US preparing $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine, officials say (gazette.com)
The United States is preparing a $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the first to be sourced from the yet to be signed Ukraine-Israel bill, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday....
Trump trial: Prosecutors withhold witness lineup from former president’s team (gazette.com)
Prosecutors made the unusual decision this week to remain almost entirely mum about the order in which they planned to call their first witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York....
FBI opens criminal probe into Maryland bridge collapse, Washington Post says (gazette.com)
The FBI has opened a federal criminal probe into the March 26 bridge collapse in Maryland, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the matter....
New Mexico mental health first responders are increasingly civilians, not police (gazette.com)
Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings....
Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics) (gazette.com)
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Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews industry safety debate (gazette.com)
The cockpit voice recorder data on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet which lost a panel mid-flight on Friday was overwritten, U.S. authorities said, renewing attention on an industry call for longer in-flight recordings....