Rebellious Russians Stage Daring Attacks From Ukraine on Russian Soil (www.nytimes.com)
Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (apnews.com)
As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago....
No evidence from Israel to back UNRWA accusations, says EU humanitarian chief (www.reuters.com)
The European Union’s top humanitarian aid official said on Thursday he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which should continue playing a “critical” role in Gaza.
Sophisticated ‘burglary tourists’ fly from South America to rob wealthy homes (www.latimes.com)
Idaho is becoming an OBGYN desert, threatening the lives of mothers and infants (www.salon.com)
A man is suing three women for wrongful death, alleging they helped his now ex-wife end her pregnancy...
COVID backlash could leave the U.S. less ready for the next pandemic (www.axios.com)
"Shame must change sides": a Belgian model warns about deepnudes (www.euronews.com)
Julia, 21, has received fake nude photos of herself generated by artificial intelligence. The phenomenon is exploding....
'Influencer fatigue' is real and young people are getting tired of it (www.yahoo.com)
Although the spectacle of influencers flaunting their affluence has long been a staple of social media, there are signs that audiences are growing tired of it. Experts say “influencer fatigue” is wearing on young people who crave authenticity as inflation rises and achieving a stable livelihood becomes increasingly...
Fatal shooting of autistic teen raises concerns about police response to people with mental health issues (www.latimes.com)
Ryan Gainer, a teen with autism, was a cross-country runner who worked out his frustrations with six-mile runs and dreamed of becoming an engineer....
Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges (apnews.com)
A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a...
James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)
Increase in pro-Palestine content pushed US to ban TikTok: WSJ report (maktoobmedia.com)
Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip: UNICEF (www.unicef.org)
31 per cent - or 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age – in the Northern Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition, a staggering escalation from 15.6 per cent in January....
“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them (www.propublica.org)
Colorado man died from pet Gila monster's venomous bite, autopsy shows (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed....
Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market (www.propublica.org)
A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian regime....
Alabama Republicans target transgender Space Camp employee (www.nbcnews.com)
Republican Rep. Dale Strong called for Space Camp to remove a transgender employee after a viral social media post called the person a “freak.”...
'Others also affected by religiophobia': India abstains on vote in UNGA on Islamophobia (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highway (kffhealthnews.org)
Aside from a few discarded hypodermic needles on the ground, the Hunter’s Field Playground in New Orleans looks almost untouched. It’s been open more than nine years, but the brightly painted red and yellow slides and monkey bars are still sleek and shiny, and the padded rubber tiles feel springy underfoot....
‘Democracy is teetering’: at ground zero for Trump’s big lie in Arizona (www.theguardian.com)
The state Republican party is undaunted by electoral defeats for those claiming voting is rigged – and election officials are bearing the brunt of their fury...
US marriages back to pre-pandemic levels while divorce rate falls (www.theguardian.com)
2022 saw nearly 2.1m marriages, up slightly from 2019 – but still far below their height in 1946...
Teen gets 40 years in prison for Denver house fire that killed 5 from Senegal (apnews.com)
One of three teenagers charged with starting a Denver house fire that killed five people — apparently out of revenge for a stolen cellphone that was mistakenly traced to the home — was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison....
Authorities seize ailing alligator kept illegally in New York home's swimming pool (apnews.com)
An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said....
Trump’s hush money trial delayed until April after new dump of potential evidence (www.independent.co.uk)
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had supported the delay...
