Avian flu is devastating farms in California's 'Egg Basket' as outbreaks roil poultry industry (apnews.com)
Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu....
GOP legislatures in some states seek ways to undermine voters' ability to determine abortion rights (apnews.com)
Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are trying to undercut democratic processes meant to give voters a direct role in forming state laws....
Climate activists throw soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa as farmers’ protests continue (apnews.com)
Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. This came amid protests by French farmers against several issues, including low wages....
How Taiwan beat back disinformation and preserved the integrity of its election (apnews.com)
Taiwan has been able to effectively respond to Chinese disinformation in part because of how seriously the threat is perceived there, according to Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident fellow and expert on Chinese disinformation at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Instead of a piecemeal approach — focusing...
Top UN court stops short of ordering cease-fire in Gaza and demands Israel contain deaths (apnews.com)
Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research (apnews.com)
Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research....
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood (apnews.com)
Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge (apnews.com)
He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”...
Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery in published research (apnews.com)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, announced Jan. 22 it’s requesting retractions and corrections of scientific papers after a British blogger flagged problems in early January....
A trial in Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay's 2002 killing is starting, and testing his anti-drug image (apnews.com)
Now Jay’s case is the first of those killings to go to trial. Opening statements are set for Monday in the federal murder trial of Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, who were arrested in 2020....
4 people die in a Los Angeles murder-suicide shooting, police say (apnews.com)
Four people are dead following what police in Los Angeles characterized as a murder-suicide in the Granada Hills area on Saturday....
US sees signs of progress on deal to release hostages, bring temporary pause to Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement under which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to two senior administration officials....
In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies (apnews.com)
In-N-Out Burger says it will close its first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins, property damage, theft and robberies affecting customers and employees alike at its only restaurant in Oakland, California....
Ukraine says it has no evidence for Russia's claim that dozens of POWs died in a shot down plane (apnews.com)
Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that Ukrainian forces shot down a military transport plane that Moscow says was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs....
Russian man who flew on Los Angeles flight without passport or ticket found guilty of being stowaway (apnews.com)
A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket is guilty of being a stowaway on an aircraft, a federal jury found Friday....
West Virginia GOP majority pushes contentious bills arming teachers, restricting bathrooms, books (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school....
Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping, snaring some with harsh punishments (apnews.com)
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her....
Haitians suffering gang violence are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment (apnews.com)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radio stations across Haiti got jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive (apnews.com)
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report revealed Tuesday....
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ask lawmakers to make community college free for all high school graduates (apnews.com)
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to urge state lawmakers to pass legislation that would provide free community college tuition for all high school graduates during her sixth State of the State speech on Wednesday....
Once in the millions, Guinea worm cases numbered 13 in 2023, Carter Center's initial count says (apnews.com)
Guinea worm disease remains on the cusp of being eradicated, with the global number of cases in 2023 holding steady at 13, according to a provisional account released by The Carter Center.
An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin (apnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin has become a dilemma for the Kremlin as he seeks to run in the March 17 presidential election. The question now is whether Russian authorities will allow him on the ballot....
Tesla recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles because software glitch can cause backup camera to go dark (apnews.com)
The recall covers certain Models Y, S and X from the 2023 model year. All are equipped with “Full Self-Driving” computer 4.0 and run software version 2023.44.30 through 2023.44.30.6 or 2023.44.100....
Alabama calls nitrogen execution method 'painless' and 'humane,' but critics raise doubts (apnews.com)
Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney Thursday and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen, in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method....
Ukraine says it has no evidence for Russia's claim that dozens of POWs died in a shot down plane (apnews.com)
Officials in Ukraine say Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs.