Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows (apnews.com)
$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (apnews.com)
State Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California in latest blow to state insurance market (apnews.com)
State Farm will discontinue coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments in California starting this summer, the insurance giant said this week, nine months after announcing it would not issue new home policies in the state...
$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (apnews.com)
Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation (apnews.com)
Supporters of arrested Indian opposition politician protest in New Delhi after Modi government arrested him. (apnews.com)
English women's league showdown delayed by teams wearing matching socks (apnews.com)
E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says (apnews.com)
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Tired of inflated ticket prices, Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival (apnews.com)
Tired of inflated ticket prices, recording artist Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival....
No charges to be filed in fight involving Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict, prosecutor says (apnews.com)
An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide....
Trump's invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC (apnews.com)
Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press....
Quoting Dr. Seuss, 'Just go, Go, GO!' federal judge dismisses Blagojevich political comeback suit (apnews.com)
Rod Blagojevich, the ex-governor and ex-con who often dusted off ancient and sometimes puzzling quotations to emphasize his positions, found himself at the other end Thursday when a federal judge dismissed his lawsuit attempting to return to public life by quoting Dr. Seuss: “Just go.”...
Police track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run (apnews.com)
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run....
Man who helped drag police officer into mob gets over 5 years in prison for Capitol riot attacks (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack....
Israel urges UN court to reject South Africa's request for more emergency orders in genocide case (apnews.com)
In a written response published Monday by the International Court of Justice, Israel said that claims by South Africa in its request filed earlier this month are “wholly unfounded in fact and law, morally repugnant, and represent an abuse both of the Genocide Convention and of the Court itself.”
Taps have run dry across South Africa's largest city in an unprecedented water crisis (apnews.com)
What we all have to look forward to in the near future...
Boy's killing leads to scrutiny of Israel's use of deadly force against Palestinians (apnews.com)
A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air. Then, just before it explodes and illuminates the night sky with a burst of red, he is shot in the chest by Israeli police and falls to the ground.
US surgeons have transplanted a pig kidney into a patient (apnews.com)
Doctors in Boston announced Thursday they have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient....
Houthis in Yemen blow up a resident’s house, killing at least 9 from the same family (apnews.com)
Escaped white supremacist inmate and accomplice still at large after Idaho hospital ambush (apnews.com)
Authorities are searching for a white supremacist Idaho prison inmate and an accomplice who fled after the accomplice shot and wounded corrections officers as they were transporting the inmate from a Boise hospital, according to police....
Portugal’s center-right wins an election but surging populists want a say in the government (apnews.com)
A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand on the levers of power....
E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says (apnews.com)
U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further....
North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place (apnews.com)
A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law....
EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids (apnews.com)
The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles....