Fugitive former US city councillor enlists with Russia for war in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s Lawyers Told the Court That No One Would Give Him a Bond. Then He Got a Lifeline, but They Didn’t Tell the Judges. (www.propublica.org)
In Mexico, a mayoral candidate is murdered on her first day of campaigning (www.nbcnews.com)
Mayoral candidate Gisela Gaytán had requested security protection from authorities and had not received a response....
Five Years Ago, the United States Department of Justice Declared Alabama Prisons Unconstitutional, Unsafe, and Harmful. They Still Are. (alabamaappleseed.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/five-years-ago-the-united-state…
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...
Ben-Gvir rejects holding those who killed WCK staff accountable (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday rejected measures to hold the officers responsible for the killing of the World Central Kitchen crew in the central Gaza Strip on Monday accountable....
A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug (www.salon.com)
New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence...
Woman accused of unleashing bees on deputies serving eviction notice in Massachusetts. (www.nbcnews.com)
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
US economy adds 303,000 jobs, unemployment falls to 3.8% in March as labor market continues to impress (finance.yahoo.com)
Israeli Real Estate Firm Used Genocidal Rhetoric — Then Politico's Parent Company Put Them in a Trade Fair (theintercept.com)
Yad2, the largest classifieds site in Israel and a subsidiary of German publishing giant Axel Springer, is hosting a real estate fair in Tel Aviv this weekend. The proceedings, which got underway Friday, were slated to showcase Israeli real estate firms, including both those that list properties within Israel’s internationally...
US border patrol is responsible for safety of children in migrant camps, judge says (www.theguardian.com)
“This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require,” Neha Desai, senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law, said in a statement.
Border Patrol must care for migrant children who wait in camps for processing, a judge says (www.pbs.org)
Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency’s custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled....
Get your goat: Italian island overrun by the animals offers to give them away (www.theguardian.com)
Mayor makes offer after number of goats on Alicudi reaches six times human population
Bodies of 6 aid workers killed in Israeli strike transported from Gaza as fallout grows (abcnews.go.com)
Space is the new ‘Wild West.’ The EU is dying to step in and regulate. (www.politico.eu)
The European Commission is gearing up to publish the world’s first comprehensive space law....
Netanyahu pushes to shut Israeli office of Qatar's Al Jazeera TV (www.euractiv.com)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday (1 April) to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television network Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues....
Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Israel sacks two officers after finding grave errors in strike on aid workers (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded....
World Central Kitchen aid worker's family calls for an independent probe into the deadly attack (www.nbcnews.com)
