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BREAKING In the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court election, after Elon Musk poured $21 million into supporting her Republican opponent, the Democratic-backed judge Susan Crawford has won. She led the fight to protect unions and abortion rights, and her win means a court with nationwide significance retains a liberal majority for at least three more years.

A 17-year-old Palestinian teenager from the West Bank, Walid Ahmad, has died in an Israeli jail after being held six months without charge. His family said the boy was “a healthy high schooler” when he was taken from his home by Israeli troops, and later denied medical care as his health deteriorated.

There have been hints from both Donald Trump and Elon Musk that after firing tens of thousands of government employees and dismantling critical agencies, Musk's time with the Trump Administration will soon come to an end. And while Musk may intend to return to running his companies, both Tesla investors and Tesla buyers have indicated that those relationships will not easily be repaired.

The Trump administration has acknowledged in a court filing that it erred in deporting a Maryland man to a Salvadoran mega-prison, but said it could not return him to the US. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador when he was 16 and was legally protected from deportation.

A brain-computer implant has allowed a stroke survivor to speak again by translating brain signals into words, offering hope for neurological patients.

The death toll from last week's earthquake in central Myanmar is now over 2,000, and is expected to rise. Hospitals are overwhelmed. The WHO warns of urgent medical shortages as rescue efforts are hampered by damaged infrastructure and civil conflict.

In a widely watched case, Marine Le Pen has been barred from office for five years over EU funds embezzlement, ending her 2027 bid. She also received a four-year sentence, with two years suspended, pending appeal.

The Trump administration has sent another planeload of 17 deportees to a prison in El Salvador, claiming they were all gang members. It said it did so under what it said were general immigration laws, rather than the obscure wartime law it tried to use earlier in the month.

Following Donald Trump's Feb.7th executive order offering refugee status to white South African Afrikaners he calls "racially disfavored landowners," 67,000 have expressed interest. White people own half of South Africa’s land, while making up just 7% of the country’s population. Trump's "Mission South Africa" is the only exception to his decision to block refugee resettlement in the US.

BREAKING The International Committee of the Red Cross is expressing outrage that after missing for a week, fifteen health workers have been found in a mass grave in Gaza, killed in what appeared to be executions. All had multiple gunshot wounds, and some of them had their hands and feet bound. The humanitarian workers went missing after responding to a distress call from civilians being attacked by Israeli forces.

Republicans seek an inquiry into a White House chat where officials shared military details. Trump downplays it, while Democrats demand resignations.

Iran has rejected direct nuclear talks with the US, as President Trump threatened military action. Tensions are rising as the JCPOA nuclear deal nears expiration.

Asian stocks dropped after Trump confirmed upcoming tariffs would apply to all nations, not just those with trade imbalances.

BREAKING In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Donald Trump spoke of methods that would allow him to seek a third term as president, despite the constitutional limit preventing a US president from serving more than 2 terms. He pointedly stated that he was "not joking."

The US Institute of Peace is the latest federal organization to be targeted by Trump/Musk cuts. Most of the non-profit’s staff received notices Friday evening that they're terminated as of March 28 and their health care ends March 31.

Trump appears all in for Netanyahu's political survival

MENA

Trump appears all in for Netanyahu's political survival

Responsible Statecraft

The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

MENA

The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common: they're both way behind the technological curve

World

Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common: they're both way behind the technological curve

Bill McKibben
(Ripton, Vermont)

Cracks in the Wall

Americas

Cracks in the Wall

The American Prospect

Stop Asking 'Can It Happen Here?' It Is Happening Here.

MENA

Stop Asking 'Can It Happen Here?' It Is Happening Here.

How Elon's plans for Mars threaten Earth

World

How Elon's plans for Mars threaten Earth

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Inside the Israeli movement to recolonize Gaza

MENA

Inside the Israeli movement to recolonize Gaza

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US silent as Israel heaps scorn on Arab League's Gaza ceasefire plan

Middle East Eye

Can Trump Legally Deport Mahmoud Khalil? What About Free Speech?

Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US

Ex-Democratic Leader Schumer

The American Prospect

Trump just assaulted the independence of the nuclear regulator

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Climate Change Could Throw a Wrench in Trump’s Greenland Pipe Dream

US ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

LastWeekTonight (HBO)

Breaking Points' Krystal Ball lets loose on Bill Maher's criticism of protestors

Breaking Points

How Trump’s compulsion to dominate sabotages dealmaking, undermines democracy and threatens global stability

The Conversation

'An American President Is Not a King': Judge Reinstates Labor Regulator Illegally Fired by Trump

How the shutdown of USAID will hurt Americans and empower foreign adversaries

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Did Trump just crown Saudi with leadership of Gaza ‘day after’ plan?

Responsible Statecraft

‘Worse than the Second Intifada’: West Bank refugees reel from Israeli offensive

Trump is abandoning Europe. Europe should abandon its appeasement of Israel

Middle East Eye

ICC Asked to Investigate Biden and Blinken Over War Crimes Allegations

Israel Launches Major Air Assault on Damascus

Not So Fast on Ukraine

The American Prospect

Elon Musk’s China Threat

The American Prospect

Curfews, Roadblocks, House Raids—Israeli Military Entrenches Inside Syria

How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

Middle East Eye

Hamas Report to Mediators Accuses Israel of Pervasive Gaza Ceasefire Violations

The Middle East's longest-reigning king heads into a standoff with Trump

Middle East Eye

Elon Floats Hostile OpenAI Takeover

Breaking Points

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