Louisiana authorities search for 2 escaped jail inmates (apnews.com)
Four inmates escaped a south Louisiana jail over the weekend and two were still missing Tuesday, authorities said....
The FAA investigates after Boeing says workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records (apnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate...
Elon Musk accuses Australia of censorship after court bans violent video (apnews.com)
US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm....
US pushes alternatives to Rafah invasion in Hamas war talks with Israel (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top American and Israeli officials held virtual talks Monday as the U.S. pushed alternatives to the ground assault against Hamas under consideration by Israelis in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a move the U.S. opposes on humanitarian grounds and that has frayed relations between the two allies....
Some state lawmakers want school chaplains as part of a 'rescue mission' for public education (apnews.com)
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools, a move that proponents say will ease a youth mental health crisis, bolster staff retention and offer spiritual care to students who can’t afford or access religious schools....
Strippers' bill of rights bill signed into law in Washington state (apnews.com)
Legislation in Washington state known as the strippers’ bill of rights, which advocates say includes the most comprehensive statewide protections in the nation, was signed into law on Monday....
Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport in newest attack on key government sites (apnews.com)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons....
Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed (apnews.com)
The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of those wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by gunfire, suggesting there was heavy shooting by Israeli troops....
Firefighters needed so much water that a Minnesota town's people were asked to go without (apnews.com)
Firefighters needed so much water to battle a huge grain elevator blaze that they had to ask the whole town to go without — even canceling school to conserve the water supply, officials said....
Charges against alleged white supremacists are tossed by a California judge for the second time (apnews.com)
For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted....
The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences (apnews.com)
Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador’s police as she walked to work in a clothing factory....
Sweden moves one step closer to NATO membership after a Turkish parliamentary committee gives approval (apnews.com)
Gaza war's staggering toll reaches a grim milestone: 20,000 dead (apnews.com)
Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins (apnews.com)
The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida’s ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect....
Donald Tusk becomes Poland's prime minister with the mission of improving European Union ties (apnews.com)
Donald Tusk, a leader of a centrist party, returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of stormy national conservative rule....
Turkey's Erdogan accuses the West of 'barbarism' and Islamophobia in the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia....
US, allies in talks on naval task force to protect shipping in Red Sea after Houthi attacks (apnews.com)
The White House said Monday that the U.S. may establish a naval task force to escort commercial ships in the Red Sea, a day after three vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back Houthis in Yemen....
Disney says DeSantis-appointed district is dragging feet in providing documents for lawsuit (apnews.com)
Walt Disney World’s governing district made up of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees is dragging its feet in providing requested documents to Disney in a lawsuit over who has design and construction powers over the company’s sprawling theme park resort in central Florida, Disney said in court papers....
Iran's foreign minister warns Israel from Beirut it could suffer 'a huge earthquake' (apnews.com)
Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer “a huge earthquake.”...
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1022137...
India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen (apnews.com)
India’s visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada’s leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen....
Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it (apnews.com)
But Illinois is about to overhaul the system that upended Ross’ life. Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for whether — and how — it works on a large scale....
China objects as US approves military aid to Taiwan under program aimed at sovereign nations (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/556545...
San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls (apnews.com)
Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation....
