Krystal and Emily discuss the Houthis attacking a Saudi ship as Trump is sidelined in negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom's Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoKFDurJsVM
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
⚠️⛔️It appears Ukrinform has lost perspective. Russia is hitting civilian targets across Ukraine, but Ukrinform fails to stress this point in their reporting, instead highlighting property damage over the fact civilian casualties and targeting is occurring #Ukraine #Media #News #Ukrinform
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/40979
⚠️🇷🇺Meanwhile, Moscow appears to be under drone attack again. We are monitoring the situation (VIDEOS) #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #Headlines #Russia #Moscow #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
From 2024, I can't recall if I read about this at the time, but pretty wild.
"(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk
#news #OldNews #technology #TechNews #DeepFakes #scam #security
For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side.
Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-kids-blood-tests?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nebraska #Omaha #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health
"There’s a history in the stock market of troubled companies pivoting to the hot industry of the moment in order to garner interest."
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
A ProPublica and MLK50 analysis shows that just 17 of more than 800 immigration arrests made by Trump’s crime-fighting task force in and around Memphis were for violent crimes.
82% of the immigration arrests followed a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-immigration-arrests-crime-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#BBC #News #Politics Minister: PM is thinking about how to respond https://w.st/PuGk6
#BBC #News Keir Starmer announces his resignation as prime minister and Labour Party leader https://w.st/uhksp
NEW: The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend.
“It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defying-congress-foreign-aid-usaid-vought-rubio-constitutional-crisis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Congress #Trump #USPolitics #MarcoRubio #Constitution #PublicHealth
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has warned of a “disgraceful assault on the right to protest” in the UK after two pro-Palestine campaigners were found guilty of breaching protest conditions.
Benjamin Jamal, 62, and Christopher Nineham, 63, were both accused of failing to comply with a condition that required attendees of a protest on January 18, 2025 to stay on Whitehall in a static rally and not march on the BBC.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25987595.dark-day-uk-palestine-activists-convicted-bbc-protest/
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Environment #Research #Science #Academia #Princeton
NEW: 3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis.
More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige
NEW: For more than a century, factories spewed toxic dust across Omaha, contaminating the soil and causing lead poisoning. We talked to experts about how to stay safe from lead exposure.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-contamination-omaha-nebraska-faq
NEW on our “Paper Trail” podcast:
From behind bars, April Wilkens successfully advocated for a new law offering domestic violence survivors like herself a chance at freedom if they could prove abuse contributed to their crimes. But that wasn’t the end of the story.
Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/oklahoma-domestic-violence-survivors-april-wilkens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Podcast #News #DomesticViolence #Abuse #Women #Prison #Crime #Law #Oklahoma #CriminalJustice
NEW: Court Inquiry Denounces “Disturbing Pattern” of Violations at Arizona’s Largest Sheriff’s Office
A court inquiry alleges that top leaders at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office undermined efforts to comply with mandated reforms brought on by a long-running racial profiling lawsuit and settlement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-sheriff-deputy-misconduct-reforms-undermined?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Phoenix #Police #Law #Racism #AZ
New from Gaige Davila: Even before its first workplace death, #SpaceX saw 427 injuries and 9 respiratory illnesses between 2022 and 2025. These injuries included concussions, second-degree burns, partial finger amputations, hernias, dislocations, crushed hands, and broken ribs, legs, and ankles.
https://www.texasobserver.org/worker-death-starbase-spacex-osha-elon-musk/
“Hello?” a voice said on the other end of the line. This time, the president had picked up.
“I’m writing a story about a big supporter of yours in the oil industry, Jeff Hildebrand,” I said. “Can I ask what you think about him?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-called-trump-hildebrand?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
https://youtu.be/tGYmUyKEuls
⚠️🇺🇦And Despite All The Russian Terror And Violence Targeting Ukraine’s civilians, Ukrainians continue proving their humanity and morality saving animals in need (LFF- Ukrainian Animal Rescue VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Dog #Dogs #AnimalRescue #Pets #Media #News #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
NEW: A Minnesota home seller has been found liable for violating state laws in a "contract-for-deed" home financing scheme that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis with deceptive real estate deals marketed as “sharia compliant.”
NEW: Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas. The state’s medical board ruled that the doctors’ substandard care led to the deaths and ordered them to complete extra training.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tmb-disciplines-doctors-ngumezi-crain-cases
A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.
A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps.
“We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-trump-immigration-ice-cbp-excessive-force
"You are responsible for reviewing activity performed by your Agentic Commerce Agent and for promptly notifying the Agentic Commerce Agent and Target of any activity you believe is unauthorized or outside the scope of permissions you approved."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos
