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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....
Black Americans would feel the sting of Republican budget cut proposals ( www.reuters.com )
When Charla Plaines saw the toll lead paint took on her granddaughter, she was able to get the hazardous substance scrubbed from her home thanks to a federally funded program that Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives want to cut....
It took decades, but San Francisco finally installs nets to stop suicides off Golden Gate Bridge ( apnews.com )
Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his hands released the rail and he plunged the equivalent of 25 stories into the Pacific Ocean, breaking his back....
Court records related to Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released, but they aren't a client list ( apnews.com )
There is no such list and the truth is less scandalous....
US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions ( apnews.com )
Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at requests for these pills from people who weren’t pregnant and sought them through Aid Access, a European online...
Biden under pressure to act amid new fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza ( www.aljazeera.com )
Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza....
Israel will appear at the Hague to contest South Africa's genocide accusations ( www.middleeasteye.net )
South Africa on Friday launched a case for the ICJ stating that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention and calling for a halt to its military operations in Gaza....
They Were Wrongfully Convicted. Now They’re Denied Compensation Despite Michigan Law. ( www.propublica.org )
Freedom, however, was frightening. Night after night, he awoke every 15 minutes or so, wrestling with the covers, wondering if he’d hallucinated it all. He kept the television on to remind himself he wasn’t in prison anymore. Its noise broke the first complete silence he’d experienced in half a lifetime, he said, which...
Fishermen find driver trapped in truck for six days in Indiana ( www.bbc.com )
Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre had been killing time while waiting for their wives, police say....
Oklahoma judge rules a man who wrongfully spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder is innocent ( apnews.com )
Glynn Simmons, 71, who was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers, was ruled innocent Tuesday....
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93 ( apnews.com )
The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness....