Biden says he is 'considering' Australia's request to end Julian Assange's prosecution (www.nbcnews.com)
French woman found dead in Italian church was searching for ghosts in possible Tik Tok stunt, police say (www.cnn.com)
Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
Water pouring out of rural Utah dam through 60-foot crack, putting nearby town at risk (apnews.com)
Workers hurriedly tried to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot (18-meter) crack sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,800 residents of a downstream town....
Elon Musk accused of profiting from tragedy as study finds X rewards hate targeting Israel-Gaza war | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The CCDH studied the growth rates of 10 influential accounts that pay for X Premium and have posted anti-Jewish and/or anti-Muslim hate speech since October 7, 2023, when Hamas’ attack on Israel sparked the Israel-Gaza conflict. Some of these accounts had previously posted conspiracy theory content related to COVID-19, per the...
If Trump wins, he plans to free Wall Street from 'burdensome regulations' (www.reuters.com)
A second Trump White House would seek to sharply reduce the power of U.S. financial regulators, according to a review of public documents and interviews with people allied with the former president....
Who wants to be a trillionaire? Don’t laugh. That’s exactly where America’s oligarchic policies are taking us. (www.motherjones.com)
US Consumer Sentiment Dips More Than Expected as Stubborn Inflation Takes a Toll (www.inc.com)
The Fed may have no choice but to tip the US into recession, economist says (www.businessinsider.com)
Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations (thehill.com)
Biden Is 'Considering' Ending Assange Case (consortiumnews.com)
Biden is considering Ending Assange Case
Dow tanks 500 points in biggest sell-off of 2024 as JPMorgan slides and inflation fears flare up (www.cnbc.com)
US says Russian hackers stole federal government emails during Microsoft cyberattack (techcrunch.com)
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft....
Hormel settles pork price-fixing lawsuits for $11 million (www.startribune.com)
Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records....
Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist (www.economist.com)
The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9...
US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax Overhaul (truthout.org)
Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth....
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....
The Chief Prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, Is Accused of Misconduct for Making Contradictory Allegations (www.propublica.org)
A new motion has accused the elected prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, of misconduct, alleging she presented contradictory versions of the truth against two men in connection with a shooting that occurred more than 20 years ago....
New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California set to start Monday, April 1st (abcnews.go.com)
Az's pre-statehood laws banning abortion also made gay sex punishable by up to life in prison (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe (www.bbc.com)
About two billion birds fly through Texas in the spring – and lit-up buildings pose a deadly risk. Turning out the lights at night could save countless fatal collisions....
Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
The Toxic Culture at Tesla (www.thenation.com)
This article shares some employees’ experiences of racism, sexism, and other forms of abuse at Tesla factories.
How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent (www.texastribune.org)
Texas is in the minority of states that requires parental consent before a teenager can get birth control, in virtually all circumstances. But there’s long been one exception to that rule: the federal Title X program, which provides confidential contraception regardless of age, income or immigration status....
Houthis Say They Shot Down a U.S. Drone Off Yemen (www.seattletimes.com)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is investigating the cause of a crash of an American military surveillance drone off the coast of Yemen Monday morning, two U.S. officials said....