8-year-old boy, pregnant mom held at gunpoint by California police over mistaken identity (abc7.com)
An 8-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were pulled over at gunpoint by multiple Sacramento police officers on their way to football practice.
U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates (www.cbsnews.com)
Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)
Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings (www.dsogaming.com)
Israeli girl, 12, seen in viral ‘Harry Potter’ photo found dead with grandma in Gaza (nypost.com)
The 12-year-old Israeli girl whose “Harry Potter”-inspired photo went viral after she was kidnapped by Hamas has been found dead alongside her grandmother in Gaza.
US House lawmaker receives death threats after voting against Jordan for speaker (www.reuters.com)
Miller-Meeks, a Republican who represents a politically competitive district in Iowa, voted for Jordan the first time but switched to vote for Representative Kay Granger, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday afternoon....
le fuk (slrpnk.net)
France mobilises 7,000 troops and goes on high alert after school stabbings and mosque knife arrest (www.euronews.com)
France is mobilising 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to “emergency attack” level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalisation....
Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen (www.washingtonpost.com)
The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source – foreshadowing a new information battleground...
Drew Barrymore’s 3 co-head writers aren’t returning, even after WGA strike lifts (www.nbcnews.com)
Even though the writers strike that crippled talk shows has lifted, the three co-head writers for Drew Barrymore’s daytime show have declined to return, sources close to the production said....
Firefox rolls out ECH enabled by default in 118 (blog.mozilla.org)
ECH (encrypted client hello) is going or get enabled by default (already existed in a hidden setting) with version 118....
Newsmax Host Rails Against ‘Lizard People,’ Asks Viewers ‘You Think I’m Crazy?’ (www.mediaite.com)
Ukrainian parents invited to ‘collect their children’ from Russia - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov invited Ukrainian parents to "collect their children" taken from Ukraine amid the ongoing war.
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community (www.phoronix.com)
Legalize it (lemmy.zip)
Global inflation fears as oil price rises towards $100 a barrel (www.theguardian.com)
X agrees to negotiate with laid-off employees after 2,000 arbitration demands (arstechnica.com)
X agrees to negotiate with laid-off employees after 2,000 arbitration demands::“Twitter wants to mediate with us… to settle all claims,” lawyer’s memo says.
French state schools turn away dozens of girls wearing Muslim abaya dress (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russia is demanding Norway pay up to $4.4 million in compensation after 42 Norwegian reindeer wandered across the border (www.businessinsider.com)
US approves first-ever military aid to Taiwan through program typically used for sovereign nations (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday....
Missouri Republican seeks exceptions to near-total abortion ban, including for rape and incest cases (apnews.com)
A Missouri Republican on Wednesday proposed constitutional amendments that would allow exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities....
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane (www.bbc.co.uk)
UPDATED – Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed in western Russia killing all on board, according to the country’s aviation authority...
X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes' (twitter.com)
Iraq bans the media from using the term ‘homosexuality’. (www.livemint.com)
Iraq’s official media regulator has directed all media and social media companies operating not to use the term “homosexuality". The Arab stated told to replace the word ‘homosexuality’ with ‘sexual deviance’, Reuters’ report mentioned.
Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say (apnews.com)
The charges follow an investigation by The Associated Press linking some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Law enforcement officers are seldom charged for crimes committed on the job, and it is rarer still for them to plead guilty.
