(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest April 9, 2023 [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: 2023-04-09 Tomorrow's News Today Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. 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. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. BBC Marseille building collapses with eight people unaccounted for Five people were injured and eight are unaccounted for after an explosion flattened an apartment building in the southern French city of Marseille. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. It destroyed the building shortly after midnight on Sunday, and a neighbouring block of flats partly collapsed a few hours later. Benoit Payan, the city's mayor, said it was likely that people had died. Almost 200 people were evacuated from nearby buildings. More than 100 firefighters were sent to tame the flames that followed the blast. The fire burned throughout most of Sunday, and authorities warned the blaze could continue for hours - although on Sunday evening it showed signs of abating. The fire hindered the search for the missing people, which the city's prosecutors said included a "young couple" and "people of a certain age". The intense heat and dust has prevented search dogs from picking through the rubble. NPR L.A. school district workers have approved a labor deal following a 3-day strike LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified School District workers have approved a labor deal following a three-day strike over wages and staffing that halted education for students in one of the nation's largest school systems. The agreement, which was voted on this week, would increase wages by 30% for workers who are paid an average of $25,000 a year, the Local 99 chapter of the Service Employees International Union said Saturday. It also includes a $1,000 bonus for employees who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic and expanded family health care benefits. The contract still needs to be approved by the school district's Board of Education. The school district said the board could take it up for a vote at a meeting on April 18. Thousands of workers backed by teachers went on strike last month and rallied outside the school district's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles amid stalled contract talks. The Guardian AOC urges Biden to ignore Texas ruling suspending approval of abortion drug The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday there was “an extraordinary amount of precedent” for the Joe Biden White House to ignore a Friday court ruling suspending federal approval of a drug used in medication abortion. Those remarks from the Democratic US House member quickly prompted a threat by the Texas Republican congressman Tony Gonzales to defund certain programs under the federal agency which oversees medication approvals if Biden’s administration did as Ocasio-Cortez suggested. The Biden administration has already said it plans to appeal a Friday rulingfrom Texas-based federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative appointed by the Donald Trump White House, that blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone. The FDA approved the drug in 2000, a move that is now being challenged by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group. The Guardian ‘Barbaric’ attacks leave 44 civilians dead in Burkina Faso Forty-four civilians have been killed by “armed terrorist groups” in two villages in north-eastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday. The provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi overnight on Thursday “is 44 civilians killed and others wounded,” said Rodolphe Sorgho, lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region. Sorgho said that 31 people had died in Kourakou and 13 in Tondobi. An army offensive put “out of action the armed terrorist groups” that carried out the killings, he said. The impoverished Sahel country is grappling with a seven-year-old campaign by jihadists linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State. The Guardian China sends dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan as US urges restraint amid military drills China sent dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan for a second day of military drills on Sunday, launching simulated attacks in retaliation to the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meeting the US House speaker during a brief visit to the US. Taiwan’s defence ministry said it was monitoring the movements of China’s missile forces, as the US said it too was on alert. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent 70 warplanes, including fighter jets, reconnaissance craft and refuellers, into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Sunday morning, according to Taiwan’s defence ministry. It did not provide a map or locations, but said 31 planes had crossed the median line – the de facto border in the Taiwan strait between Taiwan and China. Al Jazeera Ukraine children returned from Russia after alleged deportation More than 30 children have been reunited with their families in Ukraine this week after a long operation to bring them back from Russia, where they had been taken from occupied areas during the war, a humanitarian group has said. Kyiv has estimated nearly 19,500 children have been taken to Russia since Moscow invaded in February last year, in what it condemns as illegal deportations. Moscow, which controls parts of Ukraine’s east and south, has denied abducting children and said they have been transported away for their own safety. On Friday, the Save Ukraine charity said the children and their relatives had crossed the border into Kyiv-controlled territory. According to released footage, the children, who carried suitcases and bags, crossed the border on foot and later boarded a bus to continue their journey. Reuters White House plans support for drugstores, pharma in abortion pill battle WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - The White House is planning to re-up discussions with abortion pill manufacturers and U.S. pharmacy chains on ways to push back against efforts to ban mifepristone, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, as it appeals a Texas court ruling suspending the approval of the drug. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, on Friday suspendedapproval of mifepristone, which will essentially make sales of the pill illegal in the U.S., while a legal challenge proceeds. A conflicting Washington state ruling on Friday blocks changes to pill sales in 17 states. In January, the Food and Drug Administration made a regulatory change that made it possible for retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the country for the first time, but more than a dozen states have passed laws limiting such sales. There are no retail pharmacies that are currently certified to dispense mifepristone and many are going through the certification process. Deutsche Welle India's tiger population creeps back above 3,000 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that the country's tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000. Tigers — which once roamed widely across much of Asia— have lost some 93% of their natural range and now live in scattered populations in just 13 countries. The census found there were 3,167 tigers in the wild across the country — up from 2,967 four years ago. "Our family is expanding," Modi said at a ceremony in the southern city of Mysuru. "This is a success not only for India but the entire world." The country's flagship conservation program, Project Tiger, began in 1973 after a census found India's tigers were rapidly becoming extinct through habitat loss. "India is a country where protecting nature is part of our culture," Modi said. "This is why we have many unique achievements in wildlife conservation." Also on Sunday, Modi launched the International Big Cats Alliance that he said would concentrate on the conservation of seven big cat species — the tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, puma, jaguar and cheetah. Raw Story Walmart just illustrated how mainstream electric vehicles are now In the latest sign that corporate behemoths are getting behind the shift to electric vehicles, Walmart announced on Thursday that it would install fast-charging stations at thousands of locations around the country. The rollout would quadruple the company’s network of charging stations, currently available at more than 280 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores. Walmart’s move could help allay a common concern about buying an electric car — range anxiety, the fear of getting stranded with a dead battery and no chargers in sight. “We’ve got a Walmart store or Sam’s Club within 10 miles of 90 percent of the population in this country,” Vishal Kapadia, the company’s senior vice president of energy transformation, told the Washington Post. “We know we can address range anxiety in a way that no one else can.” Seen as a pipe dream not long ago, the shift to electric vehicles is finally becoming a concrete reality. Washington Post The man who unleashed AI on an unsuspecting Silicon Valley [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/9/2163072/-Overnight-News-Digest-April-9-2023 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/