Tennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouses (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/fayette-janitorial-hired-minors…
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....
Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (www.cbsnews.com)
A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning....
Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group's money and owes more than $4M, jury finds (apnews.com)
The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and trips on private planes and superyachts, a New York jury determined Friday....
Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male students’ natural hair (www.cnn.com)
Musk and Assange follow Putin, Trump and Stalin as Nobel Peace Prize nominees (www.politico.eu)
Leaked hacking files show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike (www.pbs.org)
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners....
Nuclear fusion: Scientists say they can use AI to solve a key problem in the quest for clean energy | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Trump leadership PAC racked up $4.8 million in new legal bills (www.politico.com)
Legal costs have dogged Trump, and Tuesday’s filings with the Federal Election Commission show they continue....
The Empty Adderall Factory (nymag.com)
A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
California puts Waymo robotaxi expansion application on hold until June 19 - Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants women to stop tempting Christian men (www.newsweek.com)
Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says (apnews.com)
The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday....
Circuit court blocks judge's decision to release white supremacist for being 'selectively prosecuted' (abcnews.go.com)
A federal appeals court panel on Thursday moved to stay a district judge’s order that cleared the release of an alleged leader of a white supremacist organization who had previously fled the U.S. to evade prosecution....
Jury finds NRA and Wayne LaPierre liable in civil corruption trial (www.nbcnews.com)
Former Vancouver safe supply program saved lives, new research says (vancouversun.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16062941...
At the Florida Man Games, tank-topped teams compete at evading police, wrestling over beer (apnews.com)
They rose up by the dozens from across Florida, caricatured competitors in tank tops and cutoff shorts, for a showdown that treats evading police and wrestling over beer like Olympic sports....
Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S. (www.cbsnews.com)
FTC Takes Action Against Tax Prep Company H and R Block For Wiping Consumers’ Data, Deceptively Marketing ‘Free’ Online Filing (www.ftc.gov)
In an administrative complaint, FTC staff alleges that H&R Block’s online tax filing products lead consumers into higher-cost products made for more complicated tax filings, despite many consumers not needing the additional tax forms and schedules offered by those products. In addition, H&R Block fails to clearly explain which...
Republicans, Trump try to contain backlash from Alabama fertility ruling | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
How the Justice Department foils assassination plots in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/how-the-justice-department-foil…
Judge formally says Trump owes $454 million in civil fraud case, countdown starts for him to put up the money for appeal (www.cnn.com)
A New York judge on Friday formally ordered Donald Trump to pay $454 million, including interest, a move that will give the former president one month to post nearly half a billion dollars to appeal the fraud verdict....
Man guilty in Black transgender woman's killing in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity (apnews.com)
A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity....
“We Must Not Let History Repeat Itself:” Race-Baiting and Revenge in Richmond (themainlander.com)
New Israeli report alleging 'systematic and intentional rape' by Hamas relies on debunked Western media reports - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
The contents of the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Center’s paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports. Among its most heavily cited sources is a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.
