Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
The Atlantic
Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
ProPublica
He’s the first known transgender lawyer to argue before Supreme Court. For Chase Strangio, the mission ‘is not lost on me’
Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court. And he’ll do it as part of the most high-profile dispute on the docket this session.
The case, US v. Skrmetti, challenges a Tennessee law that bans treatments, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, for transgender minors and imposes civil penalties on doctors who violate the prohibitions. Some two dozen similar laws have been enacted in recent years in Republican-led states.
CNN
Wisconsin Democratic Chair Says He Is the One to Revive a Distressed Party
Ben Wikler, who has led the Wisconsin Democratic Party since 2019, announced a bid to be national party chair with a platform to “unite, fight, win.”
New York Times (gift article)
Trump’s plans for mass deportations could target 47,000 in Philadelphia: ‘No question it’s going to be ugly.’
Trump has provided few details, but pledged mass deportations to remove those who lack permission to be here – about 13 million people, roughly the population of Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
LGBTQ+ peer support is important now more than ever
In the coming years, it will be even more crucial to support local and virtual sources of LGBTQ+ peer support. All too often, there’s too much labor being done by marginalized genders and races, resulting in the loss of a community or individual people. According to the Trevor Project, one-third of the people who contacted their crisis services post-election were BIPOC LGBTQ+ youth.
into
Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona
But before his stints in government and as a pundit, Benz appears to have been a pseudonymous alt-right content creator who courted and interacted with white nationalists and posted videos espousing racist conspiracy theories, according to recordings, livestreams and blog posts reviewed by NBC News.
NBC News
FEMA to Florida cities hit by hurricanes: Rebuild higher or lose your flood insurance
FEMA announced that starting next year, Fort Myers Beach residents will no longer get a 25% discount on their flood insurance — an average increase of about $300 per resident— because FEMA found that rebuilding efforts from previous storms weren’t good enough.And if the town makes any future mistakes in the rebuilding process from this year’s double whammy of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, residents could lose federal flood insurance altogether.
Miami Herald
“The Barn,” on the lynching of Emmett Till, and an evil hiding in plain sight
If you know where to look in the Mississippi Delta, you can find markers of what a culture has spent decades trying to erase.
CBS News
Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election
Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank focusing on polarization and extremism, said she had seen a “very large uptick in a number of types of misogynistic rhetoric immediately after the election,” including some “extremely violent misogyny.”
AP News
Trump signed the law to require presidential ethics pledges. Now he is exempting himself from it
A bipartisan bill to boost transparency and make sure incoming presidents stick to an ethics plan was so uncontroversial that it passed the Senate by a voice vote in 2020. Donald Trump then signed it into law.
But now, after blowing past deadlines to adhere to the law after winning the White House a second time, Trump appears to have excluded himself from those same ethical guidelines.
Independent
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Taiwan president’s Hawaii trip draws Chinese anger
After arriving in Hawaii, Lai said war would have “no winners” and that “we have to fight together to prevent war”.
China’s foreign ministry said it “strongly condemns” the visit and that it had “lodged serious protests with the US”.
BBC
Serbia denies link to Kosovo canal blast amid heightened tensions
The blast damaged a canal supplying water to hundreds of thousands of people and cooling systems at two coal-fired power plants that generate most of Kosovo’s electricity.
AFP
More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
The Guardian
VW Union to Start Walkouts on Monday Over Cost-Cutting Plans
Bloomberg
“If necessary, this will be the toughest collective bargaining battle Volkswagen has ever seen,” said Thorsten Groeger, the IG Metall union’s lead negotiator in the VW talks. Warning strikes will begin at all plants, he added.
Bolsonaro hoping Trump’s return will help political comeback in Brazil
‘Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back, too,’ Brazil’s ex-president tells WSJ amid coup attempt accusations.
AlJazeera
A restored Notre Dame cathedral is unveiled days before its official reopening
The famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is set to reopen next month for the first time since a devastating fire crippled the beloved church in 2019.
NPR
China Recruiting Former R.A.F. Pilots to Train Its Army Pilots, U.K. Says
Citing national security, Britain wants to stop its retired military pilots from accepting lucrative contracts to train members of the People’s Liberation Army.
The New York Times (gift article)
Georgia protests enter fourth night as opposition grows to freeze on EU talks
Georgian media reports protests in at least eight cities and towns after Saturday’s demonstrations leave 44 in hospital
The Guardian
Former Israeli defense minister Yaalon warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza
A former Israeli defense minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, drawing a sharp rebuke from government ranks.
Moshe Yaalon, a hawkish former general, told Israeli media that hardliners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet were looking to chase Palestinians from northern Gaza and wanted to re-establish Jewish settlements there.
Reuters
Georgia’s PM hits back as protests and resignations intensify
After nights of large-scale street demonstrations and a string of public resignations, Georgia’s prime minister has rejected calls for new elections and said protesters have fallen victim to opposition lies.
BBC
Israeli strikes kill 7 in Gaza, UN halts aid via key border crossing
At least seven people, including two children, were killed in new Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, as the UN halts aid deliveries through a key border crossing due to security concerns and a former Israeli defence minister decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza.
dpa International
