New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California set to start Monday, April 1st (abcnews.go.com)
Az's pre-statehood laws banning abortion also made gay sex punishable by up to life in prison (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe (www.bbc.com)
About two billion birds fly through Texas in the spring – and lit-up buildings pose a deadly risk. Turning out the lights at night could save countless fatal collisions....
Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
The Toxic Culture at Tesla (www.thenation.com)
This article shares some employees’ experiences of racism, sexism, and other forms of abuse at Tesla factories.
How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent (www.texastribune.org)
Texas is in the minority of states that requires parental consent before a teenager can get birth control, in virtually all circumstances. But there’s long been one exception to that rule: the federal Title X program, which provides confidential contraception regardless of age, income or immigration status....
Houthis Say They Shot Down a U.S. Drone Off Yemen (www.seattletimes.com)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is investigating the cause of a crash of an American military surveillance drone off the coast of Yemen Monday morning, two U.S. officials said....
Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop (apnews.com)
Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday....
Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' (fortune.com)
Israel counting half-full trucks of aid in 'boost' to Gaza (today.lorientlejour.com)
The UN is disputing Israeli figures regarding aid truck deliveries into the besieged Gaza Strip, saying the trucks Israel is including in its tally are only half full, as per Israeli delivery regulations....
Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state (apnews.com)
Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground....
Trump and Johnson Trump build alliance on the falsehood of the stolen election (www.cnn.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson will stand Friday with Donald Trump at an appearance that will amplify the former president’s most damaging falsehood: that America’s democratic elections are catastrophically tainted by fraud....
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants (www.nytimes.com)
Two former execs of the company behind the Truth Social merger are caught up in a messy hacking lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
Trump says going to jail for gag order violation would be a 'great honor,’ compares himself to Mandela (www.cnbc.com)
Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps (arstechnica.com)
US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax Overhaul (truthout.org)
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen? (www.nytimes.com)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried appeals fraud conviction, 25-year prison sentence (www.cnbc.com)
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was astrology influencer disturbed by eclipse (www.latimes.com)
Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse....
Labor group demands California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors (www.foxbusiness.com)
Tennessee GOP senators OK criminalizing helping minors get transgender care, mimicking abortion bill (www.nbcnews.com)
