FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back (plus interest) (tcrn.ch)
US consumer watchdog fines Chime $3.25 million for delaying refunds - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Six incarcerated people sue Alabama leaders, alleging unconstitutional prison labor (www.montgomeryadvertiser.com)
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B.C. man 3D-prints a moving, beeping R2-D2 (www.cbc.ca)
Keith Hampe of Prince George, B.C., is ready to show off his passion project at Northern FanCon weekend: a full-size R2-D2, with bleeps and all. CBC Daybreak North’s Jason Peters found the droid he was looking for on a visit to the Hampe house....
It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series (apnews.com)
(HBCU - historically black college/university)...
New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M (apnews.com)
A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen....
Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature (apnews.com)
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
At least 2,000 people arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, AP tally shows (apnews.com)
Student Gunman ‘Neutralized’ Outside Wisconsin Middle School: Officials (www.thedailybeast.com)
I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. (theintercept.com)
January 6 rioter Derrick Evans could return to the Capitol—as a congressman (www.motherjones.com)
Deputies leave UC Irvine, though protesters still prepping to sleep on campus (www.ocregister.com)
Appeals court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming surgery (wapo.st)
Gaetz gets last-minute primary challenger in Florida (thehill.com)
Philips pays $1.1bn to settle respirator case (www.bbc.com)
Dutch medical products maker Philips says it has reached a $1.1bn (£877m) deal to settle lawsuits in the US relating to potentially faulty breathing devices....
Fights break out between pro-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA (www.thehill.com)
Two Chinese nationals charged in US with trying to export banned semiconductor machinery to China — one arrested in Chicago (www.tomshardware.com)
Two Chinese nationals have been charged for an alleged scheme to illegally export a semiconductor dicing machine to a Chinese tech company. One of the two, Han Li, 44, was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday, while Lin Chen, 64, is believed to be in China. The charges and arrest are the latest developments in a protracted trade war...
Saved from her dead mother's womb, baby Sabreen was laid to rest in a mournful and sometimes angry funeral (www.nbcnews.com)
Archaeologists might have discovered death site of Roman Empire`s founder - Science News (www.wionews.com)
Archaeologists from the University of Tokyo might have finally discovered the death site of the Roman Empire’s founder Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius)....
Owner of exploding building arrested at airport while trying to leave: Authorities (abcnews.go.com)
Pew: Asian Americans fastest growing group of US voters (www.voanews.com)
Baby girl dies after being delivered from Palestinian mother killed by Israeli airstrike (www.cbc.ca)
A baby girl delivered from a Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Saturday has now died, according to her family....
Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next (apnews.com)
Exclusive: China harbors ship tied to North Korea-Russia arms transfers, satellite images show (www.reuters.com)
China is providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images obtained by Reuters, as U.S. concerns grow over Beijing’s support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine....