Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head plunging US into darkness (www.independent.co.uk)
A new investigation of a deadly fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked detention cell in Mexico shows that keys and fire extinguishers were readily available, but withheld (www.texasobserver.org)
Until now, injustice has impeded serious faults, abuses, and negligence from that night from coming to light. These actions contributed to the fatalities that occurred inside the overcrowded locked cell without fire extinguishers, ventilation, fire sprinklers, and working smoke detectors, a death trap for migrants from...
‘I run out of money each month’: the Americans borrowing to cover daily expenses (www.theguardian.com)
Millennials and Gen Z's trendy new splurge: groceries (www.businessinsider.com)
Florida woman shoots interstate drivers, says God told her to because of the eclipse, police say (abcnews.go.com)
U.S. sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons (wapo.st)
The Pentagon has provided Ukraine with thousands of Iranian-made weapons seized before they could reach Houthi militants in Yemen, U.S. officials said Tuesday. It’s the Biden administration’s latest infusion of emergency military support for Kyiv while a multibillion-dollar aid package remains stalled in the Republican-led...
The Catfish Scandal Rocking an Illinois School Board (www.thedailybeast.com)
Dying for a bag of flour: Videos and eyewitness accounts cast doubt on Israel’s timeline of deadly Gaza aid delivery | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
CNN collected testimonies and videos from 22 eyewitnesses, many of whom had traveled from other cities across Gaza in the hopes of finding something for their families to eat. When the convoy passed through an Israeli checkpoint on Al Rashid Street, the main north-south route designated by the Israeli military for humanitarian...
After CPAP Recall, Philips Must Institute New Safeguards in Agreement With U.S. Justice Department (www.propublica.org)
These are the most challenged library books in America — yes, most are LGBTQ+ (www.advocate.com)
The Influential Conservative Group Making it Harder for Idaho Districts to Fix Their Schools (www.propublica.org)
One state’s big plan to fix the high cost of college (www.vox.com)
The Latest | Netanyahu vows to carry out Rafah invasion, which US says would be a mistake (apnews.com)
“It will happen. There is a date,” Netanyahu said in a video statement Monday, without elaborating....
Migrant Farmworker who survived mass shooting at Northern California mushroom farm sues company and owner (apnews.com)
Pedro Romero Perez, 24, was in the shipping container that served as his and his brother’s home at California Terra Gardens in Half Moon Bay when authorities say Chunli Zhao barged in and opened fire, killing his brother Jose Romero Perez and shooting him five times, including once in the face....
NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women's sports. NCAA vows to ensure 'fair competition' (apnews.com)
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country....
Landmark ruling: Switzerland’s climate policy violates human rights (www.swissinfo.ch)
In a much-anticipated ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has decided that Swiss authorities are responsible for not implementing efficient climate change policies[…]...
Arrests Expose Rift Between N.Y.P.D. and ‘Violence Interrupters’ (www.nytimes.com)
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On Fox News, the eclipse is—somehow—about migrants at the border (www.motherjones.com)
Chicago Officials Confirm Tuberculosis Cases At Migrant Shelters (borderlessmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/tuberculosis-chicago-migrants-s…
Eclipse-watchers: looking at 99.9% totality is unsafe! (web.archive.org)
Safety tips:...
Raleigh cops call release of body camera footage "dangerous" (when they raided the wrong family). (indyweek.com)
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
US wildfires are getting bigger and more complex, prompting changes in firefighting workforce (apnews.com)
Just in the first three months of the year, more than 2,669 square miles (6,912 square kilometers) were charred in the United States. That’s more than half of last year’s total, and forecasters are predicting elevated risk of fires over the coming months in the Great Lakes region, parts of the Midwest, Southwest and in...
Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say (apnews.com)
For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said....