Audit finds Minnesota agency's lax oversight fostered theft of $250M from federal food aid program (apnews.com)
Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands liable for Colombia deaths, must pay $38.3M to family members (apnews.com)
Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations (apnews.com)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history....
Supreme Court will take up Meta's bid to end lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider shutting down a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm....
Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks....
A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream (apnews.com)
Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan?...
Apparent pro-Palestinian activists splash red paint on homes of Jewish officials at Brooklyn Museum (apnews.com)
US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv's desperate calls for air defenses (apnews.com)
The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region....
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)
Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors (apnews.com)
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks....
Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at sleepover gets prison term (apnews.com)
An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison....
Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a cease-fire plan in Gaza are workable and some not (apnews.com)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (apnews.com)
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-election-legislative-parliament-national-rally-07b742fe000170af8ee410e292bf23e2...
Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”...
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke (apnews.com)
Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers (apnews.com)
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Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers (apnews.com)
Heavy snows and drought of deadly 'dzud' kill more than 7 million head of livestock in Mongolia (apnews.com)
3 Nixon justices helped end his presidency. Will the 3 Trump appointees force him to stand trial? (apnews.com)
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days after hearing the case. Nixon resigned from office just over two weeks later....
Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands liable for Colombia deaths by financing paramilitary group, must pay $38.3M to family members (apnews.com)
Anchorage Alaska police won't release bodycam video of 3 shootings. It's creating a fight over transparency (apnews.com)
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Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders (apnews.com)
Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than expected in southeast Louisiana (apnews.com)
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....
What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? (apnews.com)
