Unauthorized ACA plan switches drive call for action against rogue agents (www.npr.org)
"Safety crisis": Food delivery's simmering violence problem (www.salon.com)
How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/mississippi-voting-rights-histo…
Kremlin-Financed Political Influence Network in Europe Scandal Widens, 24 Officials Named (www.kyivpost.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11147940...
Last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor attack dies at 102 (www.denver7.com)
Metro Bank UK stole software (www.theguardian.com)
Metro Bank UK stole software and linked it to their online banking system.
America’s largest companies are fueling record inequality, says new study (www.cnn.com)
Looking at a solar eclipse can be dangerous without eclipse glasses. Here’s what to know (apnews.com)
Millions of people along a narrow band in North America will look up when the sky darkens during a total solar eclipse on April 8. When they do, safety is key....
Kansas Legislature Bans Trans Kids From Accessing Gender-Affirming Care (truthout.org)
HPAI Detection in Idaho Dairy Herd - Idaho State Department of Agriculture (agri.idaho.gov)
Concerning primarily because H5N1 appears to be moving from cow to cow. It could only be a matter of time before it gets a foothold in humans.
A bus has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. (npr.org)
Alabama Civil Rights Groups Scramble to Fight Back Against New Voting Law (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/alabama-law-absentee-voting-law…
Dozens of stalled Israeli visas seen hindering Gaza aid efforts (www.reuters.com)
Difficulties getting Israeli permission for foreign staff to work in Israel and the Palestinian territories are hampering efforts to get aid into war-shattered Gaza where civilians are facing imminent famine, according to U.N. data and aid workers....
New York Times rows back claims of 7 Oct. sexual assault (www.newarab.com)
The New York Times issued an update on Monday to the December article: “Newly released video viewed by The Times showed the bodies of two teenage girls in Kibbutz Be’eri fully clothed, undercutting this account from an Israeli military paramedic who recovered bodies in multiple locations after the Oct. 7 attack”....
This chart shows how bad Maine’s indigent defense system has gotten (www.bangordailynews.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/92b99d35-1db3-4501-a3e3-33abfc1f65b8.jpeg...
Men charged with smuggling Indian family who died near Canada-U.S. border plead not guilty (www.cbc.ca)
A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling....
‘Black box’ data recorder recovered from ship that struck Baltimore bridge as recovery efforts continue (www.cnn.com)
Fremont, Nebraska - The town that can't live without migrants, but isn't sure it wants to live with them (www.nbcnews.com)
Fremont, Nebraska, population 27,000, has three massive meat-processing plants. As young locals leave in search of better jobs, Central American migrants have been taking their places in the slaughterhouses, especially after Costco opened a huge rotisserie chicken facility in 2019....
Revealed: San Jose CA is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detect…
Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: six missing now presumed dead, police say (www.theguardian.com)
Maryland state police say the six people who were missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, are now presumed dead....
85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee's family away, she's getting a new home on the same spot (apnews.com)
When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob drove her family out of their Texas home. Now, the 97-year-old community activist is getting closer to moving into a brand new home on the very same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth....
Jan. 6 defendant who was the subject of a conspiracy theory pleads guilty (www.nbcnews.com)
Rally Runner, an amateur mascot formerly known as Daniel Donnelly Jr., pleaded guilty in connection with efforts to push his way into the Capitol during the riot....
Police track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run (apnews.com)
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run....
US surgeons have transplanted a pig kidney into a patient (apnews.com)
Doctors in Boston announced Thursday they have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient....
Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility...
