White House makes last-ditch push for internet subsidy program [ACP] (www.reuters.com)
England A&E [accident and emergency department] wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests (www.theguardian.com)
RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed...
Judge expands Trump's gag order after ex-president's social media posts about judge's daughter (apnews.com)
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case on Monday declared his daughter off-limits to the former president’s rancor, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed and made false claims about her on social media....
A Kansas paper and its publisher are suing over police raids. They say damages exceed $10M (apnews.com)
A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother....
Major Russian refinery hit by Ukrainian drone 1,300 km from the front lines (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries on Tuesday with a drone 1,300 km (800 miles) from the front lines in Ukraine and said it had inflicted significant damage on a military target....
Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for food aid NGO (www.reuters.com)
The death toll from yesterday’s strike is up to seven now....
Oregon re-criminalizes small amounts of hard drugs after 2020 voter initiative is overturned (www.nbcnews.com)
Under the new law, possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail....
Trump’s Net Worth Falls by $1 Billion as His Media Company’s Stock Plunges (www.thedailybeast.com)
Car rams into FBI office gate: What we know about Atlanta crash (www.newsweek.com)
Florida Supreme Court gives voters final say on recreational marijuana (www.tallahassee.com)
In a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida conservatives opposed to the measure, the state’s Supreme Court on Monday approved a recreational marijuana constitutional amendment for the November 2024 statewide ballot....
How Texas’ cash bail system and under-resourced jails can wreak havoc on women who are poor (www.texastribune.org)
About three in every four Texans in county jails are awaiting the resolution of their cases, according to data from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the state agency that oversees local jails. That number has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and is 14% higher than in January 2017....
World Central Kitchen pauses Gaza operations, saying 7 foreign aid workers killed during IDF attack including US citizen (abcnews.go.com)
When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back (www.propublica.org)
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5 (fortune.com)
Dog named 'Hero' kept stuck owner warm and safe from coyotes for 2 days: police (calgary.ctvnews.ca)
A dog named Hero lived up to his name earlier this week after spending two days by his stranded master’s side, keeping his owner warm and even fending off coyotes while the man waited to be rescued from a muddy ditch in southern Alberta....
Trump's coming stock bust (www.businessinsider.com)
Human case of bird flu detected in Texas after outbreak of virus among cattle (www.usatoday.com)
The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement (www.nytimes.com)
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Trump Gets Bond Deal to Ward Off $454 Million Judgment, for Now (www.nytimes.com)
Former President Donald J. Trump averted a financial disaster on Monday, reaching a deal that will spare him from paying a $454 million judgment in his civil fraud case while he appeals the penalty....
Owner of ship that destroyed Key Bridge files limitation of liability action in federal court - Maryland Daily Record (thedailyrecord.com)
The owner of the ship that toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge appears to be seeking to cap the amount of damages that the company can be forced to pay following the deadly crash....
Finland shooting: Child, 12, wounds three in Vantaa school shooting (www.bbc.com)
Police say they responded to the incident at Viertola school before 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and urged local residents to remain indoors....
U.S. launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to Jordan drone attack (www.nbcnews.com)
California jails are holding thousands fewer people, but far more are dying in them (calmatters.org)
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Kansas GOP lawmakers revive a plan to stop giving voters 3 extra days to return mail ballots (apnews.com)
Republican legislators in Kansas have revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots after making key concessions in a bid to get enough votes from rural GOP lawmakers to overcome the Democratic governor’s potential veto....
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries (apnews.com)
This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them...
