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Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother have been released from jail in Romania and placed under house arrest for 30 days instead, according to court documents. The self-proclaimed misogynist, 36, and his sibling Tristan were released from a detention facility in Bucharest just before midnight local time. Leaving the facility, Tristan Tate told reporters that "the judges today made the right decision." https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-tate-released-from-jail-and-placed-under-house-arrest-his-spokesperson-says-12846734

New YorkCNN — News organizations have a message for Elon Musk: We are not going to pay you for checkmarks on Twitter. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, POLITICO, and Vox all scoffed at the notion on Thursday that they would pay Twitter for the feature, which has been free since it was introduced years ago but will soon be phased out. CNN said it has no intention of paying for Twitter’s subscription service for its accounts but would make a few exceptions for some key staff. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/30/media/news-organizations-elon-musk-twitter-checkmark/index.html

MINNEAPOLIS -- Anton Lazzaro, a former GOP operative, has been found guilty of sex trafficking underage girls. Lazzaro was charged with seven counts involving "commercial sex acts" with five minors ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when he was 30 years old. Closing arguments wrapped on Friday, and the jury was handed the case shortly before noon. The jury deliberated for a little over three hours before finding Lazzaro guilty of all counts. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/closing-arguments-end-in-trial-of-anton-lazzaro-accused-of-sex-trafficking-minors/

A prominent member of a California-based white supremacist group has been arrested in Romania and will be extradited to the US. Robert Rundo, 33, co-founder of the Rise Above Movement, was arrested on Friday at a Bucharest gym following a tip-off, Romanian police said. He was accused of violence in 2017 and indicted by a US court in 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65141285

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UPDATE: After Trump indictment, Manhattan DA warns GOP allies against ‘baseless and inflammatory’ attacks The day after his historic indictment of Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg warned the former president’s House Republican allies to refrain from “unlawful political interference” with the criminal process. “Yesterday, the District Attorney of New York County filed charges against Donald Trump for violations of New York law,” the DA’s office General Counsel Leslie Dubeck wrote in a 6-page letter, adding in a footnote that Trump is presumed innocent of those charges until a jury finds otherwise. “The charges filed yesterday were brought by citizens of New York, doing their civic duty as members of a grand jury, who found probable cause to accuse Mr. Trump of having committed crimes in New York.” https://lawandcrime.com/trump/after-trump-indictment-manhattan-da-warns-gop-allies-against-baseless-and-inflammatory-attacks/

In Ukraine, Moscow is pursuing an unprovoked war of aggression. In The Hague, Vladimir Putin is facing an arrest warrant for war crimes, but at the UN, Russia is about to take charge of a powerful international body, the security council. From Saturday, it will be Russia’s turn to take up the monthly presidency of the 15-member council, in line with a rotation that has been unaffected by the Ukraine war. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/31/absurdity-to-a-new-level-as-russia-takes-charge-of-un-security-council

Interesting, the new version can be used for the more simple tasks in coding for computer games and such. Friend or foe: Can computer coders trust ChatGPT? "It felt like magic to me," says Pietro Schirano. "It scared me a little bit because it was so good." He's talking about the latest version of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. You type something in, and it makes up a reply for you. It's uncanny how human, friendly and intelligent the responses seem. Underneath it is an AI model called GPT-4. Mr Schirano, design lead at business finance company Brex, has been using ChatGPT to make computer programs. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65086798

"We will never forgive": Zelensky marks one year since the liberation of Bucha “A symbol of the atrocities of the occupying country’s army. We will never forgive. We will punish every perpetrator." Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin said these were "horrifying figures" in a separate statement Friday. “That was the first time we all saw evidence of the unprecedented scale of the enemy's atrocities," he said. https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-31-23/h_c9483c61dfd3f11311d79fc909f91cd5

Oscar Pistorius faces a parole hearing that will decide if he will be freed from prison, a decade after he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The former Olympic and Paralympic athlete, known as the Blade Runner, has applied for parole and could be freed from prison within weeks after serving half of his 13-year-five-month sentence. A parole board, which will start its hearing today, must determine if Pistorius will be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence on licence at his uncle's home in South African capital city, Pretoria. https://news.sky.com/story/oscar-pistorius-faces-parole-hearing-after-serving-half-his-sentence-12843601

