Investigators identify source of deepfake robocalls simulating Biden's voice before NH primary (www.wcvb.com)
On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 60 Minutes: The US is on an unsustainable economic path (youtu.be)
Trump Denied Immunity in DC Election Case by Appeals Court (www.bloomberg.com)
Trump’s fraud trial rattled by witness’s possible perjury deal (www.theguardian.com)
A potential perjury deal with a key witness could shake up the verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m New York fraud trial, a new court document reveals....
Everyone talks about investing in Ukraine, but few are doing it (kyivindependent.com)
Despite its economy steadily improving from the first months of the full-scale invasion, very little foreign capital is currently trickling down to Ukraine’s private and public sectors....
US labor official says Dartmouth basketball players are school employees, sets stage for union vote (apnews.com)
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes....
Illinois man gets 5 years for trying to burn down planned abortion clinic (apnews.com)
A 73-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic and trying to set the building on fire last year....
Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm (www.theguardian.com)
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas....
Los Angeles records 475 mudslides during historic storm that has drenched Southern California (apnews.com)
The storm continued to pose new hazards, with the National Weather Service issuing a rare tornado warning for San Diego County. The warning was cancelled shortly after it was issued, with forecasters explaining that the storm no longer appeared capable of producing a twister even if it briefly turned some San Diego streets into...
Israel tells families of 31 hostages their relatives are dead as Hamas mulls truce deal (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of Palestinian prisoners for the...
South Dakota has apologized and must pay $300K to transgender advocates (apnews.com)
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary.
China's chances of overtaking US economy "declining" (www.newsweek.com)
The possibility that China will overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy is declining as the country faces an obvious slowdown, according to Cornell professor and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Eswar Prasad....
Summer Has Long Stressed Electric Grids. Now Winter Does, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
Electric utilities, which designed their system to meet peak demand in sizzling weather, are straining to keep up during the cold....
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office (www.kpbs.org)
The path to Tennessee politics for Allie Phillips began last year in her doctor’s office. She was 19 weeks pregnant when she got the devastating news about her unborn daughter: only two of the four chambers in her heart were formed....
Angry Chinese take to US Embassy’s social media account to vent about plunging stock market (www.cnn.com)
Tens of thousands of people in China are flocking to an unusual venue to vent their outrage about the continuing meltdown in the country’s stock market....
North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine (apnews.com)
Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign....
Biden Threatens to Veto Bill That Would Help Israel but Not Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border....
Pod of orcas trapped in drift ice off Japanese coast (www.youtube.com)
Footage aired by the Japanese broadcaster NHK shows a pod of orcas, also known as killer whales, apparently trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido. At least 10 were seen poking out of a small gap in the surface and struggling for air.
SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS (fortune.com)
Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space....
Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump (apnews.com)
It took months before the first mention of Section 3 in a public document. Free Speech For People, a Massachusetts-based liberal nonprofit, sent letters to top election officials in all 50 states in June 2021, warning them not to place Trump on the ballot should he run again in 2024 because he had violated the provision....
Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement (apnews.com)
The 6-year-old Lovely watched as her mother, Brittney Gilliam, was led to a patrol car in handcuffs after she shouted in frustration at the police, who mistakenly believed the car she was driving was stolen....
WeWork’s Co-Founder Is Trying to Buy the Company (www.nytimes.com)
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