Elderly Oklahoma Man Dies After Igniting Himself On Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice (www.news9.com)
Biden Will Try Again to Wipe Out Student Loan Debt for Millions of Borrowers (www.nytimes.com)
US economy adds 303,000 jobs, unemployment falls to 3.8% in March as labor market continues to impress (finance.yahoo.com)
Trump’s Lawyers Told the Court That No One Would Give Him a Bond. Then He Got a Lifeline, but They Didn’t Tell the Judges. (www.propublica.org)
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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Israeli military fires two senior officers as report finds strike on aid workers was in ‘violation of commands’ (www.cnn.com)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...
Scientology tried to 'derail' star's rape trial by harassing prosecutor, suit says; church calls claim 'false' (www.latimes.com)
Nearly six months after actor Danny Masterson was convicted of sexually assaulting two fellow members of the Church of Scientology, lawyers for his victims filed a document that contained a stunning new allegation against the faith....
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.
Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake Strikes New York Metro Area and East Coast (www.nbcnews.com)
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Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast (apnews.com)
The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia....
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.
Israel sacks two officers after finding grave errors in strike on aid workers (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded....
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation (www.wsj.com)
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm (www.theguardian.com)
About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...
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....
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
Man Utd great Ferdinand is taken aback by Ten Hag’s selection of the championship favorites versus Chelsea… (sporttoday.co.uk)
Mother’s Custody In Danger After Officer Shot 11-Year-Old Son (www.mississippifreepress.org)
A Sunflower County, Miss., woman could lose custody rights to her children nearly a year after an Indianola police officer shot her then-11-year-old son, Aderrien Murry, in the chest at the family’s home in May 2023. In court filings, Sunflower County Prosecuting Attorney Gwendolyn Jimison cited the shooting while accusing...
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....
