The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She? (www.nytimes.com)
A nuclear plant’s closure was hailed as a green win. Then emissions went up (www.theguardian.com)
Shuttering of New York facility raises awkward climate crisis questions as gas – not renewables – fills gap in power generation...
Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry (thehill.com)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressured Republicans to name the specific crime they are accusing President Biden of as they proceed with their impeachment inquiry....
The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies (www.nytimes.com)
The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections (www.theguardian.com)
Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the case...
Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries (newatlas.com)
Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in the UK are not great either. A new study has examined what’s caused this rise in the death rates of these two cultural...
The town that can’t live without migrants, but isn't sure it wants to live with them (www.nbcnews.com)
Fremont, Nebraska, has three massive meat-processing plants that need workers. It also requires anyone renting a home to sign a declaration that they’re in the U.S. legally....
Storm threatens snow in the Midwest, thunder in the South. Other parts of the US dig out (apnews.com)
A major spring storm threatened parts of the central U.S. on Monday with heavy snow in its northern reaches and thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the South....
Hong Kong official warns online criticism could breach new national security law (www.theguardian.com)
The Article 23 legislation includes penalties for five categories of crime including treason, insurrection, espionage, sabotage and external interference...
Oath Keepers’ son emerges from traumatic childhood to tell his own story in a long shot election bid (apnews.com)
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking free from his father’s control — juggling work, college classes and volunteer firefighting....
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”....
Pro-Trump lawyer surrenders in Michigan after DC arrest and Dominion leaks (www.cnn.com)
Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert surrendered Thursday to Michigan authorities in connection with her 2020 election tampering indictment, after a wild week where she was labeled a fugitive and spent a night in jail after being arrested in Washington, DC....
85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee's family away, she's getting a new home on the same spot (apnews.com)
When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob drove her family out of their Texas home. Now, the 97-year-old community activist is getting closer to moving into a brand new home on the very same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth....
Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United States (apnews.com)
ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces....
California's unemployment rate rises to the highest level in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame (apnews.com)
Rio Police Chief Arrested for Killing Marielle Franco (paydayreport.com)
At 5 A.M. on Palm Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio state auditor general Domingos Brazão, were all arrested by Brazilian federal police for plotting to assassinate Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her...
Mexico, a key U.S. ally on migration, pushes back hard on Texas law (www.washingtonpost.com)
MEXICO CITY — After years of bowing to U.S. pressure to help slow migration, Mexico is drawing the line at a Texas law that would give the state a dramatically bigger role in border enforcement, including the right to deport undocumented migrants....
West Virginia governor signs law removing marital assault exemption (apnews.com)
Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed Friday by Republican Gov. Jim Justice....
Canada is already preparing for Trump's potential tariff threats (www.cbc.ca)
Canada staged a large-scale diplomatic deployment this week in preparation for a U.S. presidential election of more consequence than usual....
Catherine, Princess of Wales, Has Cancer (www.nytimes.com)
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”...
DWAC stock tumbles more than 12% after Trump social media merger approved by shareholders (www.cnbc.com)
Candace Owens and the far-right influencer who helped make antisemitism mainstream (www.motherjones.com)
F.B.I. Tells Passengers on Alaska Flight They May Have Been Crime Victims (www.nytimes.com)
Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew off this year have started to receive letters from the F.B.I. identifying them as possible victims of a crime....
Why Americans are bummed out about the economy (www.cnn.com)
US consumers remain unimpressed with this progress, however, because they remember what they were paying for things pre-pandemic. Used car prices are 34% higher, food prices are 26% higher and rent prices are 22% higher than in January 2020, according to our calculations using PCE data....