Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit (www.independent.co.uk)
US surgeons have transplanted a pig kidney into a patient (apnews.com)
Doctors in Boston announced Thursday they have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient....
‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond (www.independent.co.uk)
Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House...
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows (www.bbc.com)
Shipping tycoon Angela Chao was drunk when she inadvertently reversed her Tesla into a pond and drowned last month at a Texas ranch, police say....
Incarcerated people in New Jersey still waiting on pay raises promised over a year ago (newjerseymonitor.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/incarcerated-people-still-waiti…
Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land. (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judges-luxury-travel-corpus-lin…
Chasing Clicks in the Jungle: Right-Wing Influencers Descend on the Darién Gap (www.nytimes.com)
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Cleveland Promised Oversight of Police Cameras. But the Work Remains Undone. (www.themarshallproject.org)
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Escaped white supremacist inmate and accomplice still at large after Idaho hospital ambush (apnews.com)
Authorities are searching for a white supremacist Idaho prison inmate and an accomplice who fled after the accomplice shot and wounded corrections officers as they were transporting the inmate from a Boise hospital, according to police....
Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility...
Why is US energy demand soaring – putting climate goals at risk? (www.theguardian.com)
New industries such as cryptocurrency and cannabis are boosting industry forecasts, straining efforts to cut emissions...
Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry (thehill.com)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressured Republicans to name the specific crime they are accusing President Biden of as they proceed with their impeachment inquiry....
Georgia executes death row inmate Willie Pye for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough (www.cnn.com)
The state of Georgia on Wednesday executed death row inmate Willie Pye, who was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough....
Mississippi torture: Ex-police officer sentenced to 40 years (www.bbc.com)
A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for torturing two black men in a house....
Justice Department to sue Apple for antitrust violations as soon as Thursday (www.seattletimes.com)
The Justice Department is poised to sue Apple as soon as Thursday, accusing the world’s second most valuable tech company of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features of its iPhone....
Vernor Vinge 1944-2024 (file770.com)
He passed on March 20. One of the greatest “hard” science fiction writers, author of True Names, A Fire Upon The Deep, and other cyberspace classics. Link is to his death notice in the old school fanzine File 770. Moment of silence please. RIP.
'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits (fortune.com)
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The doctors … warn that pledges of increased aid to Palestinians under bombardment are largely meaningless without an immediate ceasefire to allow safe distribution of food and the revival of healthcare services.
More alleged victims accuse former FBI agent of ‘revenge porn’ (www.kjrh.com)
2 more former Mississippi 'Goon Squad' deputies sentenced in torture of 2 Black men (www.npr.org)
1 of 17 bus companies sued by NYC agrees to temporarily stop transporting migrants, Mayor Adams says (www.cbsnews.com)
One of 17 charter bus companies that Mayor Eric Adams sued for transporting busloads of asylum seekers to New York City has agreed to stop, for now....
Legal spending by Trump group accelerated in February -disclosures (www.reuters.com)
A fundraising group run by Donald Trump, who is facing four criminal trials as he seeks the U.S. presidency, stepped up spending on legal fees last month, further draining money from efforts to return him to the White House, financial disclosures showed on Wednesday....
Alabama governor signs law banning diversity programs in schools (www.reuters.com)
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against what she and other Republicans call a leftward tilt in U.S. education....
Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share, sources say (www.cnbc.com)
