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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre (apnews.com)

Steve Bannon asks appeals court to keep him out of prison due to his importance in Trump’s campaign (www.independent.co.uk)

Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear (arstechnica.com)

10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says (abcnews.go.com)

A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, according to his father....

Williams-Sonoma must pay almost $3.2 million for violating FTC's 'Made in USA' order (apnews.com)

Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order....

Ford recalls nearly 43,000 SUVs due to gas leaks that can cause fires, but remedy won't fix leaks (apnews.com)

Multigenerational housing is coming back in a big way. Americans used to live in multigenerational homes. We’re starting to, again (www.vox.com)

Layla Ahmed is, by any measure, a responsible adult. She works at a nonprofit in Nashville helping refugees. Makes 50k a year. Saves money. Pays her bills on time....

The Great Compression: Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)

Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn’t have a coffee table in the living room because it would obstruct the front door. When relatives come to visit, Mr. Lanter says jokingly, but only partly, they have to tour one at time....

Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public (www.theguardian.com)

Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do...

Jury foreperson in Jennifer Crumbley case says the mother failed to 'secure' the gun used in the mass shooting from her son (www.nbcnews.com)

Jennifer Crumbley, 45, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deadly school shooting carried out by her then-15-year-old son in 2021....

Missing Ohio teen located in Florida after logging in to World of Warcraft account (www.seattletimes.com)

Authorities say a missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her.

Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers (www.reuters.com)

Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

Robert E. Lee statue being melted down; bronze to be re-used for new more inclusive art (www.npr.org)

Senator Tuberville: No truce over military blockade on abortion (www.bbc.co.uk)

Military leaders claim Tommy Tuberville's actions are a national security risk, but the senator is defiant.

Russia’s lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface (www.cnn.com)

The Luna 25 spacecraft reported an “emergency situation on board,” Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Saturday....

Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House (www.rollingstone.com)

What a shit! I swear I can’t be surprised and generally ignore his antics but there’s always another, scummier, act.

Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap (www.cnbc.com)

Former President Donald Trump recognized that the price of insulin is lower under President Joe Biden but still tried to take credit for it....

Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now (nymag.com)

The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless (fortune.com)

Trump flubs son Barron's age, ahead of his graduation (www.salon.com)

Disney bets on sequels and password crackdown for profit growth (www.bbc.com)

Disney is banking on a password crackdown and spate of sequels as it pushes to make its streaming business profitable....

Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today (www.cnn.com)

Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins....