Trump is not the only convicted criminal to run for U.S. president. Over a century ago, Eugene Debs ran from his prison cell. (www.nbcnews.com)
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all states (www.axios.com)
Moscow warns West of escalation after Ukraine told it can hit Russia (www.bbc.com)
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia....
US intelligence officials share evidence that Russia has used North Korean missiles to strike Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The U.S. Ministry of Defense’s Intelligence Service reported that Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles to strike Ukraine....
JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money (www.theguardian.com)
India's Central Bank moves 100 tonnes of gold from UK back to India, first such move of this magnitude since 1991 (m.economictimes.com)
Putin's 4-D chess in a nutshell (sh.itjust.works)
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New York Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for Autistic Youth (www.propublica.org)
Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout (www.thedailybeast.com)
In appeal, anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy's attorneys see chance at taking down decades-old law protecting clinics (www.wusa9.com)
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OpenAI says it stopped multiple covert influence operations that abused its AI models (www.engadget.com)
Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump has been found guilty of using a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election....
Racist violence in Germany reaches record highs, support groups warn (www.euronews.com)
Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and antisemitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence....
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
OpenAI content deals with Vox and The Atlantic spark criticism from journalists (arstechnica.com)
Google Messages rolling out 15-minute RCS editing (9to5google.com)
This ability to edit RCS — not SMS — is rolling out to stable starting today, but all the Google Messages users in a conversation need to have it enabled.
Parents called for mental health help. Police arrived and fatally shot their son. (www.nbcnews.com)
Less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door, police shot Yong Yang in his parents’ Koreatown home while he was holding a knife during a bipolar episode....
“CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest (arstechnica.com)
'It's Officially Begun': AIPAC's Dark Money Super PAC Targets Cori Bush (www.commondreams.org)
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China set to build giant chip factory using a particle accelerator (www.scmp.com)
Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work (defector.com)
A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe (www.nature.com)
Italy’s PM says fascism is ‘consigned to history’. Not everyone is so sure (www.bbc.com)
They line up in military-like formation: a thousand strong, most dressed in black, some with tattoos on shaved scalps....
