1.  TikTok ‘Slap a Teacher’ Trend Prompts Action From AG

 BAD KIDS 

The challenge has seen teachers from Missouri to South Carolina get slapped by students.

2.  Los Angeles Now Has One of the Strictest Vaccine Mandates

  PROVE IT 

Proof of vaccination will be required for bars, restaurants, salons, gyms, coffee shops, bowling alleys, and many other indoor sites.

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4.  Rioters Who Boasted of Taking Pelosi’s Beer Are Nabbed

 ‘SHE DRINKS CORONA’ 

In a Facebook message in January, Cara Hentschel allegedly wrote, “we storm peloskis office and took her beer. She drinks Corona.”

5.  Independent Sleuths Claim They’ve Cracked Zodiac Killer Case

 THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING 

The team of retired cops, journalist and military investigators say they’ve identified the killer as a man who died in 2018.

6.  This Little Press Made My Hamburgers So Much Better

 BURGER OF THE DAY 

As opposed to just smushing burgers with your hands, this press helps me make a consistent burger every single time.

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7.  Juror Cut From Holmes Trial Over Buddhist Concerns on Prison

 BAD KARMA 

The alternate juror chosen as a replacement then also expressed qualms about deciding whether to send Elizabeth Holmes to prison.

8.  Colorado Hospital: Only Vaxxed Patients Get Transplants

 GET THE SHOT 

“For transplant patients who contract COVID-19, the mortality rate ranges from about 20 percent to more than 30 percent,” UCHealth said.

9.  Brittany Murphy Was in ‘So Much Pain’ in Final Days: Doco

 GIRL, INTERRUPTED 

The actress’ sudden death over a decade ago at age 32 left a horde of unanswered questions.

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10.  AT&T Is Behind the Rise of Pro-Trump Network, Report Says

 SECRET SPONSOR 

The communications giant was reportedly a major source of funding for the fringe network as it broadcast far-right conspiracy theories in the Trump era.

11.  Christian TV Network Fined for COVID Conspiracy-Mongering

  TALK SH*T, GET HIT 

Religious channel LoveWorld has been fined nearly $34,000 after an investigation concluded it had aired “potentially harmful statements.”

12.  Nearly 200K Home COVID Tests Recalled Over False Positives

 SORRY ABOUT THAT 

The company attributed the error to a defective component in their tests.

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13.  ‘Historical Event’: WHO Endorses First-Ever Malaria Vaccine

 GOOD NEWS 

The disease kills about 500,000 people a year, the majority of whom are kids in Africa.

14.  Florida’s ‘Lizard King’ Charged in Turtle Trafficking Ring

 LESSONS NEVER LEARNED 

The man allegedly used a network of “collectors” to sell the turtles to China and Japan.

15.  22K Could Have Debt Erased in Student Loan Program Overhaul

 SAVED 

The Education Department said Wednesday that 22,000 borrowers are expected to see immediate relief, with 27,000 more potentially benefiting from the changes.

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