"Put bluntly, the problem isn’t Big Tech stealing publishers’ content; it’s that Big Tech is stealing publishers’ money… The online ad market has been cornered by two companies: Facebook (which calls itself Meta these days) and Google. These companies have taken over the market through a series of illegal actions…"
"In the team's theory, when gravity propagates through extra dimensions, it materializes in our Universe as massive gravitons… But these particles would interact only weakly with ordinary matter, and only via the force of gravity… This description is eerily similar to what we know about dark matter, which does not interact with light yet has a gravitational influence felt everywhere in the Universe. This gravitational influence, for instance, is what prevents galaxies from flying apart."
"State health officials, including some in Central Florida, issued alerts Friday regarding outbreaks of meningococcal disease, a rare but serious form of meningitis, a potentially deadly inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord."
"Emanuel and other experts cite a lack of testing as the primary reason (COVID) cases are underreported. At the height of the omicron wave in January, the U.S. was administering more than 2 million tests per day. That had dropped to an average of about 530,000 as of Monday, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
"Many in the North Collinwood neighborhood are dismayed, angry and worried about the closure of Dave’s Market on April 30. The news came as a shock to the community, who depend on the grocery store not just because it has fresh food, but also because it’s within walking distance in a neighborhood where half the households don’t have a vehicle. Half of the resident households are also eligible for food bank benefits, according to the Cleveland-based Centers for Community Solutions."
"A 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after authorities said she caused 'the death of an individual by self-induced abortion', in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the US… It was unclear whether Lizelle Herrera was accused of having an abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion."
"Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said Sunday he has filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against a woman for performing a 'self-induced abortion.'… Ramirez said the Starr County Sheriff's Department 'did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital' but this was not a criminal matter under Texas law."
"A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center found that an officer changed his answers on a form that otherwise would have led police to take the teen to a hospital instead of booking him into the detention center."
"As politicians spar over who's to blame for recent increases in gas prices, a large majority of Americans say oil companies and Russian President Vladimir Putin are major culprits, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds… Along party lines, Americans are more likely to blame Democrats for the increase in gas prices than Republicans, according to the poll, which also found much greater enthusiasm about voting in this November's elections among Republicans than among Democrats."
"Sometimes the dead have more to say than the living. Those lying beneath the soft, yellow earth in the grounds of the church of Andrew the Apostle, in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, have many terrible stories to tell."
"After its striking post-invasion setbacks, Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander, a U.S. official said Sunday… Russia has turned to Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, 60, one of Russia’s most experienced military officers and — according to U.S. officials — a general with a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and other war theaters. The senior official who identified the new commander was not authorized to be identified and spoke on condition of anonymity."
"Experts say a full-scale offensive in the east could start within days, though questions remained about the ability of Russia's depleted and demoralized forces to conquer much ground after Ukraine's determined defenders repelled their push to capture the capital, Kyiv."
"Sullivan told ABC News 'This Week' Co-Anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday that before the war began, declassified intelligence 'indicated that there was a plan from the highest levels of the Russian government to target civilians who oppose the invasion.'"
"First Florida. Then Alabama. Now, lawmakers in Ohio and Louisiana are considering legislation that mimics the Florida law. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he'll make a similar bill a top priority at the next session… Across the United States, at least a dozen states are considering new legislation that in several ways will mirror Florida's new controversial law, referred to by some opponents as 'Don't Say Gay.'"
"Republican Bill McSwain pledges to be a pro-energy governor by 'turning on the spigot of natural gas.' Another hopeful, Dave White, says he wants Pennsylvania 'to be the energy capital of the world.' A third candidate, Lou Barletta, says having a glut of natural gas in the ground without a pipeline is 'like being in college and having a keg of beer without a tap.'" They're counting on conversation voters not understanding that they actually can't do that.
"Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey claimed the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump by 'the fake news, Big Tech and blue state liberals' in a campaign ad released Monday, making her the latest high-profile candidate to support unfounded conspiracy theories that the election was illegitimate." In a "normal" society, this kind of delusional thinking could get one involuntarily committed to a behavior health unit. Instead, certain politicians believe it's their ticket to winning elections.
"A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented a slew of high-profile Jan. 6 defendants, including a member of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as several targets of the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol… Most prominent among Moseley’s criminal clients is Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keeper from Florida who took on a leadership role for the group that breached the Capitol."
"'The debate centers on whether making a referral – a largely symbolic act – would backfire by politically tainting the justice department’s expanding investigation into the January 6 assault and what led up to it,' the paper said… Citing 'members and aides', the Times said such sources were reluctant to support a referral because it would create the impression Democrats had asked the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to investigate Trump." As someone who works with symbols every day, symbolism and symbolic acts are mightly important.
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