Myanmar's military regime extends state of emergency by 6 months as civil war rages (apnews.com)
USDA moves to limit salmonella in raw poultry products (apnews.com)
The Agriculture Department on Monday announced plans to limit salmonella in poultry products in the U.S., a proposal that officials say will keep contaminated meat off store shelves and lead to fewer illnesses....
Thousands rally in various Serbia towns to protest against lithium excavation deal (apnews.com)
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Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools (apnews.com)
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Japan’s Sado gold mine gains UNESCO status after Tokyo pledges to exhibit dark WWII history (apnews.com)
TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark history of abusing Korean laborers during World War II....
Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines (apnews.com)
“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed...
Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it (apnews.com)
In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at one point they even joked about “forcible...
2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two years ago....
Southwest Airlines to assign seats, breaking 50-year tradition (apnews.com)
Fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies hits the town of Jasper (apnews.com)
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department ordered the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets on Tuesday, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy....
Uncertainty is the winner and incumbents the losers so far in a year of high-stakes global elections (apnews.com)
Judge removed from long-running gang and racketeering case against rapper Young Thug and others (apnews.com)
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Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86 (apnews.com)
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86....
IOC and Saudi Arabia agree on 12-year deal for video gaming Esports Olympics (apnews.com)
In a diplomatic quirk, Russia chairs a UN meeting decrying its strike on a Ukraine kids' hospital (apnews.com)
U.N. Security Council members confronted Russia on Tuesday over a missile strike the previous day that destroyed part of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, pouring out condemnations at an emergency meeting chaired by Moscow’s own ambassador....
NRA's ex-CFO agreed to 10-year not-for-profit ban, still owes $2M for role in lavish spending scheme (apnews.com)
The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar, Wilson “Woody” Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday....
Indian Prime Minister Modi makes first visit to Russia since the start of its war on Ukraine (apnews.com)
Cambodia welcomes the Met’s repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil (apnews.com)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia’s culture minister said Thursday....
UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence (apnews.com)
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Japan revises economic growth in 1Q downward, as latest data show sluggish demand and rising prices (apnews.com)
NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with derailment probe after botching vent-and-burn call (apnews.com)
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency’s investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside....
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
Ex-CEO of Nevada-based health care company Ontrak convicted of $12.5 million insider trading scheme (apnews.com)
The former CEO and chairman of Ontrak, a publicly traded health care company based in Nevada, was found guilty Friday of a multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme....
Fake elector case in Nevada dismissed over venue question, state attorney general vows appeal (apnews.com)
A Nevada judge dismissed an indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, potentially cutting from four to three the number of states with criminal charges pending against so-called fake electors....
