Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....
McDonald’s buys all of its Israeli franchise restaurants amid damage from Middle East turmoil | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
McDonald’s will buy every one of its 225 franchise restaurants in Israel, it announced Thursday, just weeks after saying that the Israel-Hamas war was hurting its business....
Trump Official Jeffrey Clark Broke Ethics Rules, DC Bar Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)
In the sanctions portion of the proceeding, disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox III pointed to the seriousness of aggravating factors in Clark’s violations....
Forecasters issue highest Atlantic hurricane season outlook in nearly 30 years (www.local10.com)
US border patrol is responsible for safety of children in migrant camps, judge says (www.theguardian.com)
“This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require,” Neha Desai, senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law, said in a statement.
Donald Trump's $175m bond rejection raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump’s problematic $175 million bond to cover his New York civil fraud appeal has raised questions about what exactly led to the rejection of his insurer’s paperwork, says a legal analyst....
Who put up Trump's bond? A subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators (www.nbcnews.com)
Don Hankey made a fortune building a subprime auto loan empire. Along the way, his companies racked up consumer complaints, regulatory fines and were sued by the DOJ....
South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’ (www.theguardian.com)
To put it mildly, the South Carolina state government faces an unusual problem: what to do about $1.8bn found in a state bank account when no one knows how it got there, how it should be spent or even whether it really exists....
Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely. (www.businessinsider.com)
Judge Cannon rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
From Cannon’s “ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT TRUMP’S MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT”...
A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug (www.salon.com)
Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza’s Infrastructure (www.worldbank.org)
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 – The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union. That is equivalent to 97% of the combined GDP of the West Bank and Gaza in 2022.
Chinese signatures on graduation certificates upset northern Virginia police chief (apnews.com)
A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates....
Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
In an interview with Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza at GDC in late March, where a new suite of AI-powered creation tools was demoed, I asked about the reputation Roblox hac gained and the notion that it was exploitative of young developers, since it takes a cut from work sometimes produced by children....
World Central Kitchen aid worker's family calls for an independent probe into the deadly attack (www.nbcnews.com)
DOJ takes action after Mississippi coroner buried men without families’ knowledge (www.nbcnews.com)
This article is part of “Lost Rites,” a https://www.nbcnews.com/lost-rites on America’s failed death notification system....
Some Texas Prisoners Allowed Only Four Hours of Sleep a Night, Lawsuit Says (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/criminal-justice-prison-sleep-t…
100,000 live salmon spilled off a truck. Most landed in a creek and lived. (www.nytimes.com)
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said....
California sheriff’s deputies kill 17-year-old boy with mental health issues (www.theguardian.com)
Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by San Bernardino law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a month...
For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ (theconversation.com)
Man Utd great Ferdinand is taken aback by Ten Hag’s selection of the championship favorites versus Chelsea… (sporttoday.co.uk)
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions (www.wired.com)
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more women have been crossing the border to Mexico for abortion medications and procedures....
