Two of the country’s largest transgender rights organizations will merge (www.nbcnews.com)
The National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund will join forces by this summer....
Sources: Alabama death row left without heat for weeks, despite complaints (www.alreporter.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/death-row-allegedly-left-withou…
DOJ report on Uvalde shooting cites 'cascading failures' (abcnews.go.com)
Trump unleashes Truth Social attacks against E Jean Carroll while in court (www.independent.co.uk)
The former president fired off a series of potentially defamatory statements as he arrived in court...
Uvalde families renew demands for police to face charges after a scathing Justice Department report (apnews.com)
Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history....
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Schools close in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh as new blast of snow hits Northeast (abcnews.go.com)
More than 100 million Americans are under winter alerts Friday as a storm hits the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and another brutal surge of Arctic air pushes into the South.
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)
