The weapons deficit is "artificial" (because Ukraine should have more 🤯) says Zelensky (apnews.com)
How is the deficit artificial? If you read realist military gossip, we’re being strained heavily especially on air defense supplies.
Pennsylvania high court takes up challenge to the state's life-without-parole sentences (apnews.com)
Pennsylvania’s high court will consider whether some automatic life sentences for those convicted of murder violate constitutional protections for defendants, the justices said Friday....
Venezuela bribery witness gets light sentence in wake of Biden's pardoning of Maduro ally (apnews.com)
Orlando Contreras had been working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2019 to investigate corruption in the South American nation....
Pennsylvania statewide court agency's website hit by disabling cyberattack, officials say (apnews.com)
The Pennsylvania state courts agency’s website was hit by a cyberattack that did not appear to compromise any data, but left some online systems disabled, officials said Sunday night....
Oklahoma's oldest Native American school, Bacone College, is threatened by debts and disrepair (apnews.com)
Students aren’t attending classes here this semester, but work still needs to be done. In the college’s historic buildings, there are leaks to plug, mold to purge and priceless works of Native American art to save from ruin. Not to mention devising a plan to keep the college from shuttering for good. It’s a daunting task...
President Joe Biden wins South Carolina’s Democratic primary as he gears up for his reelection bid (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden easily won South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday, clinching a state he pushed to lead off his party’s nominating process after it revived his then-struggling White House bid four years ago....
Secret history: Even before the revolution, America was a nation of conspiracy theorists (apnews.com)
It was 1800, and conspiracy theories were flourishing across America. Partisan newspapers spread tales of European elites seeking to seize control of the young democracy. Preachers in New England warned of plots to abolish Christianity in favor of godlessness and depravity....
Activists renew push to repeal Kentucky's near-total abortion ban (apnews.com)
Abortion rights supporters mounted another push Wednesday to restore abortion access in Kentucky, but the Democratic lawmaker sponsoring the legislation acknowledged the odds are overwhelmingly against them in the Republican-dominated legislature....
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (apnews.com)
The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Istanbul church that killed 1 (apnews.com)
Wexford Health Sources, a private prison health care company accused of substandard care, is awarded new contract in Illinois (apnews.com)
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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....
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....
Governor drafting plan to help Pennsylvania higher ed system that's among the worst in affordability (apnews.com)
Gov. Josh Shapiro plans next month to propose an overhaul of a higher education system in Pennsylvania that is among the worst in the nation in affordability, his administration said Friday....
A day after Trump testifies, lawyers have final say in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial (apnews.com)
Closing arguments are to begin Friday in the defamation case against Donald Trump a day after the former president left a New York courtroom fuming that he hadn’t been given an opportunity to refute E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse accusations....
Alaska charter company pays $900k after guide caused wildfire by not properly extinguishing campfire (apnews.com)
An Alaska fishing guide company has paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government alleging one of its guides started a wildfire in 2019, the U.S. attorney’s office for Alaska said in a statement Wednesday....
Oregon jury awards $85 million to 9 victims of deadly 2020 wildfires (apnews.com)
An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes....
Disney asks for delay in DeSantis appointees' lawsuit, as worker describes a distracted district (apnews.com)
Disney this week requested a second delay in a state court case involving its legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the company accused them and the governor’s office of stonewalling requests for documents that are part of the litigation....
Scientists spot previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in Antarctica (apnews.com)
Previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins have been spotted in new satellite imagery....
Mexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans (apnews.com)
Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023....
Top official says Kansas courts need at least $2.6 million to recover from cyberattack (apnews.com)
The Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack that prevented the electronic filing of documents and blocked online access to records for weeks, the state’s top judicial official told legislators Tuesday....
As opioids devastate tribes in Washington state, tribal leaders push for added funding (apnews.com)
Massachusetts high court rules younger adults cannot be sentenced to life without parole (apnews.com)
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole — a narrow 4-3 ruling that juvenile justice advocates are hailing as progress....