Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years, but signal weak (apnews.com)
Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog (www.theguardian.com)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer has the evidence’ that animal – 31 years and five months old when it died – was as old as claimed...
Hezbollah lights up Israeli border sites with several attacks (thecradle.co)
Struggling consumers use buy now, pay later services for everyday necessities — even groceries (finance.yahoo.com)
Trump leadership PAC racked up $4.8 million in new legal bills (www.politico.com)
Legal costs have dogged Trump, and Tuesday’s filings with the Federal Election Commission show they continue....
The Empty Adderall Factory: The DEA's shutdown of Ascent Pharmaceuticals is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year (nymag.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/adderall-shortage-adhd-medicati…
Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.
Turkey detains six people accused of spying on Uyghurs for China | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Israeli, US ships | AlJazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030 (arstechnica.com)
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids (www.theguardian.com)
Jim Pillen breaks with 14 other Republican governors to enroll in Summer EBT, a new food program for school vacation months...
Israel sets Ramadan deadline for feared Rafah invasion (thehill.com)
Israeli officials appear to have set a deadline to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah — the largest refugee camp in the coastal territory — for the Muslim holy day of Ramadan on March 10.
In unusual move, China offers to back Hungary in security matters (www.reuters.com)
EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (www.theguardian.com)
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
Autoworkers threaten to strike again at Ford's huge Kentucky truck plant (wamu.org)
The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford Motor Co.’s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language....
FTC seeks to ban impersonation fraud as AI enables deepfakes (www.axios.com)
Federal regulators are poised to ban the impersonation of anyone, aiming to thwart scams in an AI-driven world....
Delay on 2nd Day of Testimony as Defense Seeks to Oust D.A. (www.nytimes.com)
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to have Fani T. Willis disqualified, accusing her of a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf (wamu.org)
The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging can be repurposed, and local governments use taxpayer money to gather and process the material. Yet from the early days of...
Greece legalizes same-sex marriage (www.cnn.com)
North Dakota takes federal government to trial over costs to police Dakota Access Pipeline protests (apnews.com)
Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of North Dakota’s lawsuit against the federal government for the costs of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the culmination of an unusual and drawn-out court fight....
Egypt reveals alleged Israeli plan to evacuate Rafah civilians (thecradle.co)
If 1.3 million Palestinians from the southern Gaza city are forced into tent camps along the sea ahead of a military offensive, Israel will be closer to its goal of expelling strip’s population to Egypt by land and other countries by boat
What's at stake in Trump's hush-money criminal case? Judge to rule on key issues as trial date nears (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump is expected in court Thursday for an important hearing in his New York hush-money criminal case, which now appears increasingly likely to go to trial next month....
China's BYD plans new electric vehicle plant in Mexico, says Nikkei (www.reuters.com)
China’s BYD Co Ltd will set up a new electric vehicle (EV) factory in Mexico, Nikkei reported on Wednesday, citing the company’s Mexico head, as the EV maker aims to establish an export hub to the United States....
As Biden presses on hostage deal, Israel may skip latest talks: US officials (www.msn.com)
Federal judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit challenging Medicare drug negotiations (thehill.com)
A Texas federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations filed by the pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PhRMA....