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- Americans Are Posting 3D-Printed Gun Videos to China's RedNote With Surprising Successgizmodo.com Americans Are Posting 3D-Printed Gun Videos to China's RedNote With Surprising Success
Will Americans get banned from RedNote before the U.S. government has a chance to ban RedNote?
- Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent companyapnews.com Supreme Court backs law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
- More Americans Are Missing Payments and Losing Home Insurancewww.nytimes.com More Americans Are Missing Payments and Losing Home Insurance
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.
- FDA bans use of Red No. 3 dye in food, drinksabcnews.go.com FDA bans use of Red No. 3 dye in food, drinks
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban the use of Red No. 3 dye in food products.
- Pro-Luigi Mangione content is filling up social platforms — and it's a challenge to censor itwww.businessinsider.com Pro-Luigi Mangione content is filling up social platforms — and it's a challenge to moderate it
Luigi Mangione has drawn lots of defenders on social media. That's a challenge for platforms when it comes to moderation — and for users.
- The Rise of the French Fry Carteljacobin.com The Rise of the French Fry Cartel
After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97 percent of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.
- Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general sayswww.theguardian.com Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general says
Advisory warns alcohol is third leading preventable cause of cancer in US and seeks to raise consumer awareness
- United Healthcare denies claim of woman in comawww.newsweek.com United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma
The patient's doctor criticized the insurance company, saying that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.
- 10 dead, 30 injured after driver intentionally plows into crowd in New Orleansabcnews.go.com New Orleans attack updates: Suspect identified as Army veteran, did not act alone
Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured when a pickup truck plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
- Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’www.telegraph.co.uk Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
Scientist accuses US group of caving in to ‘hysterical squeals’ of cancel culture
- 2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformedwww.nature.com 2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformed
The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it.
> In 2022, the latest year for which full data are available, the world spent just short of US$10 trillion on health care. The United States was by far the largest single spender, representing 43% of the total. At the other end, around 75 of the poorest countries spent less than 4% of the global total, and many are not allowed to increase this. That’s because they owe huge sums to richer countries — and the lending agreements say that paying off debts has to be prioritized ahead of public spending.
> This is just one example of how inequity is baked into the world’s financial system — creditors can dictate lending terms to some of the most vulnerable countries without any oversight. However, in June and July 2025, the international community will have an opportunity to ensure that this situation can be consigned to history.
- 2 Oregon men die from exposure in a forest after they went out to look for Sasquatchwww.nbcnews.com 2 Oregon men die from exposure in a forest after they went out to look for Sasquatch
Sasquatch is a folkloric beast thought by some to roam the forests, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
- Heavy car dependency is making American lives less satisfying, study showswww.motherjones.com Heavy car dependency is making American lives less satisfying, study shows
We are “locked into a system of driving that is meant to be more enjoyable but isn’t."
- Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for womenwww.theguardian.com Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women
‘Femcel’ influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism
- Churches fight to stay open as attendance dwindlesabcnews.go.com Churches fight to stay open as attendance dwindles
Churches faced with empty pews are fighting to keep their doors open, while former houses of worship are being converted into bars, clubs and luxury condos.
- Homelessness surged 18% to a new record in 2024 amid a lack of affordable housing across the U.S.www.cbsnews.com Homelessness surged 18% to a new record in 2024 amid a lack of affordable housing across the U.S.
Federal officials say homelessness rose 18% in 2024, driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing.
- Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trumpwww.theguardian.com Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump
President also regrets picking Merrick Garland for attorney general, as he was slow to prosecute Trump for January 6
- Climate change added more than a month of dangerous heat around the world in 2024www.nationalobserver.com Climate change added more than a month of dangerous heat around the world in 2024
The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.
> “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role in most of the events we studied, making heat, droughts, tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall more likely and more intense across the world, destroying lives and livelihoods of millions and often uncounted numbers of people,” Friederike Otto, the lead of World Weather Attribution and an Imperial College climate scientist, said during a media briefing on the scientists' findings. “As long as the world keeps burning fossil fuels, this will only get worse.”
> “Heat waves are by far the deadliest extreme event, and they are the extreme events where climate change is a real game changer.”
- Colombia is defending its sovereignty from the power of global corporationswww.aljazeera.com Colombia is defending its sovereignty from the power of global corporations
Anyone who cares about democracy and climate action must support them.
> Trade deals can allow international corporations to trample over the rights of governments in the Global South. That is the message from the Colombian government, which describes the effect of such deals as a “bloodbath” for their national sovereignty. And now, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has said he wants to renegotiate the deals his country has with the United States, European Union and the United Kingdom.
