Michigan Democrats win special elections to regain full control of state government (apnews.com)
Democrats won back a majority in the Michigan House and restored their party’s full control of state governmentTuesday thanks to victories in two special elections....
Governors share anti-union statement ahead of key VW vote (www.cbtnews.com)
Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations; case vs. Jim Harbaugh pending (apnews.com)
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks (www.theguardian.com)
The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030...
Glascoed: Explosion at BAE Systems Monmouthshire site (www.bbc.com)
Germany busts people-smuggling ring for Chinese nationals (www.dw.com)
German police have arrested 10 people in an operation to combat people smuggling across eight states. The suspects are believed to have illegally procured clients residency permits in exchange for large sums of money....
Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial (www.cnbc.com)
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF (www.bbc.com)
An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the US, this year....
Palworld CEO says “many” clones of Pokémon-with-guns game are coming, with “Genshin Impact-level” successors (web.archive.org)
Tik-Tok Lite (www.reuters.com)
Wait, so now people are going to be monetarily rewarded for using tiktok?...
X blocks posts in India after election commission order (www.dw.com)
Social media platform X has blocked posts in India involving political speech following orders from the country’s election commission ahead of upcoming polls, the company said late on Tuesday....
MythForce - MythForce Harder, Better, Faster, Story Update is Now LIVE ⚔️ - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
Adventure Mode Beta out now for Dwarf Fortress (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Buckshot Roulette hit a million sales, multiplayer mode in development (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport | A year’s worth of rain fell in one day in some areas across Oman and the United Arab Emirates, bringing cities to a standstill. (www.nytimes.com)
The extreme weather appeared to be the result of a relatively normal weather system bringing rain that had been turbocharged by ocean and atmospheric warming, said Janette Lindesay, a climate scientist at the Australian National University. “It’s highly likely that global heating has played a role in the intensity of the...
Analysis | Why Has the Myanmar Regime Moved Suu Kyi to House Arrest? (www.irrawaddy.com)
Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker's safety culture (apnews.com)
The Senate Commerce Committee heard from members of an expert panel that found serious flaws in Boeing’s safety culture. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the public wants the Federal Aviation Administration and lawmakers to ensure that boarding one of the company’s planes has not become more dangerous....
Palestinian boy who survived airstrike dies during food aid drop (www.theguardian.com)
‘We need more shade’: how US’s hottest city is cooling its least protected community (www.theguardian.com)
Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures...
On Being an Outlier (www.goethe.de)
Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...
Pakistan says it blocked social media platform X over ‘national security’ (www.aljazeera.com)
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party is the most prolific user of social media platforms, particularly after the country’s traditional media began censoring news about the former cricket star and his party in the run-up to the polls. Khan has 20.6 million followers on X. ⠀...
Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
EU fiddles on Middle East as Ukraine burns (www.politico.eu)
EU leaders look set to focus on Iran — where there is little they can achieve — while still failing to flex real muscle against Putin in Ukraine....