New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves (www.theguardian.com)
Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement...
'It's Horrifying': West Virginia Judge Revokes Bond of White Couple Who Reportedly Kept Their Black Adopted Children Locked In Shed In 'Despicable' Conditions with No Water, Lights and Little Food (atlantablackstar.com)
A white couple from rural West Virginia is back behind bars after a judge revoked the initial bond and raised it to $500,000 apiece — more than double the amount they faced last year when police arrested the pair on charges of locking their adopted Black children in a barn and forcing them to work as “slaves.”...
Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now: Report (abcnews.go.com)
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study (www.theguardian.com)
Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species...
Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds (www.statnews.com)
Trump’s endorsement is starting to show its limits (www.politico.com)
Tuesday was a rough primary night for Donald Trump — and he wasn’t even on the ballot....
Autopsy report rules 12-year-old's death at camp for troubled adolescents a homicide (www.nbcnews.com)
NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with derailment probe after botching vent-and-burn call (apnews.com)
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency’s investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside....
Christian nationalists are opening private schools. Taxpayers are funding them. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office (archive.ph)
Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over wiper, trim issues in latest setback (www.reuters.com)
Tesla said on Tuesday it was recalling most Cybertrucks in the United States over issues with their windshield wipers and exterior trim, the latest setback for the futuristic truck whose mass production is expected to start next year....
Melting? Fossil Fuels Have Made Extreme Heat 35 Times More Likely in North America (www.motherjones.com)
Hillary Clinton: I’ve Debated Trump and Biden. Here’s What I’m Watching For. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16925582...
AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of 'Massive' Infringement In New Lawsuit (www.rollingstone.com)
‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population loss (www.washingtonpost.com)
There is a deepening sense of fear as population loss accelerates in rural America. The decline of small-town life is expected to be a looming topic in the presidential election....
Federal judge rejects $30 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard and retailers | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Alarms Raised Over For-Profit Medicare Advantage Using AI to Deny Care to Seniors (www.commondreams.org)
Title IX Mandates Universities to Accommodate Students Who Have Had Abortions. Texas Is Suing. (msmagazine.com)
Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
Cop: Jeff Bezos’ WaPo CEO Deceived Police, Framed U.K. Prime Minister (www.thedailybeast.com)
Hunter Biden requests new trial after conviction in gun case (www.theguardian.com)
Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca - The Ithaca Voice (ithacavoice.org)
Trump expects Biden to be a 'worthy debater' after spending months attacking his mental fitness (abcnews.go.com)
This is way up there with the stupidest excuses Trump has ever made:...