The Best of the Week’s News

• Bird flu is ravaging an Utah mink farm. Humans rarely catch the deadly virus from birds, but they can catch it from mink. Federal authorities refuse to act. (ProPublica)

   

• Many OB-GYNs were driven out of Idaho by the abortion ban, and those who stayed are struggling to hang on. (NYT)
   

• Conspiracy theorists known as Sovereign Citizens are defrauding the Canadian government of tens of millions of tax dollars. (CBC, fifth estate)
   

• Amazon is using AI to predict whether workers will join unions. (Novara Media)
   

• Meet the unlikely rebels of Data Center Alley. (Nation/EHRP)
   

• West Bank settlers attack a journalist. (WaPo)