Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants another chance | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues (www.washingtonpost.com)
Non-paywall link...
How Ohio Republicans ignore voters – and the governor – in power grab to pass laws (www.theguardian.com)
State’s Republicans used gerrymandering to push restrictions on trans healthcare and strict voter identification laws...
Melissa Barrera Incites More Controversy With New Social Media Posts, Sparking Heated Debate at WME (variety.com)
Melissa Barrera is under fire over new social media posts, prompting her reps at WME and Sugar23 to explore dropping the actress as a client.
U.S. launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to Jordan drone attack (www.nbcnews.com)
Judge Scraps Trial Date for Trump Election Subversion Case (www.nytimes.com)
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election issued an order on Friday scrapping the March 4 trial date for the case....
Middle East Crisis: U.S. Conducts Retaliatory Strikes in Iraq and Syria Against Iranian Proxies (www.nytimes.com)
The United States on Friday carried out a series of military strikes against Iran-backed militants in half a dozen sites in Iraq and Syria, according to a U.S. Defense Department official, marking a sharp escalation of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration has for four months sought to avoid....
DECEASED KC CHIEFS FANS Early Toxicology Indicates COCAINE & FENTANYL IN SYSTEMS (www.tmz.com)
Other (more questionable) sources (cough - Daily Mail, NY Post - cough) are reporting 3x the fatal dose of Fentanyl.
CARL WEATHERS, ROCKY AND MANDLORIAN STAR, HAS PASSED AWAY AT 76 (nerdist.com)
Carl Weathers has had a storied career in Hollywood, spanning 50 years. The actor known for a number of impactful roles, from Apollo Creed in Rocky to Greef Karga in The Mandalorian, has passed away at the age of 76....
Carl Weathers dies at 76 (www.yahoo.com)
‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances (www.theguardian.com)
Patients, advocates and researchers welcome regulations but argue rules don’t go nearly far enough to tackle scale of problem...
EPA proposes some ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support (www.theguardian.com)
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree (www.wired.com)
For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California....
The US economy added 353,000 jobs in January, starting off 2024 with a bang | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Greta Thunberg: Case thrown because of 'no evidence' (www.bbc.com)
Small town residents unite to fight a common enemy: A huge monkey farm (www.msn.com)
Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, a rural outpost 20 miles north of the Florida Panhandle, recently approved a startup’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation. At its capacity, the $396 million complex would hold up to 30,000 monkeys – double the city’s human population.
CNN Poll: Public views of the economy are on the rise, but remain dim (www.cnn.com)
The public’s long-held pessimism about the economy shows signs of easing since last year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But even with the uptick, many Americans’ views of the economy – and the nation as a whole – remain bleak....
Senator faces backlash for asking TikTok CEO [Singaporean] if he’s a secret Chinese communist (www.independent.co.uk)
‘Happy to provide additional basic facts to you or your staff that I learned in elementary school. Ask anytime,’ California Democrat tells Tom Cotton...
Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel invests in controversial doped Olympics (www.independent.co.uk)
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing....
A year on, a small Ohio town is recovering from a fiery train derailment but health fears persist (apnews.com)
Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears are always there....
US auto safety agency upgrades probe into Tesla power steering loss (news.yahoo.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators have upgraded their probe into Tesla vehicles over power steering loss to an engineering analysis - a required step before the agency could demand a potential recall....
His criminal appeal was supposed to be his ticket out of prison. Then, Texas courts lost it. (houstonlanding.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/his-criminal-appeal-was-suppose…
Why the Department of Justice wouldn't let go of Charles Lynch’s 16-year old marijuana case (www.latimes.com)
The article honestly doesn’t answer the headline like at all, but the story of the federal government hounding this guy for over a decade for a bullshit weed case is wild...
