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Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose' (www.bbc.com)
US Army Colonel Estee Pinchasin looks out at the thousands of tonnes of twisted, broken steel and concrete jutting out from the dark waters of Maryland’s Patapsco river, and delivers her assessment: an “unforgiving mangled mess”....
Animal control services in Atlanta suspended as city and county officials snipe over contract (apnews.com)
The dogcatcher may not be coming when Atlanta residents call....
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again (apnews.com)
The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' son accused of sex assault in lawsuit that also names music mogul as defendant (www.nbcnews.com)
A woman alleges she was attacked while working on a yacht in late 2022....
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information (apnews.com)
The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest....
Three Indigenous American tribes to get funding to manage ocean and coasts (www.theguardian.com)
Communities in Washington, California and Maine will receive $755,000 under the Infrastructure Act to build climate resilience...
US air force finds contractor who walked into propeller had become disorientated (www.theguardian.com)
Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California...
California fast-food workers’ minimum wage win stirs up old economic debate (www.theguardian.com)
Business groups claim hard-fought $20 hourly wage victory will cause reduced hours, layoffs and price hikes – critics say otherwise...
Trump’s legal delaying tactics dealt a blow as he lashes out at judge’s family (www.theguardian.com)
New York hush-money trial still on course for 15 April start but ruling in classified documents case has prosecutors concerned...
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
Scientology tried to 'derail' star's rape trial by harassing prosecutor, suit says; church calls claim 'false' (www.latimes.com)
Nearly six months after actor Danny Masterson was convicted of sexually assaulting two fellow members of the Church of Scientology, lawyers for his victims filed a document that contained a stunning new allegation against the faith....
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation (www.wsj.com)
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm (www.theguardian.com)
About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...
DOJ takes action after Mississippi coroner buried men without families’ knowledge (www.nbcnews.com)
This article is part of “Lost Rites,” a https://www.nbcnews.com/lost-rites on America’s failed death notification system....
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....
Worker dead, 3 injured after part of crane falls on Fort Lauderdale bridge (www.cbsnews.com)
A worker fell to his death and three others were injured Thursday afternoon after part of a crane fell on a Fort Lauderdale bridge....
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
Border Patrol must care for migrant children who wait in camps for processing, a judge says (www.pbs.org)
Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency’s custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled....
Chinese signatures on graduation certificates upset northern Virginia police chief (apnews.com)
A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates....
Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight (apnews.com)
Alaska Airlines says Boeing has paid the carrier $160 million in “initial compensation” for a panel that blew out of an Alaska Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in January....
South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’ (www.theguardian.com)
To put it mildly, the South Carolina state government faces an unusual problem: what to do about $1.8bn found in a state bank account when no one knows how it got there, how it should be spent or even whether it really exists....
Who put up Trump's bond? A subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators (www.nbcnews.com)
Don Hankey made a fortune building a subprime auto loan empire. Along the way, his companies racked up consumer complaints, regulatory fines and were sued by the DOJ....
100,000 live salmon spilled off a truck. Most landed in a creek and lived. (www.nytimes.com)
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said....
California sheriff’s deputies kill 17-year-old boy with mental health issues (www.theguardian.com)
Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by San Bernardino law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a month...
US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Lending to meat, dairy and feed corporations led to ‘significant proportion’ of banks’ emissions, Friends of the Earth found...
In Mexico, a mayoral candidate is murdered on her first day of campaigning (www.nbcnews.com)
Mayoral candidate Gisela Gaytán had requested security protection from authorities and had not received a response....
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says (www.theguardian.com)
The same year, 2022, company replaced plastic sleeves in EU with paper and cardboard, and cut plastic packaging globally by 11.6%...
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions (www.wired.com)
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more women have been crossing the border to Mexico for abortion medications and procedures....
Judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity (apnews.com)
A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial. Several more are pending....
In one of L.A.'s largest cash heists, burglars steal as much as $30 million. Mystery surrounds case (www.latimes.com)
In one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history, thieves made off with as much as $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a San Fernando Valley money storage facility, an L.A. police official revealed Wednesday....
Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison (apnews.com)
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison....
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged (www.bbc.com)
A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors....
Florida's manatees are addicted to power plants. Scientists are weaning them off (www.bbc.com)
Pollution drove Florida’s manatees from warm springs to power plants. As the state switches to renewable energy, their new manmade homes are disappearing....
‘They are breaking the law’: inside Amazon’s bid to stall a union drive (www.theguardian.com)
Retailer doing ‘whatever it takes’ to halt organizing at warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, workers say, as Amazon faces unfair labor practice charges...
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors...
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (apnews.com)
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina...
San Francisco named healthiest city in US (thehill.com)
Story at a glance...
Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software....
J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
Owner of Dali ship seeks to limit liability in Baltimore bridge collapse (www.cbsnews.com)
The Singaporean company that owns the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week took steps Monday to limit its liability for the accident....
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)
The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
Jon Stewart takes aim at his former Apple bosses on ‘The Daily Show’ (www.vanityfair.com)
This week, Jon Stewart devoted his edition of https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/jon-stewart-is-returning-as-host-of-the-daily-show-with-a-catch to tackling a topic that he claims his former bosses at Apple barred him from exploring. “I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” the late-night host...
Renting will be cheaper than buying for years, especially as home prices keep setting new all-time highs (fortune.com)
More bad news for anyone who wants to ever own a home: Home prices just went up again. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 6% in January, data released today shows; that’s up from a 5.6% increase in the previous month, setting the fastest annual gain since 2022. “On a seasonal adjusted basis,...
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