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)
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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....
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...
Americans are facing a record credit card debt crisis (www.businessinsider.com)
Houthis reportedly sink British ship in Red Sea (www.ynetnews.com)
NY AG Urges Stricter Asthma Drug Warnings Due to Children’s Mental Health Risks (www.nytimes.com)
The New York attorney general on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration to “take immediate action” and renew alerts to doctors and patients about the dangerous effects of Singulair for children, saying that the current warnings about the drug’s psychiatric side effects were not sufficient....
Informant who allegedly lied about the Bidens is rearrested (www.washingtonpost.com)
The FBI informant charged with telling lies about President Biden and his son Hunter was rearrested Thursday in Las Vegas, apparently out of concern he might flee — just days after a federal magistrate decided he could be released on bond....
Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 (www.space.com)
University of Georgia cancels classes after woman found dead on campus (apnews.com)
The University of Georgia canceled classes after authorities say a woman was found dead on campus after a friend told police she had not returned from a morning run.
Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’ (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021
Vice Media will stop publishing on its website and lay off hundreds. Read the memo its CEO sent to staff. (www.businessinsider.com)
Sanctuaries Can Protect Animals From Abuse, but Not From Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
A growing number of animal refuges are being forced to move in the face of extreme rainfall, droughts and hurricanes caused by the planet’s warming....
