US Vice President says no decision to halt or condition military aid to Israel (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China' (news.sky.com)
He was responding to a question about the cancellation of his exhibition by the Lisson Gallery in London in November following comments on social media referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict....
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Biden administration cancels student loans of more than 150,000 borrowers under new plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors confused a picture of sawdust with cocaine (www.nbcnews.com)
The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden’s attorney wrote....
Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen's death was not result of injuries from high school fight (apnews.com)
Police in Oklahoma say a teen who died a day after an altercation at school did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight.
You'll Never Guess Who Was Behind Those Fake Biden Robocalls! (crooksandliars.com)
Hint: It wasn't a Republican.
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Nova partygoer was misidentified as Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, killed by Israeli forces (www.haaretz.com)
Ofek Atun escaped the outdoor Nova rave with his girlfriend. They survived the assault on the bomb shelter in which they took refuge, before fleeing to nearby Kibbutz Alumim. The kibbutz’s volunteer security squad mistook them for Hamas terrorists – and opened fire
Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity (apnews.com)
Native American tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted hydropower projects (apnews.com)
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce U.S. Southwest....
Israeli ground offensive in Rafah ‘aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable’ (www.france24.com)
Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to “completely destroy” Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now host to half of Gaza’s...
Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted (apnews.com)
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results....
Two Alabama clinics pauses IVF services after court rules that embryos are children (www.nbcnews.com)
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans with debt are putting less money toward credit card payments: 'People are really struggling' (www.cnbc.com)
Washington State Troopers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding. (www.nytimes.com)
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Judge says Texas school district can punish Black student for length of his hairstyle (www.texastribune.org)
After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination....
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
2 men are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City's Super Bowl celebration (apnews.com)
Two men charged with murder in last week’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument, according to court documents released Tuesday....
People Keep Dying At This Memphis Jail — And The Lawsuits Are Piling Up (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/shelby-county-memphis-jail-deat…
You can’t even pay people to have more kids (www.vox.com)
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work....
Harvard condemns student and faculty groups for posting antisemitic cartoon (apnews.com)
Federal prison employees falsified logs in case where inmate committed suicide, IG says (www.govexec.com)
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Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years (www.seattletimes.com)
Denver police are asking for the public’s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman’s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people....