Speculation is increasing that former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg may have turned on Donald Trump as he is no longer represented by lawyers paid for by the former president's company. Weisselberg, who is currently serving five months in the infamous Rikers Island jail in New York after pleading guilty to 15 felony counts relating to a tax evasion scheme carried out by The Trump Organization, is said to have parted ways with his lawyers, Nick Gravante and Mary Mulligan, WNBC reported. There are suggestions that Weisselberg could face further charges in connection to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigation into the hush money Trump allegedly asked his former attorney Michael Cohen to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an affair she allegedly had with the former president a secret ahead of the 2016 election. https://www.newsweek.com/allen-weisselberg-flip-donald-trump-lawyers-1791411

Your tomato plant may be crying out for you to water it, but although other animals and plants might hear it, your human ears are deaf to the sound of its laments. That’s the finding of new research that captured the pops and clicks of stressed plants, which have been tuned down to the human hearing range. The novel experiment revealed that plants exposed to harmful pressures, such as injuries and dehydration, produce ultrasonic noises that may be audible to animals and plants as far as 16 feet away, in this way, plants may use sound to communicate with their wider ecosystems, a finding that sheds light on their mysterious inner worlds and could help mitigate agricultural challenges presented by climate change. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aknn3/plants-make-sounds-when-hurt-scientists-confirm-and-now-you-can-hear-it

Finland will become the 31st member of Nato after Turkey's parliament voted to approve its application. Turkey had delayed Finland's bid to join the West's defensive alliance for months - complaining the Nordic nation was supporting "terrorists". Sweden, which applied to join Nato at the same time last year, is still being blocked by Ankara over similar complaints. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65132527

Four bankers who allowed a friend of Vladimir Putin to deposit huge sums in Swiss banks have been found guilty of lacking due diligence. The former executives at the Zurich branch of Russia's Gazprombank were given seven-month suspended sentences for helping musician Sergei Roldugin, nicknamed "Putin's wallet". Mr Roldugin reportedly paid in $50m (£42m) between 2014 and 2016. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65123083

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Researchers from Durham University discover the black hole by using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, where they convert a nearby galaxy into a giant magnifying glass. The team described its findings, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, as "extremely exciting". Lead author Dr James Nightingale, of the Department of Physics at Durham University, said: "this particular black hole, which is roughly 30 billion times the mass of our sun, is one of the biggest ever detected and on the upper limit of how large we believe black holes can theoretically become, so it is an extremely exciting discovery." https://news.sky.com/story/ultramassive-black-hole-around-33-billion-times-the-mass-of-the-sun-discovered-by-uk-astronomers-12844649

Swedes will be 'sent to their deaths' if they join NATO, Russia's ambassador to Stockholm has warned in a tirade of attacks on the Nordic nation. Viktor Tatarintsev claimed in a statement on the Russian embassy's website that Sweden and neighbour Finland would both face 'retaliatory measures', including 'military ones', if they join the international military alliance. Sweden has since announced that it has summoned the Russian ambassador to explain his remarks in which he said Sweden and Finland would both become 'legitimate targets' after joining NATO. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11914849/Russia-warns-joining-NATO-make-Sweden-legitimate-target-retaliatory-measures.html

Sen. John Fetterman plans to return to the Senate the week of April 17 after more than a month of inpatient treatment for depression, according to two people with direct knowledge of his plan. The Pennsylvania Democrat began receiving treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in mid-February. His return will be welcome news for Senate Democrats, who have a slim majority and have struggled to deal with absences over the last month. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/fetterman-set-to-return-to-senate-00089519

The International Olympic Committee has recommended that Russian and Belarusian athletes are allowed to compete under a neutral flag - but has yet to make a decision on Paris 2024. This recommendation only extends to individual athletes, not teams. The IOC's executive board has also told international federations and event organisers that athletes and support personnel who actively support the war in Ukraine, or who are contracted to the military, should not be permitted to compete. https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/65102910

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Through the day, old and young, some in school uniform, gather to place flowers and stuffed toys at the school sign, they cry, embrace each other and wonder why this has happened here, in their affluent suburb of Nashville. There is anger, too, about America's gun laws. The shooter, Audrey Hale, was able to purchase seven guns legally from five local gun shops, three of them, including two automatic rifles, were used in Monday's shooting. https://news.sky.com/story/what-about-these-kids-right-to-life-tributes-for-nashvillle-victims-as-gun-control-debate-intensifies-12844605

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