Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn | Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms (www.theguardian.com)
Markets say the battle against inflation is over — and the Fed won (www.axios.com)
Biden heads to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2B for 10 major rail projects around the country (www.independent.co.uk)
President Joe Biden is heading to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco....
New Study: Police Kill Over 10,000 Family Dogs Every Year; According to The U.S. Justice Department (medium.com)
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Solid US hiring lowers unemployment rate in latest sign of a still-sturdy job market (apnews.com)
U.S. businesses and other employers added a healthy 199,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell, fresh signs that the economy could achieve an elusive “soft landing,” in which inflation would return to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target without causing a steep recession....
Israel-Gaza latest news: UN Security Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The US representative at the UN, Robert Wood, has said that they wouldn’t support an immediate ceasefire....
Biden ‘not sure he’d be running’ in 2024 if Trump wasn’t: ‘We cannot let him win’ (www.theguardian.com)
High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons (apnews.com)
Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe.
Police-involved shootings require more transparency, not less (www.bostonglobe.com)
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Texas DPS investigation finds no evidence of wrongdoing by troopers accused of mistreating migrants (www.keranews.org)
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California’s budget deficit swells to record $68B as tax revenue falls (www.politico.com)
The shortfall threatens to force the state’s deepest spending cuts in a decade....
Killer’s family allegedly knew Gabby Petito was dead weeks before discovery (www.theguardian.com)
The fiance and killer of the domestic violence murder victim Gabby Petito desperately called his parents and told them that she was “gone” weeks before she was discovered dead – yet they later shared messages expressing hope that search efforts for her would end in success, her family has alleged....
Firearm suicides reached "unprecedented" high in 2022, CDC data shows (www.cbsnews.com)
Elon Musk considers reinstating Alex Jones' X account, backtracking on prior decision (www.cnbc.com)
Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion (www.reuters.com)
Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas’s abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban....
FedEx faces US racketeering lawsuit by former delivery contractor (www.reuters.com)
PYNQ alleged that FedEx violates laws governing contractors by exercising the same level of control over those service providers as it would over employees....
US embassy in Baghdad attacked with 7 mortars, no casualties (www.reuters.com)
Approximately seven mortar rounds landed in the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad during an attack early on Friday, a U.S. military official told Reuters, in what appears to be one of the largest attacks against the embassy in recent memory....
Yes, They’re Pro-Confederacy. But They’re Just the Nicest Ladies. (newrepublic.com)
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Freed Israeli hostages held by Hamas were terrified IDF airstrikes would kill them (www.businessinsider.com)
Freed Israeli hostages erupted in anger during a tense meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that they were terrified they would be killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza instead of their Hamas captors....
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Accused of Gang-Rape of 17-Year-Old Girl (variety.com)
Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in a lawsuit on Wednesday of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in 2003, marking the fourth sexual assault allegation lodged against the producer in recent weeks....
Hunter Biden indicted on nine tax charges, adding to gun charges in special counsel probe (apnews.com)
Pregnant woman sues Kentucky for right to have abortion (www.theguardian.com)
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen US states since Roe v Wade was overturned last year....
Facebook and Instagram content enabled child sexual abuse, trafficking: New Mexico lawsuit (www.cnbc.com)
Meta enabled child sexual abuse, served up explicit content, and failed to disrupt trafficking on its platforms, New Mexico's attorney general said in a suit.