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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.
The Pentagon will install rooftop solar panels as Biden pushes clean energy in federal buildings ( abcnews.go.com )
The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration's plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”...
‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Giving us oxygen’: Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health system ( www.theguardian.com )
Almost 500 Cuban health workers deployed across Calabria amid severe shortage of doctors...
Class-action against Google Photos resurrected by B.C. Court of Appeal ( www.cbc.ca )
The B.C. Court of Appeal has resurrected a man's attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Google for allegedly breaching user privacy by using facial recognition technology to collect and store biometric data.
A little fish at the Supreme Court could take a big bite out of regulatory power ( apnews.com )
Business and conservative interest groups that want to limit the power of federal regulators think they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into their holds by the millions....
Shell to sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but activists want pollution cleaned up first ( apnews.com )
Shell said Tuesday it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its exposure in the West African nation amid long-running complaints of environmental pollution caused by the oil industry....
Putin says Ukraine's statehood at risk if pattern of war continues ( www.reuters.com )
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine's statehood could suffer an "irreparable blow" if the pattern of the war continued, and Russia would never be forced to abandon the gains it had made....
The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years, anti-poverty group Oxfam says ( apnews.com )
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds ( www.reuters.com )
About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....