Catholic priest in small Nebraska community dies after being attacked in church (apnews.com)
Fake Donald Trump electors settle civil lawsuit in Wisconsin, agree that President Biden won (apnews.com)
Under the agreement, the fake electors acknowledged that Biden won the state, withdrew their filings and agreed not to serve as presidential electors in 2024 or any other election where Trump is on the ballot....
High-fat flight is first jetliner to make fossil fuel-free trans-Atlantic crossing from London to NY (apnews.com)
Russian consumers feel themselves in a tight spot as high inflation persists (apnews.com)
Michigan continues overhaul of gun laws with extended firearm ban for misdemeanor domestic violence (apnews.com)
Michigan Democrats who have transformed gun laws in the state in the wake of multiple mass school shootings are now making it more difficult for individuals with convictions for misdemeanor domestic violence from gaining access to guns....
Californians bet farming agave for spirits holds key to weathering drought and groundwater limits (apnews.com)
Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked....
Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says (apnews.com)
The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022”...
The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades (apnews.com)
The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Israeli settler shoots and kills Palestinian harvester as violence surges in the West Bank (apnews.com)
A Jewish settler has shot dead a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus, the man’s uncle said.
EU demands Meta and TikTok detail efforts to curb disinformation from Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1165004...
El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing (apnews.com)
Officials can’t interfere with local Tennessee Pride festival under anti-drag law, judge rules (apnews.com)
A federal judge ruled Friday that law enforcement officials can’t use a Tennessee law that strictly limits drag shows to interfere with a local Pride festival this weekend, favoring event organizers who sued after a district attorney warned he intends to enforce the new statute even after another federal judge ruled it...
Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows a modest rise in latest sign of slowing price increases (apnews.com)
Gunfire at a California biker bar kills 4 people, including the shooter, and wounds 5 more (apnews.com)
Three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. The gunman was also killed by deputies....
Hot air balloon pilot with cocaine in his system made a mistake that caused fatal crash, NTSB finds (apnews.com)
A mistake made by a hot air balloon pilot who had drugs including cocaine in his system caused a crash in 2021 in New Mexico that killed all five people on board, investigators have determined....
Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public (apnews.com)
Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.
Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought (apnews.com)
Current AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in their training as data scientists amassed breathtakingly complex collections of images and text. They are prone to racial and cultural biases, and easily manipulated.
US suicides hit an all-time high last year (apnews.com)
Russia promises retaliation after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in 2nd sea attack in a day (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow promised retaliation Saturday after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday, the second sea attack involving drones in one day....
Canadian border agents seize $6 million in cocaine at North Dakota entry point (apnews.com)
Canadian border agents seized nearly 140 pounds (63 kilograms) of cocaine worth $6 million from a commercial truck seeking to enter the country from northeastern North Dakota, officials said.
Colorado teen accused of trying to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group (apnews.com)
An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
Hunter Biden was hired by Romanian businessman trying to 'influence' US agencies, prosecutors say (apnews.com)
Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who was trying to “influence U.S. government policy” during Joe Biden’s term as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday....
US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39052186
Ukraine intensifies its long-range strikes, sinking a Russian submarine and striking an airfield (apnews.com)
