Lead Poisoning: A Global Health Crisis That's Worse Than We Thought, According to a New Study (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
Antioch and Pittsburg police officers arrested by FBI (www.kron4.com)
A sweeping investigation began in early 2022 as a narrow probe into officers who allegedly cheated on college tests to obtain salary raises. FBI agents dug into the cheating scandal and opened a “Pandora’s Box” of unethical and criminal behavior among officers, a source told KRON4.
Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars (apnews.com)
The case now before him in America’s biggest red state does not surround abortion, which has been banned in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. But Planned Parenthood argues the attempt to recoup at least $17 million in Medicaid payments for health services, including cancer screenings, is a...
Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank (yle.fi)
Archived version: archive.ph/aadYc...
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
Ford recalls 870K F-150 pickups in US because parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly (apnews.com)
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years (www.bbc.com)
A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.
Trump Civil Fraud Trial: Trump Lawyers Attack Law Clerk, Overshadowing Eric Trump’s Testimony (www.nytimes.com)
Since NYT paywalls everything, here’s the article:...
Two Missouri men accused of assaulting officers during riot at U.S. Capitol charged (abcnews.go.com)
Two Missouri men accused of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot, including pushing bike racks that were being used as barricades into a police line, have been charged...
Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse (www.wired.com)
X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it’s not fit for that purpose.
Israel-Hamas war: At least 260 bodies found after attack on Israeli music festival, rescuers say (news.sky.com)
Those killed at the Supernova festival near Re’im in southern Israel are among hundreds dead across the country so far. A further 1,590 Israelis have been injured after Hamas launched its attack in the early hours of Saturday....
Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds dead in fighting, retaliation (apnews.com)
Hamas militants fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday, killing dozens and stunning the country. Israel said it is now at war with Hamas and launched airstrikes in Gaza, vowing to...
"We have the technology, but we’re not going to save your kid because we can’t make any money on you’? Really?" (www.nature.com)
The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of 'buts' & 'ifs' over the meaning of 'and' (apnews.com)
It’s hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.”...
Alligator killed by Florida authorities after human body found in jaws (thehill.com)
A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths, disappearances (apnews.com)
Yolanda Fraser is back near a ragged chain-link fence, blinking through tears as she tidies up flowers and ribbons and a pinwheel twirls in the breeze at a makeshift roadside memorial in a small Montana town....
Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) picked an unusual foil during a Judiciary Committee hearing last week about the historic rise in challenges to school books....
Nursing Homes Must Boost Staffing Under First-Ever National Standards (www.wsj.com)
Nursing homes will have to maintain minimum staffing levels under a Biden administration proposal despite furious lobbying from the industry, which says it will be too onerous amid a continuing labor shortage....
Women Say Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Are Rife in Group for Realtors (www.nytimes.com)
One woman said the man put his hands down his pants in front of her. Another woman said the same man texted her a picture of his crotch. A third woman said she had a consensual relationship with the man, only to have him retaliate after it ended....
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft (www.propublica.org)
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million
Abortion bans are fueling a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals (www.npr.org)
Illinois hospitals are seeing a surge of out-of-state patients who need abortion care at a hospital due to medical complications. But hospital-based abortions are more costly and harder to arrange.
Man charged in assault of Asian American woman, 88, had prior hate crime charges dropped in plea deal (www.nbcnews.com)
James Lee Ramsey, 27, allegedly kicked the woman to the ground in San Francisco two years after being charged with a hate crime in an assault on an Oakland Chinatown leader.
US State Department orders departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti (www.cnn.com)
The US State Department on Thursday ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti as the security situation in the country deteriorates.