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...
Florida ex-cop with ‘patterns of abuse and bias’ joins DeSantis’s state guard (www.theguardian.com)
A former Florida police captain with a long history of civilian complaints, including false arrests and harassment, has joined the state’s state guard under governor Ron DeSantis....
Americans have now spent all $2.1 trillion of their pandemic savings, San Francisco Fed says (fortune.com)
TikTok sues US to block potential ban (www.voanews.com)
YouTube accused of censoring Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" (www.newsweek.com)
Rudy Giuliani struggles to find an accountant: ‘nobody seems interested’ (www.theguardian.com)
“Nobody seems interested” in helping Rudy Giuliani meet accounting obligations in his ongoing bankruptcy case, lawyers for the former New York mayor, presidential hopeful and Trump attorney said in a court filing on Tuesday....
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again (www.theguardian.com)
Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date...
Trump spends day off from court hosting NFT customers at Mar-a-Lago (www.nbcnews.com)
ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Supreme Court Coverage (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica won the prestigious public service Pulitzer Prize for what the judges described as “groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the...
Tel Aviv Pride Parade won’t be held this year, will be replaced with assembly for hostages (www.timesofisrael.com)
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Houston Police Chief Troy Finner resigns amid suspended-cases scandal (houstonlanding.org)
Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS (trinitynews.ie)
Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)....
Judge in Trump’s classified documents case cancels May trial date; no new date set (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely.
Cruise worker accused of stabbing a 75-year-old and 2 guards with scissors on vessel bound for Alaska (www.adn.com)
Man confesses to killing hospitalized wife because he couldn't afford to care for her, police say (abcnews.go.com)
Motorist charged with assault for striking CUAD protester with car at picket outside trustee’s home (www.columbiaspectator.com)
Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator....
DEA leader Anne Milgram dodges questions on Biden plan to deschedule marijuana [Anna Giaritelli | May 7, 2024 | Washington Examiner] (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Marijuana would not be decriminalized or legalized, but such a move would be a grand step forward after decades of the federal government’s war on drugs and ease legal business surrounding the drug.
Elon Musk Says He'll Reinstate Twitter Account Of Hitler-Loving White Supremacist (www.huffpost.com)
Clashes break out in pro-Palestinian rally in Greece (www.reuters.com)
Police fired teargas to disperse a small group of protesters who climbed up the gate of the Egyptian embassy opposite parliament. The clashes were brief.
House Republicans will turn to K-12 schools in latest antisemitism probe (apnews.com)
The leaders of three large public school systems will appear before Congress on Wednesday to answer questions about how they have handled incidents of antisemitism on their school campuses....
How Utah became the birthplace of the once-lucrative wilderness therapy industry for ‘troubled teens’ (www.sltrib.com)
