Biden said the United States “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that she thinks some protests in the United States demanding a ceasefire in Gaza could be linked to Russia, and that the FBI should conduct a probe into their funding. Her comments were dismissed as "unsubstantiated smears" by some rights advocates, who said such remarks amounted to dehumanization of the Palestinian people. Pelosi, who made the remarks in a CNN interview, provided no evidence for her claims. She was asked whether opposition to President Joe Biden's policy in the war in Gaza could hurt the Democrat in November's presidential election. "For them to call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin's message, Mr. Putin's message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he (Russian President Vladimir Putin) would like to see," Pelosi told CNN.

West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused the bloc of “inhumane” sanctions to reverse the coups in their nations. ECOWAS said in a statement that it wasn't notified of the countries’ decision to withdraw. The juntas said in a joint statement read on state television in all three countries that they have “decided in complete sovereignty on the immediate withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)," alleging that the bloc has “moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism” after nearly 50 years in existence. “Furthermore, ECOWAS, under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, has become a threat to its member states and its populations whose happiness it is supposed to ensure,” their statements read.

Scott Neu, a former sheriff’s deputy who was fired in 2015 for allegedly forcing jail inmates to fight each other, and costing the city some $280,000 in settlements, is being rehired by the Sheriff’s Office, Mission Local has learned. Though Neu was criminally charged by former District Attorney George Gascón in 2016 with 17 criminal counts, these charges were dropped after the Sheriff’s Office allegedly destroyed evidence in the case; in one instance, an investigator’s laptop was smashed with a hammer, purportedly due to a virus. Neu is being reinstated to his former position — in which he worked in the county jail — the City Attorney’s Office confirmed today.

Apple’s new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS. Although this may seem like a welcome change, Mozilla spokesperson Damiano DeMonte tells The Verge it’s “extremely disappointed” with the way things turned out. “We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple’s proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps,” DeMonte says. “The effect of this would be to force an independent browser like Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple themselves will not have to bear.” In iOS 17.4, Apple will no longer force browsers in the EU to use WebKit, the underlying engine that powers Safari.

The Y Combinator CEO and a deep-pocketed campaign donor joked that seven supervisors should see a slow death: “Die slow motherfuckers.”

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.

An ex-U.S. Army soldier who was first arrested while stationed at what was then known as Fort Bragg was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison last week for trafficking the hallucinogenic ketamine and laundering more than $700,000 while awaiting sentencing on the ketamine charge. Gordon Ray Custis 26, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Raleigh on Jan. 18. He pleaded guilty in September to possession with the intent to distribute ketamine, conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute ketamine; and money laundering. Federal court records show that his wife, Shabrea Chantel Bright, who was also an active-duty soldier at the time of the alleged offenses, is charged with two counts each of conspiracy to money launder and aiding and abetting money laundering by structuring; and one count each of making false statements to a department or agency of the United States and conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute ketamine.

"This was strong and corroborated intelligence," the official said. "A lot of the intelligence is a result of interrogations of militants who were arrested during the Oct. 7 attack."

The verdict comes after a dramatic day in court that included the former president storming out of the courtroom during Carroll's closing argument. The award included $11 million for damage to Carroll's reputation, $7.3 million for emotional harm and other damages, and $65 million in punitive damages.

In a blow to First Amendment advocates, a majority of the judges on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday not just to throw out a lawsuit by the Laredo citizen journalist and provocateur Priscilla Villarreal, who goes by the name La Gordiloca, but to endorse an expansive view of government power that permits police to arrest reporters for seeking basic information through backchannels. The majority opinion, authored by Judge Edith Jones, appointed by former President Ronald Regan, finds that local officials were reasonable when they used an obscure Texas law to arrest Gordiloca and thereby criminalize a wide range of what has been considered basic accountability journalism. The ruling applies in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. “Any law enforcement agency basically has a green light right now to go out and arrest and threaten or detain journalists who publish documents that are leaked from the government,” said attorney Daxton “Chip” Stewart, a media law professor at Texas Christian University, in an interview about the ruling. “And … if that journalist spends a night in jail, they don’t have a remedy and can’t sue for a civil rights violation.”

The Take Back Our Border channel on Telegram now has over 1,000 members, some of whom are invoking a new Civil War.

White House clinic improperly distributed controlled substances and provided care for ineligible staffers, according to a report released by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General. The report was issued after a multiyear investigation was launched following the spring 2018 Inspector General hotline call where complaints alleged senior medical officers within the White House Medical Unit engaged in “improper medical practices.”

Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

The United Nations’ top court stopped short Friday of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza in a genocide case but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave.

Documents and recordings obtained by HEATED detail a multi-million dollar plan to spin the fossil fuel as "clean" and "renewable"

Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Suffer the Harms of Extreme Pollution from the Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Industry.

Smith had been on death row more than 3 decades for participating in the murder-for-hire plot of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in Colbert County in 1988. Witnesses saw Smith struggle as the gas began flowing into the mask that covered his entire face. He began writhing and thrashing for approximately two to four minutes, followed by around five minutes of heavy breathing. At 8:07 p.m. a correctional officer leaned over the gurney and closely examined Smith’s face before walking back to his position against the wall. Smith’s time of death was 8:25 p.m., according to the state. An Amnesty International researcher [had] asked Gov. Kay Ivey to call off the planned execution, calling the plan “disturbing.” “This execution will be carried out by nitrogen gas, a method not previously used, on a man who was subjected to a cruel botched execution attempt just 14 months ago. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights highlighted how this new untested method could be extremely painful, result in a botched execution, and could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, thereby violating international human rights treaties that the U.S. has ratified. It is high time the death penalty was abolished,” said Justin Mazzola.

Former New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. has died at age 97. An obituary distributed by his son and namesake, Harry Connick Jr., says Connick died peacefully at his home in New Orleans on Thursday with his family by his side. Connick dethroned an incumbent prosecutor, Jim Garrison, in a 1973 election. He won reelection four times, and successfully built biracial support as the city’s political power base shifted to African Americans. Connick remained undefeated, and retired in 2003. But he was later dogged by questions about whether his office withheld evidence that favored defendants. The issue came to the forefront with a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit filed by John Thompson, who was exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s death row for a killing he didn’t commit.