Iowa-UConn women's Final Four game is the most-watched hoops game in ESPN history (www.npr.org)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
McDonald’s buys all of its Israeli franchise restaurants amid damage from Middle East turmoil | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
McDonald’s will buy every one of its 225 franchise restaurants in Israel, it announced Thursday, just weeks after saying that the Israel-Hamas war was hurting its business....
A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong - The New York Times (Free article) (www.nytimes.com)
The more data we collect, the more we realize our assumptions about the universe may be incorrect. This is the first year data of a multi-year study on mapping the position of galaxies.
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says (www.theguardian.com)
The same year, 2022, company replaced plastic sleeves in EU with paper and cardboard, and cut plastic packaging globally by 11.6%...
Photos show devastation of deadly Israeli airstrike on World Central Kitchen convoy (www.nbcnews.com)
Kansas GOP lawmakers revive a plan to stop giving voters 3 extra days to return mail ballots (apnews.com)
Republican legislators in Kansas have revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots after making key concessions in a bid to get enough votes from rural GOP lawmakers to overcome the Democratic governor’s potential veto....
Maine State Prison residents launch hunger strike over conditions they call solitary confinement (mainemorningstar.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/maine-state-prison-residents-la…
Texas appeals court overturns voter fraud conviction for woman on probation (apnews.com)
Maryland to receive initial emergency relief funding of $60 million for Key Bridge collapse cleanup (www.cbsnews.com)
Maryland is receiving an initial funding of $60 million from the federal government as the state works to clear the debris remaining from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse....
Revealed: Idaho professor behind extremist site that spread conspiracies (www.theguardian.com)
BSU’s Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked the university, LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough...
An Arizona lawmaker announced she was getting an abortion. Here's what happened next (www.npr.org)
For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate’s floor session on March 18th was unremarkable....
Ingenious "Fish Doorbell" Helps Fish Migration In The Netherlands (www.dogonews.com)
Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country (www.theguardian.com)
Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills case (www.vox.com)
The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court....
South Korea: Escaped ostrich runs loose on roads (www.bbc.com)
Eyewitness footage shows the bird running down the streets of Seongnam on Tuesday morning, dodging traffic and crashing into a truck. Local media reported that the runaway was captured on Tuesday morning by police and firefighters, and was safely returned to the nearby ecological park it had escaped from.
U.S. Doubles Down on Defunding UNRWA — Despite Flimsy Allegations (theintercept.com)
The U.S. government will defund the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians through next year — even as 1.1 million people in Gaza face threats of famine in coming months — on the basis of flimsy allegations by Israel against a tiny minority of the agency’s staff that have yet to be proven....
India pharma quality lapses force U.S. to look to China for vital drugs (asia.nikkei.com)
In the final weeks of 2022, a small team of inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were far from home, investigating a pharmaceutical factory in western India....
A New York man's pet alligator was seized after 30 years. Now, he wants Albert back (abcnews.go.com)
The owner of an 34-year-old alligator seized by conservation officers near Buffalo is fighting for its return
SpaceX forced workers to sign illegal severance agreements, US agency claims (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been accused by a U.S. labor agency of requiring employees who were laid off or fired from the rocket and satellite maker to sign unlawful agreements barring them from disparaging the company and joining class-action lawsuits against it....
Trump Is in Line for a $3.5 Billion Windfall From Stake in Truth Social (www.wsj.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13470219...
Peter Navarro is 1st Trump White House official to serve prison time related to Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack....
As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back (kffhealthnews.org)
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Expected to Tap Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate (www.mediaite.com)
I was hoping for Aaron Rodgers....
Vaasa police foil student's school shooting plan (Finland) (yle.fi)
“The woman who made the video was taken into custody about an hour later. The detention was made without drama. I can’t go into details, but it happened in Vaasa,” Luoto told Svenska Yle....
