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Bob Knight, Indiana’s combustible coaching giant, dies at age 83 (apnews.com)

14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

Three arrested in U.S. and charged with smuggling military technology to Russia (meduza.io)

Teachers kick off strike in Portland, Oregon, over class sizes, pay and resources (abcnews.go.com)

Teachers in Portland, Oregon, went on strike Wednesday, shuttering school for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s biggest city

HBO Bosses Used 'Secret' Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics (www.rollingstone.com)

Highlights: In June 2020, Casey Bloys, HBO’s then-president of original programming, needed someone to “go on a mission.”...

Bernice King Calls Out Amy Schumer For Implying Her Father [MLK Jr.] Would Support Bombing Palestinians (www.theroot.com)

Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it....

A far-right livestreamer is calling for immigrant aid workers to be shot (www.motherjones.com)

Highlights: Almost as soon as news of actor Matthew Perry’s death broke last week, anti-vaccine activists began speculating that a Covid shot had caused his untimely passing (the cause of death is still undetermined). This was just the latest example of a trend that began last year, with the advent of the hashtag...

Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy (arstechnica.com)

The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts is the banks (www.businessinsider.com)

Lakehead School Board files court order demanding Reddit release user identities (www.tbnewswatch.com)

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A new analysis finds 400,000-plus jobs will be created from the 210 EV, battery and clean energy projects launched since the climate law passed. (original.newsbreak.com)

Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians (www.theguardian.com)

Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’

Eläkkeet kasvavat nyt ripeästi, ja se on herättänyt keskustelun miksei eläkeläisiltä leikata (yle.fi)

One Regulation Could Have Stopped a Nationwide Car Theft Wave. Why Don't We Have It? (www.vice.com)

In 2007, Canada started requiring all vehicles to have a cheap, effective anti-theft device. The U.S. didn't. Now, it is paying the price with a surge in Kia and Hyundai thefts.

Household child care costs have spiked more than 30% since 2019 (www.axios.com)

Donald Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric will testify at fraud trial that threatens the family’s empire (apnews.com)

FBI director warns antisemitism in US reaching 'historic levels' (www.bbc.com)

Portland public schools will be closed Wednesday as teaches go on strike (www.cnn.com)

Public schools in Portland, Oregon, will be closed Wednesday as teachers go on strike with no agreement reached between their union and the school district on a new contract....

‘Disturbing’: US infant mortality rises at highest rate in 20 years (www.theguardian.com)

CDC data shows rate rose 3% last year but experts say they are not sure why statistic that has been falling should have risen sharply

Virginia admits thousands of voters wrongly purged days before election (www.theguardian.com)

Voting rights groups decry error days before elections that will determine which party controls the state legislature

Carlsberg CEO: Russia has 'stolen our business' (www.reuters.com)

‘Booty Patrol’: Florida deputies warn drivers of truck impersonating law enforcement (www.msn.com)

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Supreme Court to consider whether ‘Trump Too Small’ can be trademarked without ex-president’s permission (www.cnn.com)

A political activist’s desire to register a suggestive phrase targeting Donald Trump’s anatomy and policies is at the center of a Supreme Court case being heard Wednesday that will test the limits of the First Amendment....

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