TSMC to send hundreds more workers to speed U.S. plant construction (asia.nikkei.com)
I-Team: Settlement reached on police chief’s ‘KKK’ note (fox8.com)
SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has learned of a settlement in the complaint filed by a local African-American police officer after his chief left him a note referring to the KKK....
Under-fire Scottish leader Humza Yousaf takes plea for closer EU ties to Brussels (www.politico.eu)
90% of the world’s aquaculture faces substantial risk from human-induced environmental changes (www.earth.com)
We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought (www.entrepreneur.com)
Dragons' Den investor Vincent Guzzo arrested for criminal harassment (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
Surprised?
Why Saudi Arabia's "The Line" is not a revolution in urban living - CSH (www.csh.ac.at)
We're Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In (www.scientificamerican.com)
Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies (www.opb.org)
IMF reports inflation driven by corporate profits (www.imf.org)
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport (www.wfsb.com)
Trump heard on CNN tape discussing secret documents (www.bbc.com)
An audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media....
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100 (12ft.io)
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
Billionaires ‘disappointed’ after superyachts banned from Naples port (12ft.io)
Young Saudi woman sentenced to more than 30 years in prison over tweets on human rights (web.archive.org)
Fatima al-Shawarbi, who is from Al-Ahsa province and believed to be under 30, reported to have used her anonymous Twitter account to highlight the plight of the Howeitat – a tribe whose members have been forcibly displaced for the Neom megaproject – women’s rights, and calling for a constitutional monarchy.
Social media giants to face multimillion-dollar fines for spreading fake news (12ft.io)
US says Wagner coup is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ as White House consults allies (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Joe Biden has been briefed on the chaotic situation in Russia with US officials describing it as “serious”....
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes (theintercept.com)
The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime – before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported...
New research underscores benefits of gender-affirming hormones, rebutting anti-trans claims (www.statnews.com)
Actual evidence from actual scientists....
Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers (finance.yahoo.com)
Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage (www.washingtonpost.com)
Who had this on their bingo card?
Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
A Tesla software hacker has found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature that seems to allow Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring....
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
“My father handed my passport over to the draft board”: How war aggravated generational conflict in Russia (web.archive.org)
Amidst the war outbreak, numerous Russians experienced miscommunication with their close ones, resulting in family disputes, workplace conflicts, and strained friendships due to divergent perspectives. In interviews conducted by The Insider, people recounted their accounts of clashes with parents who resorted to threats of...