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....
Trump stares down first derailment of his campaign-to-courthouse strategy (www.cnn.com)
For days, Donald Trump’s fury over the requirement to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money by Monday has been bubbling behind the scenes and through a steady stream of social media posts....
Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98 (www.theguardian.com)
Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98....
DOJ escalates price-fixing probe on housing market (www.politico.com)
Born to die: Florida’s infant mortality crisis (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Did grocery chains take advantage of COVID shortages to raise prices? FTC says yes in new report (www.usatoday.com)
Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target tech (www.reuters.com)
Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet’s Google, a first for the industry....
Blinken: US condemns ‘heinous’ Moscow attack and ‘stands with people of Russia’ (www.theguardian.com)
Statement comes after shooting and fire at Russian concert hall kills more than 100 people and injures more than 100 more...
Denying Your Medical Care is Big Business in America (www.nytimes.com)
World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysis...
Arkansas airport executive killed in shootout was under investigation for weapons sales (www.nbcnews.com)
Bryan Malinowski, executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, was fatally wounded in a shootout as ATF agents tried to serve a search warrant at his home....
US embassy in Russia warned Americans about imminent attack by ‘extremists’ weeks ago (www.independent.co.uk)
US embassy on 7 March repeatedly urged all American citizens to leave Russia immediately, giving no further details about nature of threat...
‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond (www.independent.co.uk)
Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House...
Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility (apnews.com)
Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide....
Russian officials suggest without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in terror attack (www.cnn.com)
A handful of Russian officials have suggested without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in Friday’s attack on the Crocus City complex near Moscow....
Germany ‘Takes Note’ of Kejriwal's Arrest, Expects Standards of Judicial Independence to Apply (thewire.in)
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At the [Koch-funded] Heritage Foundation, the anti-DEI crusade is part of a bigger war (www.motherjones.com)
Jan. 6 defendant who was the subject of a conspiracy theory pleads guilty (www.nbcnews.com)
Rally Runner, an amateur mascot formerly known as Daniel Donnelly Jr., pleaded guilty in connection with efforts to push his way into the Capitol during the riot....
Donald Trump Should Probably File for Bankruptcy, but Likely Won’t Because He’s Worried It Would Make Him Look Like a Loser: Report (www.vanityfair.com)
