Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video) (www.space.com)
ABC News: Ukraine could face 'catastrophic' arms shortage within weeks, US officials say (kyivindependent.com)
Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)
Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....
Israeli ground offensive in Rafah ‘aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable’ (www.france24.com)
Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to “completely destroy” Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now host to half of Gaza’s...
Two Alabama clinics pauses IVF services after court rules that embryos are children (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT (www.cnbc.com)
Social media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.”...
Planned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to find 1849 abortion law unconstitutional (www.pbs.org)
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. It’s the second legal challenge to the statute since the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Roe v. Wade....
Charges against alleged white supremacists are tossed by a California judge for the second time (apnews.com)
For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted....
Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male students’ natural hair (www.cnn.com)
Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
US intelligence: ‘low confidence’ in part of Israel’s UNRWA claims (www.theguardian.com)
A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible but that the claims of wider links to militant groups could not be independently verified… According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence report,...
Yale to resume requiring standardized test scores for applicants (www.nbcnews.com)
The Ivy League university said testing can “highlight an applicant’s areas of academic strength” and can help add diversity in the classroom....
Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.forbes.com)
How U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy (foreignpolicy.com)
West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools....
AT&T wireless service is down for many people nationwide (www.theverge.com)
Thai Police Round Up Myanmar Citizens Fleeing Conscription (www.irrawaddy.com)
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method (apnews.com)
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method....
Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges (www.theguardian.com)
Death of Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, from India, ignited outrage after fellow officer was recorded making ‘appalling’ remarks about case...
Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog (www.theguardian.com)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer has the evidence’ that animal – 31 years and five months old when it died – was as old as claimed...
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector....
People Keep Dying At This Memphis Jail — And The Lawsuits Are Piling Up (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/shelby-county-memphis-jail-deat…
No Questions, Multiple Denials: This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/this-mississippi-court-appoints…
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judge-again-dismisses-charges-a…