Netanyahu seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in Gaza in new postwar plan (apnews.com)
Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)
Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT (www.cnbc.com)
Social media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.”...
Charges against alleged white supremacists are tossed by a California judge for the second time (apnews.com)
For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted....
Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male students’ natural hair (www.cnn.com)
Harvard pro-Palestinian faculty group apologizes after sharing antisemitic imagery (www.timesofisrael.com)
University to review since-deleted post shared by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, which includes 1960s-era cartoon that was also denounced then as antisemitic...
Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity (apnews.com)
Nova partygoer was misidentified as Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, killed by Israeli forces (www.haaretz.com)
Ofek Atun escaped the outdoor Nova rave with his girlfriend. They survived the assault on the bomb shelter in which they took refuge, before fleeing to nearby Kibbutz Alumim. The kibbutz’s volunteer security squad mistook them for Hamas terrorists – and opened fire
Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video) (www.space.com)
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans with debt are putting less money toward credit card payments: 'People are really struggling' (www.cnbc.com)
Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.forbes.com)
West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools....
You'll Never Guess Who Was Behind Those Fake Biden Robocalls! (crooksandliars.com)
Hint: It wasn't a Republican.
Native American tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted hydropower projects (apnews.com)
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce U.S. Southwest....
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method (apnews.com)
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method....
Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Israeli ground offensive in Rafah ‘aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable’ (www.france24.com)
Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to “completely destroy” Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now host to half of Gaza’s...
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector....
Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years (www.seattletimes.com)
Denver police are asking for the public’s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman’s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people....
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judge-again-dismisses-charges-a…
Federal prison employees falsified logs in case where inmate committed suicide, IG says (www.govexec.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/20240223125717/…/394345/
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/0wgc5
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...