WNBA star Brittney Griner opens up about harrowing Russian detention in exclusive '20/20' special (abcnews.go.com)
Supreme court appears to side with Starbucks in fight over fired employees (www.theguardian.com)
As Trump mulls his VP pick, an abortion-rights group warns about 'extremist' candidates (www.nbcnews.com)
EMILY’s List President Jessica Mackler said voters are living in a “state of chaos and cruelty” because of Trump’s record on reproductive rights....
Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn (www.theguardian.com)
Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain...
Man Set Himself on Fire Outside of Trump Trial (www.rollingstone.com)
Trump hush-money trial: Juror excused over concerns identity made public - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Jury is shrinking, not growing...
United Airlines says Boeing Alaska blowout cost it $200m (www.bbc.com)
United Airlines has blamed Boeing for a $200m (£161m) hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year....
Kansas women allegedly killed by group calling themselves 'God's misfits' (www.bbc.com)
Alcohol consumption lowering each decade in the EU (www.euronews.com)
US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme (arstechnica.com)
Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest (abcnews.go.com)
Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants (arstechnica.com)
The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown....
80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows (www.smithsonianmag.com)
A new analysis released last week by the international non-profit InfluenceMap reveals an overwhelmingly unequal share of fossil fuel pollution worldwide. From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.
Solar Eclipse: Anticipation grows as millions hope for clear skies (www.bbc.com)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday....
Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions...
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Donald Trump's $175m bond rejection raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump’s problematic $175 million bond to cover his New York civil fraud appeal has raised questions about what exactly led to the rejection of his insurer’s paperwork, says a legal analyst....
Judge Cannon rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
From Cannon’s “ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT TRUMP’S MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT”...
Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software....
A Kansas paper and its publisher are suing over police raids. They say damages exceed $10M (apnews.com)
A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother....
Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web (www.macworld.com)
Human case of bird flu detected in Texas after outbreak of virus among cattle (www.usatoday.com)
Car rams into FBI office gate: What we know about Atlanta crash (www.newsweek.com)
Former gaming executive sentenced to death in poisoning of billionaire Netflix producer in China (www.cbsnews.com)
A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.”...
Children's author Kouri Richins hit with new charges alleging earlier attempt to kill her husband (apnews.com)
A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day....
