Bacteria that cause meningitis on the rise, CDC warns (www.theguardian.com)
An invasive meningococcal disease – which can be deadly to infected people – is on the rise, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned....
With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels (grist.org)
Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning....
An Oklahoma council member with ties to white nationalists faces scrutiny, and a recall election (apnews.com)
The typical topics for discussion among city leaders in the northwest Oklahoma community of Enid are how to lure a new movie theater, the cost of operating a downtown arena and plans for a solar farm on the edge of town....
Mother says she wants justice after teen son is killed during police chase in Mississippi (apnews.com)
A mother says she wants justice for her 17-year-old son who died when a police SUV ran over him in the small Mississippi Delta town where he lived....
Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face (www.nbcnews.com)
Democratic state lawmakers are introducing legislation to counter the rise in book bans around the country....
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates (www.propublica.org)
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A majority of Americans now oppose Israel's war on Gaza (www.newarab.com)
A Gallup poll released on Wednesday found that 55 percent of Americans now oppose the war, a ten percent increase since the last survey was conducted by the pollsters in November....
Why was 2023 such a deadly year in Los Angeles County jails? It depends on whom you ask (www.latimes.com)
Though the number of people in the county’s lockups is roughly a third less today than what it was a decade ago, the number of fatalities has risen so much that the annual death rate has more than doubled in that time frame. Suicides are slightly down after a sharp spike in 2021, but natural deaths are up, killings are up, and...
Baltimore bridge collapse: two bodies recovered from water, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities say bodies of Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera found by divers in pickup truck...
Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children (apnews.com)
Monitoring closely: US reacts to India summoning its diplomat over criticism of Kejriwal's arrest. (i.imgur.com)
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Clashing convictions mark protests as US supreme court weighs abortion pill (www.theguardian.com)
Hearing on mifepristone most consequential abortion-related case since overturning of Roe v Wade nearly two years ago...
Louisiana Legislature opened window for sex abuse survivors to sue, but state's high court shut it (apnews.com)
Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file civil damage lawsuits over their molestation....
India summons US diplomat over Kejriwal remarks (www.moneycontrol.com)
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Kermit the Proto-Frog? Scientists name ancient amphibian ancestor after the iconic Muppet | Salon.com (www.salon.com)
Bird Flu Found in Dairy Cows in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico (www.medicinenet.com)
Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot - US (www.bbc.com)
Millions of Americans’ online accounts have been caught up in a “sinister” Chinese hacking plot that targeted US officials, the justice department and FBI said on Monday....
Seeds of dissent: Agricultural manufacturers and farmers clash over “right to repair” equipment (www.salon.com)
Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United States (apnews.com)
ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces....
A Marijuana Boom Led Her to Oklahoma. Then Anti-Drug Agents Seized Her Money and Raided Her Home. (www.propublica.org)
Judge ordered to probe claims of juror bias in Boston Marathon bomber’s case (www.nbcnews.com)
Regardless of the outcome, only Dzhokhar Tsarnaev death sentence could be thrown out. The conviction and the fact he will be in prison for the rest his life will stand....
Documents Show Internal Clash Before U.S. Officials Pushed to Weaken Toddler Formula Rules (projects.propublica.org)
2 more former Mississippi 'Goon Squad' deputies sentenced in torture of 2 Black men (www.npr.org)
Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash (www.reuters.com)
A Republican-backed Texas law that would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked again by an appeals court on Wednesday, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to go into effect....
Sergeant faulted for actions before Maine mass shooting is running for sheriff (apnews.com)
A Maine sergeant who has been criticized by an investigatory panel for his handling of a report about a man who later carried out a mass shooting is running for sheriff, state records show....
