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Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can't keep up ( apnews.com )
Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading. ( www.propublica.org )
Last June, Pfizer, the lone U.S. manufacturer of the injections, notified the Food and Drug Administration of an “impending stock out” that it anticipated would last a year. The company blamed “an increase in syphilis infection rates as well as competitive shortages.”...
Opinions of the Court - 2023 ( www.supremecourt.gov )
This case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency....
Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems, further stressing shrinking US cities ( apnews.com )
For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose. Until it became impossible to ignore....
EU fines Apple €1.8bn for breaking streaming rules ( www.bbc.com )
The penalty is for preventing Spotify and other music streaming services from informing users of payment options outside the Apple app store....
Israel carries out biggest Ramallah raid in years, witnesses say ( www.reuters.com )
Israeli forces swept into the Palestinians' administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old in a refugee camp during their biggest raid into the city in years, Palestinian sources said on Monday....
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images ( www.bbc.com )
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president....
US says Israel has agreed to the framework for a Gaza cease-fire. Hamas must now decide ( apnews.com )
International mediators have been working for weeks to broker a deal to pause the fighting before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins around March 10. A deal would likely allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinians in northern Gaza who aid officials worry are under threat of famine....
US says Israel has agreed to the framework for a Gaza cease-fire. Hamas must now decide ( apnews.com )
International mediators have been working for weeks to broker a deal to pause the fighting before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins around March 10. A deal would likely allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinians in northern Gaza who aid officials worry are under threat of famine....
Joe Biden’s disapproval rating reaches new high, according to new poll ( www.theguardian.com )
The survey found that just one in four voters (24%) think the country is moving in the right direction – a key question in the run-up to a national election – and more than twice as many voters said that Biden’s policies had personally hurt them than those who said they had helped....
Orchard expansion in Canada's wine country stirs fears a key wildlife corridor will be harmed ( apnews.com )
New cherry varieties and climate change in British Columbia’s interior have enabled the fruit to grow at higher than usual elevations. Soon, this grassland terrain surrounded by mountains of ponderosa pine will be full of rows of cherry trees along a sloping hill above this city of about 145,000....
With trash bins now required in NYC, only the rats are sorry to see the garbage piles go ( apnews.com )
NYC finally joins the 21st century....
Pornhub operator broke federal privacy law, federal watchdog finds ( www.cbc.ca )
The federal privacy watchdog says the operator behind Pornhub and other pornographic sites broke the law by enabling intimate images to be shared on its websites without direct knowledge or consent....
Israel Gaza: Checking Israel's claim to have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters ( www.bbc.com )
The toll of at least 30,035 killed, from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, has previously been described as trustworthy by the World Health Organization's (WHO) regional emergency director Richard Brennan....
New Brunswick hopes modular 'Lego' block construction will help tackle housing crisis ( www.cbc.ca )
People searching for a home in New Brunswick could soon move into a place built in a warehouse and quickly assembled on-site like giant building blocks....
Out-of-control wildfires scorch Texas Panhandle, prompt shutdown of nuclear weapons facility ( apnews.com )
A series of wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blazes....
Dollarama reaches $2.5M settlement in class-action suit over pricing ( www.cbc.ca )
Dollarama customers who purchased a products subject to an eco fee — such as batteries, electronics, light bulbs or toys with batteries — may be eligible to claim a gift card....
Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life? ( apnews.com )
In response to criticism, now 98% of Olympic housing will be within the homes of locals, with athletes accommodated on a cruise ship anchored nearby. The size of the judging tower has been scaled back and new infrastructure plans are being drawn up to minimize the need for new construction....
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead ( www.independent.co.uk )
Vanderbilt guarantees full-tuition scholarships to all students with family incomes below $150,000 ( vanderbilthustler.com )
Alexei Navalny was killed ‘by punch to the heart’ ( www.thetimes.co.uk )
First federal gender-based hate crime trial starts in South Carolina over trans woman's killing ( apnews.com )
The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York....
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests ( www.reuters.com )
Britain's National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit's own website to release internal data about the...
Alexei Navalny's body 'in morgue' as inmate describes 'mysterious commotion' - Russian news outlet ( news.sky.com )
According to a Russian news outlet, Alexei Navalny's body is now in a morgue, but no post-mortem examination has yet been performed. The same media organisation also cites an inmate who described a "mysterious commotion" on the night before his death was announced.
Stalled US aid for Ukraine underscores GOP's shift away from confronting Russia ( apnews.com )
At about 2 a.m. last Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin....
John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court ( www.theguardian.com )
Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire....
Palestinian diplomat accuses Israel of apartheid and asks UN court to declare its occupation illegal ( apnews.com )
The Palestinian foreign minister on Monday accused Israel of apartheid and urged the United Nations’ top court to declare that Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state is illegal and must end immediately and unconditionally for any hope for a two-state future to survive....
Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns ( apnews.com )
The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....
Israel vows to 'finish the job' in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah ( apnews.com )
The U.S., Israel’s top ally, said it instead hopes to broker a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution on the war sparked by the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Hamas’ demands “delusional.”...
Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class ( www.theguardian.com )
Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack...
Netanyahu dismisses election calls as thousands protest in Tel Aviv ( ca.news.yahoo.com )
Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in opinion polls since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that sparked the devastating war in Gaza....
'Anywhere there's a camera, now there's a risk': Billions of users at risk of Peeping Toms — scientists devise incredibly simple eavesdropping system costing only a few hundred dollars ( www.techradar.com )
The method, known as EM Eye, can even capture images through walls, raising huge concerns about the potential for misuse....
Many believe the founders wanted a Christian America. Some want the government to declare one now ( apnews.com )
The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments....
US envoy says Israel has not presented evidence that Hamas diverted U.N. aid deliveries in Gaza ( apnews.com )
With the departure of police escorts following Israeli strikes, criminal gangs are increasingly targeting the convoys, said David Satterfield, the Biden administration’s special Middle East envoy for humanitarian issues. He said the lawlessness as well as regular Israeli protests at crossing points by those opposed to aid...
Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe's ( apnews.com )
Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s in disputes about workers’ rights and organizing....