T-6 Instructor Pilot Dies After Ejection Seat Goes Off on the Ground (www.airandspaceforces.com)
NTSB releases report on Baltimore bridge collapse (www.cnn.com)
www.ntsb.gov/investigations/…/DCA24MM031.aspx...
US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel (taskandpurpose.com)
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...
Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in Iran-Israel shadow war (www.reuters.com)
Florida man sentenced to 3 years in prison for firebombing California Planned Parenthood clinic (apnews.com)
A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said....
Battles rage across Gaza, Israel releases images of armed men at UN site (www.reuters.com)
Israeli troops fought militants across Gaza on Wednesday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven-month war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians....
Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap (thehill.com)
Fox News won’t bother mentioning this to their viewers.
Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, relocating majority of remote office staff (www.pymnts.com)
Steve Buscemi victim of random street attack in New York City (www.theguardian.com)
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says (apnews.com)
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
The China-linked EV battery mega factory dividing a US township (www.theguardian.com)
Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place' (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”...
Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested' (www.rawstory.com)
Donald Trump’s former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it....
Nazi flag-bearing man who crashed a truck into barriers near the White House pleads guilty to felony (apnews.com)
Army major resigns over Biden's response to Israel (www.newsweek.com)
DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence (abcnews.go.com)
Mother identified as person killed in fall at daughter’s Ohio State graduation ceremony (www.today.com)
The authorities think it was an apparent suicide. At her daughter’s graduation ceremony. Seriously WTF?!
AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines (apnews.com)
In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times....
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks (www.theguardian.com)
Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road....
Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options (arstechnica.com)
Google’s Gemini AI wants to help you plan, brainstorm, and shop inside Search....
Eric Trump Tweets From Dad’s Trial Despite Electronics Ban (www.thedailybeast.com)
Students borrowing from the federal government this fall will face the highest interest rate in more than a decade (www.nbcnews.com)
Is your bank funding climate change? - Which? News (www.which.co.uk)
JPMorgan Chase was named the biggest fossil fuel financier in the world, having increased its financing from $38.9bn in 2022 to $40.8bn in 2023....
Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert (abcnews.go.com)
With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state’s first air quality alert of 2024....
