Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the H5N1 bird flu virus moves from the Central valley to Southern California herds and federal officials confirmed flu in a Louisiana patient hospitalized with severe illness. read more
While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they're also meant to distract from the myriad ways we're all getting fleeced. read more
A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. read more
A new investigation from The New York Times suggests that SpaceX founder Elon Musk has not been reporting his travel activities and other information to the Department of Defense as required by his top-secret clearance. read more
My take on this story was: "Black market Restaurant Reservations is a thing?" The answer to this question is yes. Apparently 3rd-party companies use AI bots to make reservations at popular restaurants and then sell them for a profit. read more
I post this not just for the historical significance, but the clown car of promoters is ascendent again. read more
Tom Cruise has been awarded the US Navy's highest civilian honour for "outstanding contributions" to the military with his screen roles. read more
Russell Berman: Trump's popular-vote margin has shrunk to about 1.5 percent -- one of the tightest in the past half century -- and because some votes went to third-party and independent candidates, he'll fall just short of winning a majority of the vote nationwide. And in the House, they gained a seat, leaving the GOP with the second-smallest majority in history. read more
Honda and Nissan are understood to have held exploratory talks about a potential merger to help them compete against electric vehicle (EV) makers, particularly in China. read more
A Republican brouhaha is emerging after President-elect Trump called to eliminate daylight saving time, setting up battle lines between prominent GOP lawmakers in their hopes to lock the clock. read more
Head of [Russia Today] Margarita Simonyan, a decorated state TV propagandist and Kremlin insider, has spilled not only Russia's hopes and dreams for Donald Trump's second term in office but also Moscow's strategy for suckering him in. read more
This year was the most active for gunfire on school grounds since 2013, when Everytown for Gun Safety started tracking data. read more
Thom Hartmann: From Disney to big business: Corporations are aligning with Trump to avoid punishment and secure their place in the authoritarian future ... read more
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wants the FCC to crack down on news broadcasters that he perceives as being unfair to Trump or Republicans in general. read more
A lawsuit by a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives accuses the State Department of giving Israel a pass when it comes to a U.S. law meant to limit military aid over human rights abuses. read more
FT opinion columnist Ruchir Sharma writes about America's debt problem. read more
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