Fani Willis: Defiant Georgia prosecutor fights to stay on Trump case (www.bbc.com)
Body of missing Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making arrest recovered: Officials (abcnews.go.com)
The body of a deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered, authorities said Thursday night....
Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck (www.cnn.com)
Federal judge blocks Houston from citing Food Not Bombs volunteers (www.chron.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/houston-food-not-bombs-18669182…
Greece legalises same-sex marriage (www.bbc.com)
Congrats to everyone affected in Greece!
A $36 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at a Florida grocery store. No one claimed it (www.cnn.com)
A missed deadline last weekend means someone in Florida lost out on $36 million....
US Justice Department sues over Tennessee law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work (apnews.com)
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the state of Tennessee over its decades-old felony aggravated prostitution law, arguing that it illegally imposes tougher criminal penalties on people who are HIV positive....
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress....
Putin critic Alexei Navalny, 47, dies in Arctic Circle jail (www.bbc.com)
Well, this was only a matter of time but still happened sooner than I’d expected.
Woman formerly known as Rachel Dolezal fired from teaching gig over OnlyFans account (www.nbcnews.com)
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
Venezuela bribery witness gets light sentence in wake of Biden's pardoning of Maduro ally (apnews.com)
Orlando Contreras had been working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2019 to investigate corruption in the South American nation....
Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says (apnews.com)
The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday....
Russia Using Thousands of Musk’s Starlink Systems in War, Ukrainian General Says (www.wsj.com)
“Ukraine’s top military-intelligence officer said Russian invasion forces in his country are using thousands of Starlink satellite internet terminals, and that the network has been active in occupied parts of Ukraine for ‘quite a long time,'” the Wall Street Journal reports....
White House confirms monitoring of ‘troubling’ Russian anti-satellite weapon (www.theguardian.com)
Officials say ‘space-based’ weapon under development but not yet deployed is not immediate threat to anyone’s safety...
Newly-released Tyre Nichols documents show police and city officials lied about or misstated numerous key facts (news.yahoo.com)
The internal investigator who initially investigated the beating spoke with now former Lt. Dewayne Smith, who seemed to be at the hospital, the night Nichols was beaten. According to the internal investigative report, at 11:49 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2023, Smith told the investigator that Nichols was in intensive care, on a ventilator...
Delay on 2nd Day of Testimony as Defense Seeks to Oust D.A. (www.nytimes.com)
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to have Fani T. Willis disqualified, accusing her of a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
Maine police defend search for gunman who killed 18 last fall, saying they feared an ambush (apnews.com)
Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush....
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf (wamu.org)
The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging can be repurposed, and local governments use taxpayer money to gather and process the material. Yet from the early days of...
Shooting after Chiefs Super Bowl parade seemed to stem from dispute among several people, police say (apnews.com)
NYU Contract Faculty Poised to Vote on Unionization (truthout.org)
Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny is dead -prison service (www.reuters.com)
Former FBI informant charged with lying about Biden business (www.washingtonpost.com)
Special counsel David Weiss — who has previously filed criminal charges against President Biden’s son Hunter — announced new charges Thursday against a former FBI informant who officials say lied about the Bidens’ business dealings....
Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage (apnews.com)
Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church....
Chun Ki-won: Hero pastor jailed for sexually abusing North Korea teenage escapees (www.bbc.com)
Hailed as "Asia's Schindler" for helping North Koreans flee, he has been jailed for sexual abuse.
