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Researchers Develop AI to Predict Resignation Risk With New Recruits (www3.nhk.or.jp)

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP (www.foxnews.com)

*** Technically this is news from a far right-wing source. In reality it’s priceless comedy. ***...

Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of Kansas women (apnews.com)

Two Kansas women who vanished as they tried to pick up children for a birthday party two weeks ago were killed over a custody dispute involving a group of anti-government Oklahomans calling themselves “God’s Misfits,” authorities said Monday....

Search continues in Maine as officer is charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital (apnews.com)

Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence, and unsworn falsification, according to court records. He was arrested on March 29....

Trump repeats attack on ex-lawyer on eve of trial despite gag order (www.reuters.com)

Donald Trump once again attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday, potentially testing the limits of a gag order that bars him from making public statements about witnesses concerning their testimony in his upcoming criminal trial in New York....

Dow tanks 500 points in biggest sell-off of 2024 as JPMorgan slides and inflation fears flare up (www.cnbc.com)

Trump and Johnson Trump build alliance on the falsehood of the stolen election (www.cnn.com)

House Speaker Mike Johnson will stand Friday with Donald Trump at an appearance that will amplify the former president’s most damaging falsehood: that America’s democratic elections are catastrophically tainted by fraud....

Elon Musk accused of profiting from tragedy as study finds X rewards hate targeting Israel-Gaza war | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

The CCDH studied the growth rates of 10 influential accounts that pay for X Premium and have posted anti-Jewish and/or anti-Muslim hate speech since October 7, 2023, when Hamas’ attack on Israel sparked the Israel-Gaza conflict. Some of these accounts had previously posted conspiracy theory content related to COVID-19, per the...

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What" - The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway (www.propublica.org)

The Associated Press: A mission of mercy, then a fatal strike: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel's target (apnews.com)

Stubborn US inflation dents hopes for imminent Fed interest rate cut (www.theguardian.com)

Boeing whistleblower’s safety claims under investigation by FAA, reports say (www.theguardian.com)

The engineer, identified as Sam Salehpour, told the newspaper that sections of the fuselage of the Dreamliner were improperly fastened together and could eventually break apart mid-flight.

The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)

Bloody and in pain, when a plastic straw became lodged in the nostril of a turtle, a video showing its removal shook the world – sparking a movement to rid the world of plastic straws....

Kentucky man admits to faking own death to avoid paying child support (www.theguardian.com)

Jesse Kipf pleaded guilty to computer fraud and identity theft after he created a fake death certificate for himself...

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....

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