Reading archive 2023-11-14

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos

Baby boomers are buying up all the houses: This year, the median age for a repeat buyer was 58, according to data released Monday from the National Association of Realtors

March for Israel fills National Mall, demands release of Hamas hostages

White House urges Israel to curtail settler violence in West Bank: Increasing attacks raise the prospect of a second front; critics say the U.S. should do more to head it off - "Nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed in violent clashes in the West Bank over the past month.

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"Jewish settlers in recent weeks have attacked and killed Palestinians without provocation, experts said, in an effort to drive them out of their communities through such tactics as burning property, tearing up land and destroying olive trees, which are a primary source of income for many Palestinians."

Scientists have discovered what may be the first ‘vampire’ virus: Dubbed MiniFlayer, the unusual microbe was found attached to another virus in a soil sample from Maryland

Invasive tick species is expanding its reach in U.S., researchers say

Opinion  Trump’s plan for giant detention camps points to a brutal 2024 reality

A home birth midwife faces scrutiny after a baby dies. It’s not the first time. - "Overall, full-term infants in the United States are more than twice as likely to die after planned home births attended by midwives as those delivered in hospitals by any providers, according to a Post analysis of CDC data over five years." [ed. note: this story is crazy]

AN INVISIBLE KILLER: A flesh-eating fungus is expanding its range in the American West - and scientists suspect climate change is driving the spread