Names of police who use deadly force could be shielded under proposed Florida law (www.tampabay.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/police-marsys-law-victims-name-…
Another trans candidate in Ohio faces disqualification vote for omitting deadname (apnews.com)
A second transgender candidate running for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House is at risk of being disqualified from the ballot after omitting her former name on circulating petitions....
Virginia officials warn of potential measles exposure at Dulles, Reagan airports (www.nbcwashington.com)
100% fruit juice associated with weight gain in children and adults, study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Drinking one glass or more of 100% fruit juice each day is associated with weight gain in children and adults, according to a new analysis of 42 previous studies....
Fire truck boom highlights divide in US manufacturing (www.reuters.com)
Anyone looking around Oshkosh’s cavernous fire truck factory in Appleton, Wisconsin, for evidence of the longest U.S. manufacturing slump in two decades could be forgiven for coming away scratching their heads....
Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest (abcnews.go.com)
Biden's new rule could save Americans billions on bank fees (creditnews.com)
Tech billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. Voters may get a say on it (www.theguardian.com)
California Forever, which bought 60,000 acres, has received fierce opposition from local officials and environmental groups...
Man cleared in a 1996 Brooklyn killing said for decades he knew who did it. Prosecutors now agree (apnews.com)
A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades....
Congress Clears Stopgap Spending Bill for Biden, Moving to Avert Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
Congress on Thursday raced to send legislation to avert a partial government shutdown to President Biden, moving to fund federal agencies through early March one day before money was to run out....
Peregrine, aiming to be first private lunar lander, burns up in Earth's atmosphere (www.nbcnews.com)
An early malfunction left the Peregrine lander with no way to reach the moon....
Maine’s court-appointed lawyers are ‘saturated’ with criminal, parental caseloads (www.pressherald.com)
When Maine raised the reimbursement rate for defense attorneys taking court-appointed cases to $150 an hour, the state had a record low number of lawyers available to represent poor Mainers....
Coroner's office that buried men without telling families releases a policy that leaves questions unanswered (www.nbcnews.com)
A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated, making it impossible to know whether the guidance was in effect while the office was handling the botched cases....
Colorado shooter who killed five at LGBTQ+ club charged with hate crimes (www.theguardian.com)
Anderson Aldrich plans to plead guilty to federal charges with an agreement that would allow him to avoid the death penalty...
The U.S. just expanded its territory by a million square kilometers (www.earth.com)
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Mexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans (apnews.com)
Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023....
Five dead as Texas man kills family, including niece, 8 (www.independent.co.uk)
A Texas man shot four family members including his eight-year-old niece, before turning the gun on himself, authorities have said....
Long Covid explanation in new study possibly paves way for tests and treatments, reveals major insights on a potential cause (www.nbcnews.com)
Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find (arstechnica.com)
Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge....
Police chief fired after twice asking captain’s wife for nude photos on Snapchat (nypost.com)
A Dover Massachusetts man hid financial ruin from his family. Then he got a gun. [TW: family annhilator] (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/kamal-family-dover-killing-fina…...
New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say (www.desmog.com)
Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. Among the files, reported for the first time today by DeSmog and Follow The Money, and published on Climate Files, there is a 1970 industry journal article where...
Walmart pay raise: Store managers, hourly workers to get wage increase, restructure store manager bonuses (www.axios.com)
Hate Crime and Stalking Charges Against Ex White House Adviser to Be Dropped (www.vice.com)
Stuart Seldowitz has agreed to complete an anti-bias course after telling a halal food cart worker that 4,000 dead Palestinian children “wasn’t enough.”
Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR (www.kpbs.org)
Alabama has already tried once to execute Kenneth Smith. On the evening of Nov. 17, 2022, Smith lay on a gurney as workers tried for an hour to insert needles into the veins of his hand, arms and collarbone so they could put him to death by lethal injection. Just before midnight, the execution was called off....
