(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: A double standard dominates a sport ... again. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-03 BBC Russian investigators have detained a woman in their hunt for the killers of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a blast at a St Petersburg cafe. In video released by authorities - most likely recorded under duress - Darya Trepova is heard admitting she handed over a statuette that later blew up. But in the footage, she does not say she knew there would be an explosion, nor does she admit any further role. Investigators said they had evidence the attack was organised from Ukraine. However, Kyiv officials said it was a case of Russian infighting. More than 30 people were wounded in the bombing in Russia's second city. BBC The first handheld cellphone call was made 50 years ago, and since then these devices have become an essential multi-tool that helps us run our lives. But are they also altering the way our brains work? Like many of us, I spend too much time on my phone. And, like many of us, I am acutely aware of – and often feel guilty about – this fact. Sometimes, I'll leave it at the other end of the house, or turn it off, to use it less. But, sooner than I'd like to admit, I'll wind up walking down the hallway for something I need to do that I can only – or can do more efficiently – by phone. Paying a bill? Phone. Arranging a coffee date with a friend? Phone. Messaging family who live far away? Phone. Checking the weather, jotting down a story idea, taking a picture or video, creating a photo book, listening to a podcast, loading up driving directions, making a quick calculation, even turning on a torch? Phone, phone, phone. The Guardian Australia More than three-quarters of voters support capping electricity and gas prices and reducing the tax on petrol, as Australians call for more cost of living relief ahead of the budget. The Guardian Essential poll of 1,133 people found 77% of voters approve those measures, with a majority also in favour of increasing the minimum wage, cheaper childcare and cutting income tax. Voters were also overwhelmingly of the view that the prime minister should be required to get parliamentary approval before going to war, with 90% in favour and just 10% saying they should not need approval. Last week a parliamentary inquiry recommended that parliament have input after the decision to go to war, with ministers forced to explain the “legal basis” for going to war. The poll found respondents under cost of living pressure on a range of expenses, including 70% finding it “a bit difficult” or “struggling” to afford housing expenses including rent and mortgage payments, and 64% who said the same of utility bills. The Guardian, US CBS came under fire after devoting an interview on its flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right pro-Trump congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused conspiracy theories and faced censure for threatening behaviour towards Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York progressive congresswoman among those threatened by Greene, told Semafor : “These kinds of extreme and really just unprecedented and dangerous notions are getting platforms, without much pushback or real kind of critical analysis.” Matthew Gertz, of the progressive watchdog Media Matters, told the same outlet : “Anyone who believes that the congresswoman from QAnon is serious about renouncing far-right radicalism and conspiracy theories should make me an offer on my Jewish space laser.” The Guardian, Australia Amazon Web Services will invest more than $13bn in Australia over the next five years as it expands its cloud computing operations in Melbourne and Sydney and works towards running its datacentres entirely on renewable energy. The Sydney region of AWS’s cloud operations has been in place since 2012, with $9.2bn spent in the decade since the launch. The expected growth in spending over the next five years accounts for the Melbourne region opening up last month. The investment in the expansion and operation of the two centres will bring in 11,000 full-time-equivalent positions, the company estimated, including direct employees, contractors and construction, maintenance, engineering and communications suppliers. The Guardian UK Anger among teachers in England over pay and school funding is hardening after what union leaders hailed as an “unprecedented” rejection of the government’s latest offer. Nearly 200,000 National Education Union members voted by 98% to 2% to reject the government’s offer of a £1,000 one-off payment and a 4.5% pay rise next year. It was the highest rate of opposition in the union’s recent history, higher even than the 90% vote in favour of strike action in the NEU’s formal ballot in January. After the result was announced, delegates at the NEU’s annual conference in Harrogate taunted the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, chanting: “Come on Gill, pay the bill.” The Guardian, UK The Home Office is poised to reveal a barge as its first offshore accommodation for asylum seekers, the Guardian understands. The Bibby Stockholm has been used “all over Europe” to accommodate asylum seekers, according to sources close to the Barbados Maritime ship registry, which oversees the use of this vessel. It currently has a gym, a well-furnished bar and more than 220 en suite bedrooms over three decks. The vessel, operated by the Liverpool-based company Bibby Marine, has previously been used by the Netherlands to house about 500 asylum seekers in the early 2000s. Reuters NEW YORK/PALM BEACH, Florida, April 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump flew into New York City on his private plane on Monday to face charges stemming from a probe into hush money paid to a porn star, while his lawyers argued against letting cameras in the courtroom. With New York taking security precautions and the mayor telling potential rabble-rousers to behave, Trump was due to surrender at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Tuesday and will likely be fingerprinted prior to appearing before a judge for an arraignment where he will plead not guilty. Al Jazeera The battle for Bakhmut is not over and Ukraine is still fighting hard for the town, according to a White House official. John Kirby, a spokesperson for the United States National Security Council, told reporters on Monday that Ukrainians have not been repulsed from the city, adding that an additional assistance package for Ukraine could be expected this week. His remarks came hours after Ukraine also said that Russian forces were “very far” from capturing Bakhmut and that fighting raged around the city administration building where the Wagner Group of mercenaries claimed to have raised the Russian flag. Al Jazeera Vladlen Tatarsky, a Russian pro-Kremlin war blogger with a criminal history, was killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday. Thirty others were also wounded in the blast in Russia’s second city, the home of President Vladimir Putin, which came more than a year after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. Tatarsky – real name Maxim Fomin – was among the best-known members of an influential group of military bloggers who have provided a running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine. The 40-year-old publicly demanded that Russia pursue the war even more aggressively, and he had more than 500,000 followers on the Telegram messaging app. Deutsche Welle Leyla Coplu's dream of owning her own home in Turkey crumbled within minutes. But it took her and her husband Tahsin weeks to realize. The 48-year old was born in Germany and has worked for 30 years in a bakery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia. Her husband is from Adiyaman, one of the cities hardest hit by the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria in February. Tahsin Coplu moved to Germany 30 years ago, after they married. A few years ago, they bought a house in Golbasi, outside Adiyaman. Like many people of Turkish origin in Germany, the couple cherished a dream of spending their retirement in their home country, and put aside all their savings to one day live close to Tahsin's family. But then came the morning of February 6, when two earthquakes of magnitude 7.0, three quakes stronger than 6.0, and well over a hundred tremors hit the small town. Together, these quakes all but destroyed Golbasi. The Coplus' house was badly damaged and is to be demolished. Deutsche Welle The trial of four top commanders of the former rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) started in The Hague's Kosovo war crimes tribunal on Monday. Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi stand accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out in Kosovo between 1998 and 2000. So far, 312 witnesses have been identified by the prosecution. Thaci was the political leader of the KLA before and during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, which broke out between the forces of Serbia and Montenegro and the KLA Kosovo Albanian rebel group. Veseli was the head of the group's intelligence service; Krasniqi was its spokesman; and Selimi was among the general staff. CNN Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell. “Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.” A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability. NPR NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have announced the names of the four astronauts who will travel on a spaceflight around the Moon next year. The group will fly aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface and eventually put humans on Mars. The four-person crew will include NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, jeremybloom, Magnifico, annetteboardman, eeff, rise above the swamp, Besame and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. 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