More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many. (www.texasmonthly.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrants-drowning-rio-grande/
US pause on funding UN's main Palestinian relief agency UNRWA may become permanent (www.reuters.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/MTvC6
In Haiti, a police officer-turned-gangster is trying to seize control of the country (www.nbcnews.com)
Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier’s forces have laid siege to Haiti’s main international airport, traded fire with troops at government sites and sparked a mass jailbreak....
Russian election: Alexei Navalny’s final plan to cause Vladimir Putin ‘maximum damage’ (www.politico.eu)
Before his death, the opposition leader laid out a strategy to challenge the Russian president....
Brazil is close to approve law to stimulate gaming development (www.cartacapital.com.br)
The benefits include reduction on revenue taxes, classifies gaming development as technology and innovation research, which allows company to pay up to 50% less on the Tax on Manufactured Goods, simplifies the incorporation of gaming companies and regulates in-app purchases in games targeted at children, while also requiring...
Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist who fought for justice in Mississippi and beyond, dies at 81 (apnews.com)
Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed....
Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide (apnews.com)
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters....
Kansas will pay $1 million over the murder of a boy torture victim whose body was fed to pigs (apnews.com)
Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs....
The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)
So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.
The IRS launches Direct File, a pilot program for free online tax filing available in 12 states (apnews.com)
After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available to taxpayers from 12 selected states....
Apple expands investment in SZ with new lab (mp.weixin.qq.com)
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS (www.theregister.com)
Since Apple implemented a browser choice screen for iPhones earlier this month to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Brave Software, Mozilla, and Vivaldi have seen a surge in the number of people installing their web browsers....
Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court says (apnews.com)
Montana man used animal tissue and testicles to breed 'giant' sheep for sale to hunting preserves (apnews.com)
A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, according to court documents and federal prosecutors....
Flooding inundates Semarang's Old Town, railway station - Archipelago - The Jakarta Post (www.thejakartapost.com)
China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than experts expected: report (www.scmp.com)
India’s Economic Surge Fuels Modi’s Bid for Re-election (www.riotimesonline.com)
Japanese firms offer biggest pay rise since 2013, largest industrial union says (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
Nigeria ends land, air blockade of Niger Republic (apanews.net)
The global epidemic of dengue and the rebound of Zika hang over Easter trips (elpais.com)
Hyundai, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs over software glitch (www.chosun.com)
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? (www.wired.com)
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US safety agency says Boeing video of door-plug removal was overwritten (www.theguardian.com)
NTSB also said investigators still do not know who worked on door plug before it blew out mid-flight...
Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden (www.vox.com)
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges....
A newly-discovered volcano on Mars (scitechdaily.com)
