Sidney's Picks: Threats against US judges soar

Celebrating the Hillman Prizes in New York City this week.
The Best of the Week’s News
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Violent threats against judges surge online as federal jurists receive a barrage of unsolicited pizza deliveries in the name of a judge’s son who was murdered by a disgruntled litigant. (Wired, CBS) 
 
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DOGE claimed that 40% of direct deposit calls to Social Security were fraudulent but their new fraud detection system puts the real number at a fraction of 1%. (NextGov) 
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USDA and DOGE demand unprecedented details about food stamp recipientsfrom states. (NPR) 
 
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A brain dead pregnant woman in Georgia is being kept alive against her family’s wishes because of the state’s abortion law. (11Alive) 
 
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Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele cracks down on the free press. (Yahoo) 

