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CROSSWORD - APRIL 21, 2023

The Week

SUDOKU - APRIL 21, 2023

The Week

CROSSWORD - APRIL 21, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday raised the stakes of his already acrimonious feud with the Walt Disney Company, not-so-subtly floating the possibility of opening a state prison on a plot of land adjacent to the corporation's Disney World theme park.

Climate change is extending tax season, according to The Washington Post.

A former mail carrier is bringing his fight with U.S. Postal Service to the Supreme Court after he was penalized for refusing to work on Sundays due to his beliefs as an evangelical Christian. His case "gives the Supreme Court another chance to widen religious rights," Reuters says,  "but also has led to a debate over whether religious people are more legally deserving than others to weekend days off from work."

A Paris court on Monday cleared Air France and Airbus of involuntary manslaughter charges related to a 2009 plane crash that killed 228 people. 

We're off to see the wizard ... just after we turn the brightness up on our computer screens. 

NASA recently announced the crew of its upcoming Artemis II mission, which will be the first manned trip to the moon since 1972. The launch is being billed as the first step toward getting humans to Mars, but how does NASA plan to do that? Here's everything you need to know: 

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New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, which won the 2013 Booker Prize. Her follow-up, Birnam Wood, is a current best-seller about a group of climate activists battling a U.S. billionaire over a remote tract of land.

After the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas was apoplectic. She spent weeks firing off texts and emails urging Donald Trump's chief of staff and state legislators to overturn the results, saying Trump's defeat would ensure "the end of America." When the messages were later made public, Thomas insisted she had not discussed her belief the election was stolen with her husband and "best friend," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That's convenient, since the justice never recused himself from cases involving Trump, the election, or Jan. Читать дальше...

It's almost time to return to Hogwarts, this time on the small screen. After years of rumors, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially confirmed a new Harry Potter television series will dive back into J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, though it won't do so without its fair share of controversy. From a potential release date to Rowling's level of involvement, here's everything we know about the project so far: 

Texas has declared itself open for Bitcoin mining, an energy-intensive endeavor that involves warehouses of powerful computers trying to solve complex mathematical problems to unlock valuable cryptocurrency tokens. Texas also has an increasingly strained power grid that serves only Texas and keeps failing or threatening to overload during winter storms and summer heatwaves. 

The Delaware judge overseeing Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News delayed the start of the high-profile trial until at least Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis did not explain the 24-hour delay in his statement late Sunday, but The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post report that Fox News is exploring avenues to settle the case out of court. The trial, expected to last about six weeks, was supposed to start Monday morning with jury selection and opening statements. Читать дальше...