Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts (www.theguardian.com)
Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers...
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.”...
Virginia governor vetoes marijuana market bill (www.politico.com)
In Arizona’s Most Populous County, There’s a New Sheriff in Town (www.democracydocket.com)
In November of 2023, Paul Penzone announced that he was stepping down as Maricopa County sheriff, which became effective in January of this year. (He took a job at Blue Cross Blue Shield.)...
Success or failure? Canada's drug decriminalisation test faces scrutiny (www.bbc.com)
Trigger warning for the picture: needle
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed? (www.theguardian.com)
In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century....
Children among cancer patients fearing being sent back to Gaza by Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Cancer patients from Gaza, including children, are living in a state of limbo in a hospital in East Jerusalem after Israeli authorities threatened to send them back....
Judge rules that lawsuits against social media can move forward in Buffalo massacre case (www.democratandchronicle.com)
Nearly Two Years After Uvalde Massacre, Here Is Where All the Investigations, Personnel Changes Stand (www.propublica.org)
Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’ (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism....
Chevron owns this city's news site. Many stories aren't told (www.npr.org)
Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky....
Georgia Republican official and outspoken election denier caught voting illegally 9 times (eu.usatoday.com)
Cross-post from slrpnk.net/post/8104275...
Parents offered class photo version with no 'complex needs' pupils (www.bbc.com)
A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them....
Kansas Legislature Bans Trans Kids From Accessing Gender-Affirming Care (truthout.org)
400 people with mental illness are sitting in Colorado jails. Some state lawmakers want to divert them to treatment instead. (coloradosun.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/400-people-with-mental-illness-…
US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years (apnews.com)
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage....
‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality (www.nytimes.com)
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted (www.theguardian.com)
A Texas appeals court has thrown out a five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who was sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election that was rejected....
How MAGA broke the media (www.vox.com)
Jamaica pulls U.S. boys from troubled teen school after allegations they were abused (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jamaica-troubled-teen-abuse-all…
The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls (www.latimes.com)
A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups....
Texas appeals court overturns voter fraud conviction for woman on probation (apnews.com)
Revealed: Idaho professor behind extremist site that spread conspiracies (www.theguardian.com)
BSU’s Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked the university, LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough...
Conjoined twin Abby Hensel is now married (www.nbcnews.com)
Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family....
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? (apnews.com)
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor....
