Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male students’ natural hair (www.cnn.com)
Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
US intelligence: ‘low confidence’ in part of Israel’s UNRWA claims (www.theguardian.com)
A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible but that the claims of wider links to militant groups could not be independently verified… According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence report,...
Yale to resume requiring standardized test scores for applicants (www.nbcnews.com)
The Ivy League university said testing can “highlight an applicant’s areas of academic strength” and can help add diversity in the classroom....
Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.forbes.com)
How U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy (foreignpolicy.com)
West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools....
AT&T wireless service is down for many people nationwide (www.theverge.com)
Thai Police Round Up Myanmar Citizens Fleeing Conscription (www.irrawaddy.com)
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method (apnews.com)
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method....
Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog (www.theguardian.com)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer has the evidence’ that animal – 31 years and five months old when it died – was as old as claimed...
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector....
People Keep Dying At This Memphis Jail — And The Lawsuits Are Piling Up (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/shelby-county-memphis-jail-deat…
No Questions, Multiple Denials: This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/this-mississippi-court-appoints…
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judge-again-dismisses-charges-a…
St. Louis Police Chief Receives a Third of His Pay From a Local Foundation, Raising Concerns of Divided Loyalties (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/st-louis-robert-tracy-police-ch…
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/0wgc5
Israel and Hamas truce talks reach ‘critical phase’ | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
Hezbollah lights up Israeli border sites with several attacks (thecradle.co)
Leaked hacking files show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike (www.pbs.org)
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners....
Hezbollah commander trains Russian drone operators in Syria for deployment against Ukraine (news.yahoo.com)
Tennessee governor signs bill allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages (thehill.com)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ® signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages....
China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank. (www.businessinsider.com)
China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says....
Trump asks judge to delay enforcing the $355 million civil fraud decision for one month (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the civil fraud case to delay enforcing the $355 million judgment against him for one month....
