Trump’s RNC takeover triggers strife and staff exits as purge partly backfires (www.theguardian.com)
Presumptive Republican nominee installed allies to run party but loyalty tests have led to weakening of certain areas, including data...
More students are dropping out of college, money is a main concern (www.cnbc.com)
Muslim Leaders Shun Invitation to End Ramadan at White House | Arkansas Democrat Gazette (www.arkansasonline.com)
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Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (apnews.com)
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina...
How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk (www.nytimes.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world....
Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions (www.cbsnews.com)
Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun....
High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas' ban on critical race theory (apnews.com)
A high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas on Monday over the state’s ban on critical race theory and “indoctrination” in public schools, asking a federal judge to strike down the restrictions as unconstitutional....
Chuck Todd Chides NBC News Over Handling Of Ronna McDaniel Hire; Network Gets Backlash Over Decision To Retain Former RNC Chair As Analyst (deadline.com)
Chuck “Both Sides” Todd thinks NBC went too far....
U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter....
COVID backlash could leave the U.S. less ready for the next pandemic (www.axios.com)
Labour economists see rising recession danger in the US (www.telegraph.co.uk)
New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home (www.bostonglobe.com)
Major homebuilders are prioritizing narrower houses with fewer doors, windows and cabinets. Median homes sizes are at a 13-year low....
Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can't keep up (apnews.com)
Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
Following “flour massacre,” hundreds of thousands around the world protest Gaza genocide (www.wsws.org)
3 trains involved in collision, derailment in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley: NTSB (abcnews.go.com)
DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16 (www.nytimes.com)
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High-income earners who skipped out on filing tax returns believed to owe hundreds of millions of dollars to IRS (www.cbsnews.com)
The IRS is going after high-income earners who skipped out on filing federal income tax returns in more than 125,000 instances since 2017, the agency said Thursday....
IRS targets wealthy ‘non-filers’ with new wave of compliance letters (www.cnbc.com)
The IRS on Thursday unveiled plans to target wealthy “non-filers” with a new round of compliance letters....
Tumblr and WordPress blogs will be exploited for AI model training (www.techspot.com)
Supreme Court appears torn over challenge to gun 'bump stocks' (www.nbcnews.com)
The ban was imposed by the Trump administration after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and is being defended by the Biden administration....
Oklahoma Schools Are Fighting Back Against Porn-Obsessed Superintendent (www.rollingstone.com)
Edmond Public Schools has petitioned the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over efforts to ban two national bestselling books...
Nuclear fusion: Scientists say they can use AI to solve a key problem in the quest for clean energy | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Capital One to acquire Discover Financial Services in $35.3 billion all-stock deal (www.cnbc.com)
Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on (apnews.com)
Navalny’s death at age 47 has deprived the Russian opposition of its most well-known and inspiring politician less than a month before an election that will give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power....
