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The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing (apnews.com)

Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment (www.cnn.com)

Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say (apnews.com)

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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Blows Into U.S., Setting Stage for Another Miserable Summer (gizmodo.com)

Vladimir Putin set to transfer Sergei Shoigu from Russian defence ministry (www.bbc.com)

Thousands protest in Israel amid anger at Netanyahu over hostages held in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress (apnews.com)

For Mike Johnson it was effectively a Day 1 priority....

Trump trial live updates: 'Don’t worry about that,' Stormy Daniels says Trump said of Melania (abcnews.go.com)

The U.S. labor market is shifting toward skilled labor as white-collar hiring slows (www.nbcnews.com)

The evidence can be found in the data, which shows higher unemployment for workers in business services and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing....

Arizona's Democratic leaders get enough votes to repeal 19th century abortion ban (apnews.com)

Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters (www.thehill.com)

Americans are falling behind on their payments (www.cnn.com)

Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states (www.theguardian.com)

Pursuit of ‘non-stop executions’ causing psychological distress to corrections staff as states urged to widen gap between executions...

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick - CBS Detroit (www.cbsnews.com)

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Prosecutors seek to jail Miami mom for posting news stories about cop who shot son (www.miamiherald.com)

Calling her “an inherent danger to the community,” prosecutors on Friday asked a Miami judge to throw a 51-year-old mother back into jail for posting news articles on Facebook recounting her arrest on charges of stalking a Miami-Dade police officer who had shot and killed her mentally ill son. Prosecutors say Gamaly Hollis...

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)

When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”...

‘Underground hell’: Hamas publishes first video of mutilated American hostage, says 70 have been killed (www.news.com.au)

Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin campus amid tense standoff (www.texastribune.org)

Dali ship that wrecked Baltimore bridge was 'unseaworthy' before it left port, city claims (www.usatoday.com)

Baltimore battles ship owners’ effort to limit liability in bridge collapse (www.nbcnews.com)

The city said the companies’ effort to limit responsibility for the vessel and the cargo’s value to $43.6 million is “substantially less than the amount that will be claimed for losses and damages” arising out of the Dali’s collision with the Key Bridge....

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