Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water ~enviro water.drinking pollution.water Article 1181 words 26 votes
Norfolk Southern agrees to pay $600M in settlement related to train derailment in eastern Ohio ~transport Article 941 words 21 votes
Jury finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan school shooter’s mother, guilty of manslaughter ~news usa.mi crime Article 594 words 56 votes
Norway's top authority revokes decision by city to only take Ukrainian refugees – was contrary to the constitution and the Scandinavian country's discrimination laws ~misc politics Article 330 words 13 votes
Scandals blight Denmark's buildup of its armed forces as it eyes possible threats from Russia ~misc politics Article 656 words 15 votes
Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market ~life Article 1583 words 11 votes
12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland on Tuesday morning, killing one and seriously wounding two other students, police said ~news finland.vantaa crime Article 78 words 39 votes
Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to twenty-five years in US prison ~finance cryptocurrency business Article 623 words 54 votes
Visa, Mastercard settle long-running antitrust suit over swipe fees with merchants ~finance business Article 814 words 20 votes
Historic covered bridges in the US are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars ~transport Article 673 words, published Mar 20 2024 37 votes
Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit ~tech apple Article 95 votes
Swedish land owner wins legal battle to keep 14kg meteorite – appeals court ruled that such rocks should be considered “immovable property” and part of the land where they are found ~space Article 324 words 23 votes
The first ‘cyberflasher’ is convicted under England’s new law and gets more than five years in prison ~news united kingdom england crime law Article 336 words 25 votes
Donald Trump's lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million US civil fraud judgment ~news usa.ny.nyc politics law.civil Article 595 words 64 votes
Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approve another law giving government more power to curb dissent ~news hong kong china law politics Article 628 words 20 votes
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers ~books libraries Article 912 words, published Mar 12 2024 46 votes
Internet outage hits several African countries as undersea cables fail ~tech internet Article 333 words 29 votes
Brazil's military leaders told police Jair Bolsonaro involved in a plan to reverse 2022 election result ~news politics law Article 855 words 16 votes
US courts change policy to prevent judge shopping on issues that would impact entire states, regions or the nation as a whole ~news usa politics Article 985 words, published Mar 12 2024 34 votes
Death of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict after school fight is ruled a suicide, medical examiner says ~lgbt Article 991 words 34 votes
Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court rules ~lgbt Article 246 words 39 votes
Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time ~life Article 892 words 13 votes
A state by state review of how easy or difficult it is to enforce open records laws in the US reveals many obstacles ~misc politics Article 3094 words, published Mar 10 2024 7 votes
NEXT Life Sciences announces successful clinical evaluation of the delivery method for Plan A contraception for men ~life.men Article 564 words, published Feb 12 2024 25 votes
Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality ~news sweden politics Article 570 words 36 votes
Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights ~enviro energy.renewable Article 961 words 14 votes
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads down in widespread outage ~tech social media facebook Article 127 words 14 votes
France becomes the first country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right ~health Article 270 words 58 votes
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s ~health healthcare Article 398 words 29 votes
Mitch McConnell will step down as the US Senate Republican leader in November ~news usa politics Article 1151 words 52 votes
Former Denmark striker Jon Dahl Tomasson was hired as the first foreign-born manager of Sweden on Monday ~sports.football Article 290 words 4 votes
At the Florida Man Games, big crowds cheer competitors evading police, wrestling over beer ~sports Article 754 words 10 votes
New US lawsuit claims dating apps designed to turn love seekers into addicts ~life relationships Article 273 words 44 votes
Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says ~news russia politics Article 651 words 94 votes
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy company ~news usa ukraine politics Article 499 words 46 votes
Geert Wilders’ hopes of becoming Dutch PM dim after centrist party quits talks ~news netherlands politics Article 903 words 13 votes
Meet the Mexican television newscaster in drag making LGBTQ history ~lgbt Article 1941 words, published Feb 2 2024 9 votes
At least six Kurdish fighters are killed in a drone attack on a Syrian base housing US troops ~news usa iran iraq syria jordan politics Article 459 words 13 votes
Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies ~movies Article 1167 words 31 votes
American airstrikes hit eighty-five targets at seven facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia used to attack US forces ~news usa iran iraq syria jordan politics Article 560 words 39 votes
Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by police in India after being detained for eight months ~news india china crime Article 212 words 31 votes
Days of darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions ~life Article 2944 words 32 votes
EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic ~health Article 929 words 10 votes
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands ~food Article 5027 words 65 votes
What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account ~news usa.al crime politics Article 632 words 33 votes
Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research ~science medicine Article 833 words 16 votes
Alexander Stubb won the first round of Finland's presidential election and will face runner-up Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month ~news finland politics Article 664 words 6 votes
Court orders China Evergrande property developer to liquidate after it failed to reach debt deal ~finance business Article 611 words 23 votes
NFL reaches ‘major milestone’ with record nine minority head coaches in place for the 2024 season ~sports.american_football Article 713 words 10 votes