Coming soon to Dave & Buster's: Betting. New app function allows customers to wager on games. (www.usatoday.com)
300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments (www.democracynow.org)
GOP-led Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban, sending it to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs (www.cbsnews.com)
Two Republicans, TJ Shopes and Shawnna LM Bolick, joined all 14 Democrats to pass the measure, sending it to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk.
4.1-magnitude earthquake shakes Orange County, Riverside County California (abc7.com)
6 months after Illinois ended cash bail, jail populations are down as courts settle into new patterns (www.chicagotribune.com)
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Campus protests over the Gaza war: How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words (www.npr.org)
Exclusive: US military's pier in Gaza to cost $320 million (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. military’s cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters....
As Biden Plans to Reschedule Marijuana, Advocates Say 'Fully Legalize' It (www.commondreams.org)
New Orleans archdiocese is target of child sex-trafficking inquiry, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as US births dipped in 2023 (www.cnn.com)
The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century....
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T fined $200m by FCC over illegal location-data sharing (www.theguardian.com)
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T say they will appeal against ‘excessive’ fines meted out by US regulator...
Columbia Protesters Storm Hamilton Hall (www.newsweek.com)
Things just took an interesting turn. These youngsters seem to not understand the power of the government.
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law (www.theguardian.com)
Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January...
Violence breaks out at UCLA after officials declare pro-Palestinian encampment 'unlawful' (www.latimes.com)
STATEMENT FROM BESIEGED UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT: x.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785620846700351510
USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow (apnews.com)
Gaza war protesters shut down Golden Gate Bridge, block traffic in other cities (www.nbcnews.com)
EU probes Meta for killing tool that enables real-time election monitoring | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Biden admin moves to protect LGBTQ+ kids in foster care (www.advocate.com)
A family member finally shows up to Donald Trump's hush-money trial (www.motherjones.com)
What would ICC arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu mean for Israel? | Inside Story (www.youtube.com)
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Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about (www.cnn.com)
A 38-year-old man repeatedly tries to force his wife to have sex in the middle of the night but has no memory of his actions when he wakes up....
George Santos's latest money-making plot? Reviving his drag persona, Kitara Ravache (www.advocate.com)
$1.3 billion Powerball jackpot winner is a Laotian immigrant battling cancer (www.nbcnews.com)
Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, who was born in Laos and immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, plans to split the money with a friend and find himself a “good doctor.”...
White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees (www.cbsnews.com)
Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals (www.nature.com)
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been silently spreading in US cattle for months, according to preliminary analysis of genomic data. The outbreak is likely to have begun when the virus jumped from an infected bird into a cow, probably around late December or early January. This implies a protracted, undetected...
