Video: Cyclists survive hit-and-run with SUV - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Beijing urges Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms over Russian links (www.reuters.com)
China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it had urged Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms after the country sanctioned five Chinese companies over their links to Russia....
Twitter Deletes Ted Cruz Leak (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Fortunately it’s still around here. This carelessness by the Cruz campaign has given Texans a look at the lifeline supporting their notoriously incompetent senator. There is a growing belief that conservatives only continue by avoiding shame (along with consequence of course). Once light is shown, you see scattering like...
Willie Mays, SF Giants legend and MLB all-time great, is dead (www.sfchronicle.com)
RIP
US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes (apnews.com)
The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes....
How our brain tries to beat the heat — and why heatstroke is dangerous | Not only does heatstroke have a relatively high mortality rate, but those who recover still may face future health problems (www.washingtonpost.com)
Olympics reassigns a 1900 medal — and its winner — from Britain to France (www.npr.org)
Drenched South Florida faces fresh flood threats from more heavy rains (www.axios.com)
Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring “considerable to locally catastrophic urban flooding” across South Florida through Friday, the National Weather Service warns.
Texas immigrants’ rights groups sue Biden administration over asylum restrictions (www.texastribune.org)
President Joe Biden’s order, issued a week ago, largely suspends noncitizens’ entry into the country whenever the number of migrants entering the country illegally is high....
Jamaican man in UK for 38 years must wait another 10 to apply for citizenship (www.theguardian.com)
Inside the brain school (www.cbc.ca)
All of it was the brainchild of 79-year-old American psychologist Dr. James Hardt, whose neurofeedback program has been endorsed by self-help guru Tony Robbins and featured on CNN’s Larry King Live. Hardt says brain school can make participants smarter and happier. He says it can also allow them to levitate, walk on water and...
'A dignity that all Americans should have': The fight to save historically Black cemeteries (www.usatoday.com)
New York subway stop may be renamed to honor LGBTQ+ rights movement (www.theguardian.com)
Trump probation interview set for Monday after hush money conviction (www.nbcnews.com)
The former president was convicted last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the hush money case against him....
Evanston faces lawsuit over reparations payments to Black residents (www.nbcnews.com)
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, argues that the reparations plan is unconstitutional because applicants qualify for payments based on their race....
A Michigan man went viral for driving with a suspended license. But he never had one [never had a license] (www.npr.org)
Mods: Let me know if you want me to remove the clarification I put in brackets in the headline, I thought it was necessary....
The Olympics has new guidelines for journalists covering trans athletes in Paris this summer (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Execution date set for Missouri inmate, even as he awaits hearing on claim of actual innocence (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/missouri-death-row-inquiry-boar…
Former neighbors accuse Alitos of using 'power imbalance' to 'harass and intimidate' them (www.rawstory.com)
USAID says it will send $90 million in aid to Gaza (www.npr.org)
Democrats back Republicans into a corner and shine light on extremist stances on contraception (www.independent.co.uk)
Columbia Law Review board shutters website over article critical of Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime....
Unaccompanied minors are representing themselves in US immigration court, alarming advocates: In 2023, only 56% of unaccompanied minors were represented by counsel (abcnews.go.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/20240605123245/…/story?id=110…
Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx's proposal to not charge felonies from certain traffic stops has had success elsewhere (chicago.suntimes.com)
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has stirred debate since proposing that her office no longer file felony charges when the cases stem solely from minor traffic violations....
Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)
A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts....
