Mpox cases nearly double what they were at the same time last year (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13665619...
A very bad year for press freedom (www.vox.com)
HPAI Detection in Idaho Dairy Herd - Idaho State Department of Agriculture (agri.idaho.gov)
Concerning primarily because H5N1 appears to be moving from cow to cow. It could only be a matter of time before it gets a foothold in humans.
Wall Street Journal marks one year since Evan Gershkovich's arrest in Russia (www.motherjones.com)
A bus has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. (npr.org)
NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law (themarkup.org)
Alabama Civil Rights Groups Scramble to Fight Back Against New Voting Law (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/alabama-law-absentee-voting-law…
Reddit Insiders Selling Days After IPO; Shares Fall (www.investors.com)
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....
Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud (www.reuters.com)
Trump's Truth Social Is Worth $10 Billion. Here's Why (www.forbes.com)
Also another take....
Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed (www.theguardian.com)
Dali crew still confined to ship − with no internet. They could be 'profoundly rattled.' (www.usatoday.com)
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library (www.nytimes.com)
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections....
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
4 dead, 7 injured in stabbing rampage in Illinois residential area, authorities say (www.cnn.com)
Four people were found dead and seven others were injured in a stabbing rampage across multiple areas in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon, police say, and a suspect is in custody....
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....
Russian veto brings an end to the UN panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions (apnews.com)
Sounds like Russia is getting desperate for armaments.
Supreme Court's taking an influx of cases from one circuit (www.newsweek.com)
The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in more than 50 cases this term, and the plurality of them have come from the nation’s most conservative appeals court: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit....
Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday....
'Undated' Pa. mail ballots don't count, appeals court rules (whyy.org)
The technical mandate caused thousands of votes to be declared invalid in the 2022 election....
Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say (apnews.com)
The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search...
An Arizona lawmaker announced she was getting an abortion. Here's what happened next (www.npr.org)
For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate’s floor session on March 18th was unremarkable....
Disgraced Chicago cops still on the streets and in the courtrooms - Hundreds of officers have documented histories of dishonesty and misconduct. Many continue to make arrests. (chicagoreader.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/police-misconduct-brady/
Army Corps of Engineers to deploy 1,100 personnel to Baltimore (thehill.com)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is deploying more than 1,100 personnel to Baltimore, Md., following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning, the service said in a statement....
