Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support (www.theguardian.com)
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree (www.wired.com)
For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California....
The US economy added 353,000 jobs in January, starting off 2024 with a bang | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Greta Thunberg: Case thrown because of 'no evidence' (www.bbc.com)
Small town residents unite to fight a common enemy: A huge monkey farm (www.msn.com)
Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, a rural outpost 20 miles north of the Florida Panhandle, recently approved a startup’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation. At its capacity, the $396 million complex would hold up to 30,000 monkeys – double the city’s human population.
CNN Poll: Public views of the economy are on the rise, but remain dim (www.cnn.com)
The public’s long-held pessimism about the economy shows signs of easing since last year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But even with the uptick, many Americans’ views of the economy – and the nation as a whole – remain bleak....
Senator faces backlash for asking TikTok CEO [Singaporean] if he’s a secret Chinese communist (www.independent.co.uk)
‘Happy to provide additional basic facts to you or your staff that I learned in elementary school. Ask anytime,’ California Democrat tells Tom Cotton...
Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel invests in controversial doped Olympics (www.independent.co.uk)
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing....
A year on, a small Ohio town is recovering from a fiery train derailment but health fears persist (apnews.com)
Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears are always there....
US auto safety agency upgrades probe into Tesla power steering loss (news.yahoo.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators have upgraded their probe into Tesla vehicles over power steering loss to an engineering analysis - a required step before the agency could demand a potential recall....
His criminal appeal was supposed to be his ticket out of prison. Then, Texas courts lost it. (houstonlanding.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/his-criminal-appeal-was-suppose…
Why the Department of Justice wouldn't let go of Charles Lynch’s 16-year old marijuana case (www.latimes.com)
The article honestly doesn’t answer the headline like at all, but the story of the federal government hounding this guy for over a decade for a bullshit weed case is wild...
Israel To Pursue Genocide Case Against Iran At ICJ (www.iranintl.com)
‘A recipe for violence’: Election officials on edge for ruling from Georgia judge (www.politico.com)
Five years ago, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg won plaudits from U.S. election officials for forcing Georgia to ditch its electronic voting machines because they were too susceptible to hacks....
Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions (www.typeinvestigations.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/louisiana-judges-financial-ince…
Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch (www.cnn.com)
Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch....
Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources (abcnews.go.com)
The FBI missed the rooms in their search for classified documents, said sources....
Pig Brain Kept Alive for Five Hours While Separated from the Body (www.syfy.com)
Black man was holding sandwiches and keys when an Ohio deputy fatally shot him, prosecutor says (www.nbcnews.com)
The gun the deputy said Casey Goodson Jr. was waving when he was shot in the back multiple times was found in the man's kitchen with the safety on, the prosecutor shared publicly for the first time.
Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll (www.theguardian.com)
Fifth of men aged 16-29 look favourably on social media influencer Andrew Tate