Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in April...
Nintendo reveals that the new Mario game will have a trans character (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Labour unions in Nigeria to begin indefinite strike over minimum wage (www.africanews.com)
The two main labour unions in Nigeria have declared an indefinite strike as from Monday over what they terms as a disagreement on a new minimum wage with the government.
Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers (finance.yahoo.com)
Biden's Gaza plan 'not a good deal' but Israel accepts it, Netanyahu aide says (www.reuters.com)
Netanyahu is under pressure to keep his coalition government intact. Two far-right partners have threatened to bolt in protest at any deal they deem to spare Hamas. A centrist partner, ex-general Benny Gantz, wants the deal considered. Hamas has provisionally welcomed the Biden initiative.
[opinion] Trump Says He's 'Okay' With Serving Jail Time, And He Might Do Just That (www.theroot.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713272...
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
German Cop Dies After Being Stabbed At Anti-Islam Rally (www.ndtv.com)
Five people taking part in a rally organised by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam, were wounded in the attack....
Preliminary results project Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico’s first female president (edition.cnn.com)
Mexico is set to get its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history....
College students leave behind hoard of trash at California’s Shasta Lake (www.theguardian.com)
Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debris...
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say (wapo.st)
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds (phys.org)
A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...
Boeing’s largest plant in ‘panic mode’ amid safety crisis, say workers and union officials (www.theguardian.com)
Managers in Washington accused of hounding staff to keep quiet over quality concerns, as employees point to union-busting...
Biden camp warns Trump could still get re-elected with ‘unhinged campaign of revenge’ (www.independent.co.uk)
CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year (apnews.com)
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets....
Man who threatened to kill the Bidens, Obama, Hillary Clinton sentenced to federal prison (lawandcrime.com)
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate (www.cnn.com)
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict (www.reuters.com)
Lengthy immigrant detention can be unconstitutional, US appeals court rules (www.reuters.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/lengthy-immigrant-detention-can…
California inmates fight wildfires — but if prisons can’t supply enough crews, what’s next? (www.sacbee.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/article287294735.html
Who is Elizabeth Teckenbrock? Single mom who went viral for crying while baking own birthday cake says ex-husband is ‘Scientologist’ (haor.org)
Elizabeth Teckenbrock, 29, from Tampa, Florida, went viral after sharing a clip on TikTok showing the difficulty of being a single parent which has amassed more than 53million views
The rightwing plan to take over ‘sanctuary’ cities – and rebuild them Maga-style (www.theguardian.com)
Navy sailor sentenced to 18 years in prison over espionage charges (www.nbcnews.com)
A U.S. sailor was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 18 years in a military prison Thursday after being found guilty of espionage while working for the Navy in Japan....
After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China’s history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for those who cannot....
