Netanyahu seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in Gaza in new postwar plan (apnews.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants women to stop tempting Christian men (www.newsweek.com)
San Jose bakery loses thousands of dollars after Tesla reportedly cancels large order (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Two days after taking a job for Tesla, owner of The Giving Pies got a simple text message canceling the order...
US Announces 500 New Sanctions Against Russia Following Alexei Navalny’s Death (www.forbes.com)
Cops and gun owners could get immunity from most wrongful death lawsuits under proposed Louisiana legislation (lailluminator.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/cops-and-gun-owners-could-get-i…
Four members of the Arkansas supreme court are trying to jump to different seats on the bench, a situation that could empower the conservative governor by granting her more appointments. (boltsmag.org)
Voters are filling two supreme court seats in two separate nonpartisan elections. Neither seat’s current occupant is seeking a new term, so at first glance it may look like the cycle will add two fresh faces to the court. But of the six candidates running for these two seats, four are already sitting justices on the...
Tennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouses (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/fayette-janitorial-hired-minors…
Federal prison employees falsified logs in case where inmate committed suicide, IG says (www.govexec.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/20240223125717/…/394345/
Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist's show (www.mediamatters.org)
Chief Justice Tom Parker’s recent concurring opinion in a case granting rights to embryos drew criticism for invoking religious language...
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men (www.nytimes.com)
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more....
US man accused of making $1.8m from listening in on wife’s remote work calls (www.theguardian.com)
US regulators have accused a man of making $1.8m (£1.4m) by trading on confidential information he overheard while his wife was on a remote call, in a case that could fuel arguments against working from home....
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...
Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Vast reforestation a major reason for ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled...
Woman suing Texas over its abortion ban plans to move her embryos out of state (www.nbcnews.com)
Amanda Zurawski told NBC News exclusively that she finds the prospect of Texas restricting in vitro fertilization “absolutely terrifying.”...
Oklahoma Schools Are Fighting Back Against Porn-Obsessed Superintendent (www.rollingstone.com)
Edmond Public Schools has petitioned the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over efforts to ban two national bestselling books...
Nova partygoer was misidentified as Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, killed by Israeli forces (www.haaretz.com)
Ofek Atun escaped the outdoor Nova rave with his girlfriend. They survived the assault on the bomb shelter in which they took refuge, before fleeing to nearby Kibbutz Alumim. The kibbutz’s volunteer security squad mistook them for Hamas terrorists – and opened fire
You aren’t imagining things — drivers are more distracted by their phones than ever (www.vox.com)
During the pandemic, distracted driving increased, and it hasn’t gone down since....
NY AG Urges Stricter Asthma Drug Warnings Due to Children’s Mental Health Risks (www.nytimes.com)
The New York attorney general on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration to “take immediate action” and renew alerts to doctors and patients about the dangerous effects of Singulair for children, saying that the current warnings about the drug’s psychiatric side effects were not sufficient....
Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years (www.seattletimes.com)
Denver police are asking for the public’s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman’s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people....
Informant who allegedly lied about the Bidens is rearrested (www.washingtonpost.com)
The FBI informant charged with telling lies about President Biden and his son Hunter was rearrested Thursday in Las Vegas, apparently out of concern he might flee — just days after a federal magistrate decided he could be released on bond....
Trump's lawyers call for dismissal of classified documents case, citing presidential immunity (www.seattletimes.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed multiple motions Thursday night urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents, claiming in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S....
WA lawmakers advance bill making it a felony to threaten election workers (www.seattletimes.com)
The Washington state Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to make harassing election workers a felony, three months after four county election offices received envelopes containing suspicious powder — including three testing positive for fentanyl — and had to be evacuated.
China demands the US stop any official contact with Taiwan following a congressional visit (apnews.com)
China is responding sternly to a U.S. congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan, demanding the U.S. stop any official contact with the self-governing island.
Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 (www.space.com)
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year (www.thedailybeast.com)
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