Health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rise (arstechnica.com)
Vernor Vinge 1944-2024 (file770.com)
He passed on March 20. One of the greatest “hard” science fiction writers, author of True Names, A Fire Upon The Deep, and other cyberspace classics. Link is to his death notice in the old school fanzine File 770. Moment of silence please. RIP.
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The doctors … warn that pledges of increased aid to Palestinians under bombardment are largely meaningless without an immediate ceasefire to allow safe distribution of food and the revival of healthcare services.
Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says (www.reuters.com)
A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state’s criminal election subversion case could appeal a ruling that let lead prosecutor Fani Willis remain on the case....
3 Idaho corrections officers shot as gunman breaks an inmate out of Boise hospital, police say (apnews.com)
A suspect staged a brazen attack to break a prison inmate out of a Boise hospital overnight, shooting and seriously wounding two Idaho corrections officers, police said. A third was also shot and wounded when arriving police mistook the officer for the suspect and opened fire....
Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility...
Chasing Clicks in the Jungle: Right-Wing Influencers Descend on the Darién Gap (www.nytimes.com)
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EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids (apnews.com)
The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles....
Airport executive shot in firefight with federal agents at his home in Arkansas (www.yahoo.com)
Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case (thehill.com)
Fikre alleges that he traveled to Sudan in late 2009 in pursuit of growing an electronics business in his native East Africa. The FBI questioned him while in Sudan, according to court filings, telling Fikre he was on the No Fly List and could be removed if he became an informant....
Black student at Hawaii Mormon school says he’s fighting order to cut hair (www.theguardian.com)
Kanaan VyShonne Barton says he’s following all other school rules but shouldn’t have to cut his hair: ‘My locs represent strength’...
Truth Social hit by major outage (www.newsweek.com)
Republicans' Election Riddled With Errors After Hand Counting Ballots (www.newsweek.com)
Republican efforts to hand count ballots in a seemingly low-profile Texas county primary election has led to a number of errors....
Cleveland Promised Oversight of Police Cameras. But the Work Remains Undone. (www.themarshallproject.org)
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A nuclear plant’s closure was hailed as a green win. Then emissions went up (www.theguardian.com)
Shuttering of New York facility raises awkward climate crisis questions as gas – not renewables – fills gap in power generation...
Young people becoming less happy than older generations, research shows (www.theguardian.com)
Young people are becoming less happy than older generations as they suffer “the equivalent of a midlife crisis”, global research has revealed as America’s top doctor warned that “young people are really struggling”....
States push ‘fetal personhood’ bills despite outrage at Alabama IVF ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses...
England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching (apnews.com)
Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals....
IRS chief zeroes in on wealthy tax cheats in AP interview (apnews.com)
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your fair share so “others aren’t shouldering the burden of funding our government.”...
Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)
Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals (www.npr.org)
In the wake of Louisiana’s abortion ban, pregnant women have been given risky, unnecessary surgeries, denied swift treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, and forced to wait until their life is at risk before getting an abortion, according to a new report first made available to NPR....
3rd of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 17.5 years for racist torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
May I introduce to you … the Goon Squad....
Legal spending by Trump group accelerated in February -disclosures (www.reuters.com)
A fundraising group run by Donald Trump, who is facing four criminal trials as he seeks the U.S. presidency, stepped up spending on legal fees last month, further draining money from efforts to return him to the White House, financial disclosures showed on Wednesday....
Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years, over 20% increase from the prior year (finance.yahoo.com)
Man to plead guilty in eagle ‘killing spree’ on reservation to sell feathers on black market (apnews.com)
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market....
