Iraqi authorities investigating killing of social media influencer Um Fahad (www.nbcnews.com)
Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as “Um Fahad,” was popular on TikTok and Instagram, where she posted videos of herself dancing to music....
Tennessee passes first-of-its-kind law attacking trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule (thehill.com)
Hamas releases video of Israeli hostages Keith Siegel and Omri Miran (www.nbcnews.com)
In the video, Siegel and Miran spoke of not being able to celebrate Passover with their loved ones. It comes days after Hamas released a video of Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin....
Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune, new report finds (fortune.com)
Emergency Exit Slide Detaches As Delta Flight Takes Off, Forces Return to New York JFK (headtopics.com)
The Onion is sold to new firm known as Global Tetrahedron (www.axios.com)
global-tetrahedron.com/about...
Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain With Ketamine Before His Death Avoids Prison (www.huffpost.com)
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests....
Israel: ‘Investigate what?’ A response to mass graves being found in Gaza. (www.politico.com)
When NatSec Daily asked Israel Defense Forces spokesperson NADAV SHOSHANI whether Israel plans on investigating, he at first waived off the question, calling the reports “fake news.”...
The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme: what’s in the charging document? (www.theguardian.com)
The indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the Trump allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden in 2020....
Biden Bans the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Federal Buildings (finance.yahoo.com)
NBC News investigation reveals Israel strikes on Gaza areas it said were safe (www.nbcnews.com)
Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)
Trendy, unproven “vampire facials” performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today....
Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters (www.reuters.com)
Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school....
Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....
Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)
Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....
The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials (www.cnbc.com)
There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...
US food regulator gathering information on Indian spices after alleged contamination (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly containing high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide....
Student Protest Leader at Columbia: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ (www.nytimes.com)
Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism....
Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/
Judge sentences Jan. 6 ‘chaos agent’ to 6 years in jail (www.politico.com)
Man admits on deathbed to killing West Virginia mother and daughter in 2000 (www.theguardian.com)
Before dying earlier this month, Larry Webb confessed to killing Susan Carter and her child and burying their bodies in his yard...
Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear (www.theguardian.com)
Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts...
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....
