Boeing to face ‘enormous’ scrutiny after mishaps: Buttigieg (www.seattletimes.com)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Federal Aviation Administration will rigorously assess Boeing after the blowout of a fuselage section on an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
WA expanding health care options for undocumented immigrants (www.seattletimes.com)
By the close of Washington’s legislative session last week, state lawmakers had added more funding to help reduce health care insurance costs for undocumented immigrants, as the state also prepares to expand Apple Health, its free or low-cost health insurance, to the same population in July....
Walmart Bought a Finance App and Reduced Fraud Protections. Guess What Happened Next? (www.propublica.org)
One Finance was plagued by fraud and customer dissatisfaction after a Walmart-controlled partnership acquired it in 2022. As Walmart began touting One to employees and others, the “neobank” — as such ultraconvenient, lightly regulated apps are called — weakened user security and outsourced customer support. Con artists...
Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis (apnews.com)
On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns....
At least 50 hurt as LATAM's Boeing 787 to Auckland "just dropped" mid-flight (www.reuters.com)
At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, according to the airline and a New Zealand health service organisation that treated the injured....
Biden struggles to engage Black voters in Georgia after winning there in 2020 (www.reuters.com)
Much has changed since Wanda Mosley helped galvanize thousands of Black voters across the battleground state of Georgia to help clinch the 2020 general election for U.S. President Joe Biden....
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to jail on March 19 (abcnews.go.com)
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to jail in Miami on March 19 to begin his four-month sentence after he defied a subpoena from the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol....
A third of Bumble's Texas workforce moved after state passed restrictive 'Heartbeat Act' abortion bill | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW...
How Fraudsters Break Into Social Security Accounts and Steal Benefits (www.nytimes.com)
Thousands of people receiving Social Security benefits have had their money diverted into criminal accounts. Here’s what to know....
Judge tosses challenge of Arizona programs that teach non-English speaking students (apnews.com)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Arizona’s schools chief that challenged programs that some school districts use to teach non-English speaking students....
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...
Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says...
Princess of Wales: Kate admits editing Mother's Day photo recalled by agencies (www.bbc.com)
The Princess of Wales has apologised “for any confusion” her Mother’s Day photograph caused, after five agencies retracted it over editing concerns. Catherine, in a statement posted on Kensington Palace social media, said: “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.”
GOP lawmakers resist calls to tweak abortion bans. Some say they'll clarify the laws' few exceptions (apnews.com)
In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need....
US airlifts embassy staff out of Haiti as gangs besiege political area (www.theguardian.com)
Haiti’s gangs began an offensive to topple the government on 29 February, storming and ransacking police stations, prisons and hospitals and laying siege to strategic locations, including the port and airport....
Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)
Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism...
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
Americans Don’t Care as Much About Work. And It Isn’t Just Gen Z. (www.wsj.com)
Blame it largely on the pandemic, which weakened the hold the workplace held on people’s psyches...
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Medical debt in US associated with worse physical and mental health, premature death: Study (abcnews.go.com)
As health care costs continue to rise nationwide, affording medical care remains a significant and enduring challenge for millions of Americans. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, health care spending reached $4.5 trillion in 2022 – roughly $13,5000 per person. Of that, out-of-pocket spending...
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Protest at Oscars over Israel's war in Gaza snarl traffic outside Academy Awards (abc7.com)
Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated (www.businessinsider.com)
The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse all released kill notifications to media outlets over the photo — released by Kensington Palace on Sunday — announcing that they would no longer be distributing the image....
The downwinders: New Mexicans sickened by atomic bomb testing fight for compensation (www.theguardian.com)
New film First We Bombed New Mexico sheds light on effects of Oppenheimer’s nuclear project and locals’ battle for justice...