55% of all Americans now say they see Trump’s presidency as a success. (www.cnn.com)
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Pro-Israel Agitator Shouts ‘Kill the Jews,’ Gets Everyone Else Arrested [Edith Olmsted | Apr. 27, 2024 | thedailybeast] (www.thedailybeast.com)
Around 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday at a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University, but not the one whose hate speech got everything shut down.
Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals (www.nature.com)
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been silently spreading in US cattle for months, according to preliminary analysis of genomic data. The outbreak is likely to have begun when the virus jumped from an infected bird into a cow, probably around late December or early January. This implies a protracted, undetected...
Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care (www.cnn.com)
US Air Force awards $13 billion Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nuclear war....
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....
Trump denies the affairs at the heart of the hush-money case. Almost no one believes him. (www.motherjones.com)
Michigan father 1st charged under new safe gun storage law after son shoots himself in the face (abcnews.go.com)
The GOP Is Blocking A Last Ditch Effort To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor Americans (www.techdirt.com)
Executor of O.J. Simpson's estate plans to fight payout to the families of Brown and Goldman (apnews.com)
Simpson’s will was filed Friday in a Clark County court in Nevada, naming his longtime lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, as the executor. The document shows Simpson’s property was placed into a trust that was created this year....
111-year-old British man born the same year the Titanic sank is now world’s oldest man (www.cnn.com)
At 111 years and 224 days old, John Alfred Tinniswood from England has officially claimed the title of world’s oldest living man....
Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation (www.wsj.com)
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors...
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
Judge expands Trump's gag order after ex-president's social media posts about judge's daughter (apnews.com)
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case on Monday declared his daughter off-limits to the former president’s rancor, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed and made false claims about her on social media....
Behind the Baltimore bridge collapse is a familiar story of a corporation cutting corners (www.salon.com)
Why Is the DOJ Prosecuting a Journalist While Pretending Otherwise? (slate.com)
When President Joe Biden said “journalism is not a crime” last April, federal prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, apparently took that as a challenge. Not a crime yet....
F.B.I. Tells Passengers on Alaska Flight They May Have Been Crime Victims (www.nytimes.com)
Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew off this year have started to receive letters from the F.B.I. identifying them as possible victims of a crime....
Supreme Court rejects appeal by former New Mexico county commissioner banned for Jan. 6 insurrection (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol....
"Women of Distinction" award named for Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone (www.wonkette.com)
What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery?...
Explosive device detonated outside Alabama attorney general’s office (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama’s attorney general on Monday said that an explosive device had been detonated outside his offices over the weekend in the state’s capital city of Montgomery....
Vigils held nationwide for nonbinary Oklahoma teenager who died following school bathroom fight (apnews.com)
Vigils took place across the nation for an Oklahoma teenager who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom in which the nonbinary student said they were a target of bullying....