EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (www.theguardian.com)
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
U.S. military reports 1st Houthi unmanned underwater vessel in Red Sea (www.cbsnews.com)
‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana (www.theguardian.com)
Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor...
Israeli air strikes target Ghaziyeh in southern Lebanon (www.aljazeera.com)
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (www.theguardian.com)
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regar
A broke Chinese real estate developer left Los Angeles with empty, graffiti-covered towers and a billion-dollar bill (www.businessinsider.com)
Qatar mediates return of 11 Ukrainian children from Russia - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Florida Department of Health investigates Broward County's multiple measles cases (www.cbsnews.com)
The Florida Department of Health is carrying out an epidemiological investigation surrounding the multiple cases of measles at a Broward County elementary school over the weekend....
Pope prays for peace in Sudan, and Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
25-year-old man arrested in fatal CU dorm shooting in Colorado Springs (www.denverpost.com)
Colorado Springs police detained the person Monday morning...
Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns (apnews.com)
The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....
Crew abandon British-registered cargo ship off Yemen after Houthi attack (www.bbc.com)
What's at stake for Trump, Haley in South Carolina's primary (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump wants to make South Carolina the end of the road for Nikki Haley in their battle for the Republican nomination. Haley aims to survive and take their fight into the multistate Super Tuesday contest in March....
The Great Compression: Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)
Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn’t have a coffee table in the living room because it would obstruct the front door. When relatives come to visit, Mr. Lanter says jokingly, but only partly, they have to tour one at time....
Average credit card balances jump 10% to a record $6,360, and more consumers fall behind on payments (www.cnbc.com)
Americans now owe $1.13 trillion in credit card debt
Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls (www.ohchr.org)
Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received....
Two police officers and firefighter fatally shot after call in Minneapolis suburbs (www.theguardian.com)
New York lobbyists ‘aiding and abetting’ climate crisis, research reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Lobbying firms work double-duty, representing political interests of victims and perpetrators of climate change in state capital...
Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark (apnews.com)
It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something happened from the get-go,” said his uncle, Ben Shorty. “We couldn’t find any answers.”...
Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class (www.theguardian.com)
Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack...
The U.K. and Japan have slumped into recession while the U.S. keeps defying gloomy expectations (fortune.com)
Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits (www.al.com)
The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.
Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar (www.eso.org)
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies and they are powered by supermassive black holes. The...
Arrests made after girl's body found encased in concrete and boy's remains in a suitcase (abcnews.go.com)
Police have arrested two people on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl’s body encased in concrete and a boy’s remains in a suitcase in Colorado...