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  1. Florida Bill Would Restrict Scholarships for Majors that Don’t Lead to Jobs
  2. Freddie’s 30Y Mortgage Commitment Rate Rises To 3.17%, Highest Since June 2020 (Powell Says No Backing-off Stimulus Until Economy Has “All But Recovered,” M2 Money Growth Now Up To 27.1% YoY)
  3. Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024.
  4. A lot has been said that's beginning to hack me off - Scotland captain Hogg
  5. Covid: 'Stay-local' rule in Wales to end from Saturday
  6. Head of Iran’s Olympics implicated in murder of prisoners via torture
  7. Q&A with The Markup's Nabiha Syed on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which affects data journalists who scrape websites (Katherine Jacobsen/Committee ...)
  8. Biden: Flattered People Come Here Because I’m Nice…
  9. Georgia Republicans enact sweeping bill to restrict voting
  10. Substack offers further clarity on its content moderation guidelines, detailing its stance on harassment, doxxing, hate, and more (Substack Blog)
  11. Cornwall plane crash: Red Arrows grounded after Hawk jet crash
  12. Israel Prepares Offer of Emergency Oxygen Supplies to Meet Shortage in Lebanon
  13. UK Extends Emergency Status For 6 More Months…
  14. Batch of Chinese vaccine arrives in Ukraine
  15. Bafta Games Awards 2021: Hades takes Best Game
  16. Bigger than Bessemer: Workers everywhere must stand up & fight back
  17. Google Maps Slammed by Campaigners for Unmoderated Antisemitic Comments on Auschwitz Site
  18. Israel Soars on Bloomberg’s ‘Covid Resilience Ranking,’ With Rapid Vaccine Drive and Easing Restrictions
  19. [Thread] Will Oremus, who has covered platforms, online speech, and tech policy for OneZero, is accepting a buyout from Medium (Will Oremus/@willoremus)
  20. The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune had a $50M drop in revenue in 2020, according to the president of the newspapers' parent company (J. Clara Chan/The Wrap)
  21. Albania's election season begins amid violence, recriminations
  22. Moldovan Lawmakers Again Fail To Endorse PM-Designate
  23. IMF to continue discussing reform with Ukraine
  24. Swarm Of ‘Tic Tac Shaped UFOs’ Chased Four US Navy Destroyers Off The Coast Of California…
  25. Cornel West: Goodbye, Harvard; hello, Union Theological
  26. Biden pressed on child migration at first news conference
  27. Jessica Walter: Arrested Development star dies aged 80
  28. The Kevin Roose column in NYT that was auctioned as an NFT has sold for around $560,000, with proceeds going to NYT's Neediest Cases Fund (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
  29. Palestinian elections to pave way for the return of Dahlan?
  30. Container Ship Operators Are on a Tear as Freight Rates Skyrocket
  31. Prosecutors Now Backing Away from Statements and Charges Against January 6th Protestors
  32. Lynette Zang: Why You Must Get Out of the System – The Fed’s Master Plan!
  33. Just listen to Biden 15:54, DARPA new Department of Health?
  34. How bad is the housing crisis in Vancouver? Bidding wars for Campers
  35. UK Government: “On the 1st April we will formally establish the new UK Health Security Agency”
  36. Dem Senator Wants to Subsidize Industry His Family Is Investing In
  37. White-Collar Visa Workers Take 2/3 of New Tech Jobs Each Year
  38. SEC Begins Enforcing Law That Could Delist Chinese Firms From U.S. Exchanges
  39. President Joe Biden, 78, plans to run for a second term in 2024
  40. Election runoff in Ukraine would see Zelensky, Boyko – Poll
  41. In Israel, still no winner after fourth election in two years
  42. Thousands of Venezuelans flee to Colombia amid violence on border
  43. US senators push for broader Iran deal, not return to nuclear pact
  44. Suez Canal Blocked: A “Worst Case Scenario for Global Trade”!
  45. Peter Schiff: Fed is trapped; will either bankrupt the government or the American people
  46. Yates retains Catalunya lead as Hayter wins in Italy
  47. Latvian security agency sees Russia's non-military efforts as "permanent threat"
  48. Joe Biden doubles vaccine target for first 100 days in office
  49. India delays jab supplies to UN-backed vaccine programme
  50. Can Lula da Silva be president of Brazil again?