The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close (www.nytimes.com)
The company that owns the Merrimack and Schiller stations in New Hampshire plans to turn them into solar farms and battery storage for offshore wind....
'Undated' Pa. mail ballots don't count, appeals court rules (whyy.org)
The technical mandate caused thousands of votes to be declared invalid in the 2022 election....
New York Times rows back claims of 7 Oct. sexual assault (www.newarab.com)
The New York Times issued an update on Monday to the December article: “Newly released video viewed by The Times showed the bodies of two teenage girls in Kibbutz Be’eri fully clothed, undercutting this account from an Israeli military paramedic who recovered bodies in multiple locations after the Oct. 7 attack”....
A majority of Americans now oppose Israel's war on Gaza (www.newarab.com)
A Gallup poll released on Wednesday found that 55 percent of Americans now oppose the war, a ten percent increase since the last survey was conducted by the pollsters in November....
Hunter Biden’s bid to dismiss tax case meets judge’s skepticism - POLITICO (www.politico.com)
Trump's Truth Social Is Worth $10 Billion. Here's Why (www.forbes.com)
Also another take....
Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed (www.theguardian.com)
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library (www.nytimes.com)
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections....
This chart shows how bad Maine’s indigent defense system has gotten (www.bangordailynews.com)
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New Guam report finds judicial influence over indigent defense (6ac.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/DIw4S
Why was 2023 such a deadly year in Los Angeles County jails? It depends on whom you ask (www.latimes.com)
Though the number of people in the county’s lockups is roughly a third less today than what it was a decade ago, the number of fatalities has risen so much that the annual death rate has more than doubled in that time frame. Suicides are slightly down after a sharp spike in 2021, but natural deaths are up, killings are up, and...
Disgraced Chicago cops still on the streets and in the courtrooms - Hundreds of officers have documented histories of dishonesty and misconduct. Many continue to make arrests. (chicagoreader.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/police-misconduct-brady/
Federal lawsuit: North Carolina State Parole Commission mistreated applicants sentenced to life as juveniles (ncnewsline.com)
In 2019, Joy Smith, a part-time case analyst with the North Carolina Parole Commission, passed along allegations to her colleagues that Brett Abrams had locked his brother in a camper and set it on fire in 1982, killing the young boy....
4 dead, 7 injured in stabbing rampage in Illinois residential area, authorities say (www.cnn.com)
Four people were found dead and seven others were injured in a stabbing rampage across multiple areas in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon, police say, and a suspect is in custody....
Children's author Kouri Richins hit with new charges alleging earlier attempt to kill her husband (apnews.com)
A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day....
Baltimore bridge collapse: two bodies recovered from water, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities say bodies of Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera found by divers in pickup truck...
US maritime union sounds alarm over global shipping standards (www.theguardian.com)
Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levels...
Supreme Court's taking an influx of cases from one circuit (www.newsweek.com)
The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in more than 50 cases this term, and the plurality of them have come from the nation’s most conservative appeals court: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit....
Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfill its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it....
Central American and Mexican families mourn the workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse (apnews.com)
The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work, according to his family....
Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions (www.cbsnews.com)
Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun....
Exclusive: China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators (www.reuters.com)
U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec had transferred U.S. intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources....
Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday....
Biden admin has no plans to change how it treats Haitian migrants despite anger from advocates (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, could become the first nation in Southeast Asia to do so (apnews.com)
