Tennessee legislature bans local cities and counties from passing their own red flag laws (www.newschannel5.com)
Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets (apnews.com)
A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said....
Students arrested in California and Texas; Netanyahu compares campus protests to Nazi Germany (www.nbcnews.com)
US Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case (www.bbc.co.uk)
Dow sinks nearly 700 points after GDP report, heading toward its largest drop of the year (www.cnn.com)
Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next (apnews.com)
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down (apnews.com)
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency....
New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually (apnews.com)
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United States....
Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries (oaklandside.org)
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case “constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorney’s] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight (www.theverge.com)
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say (apnews.com)
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide....
‘Underground hell’: Hamas publishes first video of mutilated American hostage, says 70 have been killed (www.news.com.au)
Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end (www.theguardian.com)
Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial (www.salon.com)
US archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police (www.theguardian.com)
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican...
Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
Arizona grand jury indicts 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020 (apnews.com)
Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin campus amid tense standoff (www.texastribune.org)
Women on Supreme Court Consider Need for Life-Saving Abortions (www.rollingstone.com)
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor questioned Wednesday when Idaho’s extreme law would allow emergency abortion care...
DOJ filing: Steve Bannon is a "co-conspirator" in a $1 billion fraud case (www.motherjones.com)
Exclusive: China harbors ship tied to North Korea-Russia arms transfers, satellite images show (www.reuters.com)
China is providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images obtained by Reuters, as U.S. concerns grow over Beijing’s support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine....
Tensions rise as protests on college campuses continue nationwide (www.cnn.com)
Michigan father 1st charged under new safe gun storage law after son shoots himself in the face (abcnews.go.com)
Israel thought to be preparing to send troops into Rafah (www.theguardian.com)
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Missouri House backs legal shield for weedkiller maker facing thousands of cancer-related lawsuits (apnews.com)
