Alec Baldwin indicted for involuntary manslaughter in fatal gunfire on film set (www.theguardian.com)
Grand jury in New Mexico charged the actor for a shooting on Rust set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins...
President Biden Signs Stopgap Bill, Averts Government Shutdown (businesswisehub.com)
President Biden took a decisive action on Friday, signing a stopgap funding bill aimed at ensuring the government’s continued operation until early March. This two-step continuing resolution is strategically designed to buy lawmakers additional time to complete the formal appropriations process.
World Famous 'The Abbey West Hollywood' site of over 70 drugged drinks, report says (qvoicenews.com)
More than 50 dead, 66 million under winter weather alerts as Arctic cold blankets the nation (www.nbcnews.com)
Temperatures Friday night and early Saturday in traditional hot spots such as Shreveport, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Birmingham, Alabama; and Atlanta are set to dip into the low 20s or teens....
US attorney general calls for ‘speedy’ trial in Trump election interference case (www.independent.co.uk)
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said he agrees with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a speedy trial in Donald Trump’s federal election interference case – citing an increased public interest ahead of the 2024 election....
Fire truck boom highlights divide in US manufacturing (www.reuters.com)
Anyone looking around Oshkosh’s cavernous fire truck factory in Appleton, Wisconsin, for evidence of the longest U.S. manufacturing slump in two decades could be forgiven for coming away scratching their heads....
Boeing 747 makes emergency landing in Florida after ‘engine malfunction’ (www.theguardian.com)
A Boeing cargo airliner made an emergency landing in Florida on Thursday night after what its operator called “an engine malfunction” occurred shortly after takeoff, in the latest setback for the beleaguered company. A gaping hole where a paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on...
In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by the hospital (www.npr.org)
Biden's new rule could save Americans billions on bank fees (creditnews.com)
Biden says he is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 Americans (www.cbsnews.com)
President Biden announced Friday that his administration is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 borrowers, marking the latest round of debt cancellation since the Supreme Court voided the president’s student loan forgiveness program....
Schools close in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh as new blast of snow hits Northeast (abcnews.go.com)
More than 100 million Americans are under winter alerts Friday as a storm hits the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and another brutal surge of Arctic air pushes into the South.
McConnell and 178 other Republican lawmakers sign Supreme Court brief on keeping Trump on ballot (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/mcconnell-trump-supreme-court-c…
Sources: Alabama death row left without heat for weeks, despite complaints (www.alreporter.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/death-row-allegedly-left-withou…
Maine’s court-appointed lawyers are ‘saturated’ with criminal, parental caseloads (www.pressherald.com)
When Maine raised the reimbursement rate for defense attorneys taking court-appointed cases to $150 an hour, the state had a record low number of lawyers available to represent poor Mainers....
Names of police who use deadly force could be shielded under proposed Florida law (www.tampabay.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/police-marsys-law-victims-name-…
What happens now that Massachusetts has banned life without parole for emerging adults? (www.wgbh.org)
Prison advocates, attorneys and state officials are gearing up to help the estimated 200 prisoners now eligible for parole since a landmark decision last week by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court raised the minimum age to 21 before people could be sentenced to life without parole....
Coroner's office that buried men without telling families releases a policy that leaves questions unanswered (www.nbcnews.com)
A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated, making it impossible to know whether the guidance was in effect while the office was handling the botched cases....
Frenchman handed jail sentence after wife finds him sexually assaulting a chicken (www.thelocal.fr)
A Frenchman has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence after he was caught red-handed and no doubt red-faced by his wife as he sexually assaulted one of his chickens.
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Uvalde families renew demands for police to face charges after a scathing Justice Department report (apnews.com)
Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history....
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit...
Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions (www.cnn.com)
A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies working with Texas, court documents...
Peregrine, aiming to be first private lunar lander, burns up in Earth's atmosphere (www.nbcnews.com)
An early malfunction left the Peregrine lander with no way to reach the moon....
Mexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans (apnews.com)
Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023....
Man cleared in a 1996 Brooklyn killing said for decades he knew who did it. Prosecutors now agree (apnews.com)
A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades....
