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U.S. to empower asylum officials to reject more migrants earlier in process (www.cbsnews.com)

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Mom’s Fatal Fall at Ohio State Graduation Was No Accident: Coroner (www.thedailybeast.com)

They Bought Tablets in Prison—and Found a Broken Promise (www.wired.com)

A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson reportedly issued a statement in October 2022 confirming that it was “in the process of introducing the Keefe Score 7c tablet into federal institutions, offering it for sale through the commissaries at a cost of $118.” Initially, the bureau said, the tablets could only be used for music...

US revokes Intel, Qualcomm's export licenses to sell to China's Huawei, sources say | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump (www.usatoday.com)

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....

Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide (www.nbcnews.com)

Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....

After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers (www.npr.org)

Analysis: Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans (www.cnn.com)

There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....

Trump Posts -- Then Deletes -- Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying (www.rollingstone.com)

Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ (www.theguardian.com)

Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)

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Republican clerk charged in Michigan voting-system breach (www.reuters.com)

A Michigan township clerk was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday, the latest turn in a state inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump supporters to tamper with voting machines to prove his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud....

GOP Lawmakers in Louisiana Reject Adding Rape & Incest Exceptions for Children to Abortion Ban. Again. (www.jezebel.com)

RFK Jr. says he had parasitic brain worm and undisclosed memory loss (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow (www.cbc.ca)

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metre dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said....

Abortion restrictions increase risk of intimate partner homicide, study finds (www.salon.com)

US public school officials push back in congressional hearing on antisemitism (www.theguardian.com)

This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered. (www.propublica.org)

Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (www.nytimes.com)

Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered audio engineer who played a singular role in the development of the sound of alternative rock music in the 1980s, the ’90s and beyond — recording acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies and hundreds of others — while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry, died...

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