Health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rise (arstechnica.com)
Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid (arstechnica.com)
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest (www.theatlantic.com)
The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the frequency he found in the U.K. Biobank, an anonymized research database: One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives—a brother and a sister or a parent and a child. “That’s way,...
Climate change is bringing earlier springs, but it's wreaking havoc on animals (www.cbc.ca)
Climate change is altering the way animals, insects and plants behave, and has cascading effects in delicately balanced ecosystems....
'Influencer fatigue' is real and young people are getting tired of it (www.yahoo.com)
Although the spectacle of influencers flaunting their affluence has long been a staple of social media, there are signs that audiences are growing tired of it. Experts say “influencer fatigue” is wearing on young people who crave authenticity as inflation rises and achieving a stable livelihood becomes increasingly...
Man to plead guilty in eagle ‘killing spree’ on reservation to sell feathers on black market (apnews.com)
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market....
Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children (apnews.com)
A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children....
Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)
New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism...
3 Idaho corrections officers shot as gunman breaks an inmate out of Boise hospital, police say (apnews.com)
A suspect staged a brazen attack to break a prison inmate out of a Boise hospital overnight, shooting and seriously wounding two Idaho corrections officers, police said. A third was also shot and wounded when arriving police mistook the officer for the suspect and opened fire....
The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows (www.nbcnews.com)
Why does the public think it’s going up? “There is definitely more disorder in cities than there was five years ago," said one expert. “People confuse disorder and crime."...
Podiatrist Convicted of $4M Foot Bath Fraud Scheme (www.justice.gov)
Georgia plans to put to death a man in the state's first execution in more than 4 years (www.nbcnews.com)
A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years....
Trump can't secure $454 million appeal bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say (ground.news)
England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching (apnews.com)
Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals....
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (abcnews.go.com)
Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)
40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’ (fortune.com)
“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.
AP documents grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls 'dangerous and abusive' (apnews.com)
Kuwabara’s dilemma is one an increasing number of American consumers face: With shrimp the leading seafood eaten in the United States, the largest supplier in this country is India, where the industry struggles with labor and environmental problems....
It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? (forward.com)
The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe...
Supreme Court opens new frontier for insurrection claims that could target state and local officials (apnews.com)
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution, based on a post-Civil War era addition to the nation’s foundational...
Antisemitic banner found hanging above Columbia Parkway over the weekend (Cincinnati, OH) (www.wlwt.com)
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati put out a statement online about this banner, saying in part, “Although the banners are gone, they are a sad reminder of the current prevalence of antisemitism and our need to remain vigilant.”
Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (news.un.org)
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO)....