Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/avian-bird-flu-surges-in-new-york-urban-wildlife-increasing-disease-concerns/
Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Justice Department ramps up denaturalization push with 12 new cases
The announcement marked a significant escalation in the federal government’s efforts to strip citizenship from individuals, which for decades was tried only in rare instances.
https://www.…
Sources: Ingram back to Texans on 3-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48151253/sources-ed-ingram-stays-texans-3-year-deal
Replace "tax" with "revolution insurance" whenever you're reading about taxes in the US, and it clarifies the stakes much better.
For example:
1) "'...the wealthiest folks...they're paying more for revolution insurance than the poorest folks. But are they paying as much in revolution insurance as they could pay to help run the country the way that we run it? And the answer to that is probably not,' said Anthony Infanti, a law professor a…
The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring,
spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos
and kept them out of city government.
https://boltsmag.org/california-immigrant-organiz…
Texans sign RG Ed Ingram to 3-year, $37.5 million contract https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-sign-rg-ed-ingram-to-3-year-37-5-million-contract
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of Donald Trump’s policies that he ruled were rooted in
“anti-immigrant sentiments”
and ordered the administration to resume processing of asylum grants and immigration benefit applications of people from 39 targeted countries.
Last November, US Citizenship and Immigration Services indefinitely suspended asylum adjudications and froze immigration applications for people affected by a travel ban implemented after…
NFL players' Olympic flag football dreams face another hurdle — the injury risk https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7181726/2026/04/09/nfl-olympics-flag-football-injury-risk-rosters/
The Trump administration moved to further limit legal immigration Thursday
with a new proposal that would place more restrictions on who can work legallyin the United States and for how long.
In a yet unpublished Federal Register filing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it was looking to tighten rules around work authorizations,
known as EADs,
-- particularly for those with humanitarian parole and non-DACAdeferred status,
as well as those facing po…