Hollywood actors announce strike in first joint action with writers in 60 years (www.theguardian.com)
The union representing Hollywood actors formally announced a strike on Thursday, expanding the standoff between Hollywood workers and studio executives over wages, AI technology, and how to divide the profits of the new digital streaming era....
Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter eligible to face the death penalty (www.cnn.com)
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill (www.nytimes.com)
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception....
Indigenous women in Canada forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped (apnews.com)
TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada.
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
Hollywood actors poised to strike and join writers on picket lines (www.reuters.com)
A Florida sinkhole that killed a man in 2013 opens for a third time (www.nbcnews.com)
Other countries don't have an issue with 'tipflation.' Here's how much people tip around the world (www.cnbc.com)
Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts (www.cnn.com)
Woman fatally shot in apparent road-rage incident in Texas (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Free-solo climber dies after falling hundreds of feet from ridge in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park (www.cnn.com)
Former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten released from California prison, official says (www.cnn.com)
Bank of America fined $150 million for consumer abuses including fake accounts, bogus fees (www.cnbc.com)
White neighbour who fatally shot Black mother in row over children playing pleads not guilty to manslaughter (www.independent.co.uk)
Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data (techcrunch.com)
Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners (www.tampabay.com)
The decision was “necessary to effectively manage risk exposure,” the company said.
Johnson and Johnson hold millions of lives hostage: restricting the distribution of life saving generic drug (www.youtube.com)
“Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson &...