From Jenna Orkin Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps Here are 11 states with guaranteed basic-income programs that give residents hundreds of dollars a month, no strings attached Why AI might make it harder to pull off a 4-day workweek UK Public Majority Does Not Back Rwanda Plan As Ukraine runs low on ammo, civilians build troops DIY drones at home Mint Butterfield rescued: Tech billionaire’s 16-year-old child found in San Francisco Donald Trump’s Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial Talk to Me Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species? Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, RHS says Chelsea flower show to focus on water reuse as gardeners prepare for shortages caused by climate crisis Elliott Abrams and the Contradictions of U.S. Human-Rights Policy

From Jenna Orkin The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall Global warming and international trade offering increasingly hospitable environment Asia's Next War Could Be Triggered By a Rusting Warship On a Disputed Reef Indian nuclear facilities found to have radioactive influence on Southern Tibetan Plateau Old, unused, and 'twisty' — meet the obscure NY election-conspiracy law that just might get Trump convicted Fulton Bank, N.A. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Assumes Substantially All Deposits of Republic First Bank, Philadelphia Are low-water crops a realistic way to cut back on Colorado water use? 10 southwestern farmers are trying to find out. A physician, a lawyer, a CEO: the 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election “I just couldn’t believe that they had taken her off the waiting list when she didn’t answer. Did anyone look for her? Did anyone check the CCTV cameras to see if she had left?” In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas

From Jenna Orkin Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns, allowing U.N. force, elections California—the fifth-largest economy in the world—has experienced a record-breaking string of days in which the combined generation of wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and solar electricity has exceeded demand on the main electricity grid for anywhere from 15 minutes to 9.25 hours per day. How Columbia’s Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court Gaza-based militants launched mortar rounds on Wednesday at Israeli forces making preparations for the U.S.-led effort to establish a new maritime aid route for Gaza, according to three U.S. officials. In addition, the Qatar Foundation (QF) TAMU contract extraordinarily stipulates that Qatari state proxies own the intellectual property for the research projects, which is not conventional practice. In addition, according to the agreement, the Qatari Regime, based on the contract with Texas A&M, has access to sensitive student information, which could violate acceptable United States (US) practices. A teen whose dad cofounded Slack and mom cofounded Flickr is missing somewhere around San Francisco Poland ready to help Ukraine to get military-age men back, minister says Zimbabwe's New Currency ‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

From Jenna Orkin They found that the artificial DNA successfully sorted 18 photographs into categories. The three-judge panel went on to strike down Trump's immunity argument in a unanimous decision, stating they could not accept his assertion that a president has "unbounded authority to commit crimes." Such a stance, they warned, would "collapse our system of separated powers." 11 Sets of Twins to Graduate from Same Pennsylvania High School Together Exclusive: The Boeing whistleblower testified for 12 hours before his suicide. Here’s what he saw at the planemaker that alarmed him Project 2025 Nearly 1,300 stores are closing across the US in 2024. Here's the list. Jamie Dimon warns the world order is being challenged — and bashes crypto once more US Birth Rate Falls to Record Low Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests China Is Leading the Global Nuclear Power Build Out Germany arrests EU Parliament staff member on China espionage charges

From Jenna Orkin Space junk is getting out of control. NASA estimates that low-Earth orbit alone contains 34,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm in diameter, 900,000 objects between 1 cm and 10 cm, and more than 128 million fragments between 1 mm and 1 cm. We need to take both passive and active measures before space junk makes Earth's orbital space unusable, write Aneli Bongers and José L. Torres, associate professor and professor, respectively, of macroeconomics at the University of Málaga. Active volcano shocks scientists with $6000 gold eruptions in the biting cold of Antarctica Report: Freedom of Expression in Generative AI – A Snapshot of Content Policies Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels as the UK’s Largest Power Generation Source Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient Messenger: A battle over playing catch in a Ballwin backyard reaches a fevered pitch Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards US Air Force could rain hellfire with 1,500 new StormBreakers smart bombs

From Jenna Orkin A revolution in helping Africa’s poor: Cash with no strings attached Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price 6 countries earned top spot for the world's most powerful passport: See where the US ranks Extreme heat wave in East Antarctica driven by record-breaking 'atmospheric river,' analysis finds Hall pass from hunger: School vending machine offers free meals to students all day Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale as college demonstrations grow Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has teamed up with a nonprofit conservation company on a project to cryogenically store tissue from every endangered animal species in the U.S. Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial

From Jenna Orkin FBI Warns of Risk of Chinese Hack Attack on Energy Infrastructure Israeli sources to Post: 'An eye for an eye'; not clear why Pentagon leaked info on attack Israel will not accept responsibility for this attack for strategic reasons. The Iranian 'spy ship' BEHSHAD (9167289), which had a hand in the Red Sea Crisis by assisting Houthis in launching attacks against commercial and naval vessels over the past several months, has now returned to Iran after a 3-year deployment. We were able to verify her in satellite imagery. Volkswagen workers vote for union in Tennessee — a major win for organized labor Extreme heat wave in East Antarctica driven by record-breaking 'atmospheric river,' analysis finds California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days U.S. agrees to withdraw American troops from Niger California officers charged in killing of man held face-down for five minutes From Fringe to Mainstream: The Rise of the BJP in India Queen bumblebees surprise scientists by surviving underwater

From Jenna Orkin Pro-Palestinian protesters burn American flag in NYC, chant ‘death to America’: Watch Los Angeles police officer who killed girl, 14, in department store will not face charges Earth is experiencing its fourth mass coral bleaching event, according to an announcement released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Coral Reef Initiative. This year, 75 percent of the Great Barrier Reef–which is the size of Italy or Japan–has bleaching. In the Caribbean and particularly the Florida Keys, scientists can no longer assess the extent of bleaching from fly-over data gathering (a common way to determine bleaching rates) because there aren’t enough corals left to evaluate. Online age verification laws are intended to protect children from explicit or harmful content. But some experts worry they will put private data at risk. A record 2.1 million people in North and South America have been infected this year with dengue fever. Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN, as region braces for further escalation Ketogenic diet and BHB rescue the fall of long-term potentiation in an Alzheimer’s mouse model and stimulates synaptic plasticity pathway enzymes Israel’s limited strike on Iran appears designed to avoid escalation For the first time, U.S. may force polluters to clean up these ‘forever chemicals’ Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

From Jenna Orkin China’s Crude Oil Imports Hit A Record High in 2023 Letter from Congressman Langworthy to Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack Re: Collaboration with CCP on Gain of Function Bird Flu Tests Robert Kennedy Jr: President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer. UAE Cloud Seeding WORLD NEWS A storm dumps record rain across the desert nation of UAE and floods Dubai’s airport Chechnya Bans Music That Isn’t Between 80 and 116 Beats Per Minute Widespread 911 outages hit several states Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO Are your kids being spied on? The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

From Jenna Orkin Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds The Covid treatment Paxlovid is most beneficial for unvaccinated people with risk factors, according to a recent study. Colon cancer is linked to mouth bacteria. Some Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Finally Get Their Day in Court, but All Deserve Justice Al Shimari et al. v. CACI, which will be heard today, was only able to advance because it targeted a military contractor; U.S. courts have repeatedly dismissed similar cases against the federal government. Tepco Flagship Nuclear Plant to Load First Fuel Since Fukushima California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days Degree in magic to be offered at University of Exeter - archive A strange fungus could transform emerging cicadas into ‘saltshakers of death,’ scientists say AI's Original Sin A Boeing engineer turned whistleblower says the planemaker needs ground all its 787 Dreamliners

From Jenna Orkin IDF chief of staff says Israel will respond to Iran missile attack “A small number of hits were identified, including at an IDF base in southern Israel, where minor damage was caused to infrastructure,” the Israeli military said. Scoop: Biden told Bibi U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran Houston hospital says doctor's changes to a database made patients ineligible for liver transplants AI CAN PRETEND TO BE STUPIDER THAN IT REALLY IS, SCIENTISTS FIND Effect of high-dose Spirulina supplementation on hospitalized adults with COVID-19: a randomized controlled trial In Sudden Reversal, Harvard To Require Standardized Testing for Next Admissions Cycle US-Japan-Philippines Naval Triad Wades into the South China Sea 'Ridiculously early' Missouri cicada emergence could start this week. Here's why Juvenile Crimes - Wesley T. Miller - Chapter 28

From Jenna Orkin NOTE FROM APRIL 15: THERE'S A GLITCH IN BLOGGER PREVENTING ME FROM CREATING ANY NEW POSTS. Scientists develop biofortified rice to combat nutrient deficiencies The Kremlin believes that destabilizing Africa would ease Russia's campaign in Ukraine. Ghana Seeks to Delay Cocoa Deliveries Due to Lack of Beans Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city Houston hospital halts liver and kidney transplants after learning a doctor manipulated some records The U.S. government needs to spend roughly $100 billion annually on carbon dioxide removal by 2050 to help the world avoid extreme climate change, according to a new analysis. A new branch of science called "exposomics" shows how air pollution contributes to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, bipolar disorder and other brain diseases. A new EPA rule will limit PFASs, or “forever chemicals,” in drinking water for the first time. Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Israel Israel's use of AI to find targets in Gaza offers a terrifying glimpse at where warfare could be headed

From Jenna Orkin Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 More than 66% of Russian tanks killed by Ukraine are taken out by drones, report says — that's not a good thing US Says China Spurning Farm Exports May Have Political Slant China may be retaliating against farmland rules, Vilsack says The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has released a Statement as well as a Video showing their apparent Targeting over the last 72 Hours of several Locations in Southern Israel including Hatzerim Airbase, the Oil Port in the City of Ashkelon as well as another Vital Target in the City, and at least 2 Unknown Targets; despite there being No Evidence in Israel of the Attacks, they are claimed to have been conducted utilizing “Al-Arqab” Land-Attack Cruise Missiles, Modified Fateh-110 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles, and One-Way “Suicide” Drones. ‘Catastrophic,’ ‘a shock’: Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 election US Drones Are Expensive and Error Prone so Ukraine Turns to China Doctors Making $350,000 Are Struggling to Find Long Island Homes North Fork median home prices are approaching $1 million Hamas leader repeats Gaza ceasefire call after sons and grandchildren killed FBI concerned about possible coordinated attack in US after Russia massacre crime levels are nearly as low today as they were in the 1960s.

From Jenna Orkin Ohio warns Democrats that Biden may miss deadline for November ballot Cancer is rising among the young. Study suggests it’s because their cells are aging faster Jon Stewart says the Arab states won't give Palestinians citizenship because they're really terrified of the 'Islamists' they backed Decline of the EU Center, Pro-Russia Candidate Elected President of Slovakia Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists Bayer’s $1.5 Billion Roundup Verdict Slashed to $600 Million More Russian LNG Being Exported to Europe Than Asia Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with TSMC DISTRICT ATTORNEY RAYMOND A. TIERNEY RELEASES REPORT OF SPECIAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION INTO SUFFOLK COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ACTIONS PRIOR TO THE DEATH OF THOMAS VALVA Russia Is Preparing for a Potential Gasoline Shortage

From Jenna Orkin How melting glaciers could help stop global warming Environmentalism could stop the clean-energy transition Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after embassy raid By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge The US-China relationship appears to be warming up, but Russia could still be a sticking point Geo-Engineering in San Francisco The Far Right Is Crawling With Eclipse Conspiracy Theories Everyone has lost their goddamn minds El Salvador offering 5,000 free passports (equivalent to $5 billion in our passport program) to highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad. now Qatar is muscling to take the world’s number one spot. It’s doing so by funding a genocide in Darfur to gain access to resource-rich Sudan. Why This Eclipse Could Prove Einstein Correct Hemophilia gene therapies arrived after 40 years of struggle. Where are the patients?

From Jenna Orkin Blind marriage Fake marriages with women with disabilities are booming in Ukraine. NGL.media found out how it works Mexico severs diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police storm its embassy to arrest politician The Far Right Is Crawling With Eclipse Conspiracy Theories ‘We need to accept the weeds’: the Dutch ‘tile whipping’ contest seeking to restore greenery Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization. California Bill Would Create a Legal Right to Ignore Boss’s Emails After hours Iranian official says Israeli embassies are no longer safe Macron, however, told allies there would be no need to involve NATO or the U.S. if Russia targeted French troops, according to an official. France has had casualties in military campaigns in Africa, for example, without turning to allies for help. Swiss to Hold Referendum Restricing Population to 10 Million until 2050 Juvenile Crimes - Chapter 27 "Does this OFFEND me?" WESLEY T. MILLER

