Month: October 2021
Mother arrested on suspicion of starving 2-year-old girl to ‘weight of newborn’
Hospital staff grew suspicious as underweight child failed to gain weight, caught woman removing feeding tube; doctor calls it ‘worst abuse case we’ve experienced in recent years’
Read MoreEU Offers No New Pledges to Take in Afghan Refugees
At a resettlement forum in Brussels, the United Nations called on European Union member states to resettle 42,500 Afghans over the next five years, a figure that EU officials called doable but wouldn’t commit to.
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Senate report details Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost
The report released Thursday offers new insight about how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the Justice Department, asking leaders to declare the election “corrupt” and disparaging its top official for not doing
Read MoreAshton Kutcher-led group invests in Israeli maker of lab-grown meat
Actor hails MeaTech as ‘the leader in industrial scale production of cultured meat,’ doesn’t disclose size of investment
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Senate report details Trump’s efforts to use DOJ to overturn election results – NPR
Senate report details Trump’s efforts to use DOJ to overturn election results NPR Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election Yahoo! Voices Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted
Read MoreWhy can’t America quit flirting with financial ruin?
Nobody thinks defaulting on US sovereign debt is a good idea. And yet it prompts recurrent crises
Read MoreThe incomes of America’s poorest are growing faster than those of its richest
Ever-widening inequality is not an immutable law of a modern economy
Read MoreChicago re-examines its origin story 150 years after the great fire
What does the city’s creation myth reveal about its history?
Read MoreWith Masks On or Off, Schools Try to Find the New Normal
Despite some turmoil, the vast majority of students have been in classrooms full-time and mostly uninterrupted this fall. Now, educators debate what’s next.
Read MoreStalled weather front drenches Alabama, killing child in floods
Parts of central Alabama got as much as 13 inches of rain as the low-pressure system lingered over Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, the National Weather Service said.
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