NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse (www.popsci.com)
The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement (www.cnn.com)
The 6% commission, a standard in home purchase transactions, is no more....
Elon Musk smears Haitian migrants with 'cannibal' claims amid crisis (www.nbcnews.com)
As Haiti faces an extreme political and societal crisis amid a wave of intense violence, tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing pundits online are weaponizing unverified claims of cannibalism coming out of the conflict to advance a political agenda on immigration....
Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war (thehill.com)
Multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival are pulling out because of the U.S. Army’s “super sponsorship” of the event, and America’s ongoing support of Israel’s war on Hamas.
Children will not be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS says (www.itv.com)
Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed....
Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill (www.bbc.com)
Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing' (www.foodandwine.com)
Alabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worried (www.theguardian.com)
Near-record winds over the Northeast push passenger planes to speeds over 800 mph (wamu.org)
Strong high-altitude winds over the Mid-Atlantic sped up sky traffic on Saturday night, getting passengers on at least two commercial planes to their destinations early, after both aircraft hit supersonic speeds topping 800 mph....
Trump faces a $370m fine in New York fraud trial. How would he pay it? (www.bbc.com)
Trump could secure a bond, but it will cost him...
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing (apnews.com)
A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.
Haley loses Nevada GOP primary skipped by Trump to 'none of these candidates' (www.nbcnews.com)
WWE Founder Vince McMahon Accused of Sexual Abuse and Trafficking in Lawsuit by Former Employee (variety.com)
CONTENT WARNING: This article describes graphic accusations of SA.
State laws are factoring into college choices for young adults (www.nbcnews.com)
One survey shows as many as 73 percent of young adults are taking state abortion laws into account when making decisions about where to go to college. Savannah Sellers reports on one of the most important decisions in the lives of young students and their families.
A Florida hotel cancels a Muslim conference, citing security concerns after receiving protest calls (apnews.com)
A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group’s conference at the last minute after a protest group claimed the coalition was promoting Hamas, terrorism and antisemitism....
Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (www.axios.com)
Fidelity has again marked down the value of its shares in X Holdings, which the mutual fund giant helped Elon Musk buy for $44 billion when the company was known as Twitter....
Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her home (apnews.com)
A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause....
Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled (www.nytimes.com)
nytimes.com Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled Daniel Politi, Lucía Cholakian Herrera ~3 minutes...
Only 60% of student loan borrowers made payments when bills restarted in the US (www.cnbc.com)
Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest (apnews.com)
Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence....
Apology letters by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in Georgia election case are one sentence long (apnews.com)
The letters, obtained Thursday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, were hand-written and terse. Neither letter acknowledges the legitimacy of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Georgia’s 2020 election nor denounces the baseless conspiracy theories they pushed to claim Trump was cheated out of...
Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity (apnews.com)
A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday....
'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California (www.aol.com)
There was blood and other bodily fluids in Gatorade bottles labeled in Mandarin, samples of at least 20 potentially infectious agents including malaria, dengue fever, and COVID-19 — and a pungent odor from what turned out to be nearly 1,000 mice.
Trump's campaign is distancing him from allies who have sketched out plans for a second term (apnews.com)
But even as Trump’s campaign has been blaming outside groups and allies for bad headlines, Trump himself has been vowing “retribution” against his enemies and ramping up his use of violent and authoritarian rhetoric, including saying he would only be a dictator on “day one” of his second term. He has also pledged to...
Israel-Gaza latest news: UN warns half of Gazans starving, as Israeli hostage confirmed dead - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The UN warns that half the population of Gaza is starving and nine out of ten people there can’t eat every day - as Israeli bombardment of the territory continues...