From Jenna Orkin Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’ Office Vacancy Rate Nears 20% to Set Fresh Record, Moody’s Says Nobel laureate economist savages his own profession as clueless and unethical Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study The economics of American lotteries An ‘extremely active’ hurricane season is headed our way, experts warn Rep. Lauren Boebert has emergency surgery, diagnosed with rare disorder during campaign How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6 The number of retractions of scientific research papers has grown dramatically in the last two decades to about eight in 10,000 papers, according to a 2022 estimate by the blog Retraction Watch • Rewarding detections of fraud in scientific research and publishing, rather than punishing whistleblowers, could help the research community avoid an estimated 5,000 paper retractions a year--a mere fraction of retractions that should happen but don't, write Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, the founders of Retraction Watch, a blog that reports on the retraction of scientific papers.

From Jenna Orkin Exclusive: Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack, sources say DR Congo names first female prime minister amid escalating violence A person in Texas has tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (H5N1). Last month, West Virginia governor Jim Justice signed a bill that purports to protect the ability of the state’s public school educators to teach "alternative" scientific theories like creationism. People of all faiths and none should unite in fighting for the separation of church and state, writes Amanda L. Townley, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. Otherwise we may be opening a door we wished were closed. "Why not [teach] geocentrism or flat-Earthery? Why not crystal healing? Why not racist views claiming that white people and Black people have separate ancestry? All of these notions, which stem from religious beliefs, not science, have been held up by their proponents as scientific theories, and West Virginia’s legislature and governor just opened the public classroom door to them," she says. After terror attack, Russia sees U.S. role and claims it is at war with NATO Largest U.S. egg producer detects bird flu at Texas plant The world is scarred from China shock 1.0. They're not about to let 2.0 happen so easily. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis Despite evidence that financial conflicts of interest may influence physician prescribing and may damage patients’ trust in medical professionals,1-3 such relationships remain pervasive.4 Record numbers of migrants cross Channel in 2024

From Jenna Orkin Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia’s Third-Largest Oil Refinery Bird flu in humans, explained Medical chatbots are more likely to produce incorrect responses to health care queries in Mandarin Chinese, Hindi and Spanish compared with English. • U.S. landfills emit 40 percent more methane than we thought. The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4. The overall rates of suicide attempts doubled (3.3 vs 1.5%, p=0.017) after vaginoplasty (effect not observed after phalloplasty). On the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Heidi Campbell asked sponsor Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) if he was aware of anyone attempting to put vaccines in any food. Hensley said he was not aware, but said the U.S. Congress had recently taken up a bill that has allowed for the dispersal of vaccines through the food supply, so this bill was necessary to protect Tennesseans. Teenage girl who escaped her kidnapper dad’s truck is shot dead by police As much as 85 percent of U.S. emissions of sulfuryl fluoride—a rare greenhouse gas and common pesticide used to treat termites—comes from California.

From Jenna Orkin How Chinese Students Experience America Here are all the top contenders to be Trump's vice-presidential nominee in 2024 3 people died after being ripped from their high-rise apartments by freak wind storms in China, local reports say Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to let FTC chair Lina Khan appear on his Apple podcast Scarcity in the Age of AI In the future, the rarest resource will be human judgment. Turkey expected to become US’ largest supplier of artillery Canada reported highest population growth in over 66 years On Monday, March 25, the agencies confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in two dairy herds in Texas and two dairy herds in Kansas that had cattle exhibiting these symptoms. College newspaper sweeps up 2 tiny publications in a volley against growing news deserts One Extremely Human Quality May Help Explain Why Neanderthals Went Extinct

From Jenna Orkin Turkey's Opposition stuns in sweeping local elections victory over Erdogan’s party Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror rotting food accounts for about 58% of the methane emissions from landfills. Did Russia really 'steal' American hypersonic technology? - archive How a Company Called BlackRock Shapes Your News, Your Life, Our Future Biding Time? China’s Slow Takeover of Russia’s Far East ‘Artificial sun’ sets record for time at 100 million degrees in latest advance for nuclear fusion Juvenile Crimes - Chapter 26 Fresh Starts WESLEY T. MILLER APR 01, 2024 Families of Israeli hostages join protests calling for Netanyahu to go Hunger Stalks War-Ravaged Sudan