Virginia Lawmakers Approve Commission to Examine Universities’ Displacement of Black Communities (www.propublica.org)
House GOP launch new probe of Jan. 6 and try shifting blame for the Capitol attack away from Trump (apnews.com)
House Republicans are launching a vast re-investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election....
Kansas will pay $1 million over the murder of a boy torture victim whose body was fed to pigs (apnews.com)
Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs....
Tragedy Strikes as Billionaire Angela Chao Perishes in Tesla Model X with Unbreakable Glass (www.msn.com)
Angela Chao, the billionaire sister-in-law of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and CEO of the shipping company Foremost Group, drowned tragically when her Tesla Model X, with its nearly unbreakable glass, plunged into a pond on her Texas ranch. The vehicle’s reinforced windows, a feature designed for safety, became a death trap...
US pause on funding UN's main Palestinian relief agency UNRWA may become permanent (www.reuters.com)
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Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida....
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House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate (www.cnbc.com)
New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler (newrepublic.com)
In his new book The Return of Great Powers, which comes out Tuesday, reporter Jim Sciutto interviews several of Trump’s former advisers. All of them stressed that Trump regularly lavished praise on authoritarian leaders around the world, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “fantastic,” Chinese President Xi...
Idaho Supreme Court denies Bryan Kohberger’s grand jury appeal (www.seattletimes.com)
Kohberger’s public defenders had argued that a grand jury seated by prosecutors improperly indicted him on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. They contended that Idaho law left open the idea that grand jurors must reach the higher legal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt — the same as at...
Former CBI scientist intentionally manipulated data, casting doubt on 652 cases, investigation reveals (coloradosun.com)
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"Let them eat cereal": How accusations of "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg's (www.salon.com)
Since 2022, Kellogg has been running an ad campaign encouraging families, with the help of Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam, to break out of their boring dinner rotation and swap in the occasional bowl of cereal. “If you’re tired of cooking chicken over and over (and the kids are bored of eating it) we’ve got something...
China could use TikTok to influence US elections, spy chief says (www.theguardian.com)
The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business...
US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying (www.wired.com)
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Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war (thehill.com)
Multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival are pulling out because of the U.S. Army’s “super sponsorship” of the event, and America’s ongoing support of Israel’s war on Hamas.
Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court says (apnews.com)
A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions....
Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist who fought for justice in Mississippi and beyond, dies at 81 (apnews.com)
Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed....
New Orleans police evidence room overrun by rodents, officials say: "The rats are eating our marijuana" (www.cbsnews.com)
A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the US (apnews.com)
Communities around the U.S. have seen shootings carried out with weapons converted to fully automatic in recent years, fueled by a staggering increase in small pieces of metal or plastic made with a 3D printer or ordered online. Laws against machine guns date back to the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters. But the...
Paul Alexander: 'Man in the iron lung' dies at the age of 78 (www.bbc.com)
Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down....
The plundering of America's hospitals: When hospitals sold off their land, investors got rich. Patients paid the price. (www.businessinsider.com)
In community after community, the hospitals keep closing. In 2018, it was Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio....
Brett Kavanaugh knows truth of alleged sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford says in book (www.theguardian.com)
The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a “consummately honest person” and “must know” what really happened on the night more than 40 years ago when he allegedly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his accuser writes in an eagerly awaited memoir....
Report: Boeing plane that blew out door plug over Portland was set for an inspection but flew with passengers anyway (www.kgw.com)
The New York Times reported that the plane was scheduled for a maintenance check over ongoing concerns, but Alaska Airlines chose to allow flights to go ahead.