Vanderbilt guarantees full-tuition scholarships to all students with family incomes below $150,000 (vanderbilthustler.com)
Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th (www.theguardian.com)
Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war...
Four police officers arrested in Kenya for human trafficking - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Republican DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling (apnews.com)
A Republican prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide whether a 174-year-old state law bans abortion in the state without waiting for a ruling from a lower appellate court....
Oklahoma closer to passing a law that creates a database of everyone who has an abortion - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
Supreme Court turns down rent control challenge (www.latimes.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a major property-rights challenge to rent control laws in New York City and elsewhere that give tenants a right to stay for many years in an apartment with a below-market cost....
Supreme Court rejects appeal from 3 GOP House members over $500 mask fines (www.seattletimes.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021....
Election officials in the US face daunting challenges in 2024. And Congress isn't coming to help (apnews.com)
With election season already underway, some state election officials are expressing frustration that Congress has yet to allocate federal money they have come to rely on to help cover the costs of securing their systems from attacks, updating equipment and training staff....
US man sues Powerball lottery after being told $340m win is an error (www.bbc.com)
The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza (apnews.com)
The United States vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip....
White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's death (apnews.com)
Even more major than the current major sanctions…
First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/hate-crime-south-carolina-trans…...
Cougar attacks five mountain bikers on a trail in Washington state (www.npr.org)
A group of five cyclists were riding on a trail in Fall City, Wash., when they were attacked by at least one cougar this past weekend.
US unions target the housing affordability crisis as their ‘biggest issue’ (www.theguardian.com)
Organized labor across the country is now setting its sights on housing costs as rents and mortgages continue to soar...
Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency...
Death and Redemption in an American Prison (kffhealthnews.org)
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury found them guilty of second-degree murder. They were sentenced...
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.
Brazil fires back at ‘outrageous’ Israeli response to Lula comments (thecradle.co)
Israeli officials have accused Brazil’s president of antisemitism following his comparison of Israeli violence to that of the Nazis...
Speaker Mike Johnson faces critical decision on Ukraine aid as international pressure grows to act (www.cnn.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing international criticism over his lack of swift action on Ukraine aid, which is ratcheting up pressure to make a critical decision that will not only have massive implications for his rookie speakership but also for Ukraine’s ongoing war effort against Russia....
Russia-Ukraine latest: X suspends Navalny wife's account - as Moscow puts brother on wanted list (news.sky.com)
The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account suspended. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Moscow wanted list's. Listen to a Daily podcast special on Russian opposition in the wake of Navalny's death as you scroll.
Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens had Russian intelligence contacts, prosecutors say (apnews.com)
A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials, prosecutors said in a court paper Tuesday....
At least 60% of US population may face ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water, tests suggest (www.theguardian.com)
Federal tests of one-third of water systems find 70 million Americans exposed to PFAS – suggesting 200 million affected overall...
How far can cities go to clear homeless camps? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide (wamu.org)
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a major case that could reshape how cities manage homelessness. The legal issue is whether they can fine or arrest people for sleeping outside if there’s no shelter available. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has deemed this cruel and unusual punishment, and this case is a...