Amid abortion ban, Texas teen birth rate in 2022 increased for first time in 15 years (www.reporternews.com)
Supreme Court rejects Alabama death row inmate's lethal gas claim (www.nbcnews.com)
FTC Orders Maker of TurboTax to Cease “Deceptive” Advertising (www.propublica.org)
IRS will start simplifying its notices to taxpayers as agency continues modernization push (apnews.com)
The IRS wants to rewrite its complicated letters to taxpayers and speak to people in plain English....
Menendez Faces a New Accusation: Aiding the Qatari Government (www.nytimes.com)
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey — already accused of using his political influence to benefit Egypt — was newly charged on Tuesday with using his power to help the government of Qatar....
Excessively Farting Passenger Reportedly Causes American Airlines Flight to Turn Around (people.com)
United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing's next airplane (apnews.com)
The United Airlines CEO says he is “disappointed” in ongoing manufacturing problems at Boeing that have led to the grounding of dozens of United jetliners, and the airline will consider alternatives to buying a future, larger version of the Boeing 737 Max....
Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan (www.theverge.com)
NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing (nypost.com)
A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.
Bank of America sends warning letters to employees not going into offices (www.theguardian.com)
Letters warned employees that failure to follow return-to-office expectations could lead to ‘further disciplinary action’...
NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher as new CEO (www.npr.org)
NPR has selected former Wikimedia Foundation chief Katherine Maher to lead the network through an era of declining broadcast listenership, financial uncertainty and technological turbulence.
New York City plans to wipe out $2 billion in medical debt for 500,000 residents (apnews.com)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents.
Can empty office space fix the housing shortage? (creditnews.com)
The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border (apnews.com)
New York may soon join a growing number of states seeking to incorporate climate change into school lesson plans (www.nytimes.com)
Third graders at Public School 103 in the north Bronx sat on a rug last month while their teacher, Kristy Neumeister, led a book discussion....
Why are Israeli soldiers sharing snuff videos from their genocide in Gaza? (www.aljazeera.com)
Decades of impunity, for the Israeli regime as well as its criminal soldiers, has led us to this point....
FCC To End Broadband Discounts For Poor People After Republicans Undermine Program (www.techdirt.com)
In short Republicans are going to screw over 23 million poor Americans because they don’t want Democrats getting political credit for helping them during an election season. And because our press is generally broken and afraid of calling a duck a duck, this is going to get dressed up as a genuine concern about wasteful...
Jon Stewart (temporarily) returning to The Daily Show (www.adweek.com)
Who else is excited about this?...
Military veteran charged in Capitol riot is ordered released from custody (news.yahoo.com)
A federal prosecutor had argued for the pretrial detention of Edward Richmond Jr., a former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq approximately two decades ago....
ITV News witnesses man in group waving white flag shot dead in Gaza (www.itv.com)
“We Buy Ugly Houses” Company Overhauls Policies in the Wake of ProPublica Investigation (www.propublica.org)
Carriers sneak life-saving drugs over border as Mexico battles opioid deaths (www.theguardian.com)
People forced to bring overdose-reversal drug naloxone from US, as critics accuse Mexican government of creating shortage...
When Alaska flight 1282 blew open, a mom went into ‘go mode’ to protect her son (www.seattletimes.com)
Faye said she had no intention of speaking to the media until she saw the initial statements from Alaska in the aftermath of the accident, which emphasized that there were only minor injuries and to her seemed to diminish the severity of what had happened....
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Too many of the potential jurors said that even if the defendant, Elisa Meadows, was guilty, they were unwilling to issue the $500 fine a city attorney was seeking, said Ren Rideauxx, Meadows' attorney.