Fani Willis: Defiant Georgia prosecutor fights to stay on Trump case (www.bbc.com)
Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck (www.cnn.com)
Greece legalises same-sex marriage (www.bbc.com)
Congrats to everyone affected in Greece!
A $36 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at a Florida grocery store. No one claimed it (www.cnn.com)
A missed deadline last weekend means someone in Florida lost out on $36 million....
Maine police defend search for gunman who killed 18 last fall, saying they feared an ambush (apnews.com)
Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush....
Judge says Trump hush money trial set for March, despite pleading from defense team (abcnews.go.com)
The criminal trial is currently scheduled to start on March 25....
Spit hoods can be deadly. Police keep using them anyway. - Police cite studies saying the mesh bags are safe. But experts say the studies are flawed — and deaths in custody raise troubling questions. (www.wtsp.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/V0nod
Welcome to the New ‘Good’ Economy, Where Millions Get Left Behind (www.vice.com)
A death sentence: Native Americans have least access to liver transplant system (themarkup.org)
Despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are far less likely to make the transplant list than White people...
US Senate lurches toward possible early passage of Ukraine aid bill (www.reuters.com)
The Democratic-led U.S. Senate moved towards the final passage of a $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Monday, amid growing doubts about the legislation’s fate in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives....
New Jan. 6 footage appears to show rioter firing a gun in the air during Capitol attack (www.nbcnews.com)
CBP dog sniffs out something unusual in passenger's luggage — mummified monkeys (apnews.com)
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog sniffed out something unusual in luggage from a traveler returning from Africa — mummified monkeys....
FDA repeatedly rejected safety claims made by Philips after the CPAP recall but waited to alert the public, emails show (www.propublica.org)
As Philips reassured patients that millions of recalled machines were safe, internal emails show federal regulators privately told the company its testing didn’t account for the impact of long-term harm from tainted devices....
New Study Finds Subsidizing Transit Actually Makes It More Efficient (usa.streetsblog.org)
U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court for collusion (www.cnbc.com)
New York vigilantes take down ‘migrant’ on live TV – but he was from the US (www.theguardian.com)
Trump Pardon Recipient Fined $20 Million in Predatory Lending Case (www.nytimes.com)
Jonathan Braun, whose sentence for drug smuggling was commuted in the final hours of the Trump presidency, was fined over separate accusations that he bilked and threatened borrowers....
Former Marion police chief had ‘pizza party’ after raid, turned off body cam, new lawsuit says - Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/8358951...
North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine (apnews.com)
Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign....
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
In key election year, prisoners with felonies seek right to vote in Massachusetts (www.wgbh.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/in-key-election-year-prisoners-…
Current and former DHS officials grumble about Biden's talk of shutting down the border (www.nbcnews.com)
One of the two former officials said Biden is sending a political message but not one that is based in logistical reality....
U.S. Will Pay to Add Solar Panels to Hospitals, Schools After Disasters (www.nytimes.com)
The federal government plans to reimburse state and local governments that rebuild damaged public buildings to be more energy resilient....
US disabled Chinese hacking network targeting critical infrastructure, sources say (news.yahoo.com)
Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter....
Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success (www.psypost.org)
