Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory (apnews.com)
Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria....
Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough (www.opb.org)
Per this source, a 25 mile radius includes 585,000 people. That means (before lawyer fees so imagine half in actuality), Norfolk-Southern wants to give $1,000 per person for permanently poisoning not only their property but their body which is now forever scarred. This was filed for approval by the Plaintiff (people hurt) but as...
Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94 (www.bbc.com)
Arizona Supreme Court issues ruling banning nearly all abortions, invoking 1864 law (thehill.com)
Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections (www.nbcnews.com)
Residents and businesses nationwide have been reporting slowdowns in mail and package delivery by the U.S. Postal Service, raising concerns that mail-in ballots could be affected in the upcoming election....
Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson (www.nbcnews.com)
A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
Fidelity cuts value of X stake, implying 73% decline in former Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover (fortune.com)
Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund cut the value of its position in X by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former Twitter Inc. since Elon Musk bought the social-media company....
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”....
Russia adds 'LGBT movement' to list of extremist and terrorist organisations (www.dw.com)
America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)
If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....
No charges to be filed in fight involving Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict, prosecutor says (apnews.com)
An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide....
Colorado man died from pet Gila monster's venomous bite, autopsy shows (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed....
California’s minimum wage isn’t enough to keep up with workers’ costs of living, new report says (calmatters.org)
Cops and gun owners could get immunity from most wrongful death lawsuits under proposed Louisiana legislation (lailluminator.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/cops-and-gun-owners-could-get-i…
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/0wgc5
Why it’s so hard to find an apartment you can afford (us.cnn.com)
Study Reveals Gender Bias in ChatGPT Translations (researchinenglish.com)
Trump wants to install new RNC leadership, including his daughter-in-law as co-chair (apnews.com)
Current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she has no plans to leave the committee until at least after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary election....
Judge affirms $83.3 million verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation case (www.cnn.com)
A federal judge formally ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll, endorsing the jury’s verdict from the defamation trial last month....
Ohio City To Drop Charges Against Pastor Who Sheltered Homeless People In Church (www.huffpost.com)
The agreement between the pastor of Dad's Place and the city of Bryan comes with conditions.
No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals (abcnews.go.com)
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink (www.nytimes.com)
Mathew Bianchi took routine traffic stops seriously and handed out tickets regardless of people’s connections within the Police Department. He says he was punished for it....
The FAA is tightening oversight of Boeing and will audit production of the 737 Max 9 (www.kpbs.org)
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will increase its oversight of Boeing and its suppliers, and will re-examine the longstanding practice of allowing company employees to perform some safety analysis of its planes....