AP News: A search is underway for missing submarine that takes people to see Titanic (apnews.com)
2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand (apnews.com)
Man this chaps my hide
UN steps up criticism of IMF and World Bank, the other pillars of the post-World War II global order (apnews.com)
American arrested for pushing 2 US tourists into ravine at German castle, leaving one woman dead (apnews.com)
No more rides to Hel on bus 666 in Poland (apnews.com)
UN chief says fossil fuels ‘incompatible with human survival,’ calls for credible exit strategy (apnews.com)
Thousands protest in Poland against strict abortion law after pregnant woman died of sepsis (apnews.com)
Putin says Russian tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus next month (apnews.com)
Donald Trump says he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents (apnews.com)
Big things are happening apparently!
US's Blinken says no to any Ukraine peace deal that doesn't include total Russian withdrawal (apnews.com)
“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.
NATO to send 700 more occupation troops to Kosovo to crack down on the protests (apnews.com)
Revealing US crimes is considered a crime under the US-led Rules Based Reich (apnews.com)
FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here's what it means (apnews.com)
Russia: Putin announces military operation in Ukraine - claiming it's intended to protect civilians. (apnews.com)
Venezuela upholds long jail sentences for US oil executives (apnews.com)
The men known as the Citgo 6 — for the Houston oil company where they worked — were lured to Caracas around Thanksgiving in 2017 to attend a meeting at the headquarters of Citgo’s parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA. Once there, heavily armed masked security officers stormed the conference room where they were gathered and...
Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back (apnews.com)
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back....
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester (apnews.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....
Iran fires at suspected Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base and nuclear site (apnews.com)
Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones, which were suspected to be part of an Israeli attack in retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country....
Looking at a solar eclipse can be dangerous without eclipse glasses. Here’s what to know (apnews.com)
Millions of people along a narrow band in North America will look up when the sky darkens during a total solar eclipseon April 8. When they do, safety is key....
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....
European Union calls for an investigation into the massacre of nearly 100 civilians in Burkina Faso (apnews.com)
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (apnews.com)
Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)
The head of an Israeli media watchdog, HonestReporting, says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.
Biden administration takes on JetBlue as its fight against industry consolidation goes to court (apnews.com)
The Biden administration’s fight against consolidation in the airline industry is being tested Tuesday as lawyers for JetBlue Airways and the Justice Department squared off in court....
Amid massive search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents remain behind locked doors (apnews.com)
Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history....
