A driver dies after crashing into a security barrier around the White House complex, authorities say (apnews.com)
Majority of Americans over 50 worry they won't have enough money for retirement: Study (www.usatoday.com)
Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan....
College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them (apnews.com)
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours....
Boeing locks out its private firefighters around Seattle over pay dispute (apnews.com)
Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area and brought in replacements after the latest round of negotiations with the firefighters’ union failed to deliver an agreement on wages....
Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case (www.nytimes.com)
Trump compares Biden admin the ‘Gestapo’ and attacks prosecutor in dark donor speech (www.independent.co.uk)
Xi Jinping begins first European tour in five years in France [6 May 2024 | Al Jazeera] (www.aljazeera.com)
NYC says half of those arrested at 2 pro-Palestinian campus protests were not students (www.npr.org)
Muslim leaders are 'out of words' as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
“All they are trying to do is convince us that there is some kind of movement toward where we want,” Siblani said. “But it’s too slow and it’s dragging. It’s more death and casualties that are happening.”...
'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI (www.businessinsider.com)
Trump Media auditor charged by SEC with 'massive fraud,' permanently barred from public company audits (www.cnbc.com)
Trump may get another chance to be president. He's planning an aggressive second term. (www.npr.org)
Donald Trump has already been president once, and has been outspoken about the policies he would support and enact if elected again in November....
Congressman praises heckling of war protesters, including 1 who made monkey gestures at Black woman (apnews.com)
The student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, reported about 30 protesters on the Oxford campus billed themselves as UMiss for Palestine. Videos and photos from the event showed the protesters were in a grassy area near the main library, blocked off by barriers erected by campus security....
RNC chief counsel resigns after two months (www.cnn.com)
The Republican National Committee’s chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned two months after accepting the position....
Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them (www.wired.com)
Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
Israel-Gaza war: Three soldiers killed in Kerem Shalom rocket attack (www.bbc.com)
Southeast Asian Americans face the brunt of racist attacks among Asians in U.S., new study finds (www.nbcnews.com)
While many Americans believe anti-Asian hate has passed, experts say many communities are still living in fear....
Police tactics at campus protests reveal disparities in approaches to public order and lessons learned from 2020 protests (www.cnn.com)
As universities and colleges turn to police to clear their campuses of protests over Israel’s assault on Gaza that continue to ripple across the nation, the response by law enforcement is under heightened scrutiny after thousands were arrested since mid-April....
Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence (www.npr.org)
The turning point for Destonee was a car ride....
Israel-Hamas war protests close on a handful of US campuses as arrests exceed 2,300 (apnews.com)
I want to see the people coming into these threads defending the cops closing down these camps defend the cops arresting 2300 people.
Democratic convention organizers work to balance free speech with safety amid tensions over protests (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ (www.theguardian.com)
Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed...
Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance (theconversation.com)
Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: ‘Tech bros conflate luck with talent’ (www.theguardian.com)
The US academic on why the Mr Burns caricature of rich people is wrong, the double-edged sword of godlike technologies, and why young people shouldn’t follow their passion...
