Facing Unchecked Syphilis Outbreak, Great Plains Tribes Sought Federal Help. Months Later, No One Has Responded. (www.propublica.org)
LA police clear pro-Palestinian camp at USC (www.bbc.com)
Police in Los Angeles have cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California (USC)....
Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as “ridiculous” attempts to “cover up history” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours - (NYT Gift Link) (www.nytimes.com)
A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment....
Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says (apnews.com)
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown (www.reuters.com)
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests....
Fort Campbell Army officer charged with illegally importing weapons from Russia, other countries (www.tennessean.com)
American oil tycoon Scott Sheffield accused of trying to conspire with OPEC to inflate prices (www.cnn.com)
Police shoot rubber bullets at UCLA protesters as encampment cleared (www.newsweek.com)
UCLA clashes: Police criticised for 'delayed' response to violence (www.bbc.com)
The office of California’s governor has criticised the police response to violence on campus at the University of California, Los Angeles....
Protesters vandalize Portland State office, Pioneer Courthouse Square (www.koin.com)
Around 6:30 p.m. a group of pro-Palestinian protesters — plus some that were dressed in all black — left the South Park blocks and started marching through Downtown Portland....
White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees (www.cbsnews.com)
Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds (theintercept.com)
Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits....
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab (apnews.com)
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab....
Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....
Russian forces capture first American M1A1 Abrams tank in Ukraine | Ukraine - Russia conflict war 2022 | analysis focus army defence military industry army (armyrecognition.com)
Demonstrations roil US campuses ahead of graduations as protesters spar over Gaza conflict (www.seattletimes.com)
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll....
The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme: what’s in the charging document? (www.theguardian.com)
The indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the Trump allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden in 2020....
US archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police (www.theguardian.com)
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican...
Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions (theintercept.com)
On Sunday, 54 Columbia Law School professors sent a letter to university leadership condemning the school’s decision to summarily suspend student protesters and to authorize a police raid on campus. The procedural irregularity of the mass suspensions, the lack of transparency about how decisions were made, and the involvement...
West Virginia mother charged in death of daughter found "emaciated to a skeletal state" (www.cbsnews.com)
A West Virginia mother is facing charges in the death of her 14-year-old daughter who was found “emaciated to a skeletal state.”...
TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package (www.theverge.com)
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it — but this time, it’s in a way that will be harder for the Senate to stall....
Researchers Develop AI to Predict Resignation Risk With New Recruits (www3.nhk.or.jp)
What could go wrong?
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP (www.foxnews.com)
*** Technically this is news from a far right-wing source. In reality it’s priceless comedy. ***...
Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of Kansas women (apnews.com)
Two Kansas women who vanished as they tried to pick up children for a birthday party two weeks ago were killed over a custody dispute involving a group of anti-government Oklahomans calling themselves “God’s Misfits,” authorities said Monday....
