‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System - The Crime Report (thecrimereport.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13753145...
Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of struggling social media platform Truth Social, is began its long-delayed journey as a public company at Tuesday’s opening bell under the ticker symbol “DJT.”...
US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years (apnews.com)
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage....
Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case (ksltv.com)
The Salt Lake Police Department is defending itself in the case of the man accused of a string of hit-and-runs in the city and questions about why Ahn Pham wasn’t arrested after the initial hit-and-run last August....
Nearly Two Years After Uvalde Massacre, Here Is Where All the Investigations, Personnel Changes Stand (www.propublica.org)
Judge questions Border Patrol stand that it's not required to care for children at migrant camps (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border....
‘God gave us Trump’: Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message (www.independent.co.uk)
Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him...
Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts (www.nbcnews.com)
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed....
Jamaica pulls U.S. boys from troubled teen school after allegations they were abused (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jamaica-troubled-teen-abuse-all…
Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers (www.nytimes.com)
“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”
Appeals Court Bails Trump Out of Having to Post Massive Fraud Bond (www.rollingstone.com)
Donald Trump was supposed to have to post a $464 million bond by Monday or else the state of New York could begin collecting on the massive civil fraud judgment leveled against him earlier this year. An appeals court bailed him out, blocking collection of the judgment and giving the former president 10 days to post a drastically...
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87 (apnews.com)
I may have to try to find a copy of Enemy Mine to watch in remembrance.
Parents offered class photo version with no 'complex needs' pupils (www.bbc.com)
A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them....
Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot (inews.co.uk)
South West Water is claiming it has no legal obligation to keep rivers and seawater clean of sewage in its defence against a Devon swimmer who is taking the water company to court....
Texas woman sues prosecutors who charged her with murder after she self-managed an abortion (apnews.com)
A Texas woman who was charged with murder over self-managing an abortion and spent two nights in jail has sued prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border who put the criminal case in motion before it was later dropped....
An Oklahoma council member with ties to white nationalists faces scrutiny, and a recall election (apnews.com)
The typical topics for discussion among city leaders in the northwest Oklahoma community of Enid are how to lure a new movie theater, the cost of operating a downtown arena and plans for a solar farm on the edge of town....
A New Jersey man didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead (whyy.org)
With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels (grist.org)
Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning....
Dismay as Louisiana lookback law for child sexual abuse victims struck down (www.theguardian.com)
Baltimore bridge: Massive US crane to haul wreckage after deadly collapse (www.bbc.com)
The largest crane on the eastern US seaboard has arrived in Baltimore as part of a massive clean-up effort after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse....
US regulator issues highest alert for heart pump linked to 49 deaths (www.bbc.com)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its highest-level alert about a heart pump that has been linked to 49 deaths and 129 injuries....
Woman jailed on murder charge after abortion sues Starr County (www.valleycentral.com)
STARR COUNTY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A woman who was arrested on a murder charge, which was later dismissed, following an abortion is now suing Starr County and its district attorney....
150 arrested for allegedly using drones to transport drugs, guns, cellphones into Georgia prisons (abcnews.go.com)
Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’ (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism....
Mother says she wants justice after teen son is killed during police chase in Mississippi (apnews.com)
A mother says she wants justice for her 17-year-old son who died when a police SUV ran over him in the small Mississippi Delta town where he lived....
