Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 Max 9 blowout (www.bbc.com)
Checks are to be carried out on a second Boeing aircraft model following the blowout of an unused door on one of its planes earlier this month....
Quebec Man Pleads Guilty to What He Accused the Government Of: Starting Wildfires (www.nytimes.com)
A man who pleaded guilty to setting 14 fires in 2023 also shared misinformation and conspiracy theories about wildfires and climate change....
Los Angeles Innocence Project takes Scott Peterson case up 21 years after wife’s murder (www.theguardian.com)
Two decades after Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murder of his pregnant wife in a high-profile trial, the Los Angeles Innocence Project said this week that it had taken up the case....
Election-year politics threaten Senate border deal as Trump rallies opposition (www.kpbs.org)
A politically treacherous dynamic is taking hold as negotiators in Congress work to strike a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, with vocal opposition from the hard right and former President Donald Trump threatening to topple the carefully negotiated compromise....
In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by the hospital (www.npr.org)
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit...
Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content (www.nbcnews.com)
Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.
US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges denies he is the suspect at hearing (apnews.com)
A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday that he is the suspect and, in an apparent British accent, called allegations that he wasn’t giving his true name “complete hearsay.”...
America’s student debt crisis visualized: 2.4M borrowers are delinquent (creditnews.com)
John Kerry, the US climate envoy, to leave the Biden administration (apnews.com)
Kerry, a longtime senator and secretary of state, was tapped shortly after Joe Biden’s November 2020 election to take on the new role created specifically to fight climate change on behalf of the administration on the global stage....
A fossil fuel plant is leaving Louisiana families with ‘barely enough water for your toothbrush’ (www.theguardian.com)
Phoenix seeks to end Justice Department probe of its police department without court supervision (apnews.com)
Phoenix has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to end its two-year civil rights investigation of the city’s police department through an agreement in which it would take recommendations for changes from the federal agency but wouldn’t be subject to costly court supervision....
Emails surface from LU's VP of Student Affairs sent the day she died by suicide (krcgtv.com)
A controversial start to the year for Lincoln University President Dr. John Moseley and the Board of Curators after the University’s Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey, took her own life on January 8. Bailey’s passing has sparked outrage from LU alumni across the country who are now...
Maryland elections board member resigns after indictment for participating in US Capitol rioting (apnews.com)
A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections has resigned after being arrested by the FBI this week on felony and misdemeanor charges for participating in rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....
Trump tangles with judge as NY civil fraud trial nears its end (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump on Thursday accused the New York judge in his civil fraud trial of “having your own agenda” - and the judge told his lawyer to control his client - as a months-long case that could hobble the former U.S. president’s business empire neared its end....
Threats against Jews, Muslims and Arabs continue on social media: DHS bulletin (abcnews.go.com)
ABC News has obtained the latest DHS tracking data....
Poland’s president says he will not rest until ex-interior minister and deputy freed from prison (www.theguardian.com)
Poland’s president has said he will not rest until two politicians from the opposition nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party – both on hunger strike – are freed from prison, in a further dramatic escalation in the new government’s battle to restore the rule of law....
Donald Trump claims credit for ‘miracle’ of overturning right to abortion (www.theguardian.com)
Netanyahu: Let me be clear — Israel has no intention of displacing Gaza’s population (www.timesofisrael.com)
PM says IDF will also not permanently occupy the Strip; Likud MK: Netanyahu told me he’d like Gaza voluntary migration but is under US pressure...
‘Better be scared’: threats of political violence foretell tense election year (www.theguardian.com)
Several years of sustained harassment of election workers and judges have led to security concerns and high a high turnover...
Britain warns of severe consequences after Houthi attack in Red Sea repelled (www.theguardian.com)
Britain has warned of severe consequences after US and UK warships were forced to repel a barrage of 20 Houthi rockets, drones and cruise missiles fired at ships in the Red Sea....
Chinese-origin US Navy officer jailed for selling military secrets to China (www.independent.co.uk)
Wenheng Zhao pleads guilty to transmitting secret files to Chinese spy...
A brutal winter storm is unleashing blizzard conditions in central US and threatening coastal areas with floods and tornadoes (www.cnn.com)
A massive winter storm system has unleashed dangerous blizzard conditions in parts of the central United States, shutting down highways and stranding drivers in frigid temperatures Monday, and it’s pummeling parts of the South with hail storms, heavy flooding and tornado threats....
Andrew Tate wins legal challenge over seized assets (www.bbc.com)
I don’t know Romanian law but it sounds like they seized his property without proving it was used in a crime. Let’s see how the retrial pans out.
Ben-Gvir: 'Voluntary' transfer of Gazans is the solution, Israelis should resettle Strip (www.haaretz.com)
Israel's far-right minister claimed the idea is supported by GOP candidate Nikki Haley, and said he will 'try to convince' other government members to support such a measure. This comes days before the ICJ is due to hear South Africa's petition alleging Israel is behind forced displacement of Gazans
