NYU Contract Faculty Poised to Vote on Unionization (truthout.org)
Alexei Navalny appears healthy in video-link court hearing on day before his death – video (www.theguardian.com)
Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck (www.cnn.com)
Greece legalises same-sex marriage (www.bbc.com)
Congrats to everyone affected in Greece!
Trump fraud trial ruling expected today as Fani Willis misconduct hearing resumes (www.theguardian.com)
Trump faces a potential $370m fine and a lifetime ban on doing real estate in New York; Trump Georgia prosecutor won’t take stand again after fiery first day
Delay on 2nd Day of Testimony as Defense Seeks to Oust D.A. (www.nytimes.com)
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to have Fani T. Willis disqualified, accusing her of a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
Putin critic Alexei Navalny, 47, dies in Arctic Circle jail (www.bbc.com)
Well, this was only a matter of time but still happened sooner than I’d expected.
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
Federal judge blocks Houston from citing Food Not Bombs volunteers (www.chron.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/houston-food-not-bombs-18669182…
Newly-released Tyre Nichols documents show police and city officials lied about or misstated numerous key facts (news.yahoo.com)
The internal investigator who initially investigated the beating spoke with now former Lt. Dewayne Smith, who seemed to be at the hospital, the night Nichols was beaten. According to the internal investigative report, at 11:49 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2023, Smith told the investigator that Nichols was in intensive care, on a ventilator...
Bureau of Prisons failed to prevent nearly 200 deaths by suicide, DOJ watchdog finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/bureau-prisons-failed-prevent-n…
Russia's prison service says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died (apnews.com)
Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny is dead -prison service (www.reuters.com)
A California man was found with 1 million rounds of ammo and 248 illegally owned guns in his house, state authorities say (www.businessinsider.com)
California authorities found a man illegally owning 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo....
A $36 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at a Florida grocery store. No one claimed it (www.cnn.com)
A missed deadline last weekend means someone in Florida lost out on $36 million....
Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison (www.theguardian.com)
Utah official censured for falsely suggesting teenage girl is transgender (www.nbcnews.com)
Utah Board of Education member Natalie Cline will be stripped of her committee assignments and prohibited from attending some board meetings....
Why Israel's war on UNRWA is so sinister (thecradle.co)
Tel Aviv’s goal of dismantling the UN agency in the name of security is a strategic move aimed not only at depriving Palestinian refugees of lifesaving assistance, but completely eradicating the notion that they will one day return to the lands they were expelled from.
Body of missing Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making arrest recovered: Officials (abcnews.go.com)
The body of a deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered, authorities said Thursday night....
Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover (www.sciencealert.com)
Some form of brain injury could be behind the symptoms reported by those with long COVID, according to a new study, and adapting tests and treatments to match could aid progress in tackling the condition....
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf (wamu.org)
The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging can be repurposed, and local governments use taxpayer money to gather and process the material. Yet from the early days of...
A loophole got him a free New York hotel stay for five years. Then he claimed to own the building (apnews.com)
For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law....
Maine police defend search for gunman who killed 18 last fall, saying they feared an ambush (apnews.com)
Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush....
Billionaire Soros to Become Biggest Stockholder in US Radio Company (www.bloomberg.com)
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Egypt setting up area at Gaza border which could be used to shelter Palestinians, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Egypt is preparing an area at the Gaza border which could accommodate Palestinians in case an Israeli offensive into Rafah prompts an exodus across the frontier, four sources said, in what they described as a contingency move by Cairo....