> He has a strong case because, in the last couple of years, the US and European countries have also been renegotiating similar trade and investment deals, as they try to prevent themselves from being sued in the secretive “corporate courts” that these deals create.
> Only this year, the British government withdrew from a toxic investment deal, called the Energy Charter Treaty, after a slew of cases in which European governments were sued by fossil fuel corporations for taking climate action which supposedly damaged the profits of said businesses.
> So the question now is whether European countries are going to accept that southern countries need the same policy space to deal with climate change and numerous other problems they face. Or whether they will demand these countries continue to abide by these awful, one-sided deals.
- Body discovered in wheel well of United plane at Maui airport in Hawaiiwww.cbsnews.com Body discovered in wheel well of United plane at Maui airport in Hawaii
A body was found in the wheel well of United Airlines Flight 202, which left Chicago for Hawaii on Dec. 24, the airline said.
- Scientists from 57 countries call for coordinated decision-making on climate and biodiversitywww.nationalobserver.com Scientists from 57 countries call for coordinated decision-making on climate and biodiversity
A new report released Tuesday by the United Nations’ expert panel on biodiversity makes the case for a different approach based on addressing the “nexus” between two or more out of five essential issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, food, human health, and water.
> A new report released Tuesday by the United Nations’ expert panel on biodiversity makes the case for a different approach based on addressing the “nexus” between two or more out of five essential issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, food, human health, and water. Such an approach is not only more likely to help the world meet various U.N. targets on biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate mitigation; it’s also more cost-effective.
> “We have to move decisions and actions beyond single-issue silos,” said Paula Harrison, a professor of land and water modeling at the U.K. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a co-chair of the report, in a statement. Other scientific reports have studied the interlinkages between two or three of these issues, but she told reporters on Tuesday that this latest report is the “most ambitious” to date.
> The new report was the result of three years of work of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, an expert body that’s analogous to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which periodically assesses the state of the science on global warming.
- Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEOwww.bbc.com Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEO
The 26-year-old suspect is facing separate federal charges that could lead to a death sentence.
- CFPB Sues Walmart and Branch Messenger for Illegally Opening Deposit Accounts for More Than One Million Delivery Drivers | Consumer Financial Protection Bureauwww.consumerfinance.gov CFPB Sues Walmart and Branch Messenger for Illegally Opening Deposit Accounts for More Than One Million Delivery Drivers | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Today, the CFPB sued Walmart and Branch Messenger for forcing delivery drivers to use costly deposit accounts to get paid and for deceiving workers— “last mile” drivers in Walmart’s Spark Driver program—about how they could access their earnings.
- Cats in L.A. County die after drinking recalled raw milkwww.latimes.com Cats in L.A. County die after drinking recalled raw milk
Los Angeles County health officials are investigating the deaths of two cats who became ill after drinking recalled H5N1 bird flu-infected raw milk.
- DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"www.cbsnews.com DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York earlier this month, and there has been some celebration on social media of the suspected killer.
- Report: Israel “Systematically” Uses Palestinian Children as Human Shieldstruthout.org Report: Israel “Systematically” Uses Palestinian Children as Human Shields
Israel has killed over 17,500 children in Gaza since October 2023, officials say, with the true toll likely far higher.
- California will require EV charging for all new residential units in 2026electrek.co California will require EV charging for all new residential units in 2026
California is taking a big step towards solving the only real problem with EVs - charging for people who don't own a garage.
- Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"www.newsweek.com Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"
A former prosecutor has said he has never seen so much sympathy for a person accused of murder.
- Report: Israel Kills Anyone Who Crosses Line Splitting North and South Gazatruthout.org Report: Israel Kills Anyone Who Crosses Line Splitting North and South Gaza
One soldier recalled how his commander told him “everyone’s a terrorist,” according to a new investigation.
- Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territorieswww.independent.co.uk Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territories
Ukrainian president rules out conceding land to Russia but calls for stronger Western intervention
- Grocery prices set to rise as soil becomes "unproductive"www.newsweek.com Grocery prices set to rise as soil becomes "unproductive"
Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.
- Costco boss warns of potential price hikes due to Trump tariffswww.thecentersquare.com Costco boss warns of potential price hikes due to Trump tariffs
(The Center Square) – A Costco executive warned consumers that potential price hikes in stores could be a result of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs.
- New York City Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattanwww.justice.gov New York City Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan
BROOKLYN, NY – Today in federal court in Brooklyn, Manhattan resident Chen Jinping pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in connection with opening and operating an undeclared overseas police station in lower Manhattan for the PRC’...
