Police face criticism over central Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized (apnews.com)
The UFO congressional hearing was ‘insulting’ to US employees, a top Pentagon official says (apnews.com)
A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.
UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers potentially dodging calamitous strike (apnews.com)
North Korean officials seek medicines for Kim's obesity-related health problems, Seoul says (apnews.com)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has regained weight and appears to have obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes, and his officials are looking for new medicines abroad to treat them, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday....
UK is ‘broke and broken,’ new government says as it prepares to tackle shortfall in public finances (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new left-leaning government said Sunday that the nation is “broke and broken,” blaming the situation on its predecessors ahead of a major speech on the state of the public finances that is widely expected to lay the groundwork for higher taxes....
Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths (apnews.com)
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend....
Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17634274
Tesla ordered to stop releasing toxic emissions from San Francisco Bay Area plant (apnews.com)
Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after racking up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere over the last five years, an air quality board said Tuesday....
New York's top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of gag order in hush money case (apnews.com)
New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention....
Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis finds (apnews.com)
Barge hits a bridge in Galveston, Texas, damaging the structure and causing an oil spill (apnews.com)
North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too (apnews.com)
People wearing a mask during protests in North Carolina could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation that critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public as a way to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons....
Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions (apnews.com)
As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat (apnews.com)
After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate’s bid, prosecutors say....
3 bodies in Mexican well identified as Australian and American surfers killed for truck's tires (apnews.com)
Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday....
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down (apnews.com)
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency....
Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison (apnews.com)
NOTE: article updated....
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)
The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....
House GOP launch new probe of Jan. 6 and try shifting blame for the Capitol attack away from Trump (apnews.com)
House Republicans are launching a vast re-investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election....
Georgia Senate passes bill banning taxpayer, private funds for American Library Association (apnews.com)
Georgia’s Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban libraries from spending public or private funds on services offered by the American Library Association, which a Republican member of the chamber called a “Marxist and socialist” group....
US government may sue PacifiCorp, a Warren Buffett utility, for nearly $1B in wildfire costs (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California, though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement....
Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it (apnews.com)
2 juveniles charged in mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade (apnews.com)
Two juveniles were charged with crimes connected to the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally, authorities said Friday, as the city tries to recover in the aftermath of the violence....
Alabama Senate votes to change archives oversight after LGBTQ+ lecture (apnews.com)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate voted Wednesday to put a politically appointed board in control of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a change proposed after some lawmakers were upset about the department hosting a lecture on LGBTQ+ history....
American woman killed in apparent crossfire in a drug dispute at the Mexican beach resort of Tulum (apnews.com)
An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday....