CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’ (www.cnbc.com)
Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC....
Tokyo Govt To Launch Dating App To Boost Birth Rate (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Users will be required to submit documentation proving they are legally single and sign a letter stating they are willing to get married.
Today, it’s all about Spanglish, the ‘language’ posing a threat to Anglocentrism in the United States (english.elpais.com)
The mix of Spanish and English is the world’s fastest growing linguistic hybrid. Experts calculate that it is spoken by 50 million people...
Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)
Fox News and right-wing media have already decided the Trump trial verdict (www.cnn.com)
The jury might still be deliberating, but Donald Trump’s media allies have already delivered a verdict to their audiences....
10 Restaurant Chains Closing Locations In 2024 US (www.eatthis.com)
Stressed Out Mom Buys $69K Flat For Herself; Takes A Break From Family Twice A Week (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The acquisition of a 25-square-meter flat has provided Gong with a sense of liberation, as she now spends two days a week at the property, enjoying solitude.
University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing (www.theguardian.com)
US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel (taskandpurpose.com)
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis (news.un.org)
Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)
Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....
Donald Trump is on the verge of another $1 billion Truth Social windfall (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump is on the cusp of scoring a major financial bonanza – at least on paper....
Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports (www.rollingstone.com)
The court dismissed one potential juror after Trump’s legal team had flagged their social media post last month of an AI-generated video featuring Trump saying “I’m dumb as fuck.” Trump’s lawyers sought to strike another potential juror over social media posts made or shared by her husband in 2016. In one, Trump’s...
Why San Francisco is considering a bill that would let shoppers sue grocers closing stores (www.salon.com)
Giuliani loses bid to dismiss $148 million defamation judgment (thehill.com)
New York’s Vessel to reopen with steel-mesh safety measures after suicides (www.theguardian.com)
Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards in Manhattan closed in 2021 after four people died by suicide...
These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state (www.npr.org)
20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court (apnews.com)
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world....
Nearly 4 years after George Floyd protests, police misconduct complaint outcomes are finally released (minnesotareformer.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/nearly-4-years-after-floyd-prot…
US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide (www.theguardian.com)
The last time Brood XIX and Brood XII emerged from underground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president...
Who put up Trump's bond? A subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators (www.nbcnews.com)
Don Hankey made a fortune building a subprime auto loan empire. Along the way, his companies racked up consumer complaints, regulatory fines and were sued by the DOJ....
Judge questions Border Patrol stand that it's not required to care for children at migrant camps (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border....