Texas ban on university diversity efforts provides a glimpse of the future across GOP-led states (apnews.com)
The dim lighting and vacant offices were the first clues....
Indian union refuses to load Israel-bound weapons shipments (thecradle.co)
An Indian trade union that operates at multiple ports across the nation has refused to load or offload ships carrying weapons to Israel, days after the announcement of New Delhi sending Hermes 900 “killer” drones to Tel Aviv.
North Korea’s Kim gifted car by Russia’s Putin, state media says - Aljazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Ex-gang leader charged in Tupac Shakur killing due in court in Las Vegas (apnews.com)
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, is due back in court Tuesday....
A NY-bound flight is forced to return to Toronto because of fire (www.seattletimes.com)
TORONTO (AP) — A flight heading from Toronto to New York City earlier this month had to turn around because of a “burnt electrical smell” in the cockpit....
South Korea jails former hero pastor for sexually abusing North Korean teenage defectors | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Nazi supporters march through downtown Nashville (fox17.com)
The group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched wearing red shirts and black pants, waving flags with swastikas on them. It is not clear at this time who the group is or affiliated with, though many of the shirts said “Blood Tribe.”
3D printing: The SLA printing process (riego3d.com)
As the need for additively manufactured parts continues to grow, so does the demand for ever more precise manufacturing technologies while maintaining manageable financial and time expenditure. As a result, 3D printers based on the principle of stereolithography are becoming increasingly important.
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’...
‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana (www.theguardian.com)
Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor...
German central bank warns of recession, citing strikes – DW (www.dw.com)
Idaho asks Supreme Court to let it enforce ban on transgender care (www.cnn.com)
Idaho officials asked the Supreme Court to let the state enforce a strict ban on gender-affirming treatments for minors in an emergency request made public Monday by one of the groups involved in the case....
Medical experts sound the alarm on growing diabetic amputations among Black patients (abcnews.go.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC Worklife (www.bbc.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants...
The Great Compression: Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)
Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn’t have a coffee table in the living room because it would obstruct the front door. When relatives come to visit, Mr. Lanter says jokingly, but only partly, they have to tour one at time....
Zelensky obtains unprecedented military support from Paris and Berlin (www.lemonde.fr)
Alexei Navalny's body 'in morgue' as inmate describes 'mysterious commotion' - Russian news outlet (news.sky.com)
According to a Russian news outlet, Alexei Navalny's body is now in a morgue, but no post-mortem examination has yet been performed. The same media organisation also cites an inmate who described a "mysterious commotion" on the night before his death was announced.
New York lobbyists ‘aiding and abetting’ climate crisis, research reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Lobbying firms work double-duty, representing political interests of victims and perpetrators of climate change in state capital...
Russian pilot who surrendered helicopter to Ukraine found shot dead in Spain (www.pravda.com.ua)
Israel declared Brazilian President Lula da Silva “persona non grata” - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
In unusual move, China offers to back Hungary in security matters (www.reuters.com)
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)
A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days....
Neo-Nazis Swarm Home of New England Governor (www.rollingstone.com)
Comment on Headline: I don’t know if swarm is the right word, I think that implies they entered the home? I guess a group of insects is a swarm whether it’s inside or out. They had their Nazi party in the street, and the governor’s home is protected at all times by state police....
Arrests made after girl's body found encased in concrete and boy's remains in a suitcase (abcnews.go.com)
Police have arrested two people on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl’s body encased in concrete and a boy’s remains in a suitcase in Colorado...
