Estados Unidos
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
Amite School Center, like many private schools across the Deep South, opened during desegregation to serve families fleeing the arrival of Black children at the once all-white public schools. ProPublica has been examining how these schools, called “segregation academies,” often continue to act as divisive forces in their communities even now, five decades later.
ProPublica
Trump’s promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump vowed in September to get rid of the app, which he falsely claims is used to smuggle migrants into the U.S.
NPR
Amazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do with it
Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract.
AP News
Joe Biden establishes national monument for first woman Cabinet member & brains behind the New Deal
Frances Perkins revolutionized America’s labor sector. She may also have been part of the LGBTQ+ community.
LGBTQ Nation
Oregon sheriff concerned about letters asking people to track possible immigrants
A sheriff in Oregon says he has contacted the FBI and is increasingly concerned about a letter circulating in his rural, coastal community asking people to write down the license plate numbers of possible immigrants.
CNN
Trans in the Heart of Texas
A math professor in Uvalde finds that the roots of hate are surprisingly shallow.
Texas Observer
G.O.P. Spending Hawks Defy Trump on the Debt Limit, Previewing More Clashes
President-elect Donald J. Trump is known for his tight grip on members of his party, but the rare rejection of his demand to suspend the debt limit reflected a disconnect that could plague his policy agenda.
The New York Times (Gift)
Florida and oranges have been a pair for decades. Now the industry has sour prospects
Hurricanes and an untreatable tree disease have left a once fruitful citrus industry with little to produce this year
The Guardian
US strikes Houthi targets in Yemen, hours after rebels hit Israel
In addition to striking Houthi targets, US forces also shot down multiple drones and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea.
The New Arab
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
A year-long investigation by The Washington Post has documented that 3,104 studentsdied at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, three times as many deaths as reported by the U.S. Interior Departmentearlier this year. The Post found that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended, underscoring how, in many cases, children’s bodies were never sent home to their families or tribes.
The Washington Post (Gift)
The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
The Atlantic
Newberry Library discovers it holds the largest example in existence of an extremely rare paper type
“Of course I’m interested in the text, but what really, really drew my attention was the slides of different pages from this manuscript,” said Mundy, a Tulane University art history professor. “And I said, ‘Ben, could we zoom in on that paper?’ Because the manuscript, which was a big manuscript, was clearly done on a paper that was not European.”
Prompted by Mundy’s hunch, the Library of Congress analyzed the papers this fall and made an astounding discovery. The manuscript was printed on maguey paper, a type made from pounded agave plants that is so rare that only 10 sheets were known to exist: four at the Library of Congress and six at the National Library of Anthropology and History in Mexico City.
Chicago Tribune
Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty
“Some did identify policy uncertainty as one of the reasons for their writing down more uncertainty around inflation,” Powell said. “The point about uncertainty is it’s kind of common sense thinking that when the path is uncertain you go a little bit slower.”
AP News
Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers
The Guardian
Donald Trump threatens to seize control of Panama Canal unless it lowers prices for US
Mr Trump said a 1977 agreement to transfer ownership from the US to Panama was signed as a gesture of cooperation, but warned: “The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US.
The Telegraph
Louisiana bans staff from helping people get mpox, COVID & flu vaccines
Officials in Louisiana held a series of meetings in October and November, telling Department of Health staff that the state would no longer allow them to promote COVID, flu, and mpox vaccinations.
The new policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing, four health department employees told NPR. They asked to remain anonymous.
LGTBQ Nation
Trump’s energy strategy is ‘drill baby drill.’ It’s going to be much harder than that
Trump and his allies say they will open the nation’s oil spigots on full blast, but under the climate-focused tenure of President Joe Biden, US oil production has never been higher.
And even though Trump has vowed to kill Biden’s signature climate law, its generous clean energy tax credits are leading to new EV and solar factories being constructed, supercharging red state economies along the way. This could make it harder to convince GOP lawmakers to go along.
CNN
A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions
A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, though Planned Parenthood said the decision is still not sufficient for it to resume providing abortions in the state.
AP News
El Mundo
Aleppo residents reflect on former President Assad’s destructive regime
“They would hit indiscriminately. The jets would fly over and the bombs would drop. They’d just fall, whether the wind blows it here or there, you just don’t know. Is there a specific target in mind? I don’t think so, they just hit and go,” Dr Diab said.
Euronews
Elon Musk calls far-right German party ‘the only hope,’ wading into upcoming election
Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and increasingly close ally to President-elect Donald Trump, endorsed Germany’s far right political party in a series of recent posts, following a deadly Christmas market attack there Friday evening.
USA Today
Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Ukraine’s diplomats to fight for Nato membership
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine after a devastating drone attack on the central Russian city of Kazan and met the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit of an EU and Nato leader to Moscow.
The Guardian
Anti-immigrant anger rises at scene of German market attack
But for many Germans in Magdeburg, the fact the latest Christmas market attacker doesn’t fit the expected security profile simply doesn’t matter.
“Our politicians are responsible for this,” one local woman, Barbara, told CNN as she paid her respects outside the police cordons.
“I think there should be a clean-up of people who do these things,” she added.
“Now is time to close our borders,” said a local man, Tom, standing nearby.
CNN
Why did at least 67 people die in Christmas charity stampedes in struggling Nigeria?
Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
AP News
Syria’s new leader says all weapons to come under ‘state control’
“We will absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control, whether from the revolutionary factions or the factions present in the SDF area”, he added, referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Al-Monitor
Dozens killed after passenger bus hits truck in south-east Brazil
A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early has killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said.
Euronews
Syria’s minorities seek security as country charts new future
Alawites controlled power in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country for the 50 years of the Assad family’s rule, holding top positions in the government, military and intelligence services.
Now, many from the community fear reprisals following the overthrow of the Assad regime by rebels led by HTS, a Sunni Islamist group that was once al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
BBC
