturday. The three will be arraigned on Monday....
Los Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators retrace their lives ( apnews.com )
Martirosyan acts as a living representative of those Los Angeles County calls “the unclaimed dead.” She is one of more than a dozen investigators who work for the Public Administrator, an understaffed and little-known branch of the county’s Department of the Treasurer and Tax Collector....
Auto dealers challenge new US FTC car-buyer consumer protection rules ( www.reuters.com )
The FTC said the new rules will ban bait-and-switch advertising tactics, prohibit charging for add-on costs that do not benefit consumers and require dealers to make key disclosures to consumers, including accurate pricing disclosures in advertising and sales communications....
Supreme Court agrees to weigh whether Trump can be kicked off ballot in Colorado ( www.nbcnews.com )
The justices will review a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said Trump could be barred from the Republican primary ballot in that state, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is likely to have national repercussions, potentially setting guidelines that would determine how every other state would handle the issue....
Nude man nabbed by police after 'cannonball' plunge into giant aquarium at Bass Pro Shop in Alabama ( apnews.com )
The ordeal happened Thursday night in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham, Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin said....
Live updates | 6 killed overnight in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Gaza ( apnews.com )
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says several thousand Hamas fighters remain in northern Gaza, where entire neighborhoods have been blasted into rubble. Heavy fighting is also underway in central Gaza and the southern city of Khan Younis, where Israeli officials say Hamas’ military structure is still largely intact....
Florida abortion rights measure gets enough signatures to go before voters ( www.reuters.com )
A state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion access in Florida has received enough signatures of support to appear on ballots in the November election, but a challenge by the state's attorney general could still block it....
LaPierre to step down as National Rifle Association leader ( www.reuters.com )
Wayne LaPierre, the longtime leader of the National Rifle Association, announced his resignation as chief executive on Friday, days before a corruption trial involving the gun rights group begins in a Manhattan courtroom....
For civilians or Hamas? 'Dual use' issue complicates Gaza aid efforts ( www.reuters.com )
Water purifiers, medical supplies and tent poles are among items Israel has blocked from entering Gaza on aid trucks, according to an Egyptian Red Crescent document seen by Reuters and sources in Gaza, but Israel denied blocking any such items....
Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son ( apnews.com )
Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh espoused racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and misogynistic views and encouraged listeners of their “Lone Wolf Radio” podcast to commit violent acts against ethnic minorities, authorities said....
Trump's Colorado appeal may force US Supreme Court to rule on his future ( www.reuters.com )
Former President Donald Trump's appeal of a Colorado ruling barring him from the ballot may force the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in directly on his 2024 election prospects, a case that legal experts said will likely pull its nine justices into a political firestorm....