Top billionaire GOP megadonor had big stake in company in Trump’s Truth Social deal: report (www.salon.com)
Linda Bean, L.L. Bean Heiress and Big-Time Trump Donor, Dies at 82 (www.thedailybeast.com)
Man arrested after allegedly taking leg of pedestrian after train incident in Wasco: KCSO (bakersfieldnow.com)
Feds raid Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ properties in Los Angeles, Miami (www.nbclosangeles.com)
Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
As living organisms, bacteria are encoded by DNA, and DNA occasionally mutates. Sometimes genetic mutations render a bacterium immune to an antibiotic’s chemical tactics. The few cells that might escape antibiotic pressure then have a sudden advantage: with their counterparts wiped out, resources abound, and the remaining...
Detective wore wig and posed as victim to catch US scammer who stole gold bars (www.theguardian.com)
Texas Maternal Mortality Task Force Hasn’t Counted Abortion Death Cases for 10 Years (www.austinchronicle.com)
While the committee receives information about almost every death during or 12 months after a pregnancy in Texas – including pregnancy-unrelated deaths like those of pregnant women in certain car crashes – cases involving deaths from self-managed abortions have not come before the task force....
Girl grabs deputy’s gun in sheriff’s Industry station and shoots herself, authorities say (www.sgvtribune.com)
Judge throws out Elon Musk's X lawsuit against nonprofit (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump bond lowered to $175 million as he appeals civil fraud judgment in New York (www.cnn.com)
A New York appeals court has given Donald Trump 10 more days to post his bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him and cut the amount necessary to $175 million....
Trump's Stormy Daniels hush money trial to start on April 15, judge rules (www.reuters.com)
NBC’s McDaniel mess threatens to explode (www.politico.com)
Appeals Court Bails Trump Out of Having to Post Massive Fraud Bond (www.rollingstone.com)
Donald Trump was supposed to have to post a $464 million bond by Monday or else the state of New York could begin collecting on the massive civil fraud judgment leveled against him earlier this year. An appeals court bailed him out, blocking collection of the judgment and giving the former president 10 days to post a drastically...
Seeds of dissent: Agricultural manufacturers and farmers clash over “right to repair” equipment (www.salon.com)
UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire (www.bbc.com)
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave: Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom. (www.nytimes.com)
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. For a one-night stay, he paid $200.57....
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl (kffhealthnews.org)
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of ongoing safety problems (www.cnn.com)
In major shakeup of Boeing’s leadership, CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year. The company’s chairman and head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving....
White House looks to repeal funding bill provision that would keep US embassies from flying Pride flags (abcnews.go.com)
The White House on Sunday slammed Congressional Republicans for including a provision in the government funding bill that essentially stops LGBTQ+ Pride flags from being flown over U.S. embassies and vowed to repeal it....
Storm threatens snow in the Midwest, thunder in the South. Other parts of the US dig out (apnews.com)
A major spring storm threatened parts of the central U.S. on Monday with heavy snow in its northern reaches and thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the South....
White House looks to repeal funding bill provision that would keep US embassies from flying Pride flags (ground.news)
The measure permits only certain flags to be flown over US embassies, including the US flag, US Foreign Service flag, POW/MIA flag, Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag, flag of a state, “insular area” or DC, Indian tribal government flag, the official branded flag of a US agency, and the sovereign flag of another nation.
The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections (www.theguardian.com)
Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the case...
Hong Kong official warns online criticism could breach new national security law (www.theguardian.com)
The Article 23 legislation includes penalties for five categories of crime including treason, insurrection, espionage, sabotage and external interference...
Paris Olympics lifts intimacy ban for athletes and is stocking up on 300,000 condoms (www.cbsnews.com)
The intimacy ban that had been in place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the Olympic village, where the athletes stay during the event, will be stocked with 300,000 condoms, Laurent Michaud, director of the village, told Sky News....