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”...
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....
Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight (apnews.com)
Alaska Airlines says Boeing has paid the carrier $160 million in “initial compensation” for a panel that blew out of an Alaska Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in January....
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....
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....
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....
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)
Five Takeaways From the WSJ Swing-State Poll (www.wsj.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13897979...
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....
Meet the women of La Resistencia fighting to end detention and deportation in Washington (www.hcn.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/meet-the-women-fighting-to-end-…
How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/mississippi-voting-rights-histo…
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…
Tampa police chief Lee Bercaw would ‘retire’ — and still earn a $241,000 salary as chief (www.tampabay.com)
The city has drafted an agreement that would allow Lee Bercaw, a 28-year veteran with the force, to[retire and then] immediately be hired back by the city as a contractor to continue serving as chief after he retires in September....
Five Years Ago, the United States Department of Justice Declared Alabama Prisons Unconstitutional, Unsafe, and Harmful. They Still Are. (alabamaappleseed.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/five-years-ago-the-united-state…
Trump said he spoke to murder victim Ruby Garcia’s family. Her sister said it never happened. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/trump-ruby-garcia-michigan-murd…
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...
US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Lending to meat, dairy and feed corporations led to ‘significant proportion’ of banks’ emissions, Friends of the Earth found...
In Mexico, a mayoral candidate is murdered on her first day of campaigning (www.nbcnews.com)
Mayoral candidate Gisela Gaytán had requested security protection from authorities and had not received a response....
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says (www.theguardian.com)
The same year, 2022, company replaced plastic sleeves in EU with paper and cardboard, and cut plastic packaging globally by 11.6%...
‘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....
Judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity (apnews.com)
A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial. Several more are pending....
Greenlandic women sue Danish state for contraceptive ‘violation’ (www.theguardian.com)
José Andrés Says Israel Targeted World Central Kitchen Workers 'Systematically' (www.rollingstone.com)
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that the seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed by an Israeli strike while delivering aid Gaza earlier this week were targeted “systematically, car by car.”...
California schools forced to compete with fast food industry for workers after minimum wage hike (apnews.com)
Bodies of 6 aid workers killed in Israeli strike transported from Gaza as fallout grows (abcnews.go.com)
