Judge Cannon says she's 'disappointed' in Special Counsel Jack Smith in new Trump filing (www.rawstory.com)
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies (www.cnn.com)
Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58....
House panel advances Garland contempt after White House blocks access to Biden special counsel tape (apnews.com)
The House Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with an effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress hours after the White House blocked access to an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who oversaw an investigation into his handling of classified documents....
FDA approves self-tests for cervical cancer, as an alternative to the dreaded pelvic exam (www.usatoday.com)
Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses (www.theguardian.com)
Former US Marine pilot arrested in Australia worked with Chinese hacker, lawyer says (www.reuters.com)
A former U.S. Marine pilot fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said....
Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo (www.salon.com)
Boeing 737 skidded off runway in Senegal airport, injuring 10 people (apnews.com)
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there....
Rikers Island jail ‘ready’ to receive Donald Trump, says Eric Adams (www.theguardian.com)
At least 43 protesters detained inside parking structure on UCLA campus, police say (abc7.com)
A man tried to shoot a pastor during a church service but his gun wouldn't fire, state police say (abcnews.go.com)
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Dairy worker bird flu case shows need for protective gear, US CDC study shows (www.reuters.com)
I find it worth noting that, as opposed to COVID, this time around it’s affecting rural parts of the US first, instead of urban areas. It’s the rural areas that, generally, didn’t take COVID seriously....
Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison (apnews.com)
A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection....
Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky (www.theguardian.com)
The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
Coming soon to Dave & Buster's: Betting. New app function allows customers to wager on games. (www.usatoday.com)
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T fined $200m by FCC over illegal location-data sharing (www.theguardian.com)
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T say they will appeal against ‘excessive’ fines meted out by US regulator...
Southern California woman pleads guilty in $150-million counterfeit postage scheme (www.latimes.com)
A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million....
US ban on worker noncompete agreements faces lawsuit from major business group (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobby, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to strike down a federal agency’s near-total ban on employers requiring workers to sign agreements not to join rivals or launch competing businesses....
With close calls mounting, the FAA will require more rest for air traffic controllers (www.npr.org)
Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US (www.theguardian.com)
A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve finds...
Supreme Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay....
Georgia beach town, Tybee Island, trying to curb Orange Crush, large annual gathering of Black college students (www.cbsnews.com)
Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia’s largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blocking access to nearby parking....
Stephen Miller epically roasted for calling Donald Trump a “style icon” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
