127 degrees: Heat record shattered in Death Valley, with high temperature of 130 in forecast (abc7.com)
Judge says Nashville school shooter's writings can't be released as victims' families have copyright (apnews.com)
The writings of the person who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville last year cannot be released to the public, a judge ruled Thursday....
Tractor Supply slashes its DEI and climate goals after a right- wing pressure campaign (www.npr.org)
Didn’t take companies long to stop pretending like they care. We are fucked.
A terrifying hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic (www.motherjones.com)
Former Uvalde school police chief, officer indicted in 1st-ever criminal charges over failed response to 2022 mass shooting (www.cnn.com)
A ton of job postings might actually be fake (qz.com)
A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year — and 85% of those companies interviewed candidates for fake jobs...
Ford recalls over 550,000 pickup trucks because transmissions can suddenly downshift to 1st gear (apnews.com)
Middle East Crisis: Blinken Calls Some Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal ‘Unacceptable’ (www.nytimes.com)
Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6....
Joey Chestnut Barred From Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Due to Vegan Sponsor Beef (www.thedailybeast.com)
Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. (mashable.com)
Ron DeSantis' new target in his 'war on woke'? Colors, apparently (www.msnbc.com)
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....
U.S. company fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants (www.nbcnews.com)
Fayette Janitorial Service LLC agreed to pay nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors....
Liberal icon Bernie Sanders is running for Senate reelection, squelching retirement rumors (apnews.com)
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced Monday he will run for reelection this year, squelching speculation that the 82-year-old progressive icon might retire at a time when the Democratic Party is anxious about the advancing age of its top leaders....
Trump was forced to listen silently as potential jurors offered their unvarnished assessments of him (apnews.com)
New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records....
Elon Musk is making millions from verified neo-Nazi X accounts (www.lgbtqnation.com)
America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed. Pets – and staff – are at breaking point (www.theguardian.com)
Just a warning, this article has some unpleasant parts to read
Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose (www.businessinsider.com)
Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel has begun, over 100 attack drones launched (www.nbcnews.com)
Oregon city can't limit church's homeless meal services, federal judge rules (apnews.com)
A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services....
Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’ (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism....
Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case (thehill.com)
Fikre alleges that he traveled to Sudan in late 2009 in pursuit of growing an electronics business in his native East Africa. The FBI questioned him while in Sudan, according to court filings, telling Fikre he was on the No Fly List and could be removed if he became an informant....
Republicans' Election Riddled With Errors After Hand Counting Ballots (www.newsweek.com)
Republican efforts to hand count ballots in a seemingly low-profile Texas county primary election has led to a number of errors....
Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic (www.techspot.com)
House China committee demands Elon Musk open SpaceX Starshield internet to U.S. troops in Taiwan (www.cnbc.com)
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk demanding that U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan get access to SpaceX's Starshield, a satellite communication network designed specifically for the military....
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method (apnews.com)
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method....
