Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say (apnews.com)
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Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline deluged with calls, hindered by lack of shelter beds (www.wbez.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/e7d0a319-389f-4baf-b4b9-dc3da1c…
Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions (apnews.com)
Congress replaces statue of white supremacist with statue of anti-LGBTQ+ zealot (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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.”...
Famed forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht dies at age 93 - CBS Pittsburgh (www.cbsnews.com)
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....