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Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: 'What happens when no one believes anything anymore?' ( apnews.com )
Claims of “evidence” soon emerged: video footage on TikTok showing a beam of blinding white light, too straight to be lightning, zapping a residential neighborhood and sending flames and smoke into the sky. The video was shared many millions of times, amplified by neo-Nazis, anti-government radicals and supporters of the...
Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick? ( apnews.com )
Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a national database....
Injured, hungry and alone - the Gazan children orphaned by war ( www.bbc.com )
In the chaos caused by the ongoing fighting and with entire families almost wiped out, medics and rescuers often struggle to find carers for bereaved children....
'Don't sit on it,' warns woman whose husband died of strep A ( www.cbc.ca )
Kim Wetmore is urging people to go to the hospital or get a test if you've got symptoms of strep A. She doesn't want people to have to go through the same pain she is going through now....
Police Say They Won’t Reopen Case of Alaska Woman Found Dead on Mayor’s Property ( www.propublica.org )
Kirk, 25, died May 23, 2018, at a home owned by then-Mayor Clement Richards Sr. According to police reports, the Alaska medical examiner’s office initially told a city police investigator that “signs of strangulation” had been found on Kirk’s body. The man who said he found her body — Anthony Richards, one of the...
U.S. Charges Iranian Man and Two Canadians in Plot to Kill Refugees ( www.nytimes.com )
so fluffy ( slrpnk.net )
E Jean Carroll to spend $83m defamation award on 'something Donald Trump hates' ( www.bbc.com )
Ms Carroll, 80, told ABC News on Monday: "I'd like to give the money to something Donald Trump hates....
Michigan’s Top Arab Elected Leader Says White House Never Reached Out About Gaza ( www.huffpost.com )
Figure skater Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US ( apnews.com )
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games....
OneFour: How drill music trailblazers have divided Australia ( www.bbc.co.uk )
It's here that Australia's most successful hip-hop act is finalising their new single....
In an RV outside a B.C. Walmart, a senior dreams of housing ( www.cbc.ca )
Keith Light, 77, says he spent New Year's Eve trying to get the engine of his recreational vehicle — outside a Walmart in East Vancouver — running to stay warm, while trying to imagine better times ahead....
Michigan case offers an example of how public trust suffers when police officers lie ( apnews.com )
Brian Chaney says he asked for a supervisor during his arrest in Keego Harbor, Michigan, and Police Officer Richard Lindquist told him that another officer present was in charge. The problem: That second officer was not a supervisor or even a member of the Keego Harbor Police Department....
Slower wage growth needed for euro zone rate cuts, ECB's Knot says ( www.reuters.com )
The European Central Bank (ECB) will need to see proof of slowing wage growth in the euro zone before interest rates can be lowered, ECB governing council member Klaas Knot said on Sunday....
GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations ( slate.com )
This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War....
How Taiwan beat back disinformation and preserved the integrity of its election ( apnews.com )
Taiwan has been able to effectively respond to Chinese disinformation in part because of how seriously the threat is perceived there, according to Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident fellow and expert on Chinese disinformation at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Instead of a piecemeal approach — focusing...
George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI ( apnews.com )
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday asks that a judge order the podcast outlet, Dudesy, to immediately take down the audio special, “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” in which a synthesis of Carlin, who died in 2008, delivers commentary on current events....
An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin ( apnews.com )
Boris Nadezhdin has become a dilemma for the Kremlin as he seeks to run in the March 17 presidential election. The question now is whether Russian authorities will allow him on the ballot....
Tesla recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles because software glitch can cause backup camera to go dark ( apnews.com )
The recall covers certain Models Y, S and X from the 2023 model year. All are equipped with “Full Self-Driving” computer 4.0 and run software version 2023.44.30 through 2023.44.30.6 or 2023.44.100....
A new global gender divide is emerging ( www.ft.com )
Man accused of smuggling migrant family who froze to death at border found living outside Toronto ( www.cbc.ca )
A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the United States has been found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found....
Man accused of smuggling migrant family who froze to death at border found living outside Toronto ( www.cbc.ca )
A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the United States has been found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found....
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone ( www.nytimes.com )
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump wrote messages on Twitter warning that increased reliance on mail-in ballots would lead to a “rigged election,” the platform ran a corrective, debunking his claims....
Vince McMahon Accused of Sex Trafficking by WWE Staffer He Paid to Keep Quiet ( www.wsj.com )
More concerning than the nanoplastics in water bottles are the chemicals on them ( www.latimes.com )
They are used to give plastic products their distinctive durability, bendability and sleek, nonstick surface....
A 13-year-old used a ‘Help Me!’ sign to escape after being abducted. A Texas man has now pleaded guilty to kidnapping ( www.cnn.com )
A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said....
California, Illinois and NYC succeeded in getting 2020 census numbers double-checked and increased ( www.kpbs.org )
Illinois is adding tens of thousands of people to its population total, and California is getting misplaced sailors on an aircraft carrier put in the right location after successfully asking for a review of their 2020 census figures....
Panama Hits Activists With Terrorism Charges Over Successful Anti-Mining Protests. ( truthout.org )
Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years ( arstechnica.com )
Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced and incarcerated founder of the infamous blood-testing startup Theranos—is barred from participating in federal health programs for nine decades, according to an announcement from the health department Friday....
Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest ( abcnews.go.com )
Outrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’ ( www.theguardian.com )
NY midwife who gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines fined $300K for falsifying records ( apnews.com )
A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week....
DOJ report on Uvalde shooting cites 'cascading failures' ( abcnews.go.com )
Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously estimated, study finds ( www.cbsnews.com )
Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than scientists previously estimated, according to a study released Wednesday in the journal Nature, with the loss believed to be 20% worse than previously reported....
Frustrations between Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu mount ( www.nbcnews.com )
Biden administration officials are laying the groundwork with other Israeli leaders in anticipation of a post-Netanyahu government....
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Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content ( www.nbcnews.com )
Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.
Police chief fired after twice asking captain’s wife for nude photos on Snapchat ( nypost.com )
Supreme Court conservatives signal willingness to roll back the power of federal agencies ( www.cnn.com )
The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority spent several hours Wednesday attacking a longstanding legal doctrine that gives federal agencies wide latitude to create policies and regulations in various areas of life....
EU bans ‘misleading’ environmental claims that rely on offsetting ( www.theguardian.com )
On Wednesday, members of the European parliament [MEPs] voted to outlaw the use of terms such as “environmentally friendly”, “natural”, “biodegradable”, “climate neutral” or “eco” without evidence, while introducing a total ban on using carbon offsetting schemes to substantiate the claims.
‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news ( www.theguardian.com )